Open Congress : News Articles for Allen B. West

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to work next week

2012-12-29T01:00:00Z

...her illness to avoid the Benghazi issue came from the New York Post, the Daily Caller, hosts on Fox News's evening shows, Rep. Allen West, Republican of Florida, the conservative website Pajamas Media, the Investors' Business Daily website, conservative

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Hillary Clinton to Return to Work Following Illness

2012-12-28T01:00:00Z

...doctor, but it seems as though that the secretary of state has come down with a case of Benghazi flu,” blunt-talking outgoing Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said on Fox News last week. Other conservative media outlets and figures issued similar criticisms.

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Rep. Allen West: "President Obama Is In A Fantasy World, With His Fiscal Cliff Proposals"

2012-12-28T01:00:00Z

...seem to want to do that in Washington, D.C.,' West, who lost his seat to Democrat Patrick Murphy last month, told Fox." Rep. West ain't done: "West also lashed out at Democrats who say Obama received an electoral mandate to raise taxes. 'I’m not such

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Wade Henderson, Esq.: Time to Put the National Interest Ahead of Ideology, Branding

2012-12-28T01:00:00Z

...him to vote to raise income taxes, not even on the wealthiest Americans. Nothing, nada, zip. In the same week, Republican Rep. Allen West of Florida explained why he opposed Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" to allow tax rates to increase on incomes above $1 m

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Allen West: Obama 'Living In Some Type Of Fantasy World' (VIDEO)

2012-12-28T01:00:00Z

...Allen West (R-Fla.) criticized President Barack Obama Thursday for "living in some type of fantasy world." “What the president is proposing is not pragmatic whatsoever and it really is a reflection of him, I suppose, living in some type of fantasy wor

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Allen West: Obama in ‘Fantasy World’ in Cliff Talks

2012-12-28T01:00:00Z

...Barack Obama is living in a “fantasy world” with the proposals he has put forward to solve the fiscal cliff, Florida Rep. Allen West charged on Thursday. “What the president is proposing is not pragmatic whatsoever and it really is a reflection of

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West: Obama has fiscal 'fantasy'

2012-12-27T01:00:00Z

...Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama was living in a “fantasy world” with regard to the fiscal cliff negotiations, or lack thereof. “What the president is proposing is not pragmatic whatsoever and it really is a refle

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West: 'Secret Ballot Is Part of Who We Are'

2012-12-27T01:00:00Z

...years. Either outcome would strengthen the caucus and the hands of Republicans and conservatives in negotiating with Obama. Otherwise, the conference will likely limp into the mid-term elections. Allen West: We Should Have Secret Ballot For Speaker Vote

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Outgoing U.S. Rep. Allen West said the House voted to remove the word lunatic from federal law

2012-12-27T01:00:00Z

...you will forgive us if we overlooked this other tidbit tucked into the final weekly newsletter sent by outgoing U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Palm Beach Gardens. "This week we voted in the House of Representatives to remove the word lunatic from federal law,"

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Florida inmate sentenced in anthrax hoax

2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

...2011, the Palm Beach County Jail, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building and the campaign offices of U.S. Rep. Allen West have all been the targets of anthrax threats. Anthrax became a commonly known disease in September 2001 after terrori

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Which political party are you aligning with?

2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

...One especially sees this in the civil rights establishment’s response to Justice Clarence Thomas and more recently to Rep. Allen West, R-Fl "the idea of the safety net becoming a hammock." West’s point is that Democrats who claim to care so for Afri

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Loudest Teapot Tempest Yet

2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

...products that fail at the worst possible time. 12/21/2012 The real bargain in the grand bargain. 12/21/2012 Allen West takes whackjob Hillary Clinton theory to new height of ugliness. 12/20/2012 What the Big Dog achieved and what Barack Obama should do

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Patrick Murphy Faces New Fight After Defeating Allen West

2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

...this Feb. 10, 2012, file photo, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. West gave up his fight to remain in Congress on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, after two weeks of recount battles in court. Th

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After Beating Allen West, House Freshman Faces New Fight

2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

...off. "It wasn't necessarily the Democratic turnout that helped us win. It was the Republicans that crossed over, that left Allen West to support us, is why we won this race," he says. "So, I think a lot of people saw hopefully that my background was a b

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The Buzz | A change of heart for Mourning Joe

2012-12-22T01:00:00Z

...enough for congressional questioning about the slayings of diplomatic staff in Libya. “I’m not a doctor,” said U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida, “but it seems as though … the secretary of state has come down with a case of Benghazi flu.” Bill

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Allen West: House Has Finished Its Work on Fiscal Cliff

2012-12-21T01:00:00Z

...Senate. Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who was interviewed along with West, agreed with her colleague that House Republicans have already done their work on moving to avert the fiscal cliff. "Allen's exactly right. We passed the tax extender bill. We

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Allen West: We Need to Know More About Benghazi From the White House

2012-12-20T01:00:00Z

...with the attack that took place," the 39-page unclassified version of the report concludes. This morning on Fox and Friends, Rep. Allen West said although the review explains the State Department role, the White House still has to answer questions about

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Allen West: Hillary Clinton Came Down 'With A Case Of Benghazi Flu' (VIDEO)

2012-12-20T01:00:00Z

...Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Thursday morning suggested that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who postponed her testimony regarding the September attack on a U.S. mission in Libya that was scheduled for this week after fainting and suffering a concussio

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Rep. Tim Scott to fill DeMint's Senate seat

2012-12-18T01:00:00Z

...in the election forced soul-searching in the party to broaden its appeal. Hell become only the fourth black Republican in Senate history and the only black Republican in Congress, after Rep. Allen West of Florida lost his re-election bid last month....

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Allen West's final weekly newsletter faces the Truth-O-Meter

2012-12-18T01:00:00Z

...cliff. So you will forgive us if we overlooked this other tidbit tucked into the final weekly newsletter sent by U.S. Rep. Allen West , R-Palm Beach Gardens. "This week we voted in the House of Representatives to remove the word ‘lunatic’ from feder

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