Over on the home page, Kathryn looks at “America Speaking Out,” the House GOP’s new outreach program:
America Speaking Out comes at the perfect time. We all remember the town halls of last summer where, across the country, people let their congressmen know exactly what they thought of the health-care push from Washington. That unpopular, unwieldy, paradigm-shifting legislation is now an unpopular, unwieldy, paradigm-shifting law. Republicans are hoping that voters will once again speak out about their unhappiness with the ruling party in Washington. This time, they hope, voters will be able to feel like an active, vocal part of the solution by interacting with, helping form the agenda of, and voting in November for the opposition.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) talks about the initiative:
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