Mark Schauer

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) has joined with his Republican colleagues in the U.S. Congress to reject participating in earmarks. Earmarks are a traditional way for Congress to target federal cash to local districts, and have been very controversial because some of the cash has gone to donors and are seen as political paybacks.
The Lansing [...]

Rep. Charles Rangel has capitulated to those, like Rep. Mark Schauer of Michigan, who’ve been calling on him to resign his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in the wake of the House Ethics Committee finding him guilty of willful violations of House ethics rules.
Rangel relinquished his chairmanship, but only temporarily, calling [...]

Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Michigan) is publicly calling on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York) to resign in the wake of multiple ethics scandals. The House Ethics Committee recently issued a report saying that Rangel had knowingly violated ethics rules that govern Congress.
In a press release, Schauer said:

Frank Luntz has become nearly legendary in the political world for his strategic advice to Republicans on how to sell their ideas to the public and undermine the agenda of Democrats, but his latest advice memo to Republicans — instructing them on how to stop Obama’s push for new financial industry regulation — uses a [...]

First term U.S. Reps. Mark Schauer and Gary Peters, both Democrats who unseated Republican incumbents in 2008, have been targeted by national Republican officials as seats they could regain in 2010. But so far, the two freshman legislators are enjoying a significant lead in fundraising over their Republican challengers. The Detroit News reports.
First, the numbers [...]

Vice President Joe Biden swooped into Detroit yesterday for some political fundraising, and of course, a chili dog at Lafayette Coney Island.

The fallout from last week’s rally and protest at Congressman Mark Schauer’s Jackson office and an invitation-only discussion with seniors in Delta Township continues.
As reported last week, Jackson County Commissioner Phil Duckham carried a sign with a swastika on it and compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a protest at Schauer’s office. That [...]

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in conjunction with Health Care for America Now (HCAN) has launched an attacking Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Livonia, for not supporting health care reform.
The groups are targeting McCotter, as well as Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, along with legislators from other states including Senator Richard Burr (R-NC); [...]

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter was evidently in support of provisions he has since labeled “death panels” before he was against them.
The Republican from Livonia has been a vocal critic of a provision in the health care reform bill currently being debated on Capitol Hill because he has claimed it will lead to mandated euthanasia.

JACKSON — The national debate over health care reform came to a head on Thursday in the city that gave birth to the Republican Party 155 years ago as health care reform protesters met counter-protesters outside the district office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer.