A visual representation of the responsiveness of West Virginia's representatives
The House is on break this week -- here's a map of the town halls scheduled for West Virginia
What's Congressman McKinley been doing?
Other than publicly defending Trumpcare
Proposing legislation that won't go anywhere
According to McKinley's website:
Representatives David B. McKinley, P.E., (WV-1), and Mike Doyle (PA-14) introduced legislation that promotes clean energy by advancing carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology and increasing accountability at the . . .
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House votes to repeal and replace Obamacare
Local representative McKinley votes "yes" and defends the legislation (with updates)
With the support of most Republicans and no Democrats, the House of Representatives voted earlier today to repeal Obamacare and replace it with what will likely come to be called Trumpcare. Local congressman, David McKinley, along with the state's other representatives, are among the 217 who voted in favor of the legislation. (The New . . .
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Was today's Intelligencer editorial written by a Rep. David McKinley staffer or did the editorial writer simply rewrite the McKinley press release?
(There aren't any other choices)
An editorial in this morning's Wheeling Intelligencer heaps a good deal of praise on local representative David McKinley. The editorial begins by telling us that Congress will soon be acting on specific legislation to help sure-up the miners' health insurance program. One of the measures likely to be considered according to the . . .
The hypocrisy continues
Rep. McKinley and our local "newspapers" continue to remain silent on Trump's executive orders
Indy 100 is out with an interesting comparison of the number of Trump executive orders compared to the number of Obama orders for the same time period:
Not surprisingly, there has been silence from certain quarters.
Representative McKinley
Here is one of McKinley's attacks upon Obama's use of such . . .
This week's town halls
McKinley and Capito continue to hide from their constituents
If you go to Town Hall Project and type in your zip code, it will find all of the scheduled town halls within a 75 mile radius and an area map that highlights scheduled town halls. Here is a screen shot of the results for zip code 26003 at 8 PM today:
(Note -- the project flagged Rep. Tim Murphy who is a Pennsylvania . . .
Congress has started a two-week recess and where is Congressman McKinley?
Still no town halls scheduled (With evening update)
Congress is off for a couple of weeks and a number of its members (mostly Democrats) have scheduled town hall meetings with their constituents. (Senator Manchin is holding one as I write this in Parkersburg.)
I again checked to see if Representative McKinley had scheduled a meeting with the voters of WV's First Congressional . . .
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