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William Joseph "Joe" Walsh (born December 27, 1961) is the Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois' northwest suburban .
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Joe Walsh, the tea party-backed Republican who squeaked into office last year by vowing to bring fiscal responsibility to Washington and who has been one of President Barack Obama's most outspoken critics during the standoff over the debt ceiling, is being sued for more than $100,000 in unpaid child support, a newspaper reported.The freshman congressman's ex-wife, Laura Walsh, filed the claim against him in December as part of their divorce case, saying he owed $117,437 to her and their three children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in a story published Wednesday. She contends that Walsh loaned his own campaign $35,000 and took international vacations but said he couldn't afford child support payments because he was between jobs or out of work."Joe personally loaned his campaign $35,000, which, given that he failed to make any child support payments to Laura because he 'had no money' is surprising," Laura Walsh's attorneys wrote in the motion. "Joe has paid himself back a...
Lawmaker turns down government health care despite wife's illness; defends Obamacare repeal effort
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Rep . Joe Walsh sitting out president's jobs address
The head of the National Park Service defended his decision to let Occupy protesters camp out in a park in the middle of Washington, D.C., though he said Tuesday the...
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The House's rabble-rousing Republican freshmen and tea partyers have loudly refused to cut a deal as the GOP battles President Barack Obama over the government's deb...
As House Speaker John Boehner frantically pieces together a plan to rescue the nation from financial disaster next week, members of the Tea Party movement who helped...
Republicans have decided they're not going to give a rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took ...
Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh, R-I.L., has strong words for President Obama in a video posted on his website."President Obama, quit lying. You know darn well tha...
'Congress on Your Corner' gatherings have new dimension after attack
Sen. Scott Brown , R-Mass., who is fending off criticism from members of his own party for publicly opposing a GOP plan to overhaul Medicare , could face a potential...
Facing a dire warning from a credit rating agency, the Obama administration lobbied some of Congress' most conservative members Thursday for an increase in the natio...
Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh , a rising star in the Tea Party movement best known for his blistering lectures of President Obama for "spending like a drunken sailor," is ...
Lawmaker angry over president's entitlement threat
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. easily won the Democratic nomination Tuesday after a heated Illinois primary, but the fate of another longtime congressman was still too ...
House committee member Rep . Joe Walsh weighs in on the case congress has to hold the Attorney General in contempt
GOP Rep . Joe Walsh confident that House-backed plan will pass Senate
WASHINGTON -- Two Illinois Republicans said Sunday they aren't buying the Obama administration's argument that the federal debt limit ought to be raised without a fu...
GOP or Democrats? Who will Americans blame more if the government shuts down April 8?
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