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  • And They Want to Run Your Health Care?
    Nov 17, 2009  - The President’s economic “stimulus” package appears to be working so marvelously that it’s even creating nonexistent jobs in nonexistent locations. While the evidence continues to pile up that the President’s stimulus package has been a failure with unemployment rising to over 10%, Americans continu... More
  • Let's Keep the Debate on Health Care
    Nov 13, 2009  - Last week, it was brought to my attention that a small number of individuals held disturbing posters depicting Holocaust victims at a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Upon hearing the news, I immediately sent the following letter to Congressman Steve Israel (NY), the Jewish Communi... More
  • House Ignores High Unemployment and Continues to Push Pelosicare
    Nov 6, 2009  - Even as our nation's unemployment rate surpassed 10% -- exceeding even the worst case scenarios that the White House projected -- Speaker Pelosi intends to bring to the floor her $1-trillion-plus health care reform proposal. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is the highest unemplo... More
  • House was right to condemn Goldstone report
    Nov 4, 2009  - Yesterday, the House voted on and passed  H.Res.867, calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict" in multilateral fora. As a cosponsor of this resol... More
  • 2,000 Pages of Mandates, Taxes, and Bureaucracy
    Oct 30, 2009  - This morning, House Democrats held a press conference to unveil their health care reform bill, which they claim will expand coverage for all and decrease costs. Sounds good, but once you peel away the “feel good” rhetoric, there’s nothing to be excited about. This 2,000-page bill includes a job-kill... More
  • Fiscal Recklessness: The Name of the Game in Washington
    Oct 29, 2009  - Do you remember the famous chart that Christina Romer, then the chief architect of President Obama’s plan and now Chairman of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, produced to help sell the President’s “stimulus” plan to the public?   Her analysis found that unemployment would drop to 7% by the en... More
  • Taxpayers Lose in General Motors Bailout
    Oct 28, 2009  - You may recall that when Congress was bailing out the auto industry, I had real concerns about whether the taxpayers would ever get that money back. The auto industry, GM in particular, has had a poor track record with loans in the past, having come back to the federal government again and again wit... More
  • Republican Health Care Solutions
    Oct 28, 2009  - To hear the Democrats and most of the mainstream media you would think that Republicans are not bringing any alternatives to the health care debate. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Back in September during an address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama said his office would alw... More
  • We Must Get Our Fiscal House in Order
    Oct 27, 2009  - Reuters is reporting that there is a very real possibility that the United States could lose its “AAA” rating if we do not take the necessary steps to reduce our deficit in the next three to four years. Moody’s lead analyst for the United States said very bluntly, “The AAA rating of the U.S. is not ... More
  • Safeguarding the Voter Registration Process
    Oct 27, 2009  - With ACORN and its employees popping up in court rooms around the country for voter registration fraud, you would think Congress would be actively engaged in safeguarding this country’s voter registration process. Yet, some in Congress are taking legislative steps that could open the voting process ... More