Mr. President, What could you possibly have been thinking? The ad you have launched featuring a young actress equating voting for you to a sexual act is offensive to me, to millions of women and to the stature of the office you hold. As a father of two beautiful girls, how could you possibly have allowed this to be aired? Did you approve this? Did | Read More »
From the diaries… Today the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is examining a dangerous international attempt to regulate and tax the Internet. Several hostile countries are pursuing the expansion of a 1988 International Telecommunication Regulation (ITR) Treaty under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency within the United Nations. Their preferred venue for this back-door power play is the December 2012 | Read More »
There’s an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. That’s why House Republicans made deregulation a cornerstone of our American Jobs Plan. Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow. That holds especially true for our dynamic and competitive tech industry, which | Read More »
Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are pursuing a heavy-handed regulatory approach to address vague concerns about consumers’ online privacy. They claim that privacy is threatened by a shadowy group of advertisers who are harvesting your data from behind the screen to sell you more stuff. While I don’t discount the agency’s good intentions to protect consumers, FTC activists have supported regulations that would | Read More »
I was having a cup of coffee and reading through the local paper when I came across an article discussing remarks that President Obama recently made at one of his many campaign/fundraising stops. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that the President had told the audience “things could be worse.” It seems especially odd coming from the same man who 2 years | Read More »
Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world. But lately it seems like our two countries are moving in opposite directions. David Cameron, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has announced drastic spending cuts for many of the government programs and has indicated that more cuts are coming, unlike the Obama Administration, which continues to engage in | Read More »
Last Friday, Vice President Biden delivered his speech to the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day dinner. For some strange reason the Vice-President chose to rally party activists by defending what most Americans agree are enormous failings of their first 18 months in office – the Obama Administration’s economic and foreign policies. He would have been better off keeping the focus of his talking points | Read More »
Vice-President Joe Biden is in Nashville today to keynote the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day event. Tennesseans are known for their good manners and graciousness and so we welcome the Vice-President to our state. I can’t help but think, however, that it would have been better if he had come to visit immediately after the catastrophic floods that devastated Nashville and the surrounding areas, | Read More »
One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution. The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15. While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an | Read More »
Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference. The Constitution of the United States (Article I, Section 7) vests the power to raise and spend federal revenue solely to the House of Representatives. I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people’s money is complete transparency. Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House | Read More »
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