Do we need some financial reform? Absolutely. Do we need or want what Democratic leadership is insisting on? NO! Every month the Obama Administration seems to come up with something else that will grow government and increase the power of bureaucrats. The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not | Read More »
When the President was pushing so hard for the government to take over our health care he made several promises. On September 9, before a joint session of Congress the President said his health care bill “will slow the growth of health-care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.” Unfortunately, that isn’t quite true. In fact, Medicare’s Office of the Actuary issued an | Read More »
This week as I watched television and listened to news reports, it seemed that the news was really terrible. Floods in Tennessee with a staggering death toll, a terrorist attempt in New York City that could have resulted in the deaths of many innocent people. But then I thought, as bad as the news was, the one constant that stood out like a shining beacon, | Read More »
In today’s Washington, Democrats and the bureaucrats seem determined to find ways to spend taxpayer money. I believe that we must fight wasteful spending everywhere we find it and in any way we can. Last week I wrote to President Obama about another wasteful use of taxpayer’s money – this one by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has promised to give a taxpayer funded | Read More »
On Friday, President Obama was invited to speak at our House Republican conference. The invitation was extended by Republican leadership in an attempt to engage the President in an open dialogue about his policies. I had the opportunity to ask him a question about health care reform. I wanted to know three things: First, had he reviewed Republican proposals for reform, second, what lessons had | Read More »
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