http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:29:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/11/05/exposing-a-provision-that-extends-immunity-for-insurance-companies/ Could you make your family budget look good in a ten-year analysis if you counted ten years of income but only seven of expenditures? That’s what the Congressional Budget Office did in their report on Senator Max Baucus’s health care bill. Their subpar accounting includes revenue from tax increases ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/10/09/cbo-stands-for-cooked-books-office/ If the White House “misread” our entire economy back in January, should we trust it to read—and manipulate—even a fraction of the economy now? Logic says no. Yet, the health care industry makes up approximately one sixth of the entire U.S. economy, and many Washington Democrats are rushing to ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/07/29/rushing-to-overspend-again/ The Department of Defense is moving forces from Okinawa to Guam – all well and good. Except, the recently passed DOD Authorization contains funding for construction firms to pay their workers wages consistent with labor rates in Hawaii – 250% HIGHER than wages in Guam. This will not only take ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/07/13/democrats-rewarding-labor-unions-at-service-members%e2%80%99-expense/ For the past two days, the Energy and Commerce Committee has been marking up the Waxman-Markey "Cap-and-Trade" bill. It will impose a huge, new cost on all energy (estimated at $4,300 per family each year) and destroy millions of American jobs. While the price of everything will go up, the ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/05/20/no-disclosure-on-utility-bills-but-new-labels-for-potato-chips/ Beginning with his tax difficulties, and continuing through the puzzling narrative of when and what he knew about the AIG bonuses, Treasury Secretary Geithner has done little to inspire the confidence of the American people. Oddly, Secretary Geithner continued his bizarre and puzzling conduct this week, making flatly contradictory ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/03/26/really-mr-secretary-which-is-it/ When did playing by the rules become a crime? The housing legislation that the Democrat Congress is set to consider today includes something called “cramdown” It’s a provision of the bill that gives judges the power to rewrite someone’s home mortgage when they default and file for bankruptcy, reducing the ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/03/05/when-did-playing-by-the-rules-become-a-crime/ No American family should ever have to worry about their own government placing a terrorist in their community. I have introduced legislation that would make this impossible – ensuring that the Islamic extremists at Guantanamo are not given the chance to enter our country and complete their unfinished mission ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/03/03/keeping-the-gitmo-killers-out-of-america/ Last night President Obama said, “I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan…Not because I believe in bigger government - I don't.” Really? If that’s true, why was every single policy the President suggested last night…big government? Mr. President, if you don’t like big government, perhaps you should consider not making ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/02/25/really/ Minutes ago, the House passed the so-called stimulus bill in the face of bipartisan opposition and without a single Republican vote--again. The only thing that now stands between the American people and the passage of this monstrous bill is a vote in the Senate that is tentatively scheduled for 7:00 ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/02/13/friday-the-13th-part-ii/ How fitting is it that the stimulus bill is coming to a strong-arm vote on Friday the 13th? This entire process has been a horror story. The exclusion of Republicans. The pork and paybacks for special interests. The secret, closed-door meetings. The mammoth bill text kept ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/02/13/friday-the-13th-horror/ Americans are up in arms, decrying wasteful spending in the so-called stimulus bill. They should be. But one of the bill’s worst provisions has gone almost unnoticed, dangerously lurking below the radar of those exposing the bill’s flaws. “Comparative Effectiveness Research,” sounds innocuous, but big-government programs always do. The $1.1 ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2009/02/10/healthcare-danger-hidden-in-stimulus/ We’ve all seen the television ads saying every year America spends $700 billion on foreign oil, constituting the largest transfer of wealth in human history. It’s no coincidence that Congress is now considering the largest government bailout in American history. The current energy situation is bleeding the American ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_john_shadegg/2008/09/25/american-made-energy-american-jobs/