http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:50:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The United States Preventive Services Task Force this week released a report that encourages women to wait an extra decade before receiving breast cancer examinations.  Eyebrows were immediately raised not only in the cancer research community but also by lawmakers on the Hill. Turning years of medical guidelines upside down, the ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/11/19/the-preventative-care-conundrum/ The cap and trade national energy tax is being sold to the American people as a free-market answer to environmental problems. Dressed in green as it is, people are led to believe that it was a scheme hatched by the environmentally conscious. The truth is that cap and ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/09/21/cap-and-trade-the-wall-street-tax/ Right now in Washington, D.C., we are seeing nothing short of the deconstruction of America’s free-market system. To be blunt, the strong arm tactics of the Obama Administration’s Auto Task Force are crushing the dreams of many American business owners – and simultaneously putting our future prosperity in jeopardy. Over the ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/07/06/saving-the-american-dream/ When President Obama unveiled his cap-and-trade energy tax in January, he referenced the government-aided renewable energy policies of Spain as a model.  The Spanish plan aimed for renewable energy to saturate 12% of the energy market and 20% of the electric production by 2010.  Now, as cap-and-tax makes its way ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/06/04/spains-energy-model-what-not-to-do/ I have made no secret of my objections to a proposed cap-and-trade energy tax that will result in increased costs for every single American. The tax would require energy producers and businesses to pay to emit carbon emissions in the hope of reducing greenhouse gases.  You, the consumer, would be ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/04/22/mit-professor-sets-the-record-straight-on-cap-and-trade/ Without a doubt, our economy is facing a confidence crisis.  As the historic plummet of the markets last week demonstrated, Wall Street has little confidence in recovery right now.  And, as I hear from constituents every day, so has the public. Though 92% of mortgage holders continue to pay their mortgages ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2009/03/11/cramdown-housing-bill-hurts-families-trying-to-save-their-home/ It’s official. Washington’s favorite word this year is “bailout.” It’s been overused by Congress’ elite in hopes of rescuing their corporate friends from poor decision-making. It’s been used to pick the pockets of the already hurting taxpayer. It’s become a euphemism for robbing Peter to pay Paul. The last ... http://www.redstate.com/rep_michele_bachmann/2008/12/08/no-more-bailouts/