DEMOCRATS' IMPENDING TAX INCREASESUnless Democrats take action, hard working Americans will face the largest tax increase in the nation’s...
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“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” –Milton Friedman Background The first round of quantitative...
Background Last week the Congressional Oversight Panel released a report on the contracting authority exercised by the Treasury Department...
“It’s awful hard to say it’s [$1.2 trillion stimulus] working…but if the dog hadn’t stopped would it have caught...
Continuing (Resolution) Unsustainable Spending: With the adjournment of the House of Representatives, Democrats put aside the priorities of the...
“President's Economic Record No Cause for Celebration.” —Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Press Release, July 2003
“I’m also a mother. I’m a wife. I’m an American veteran, and I’m one of your middle-class Americans. And,...
“The TARP is not ended by [the Dodd-Frank Act]…[t]here is some money left unobligated and I intend to press...
“It’s about jobs. In its life, [the healthcare bill] will create 4 million jobs—400,000 jobs almost immediately.” –Speaker Nancy...
"[W]e have to pass the [Healthcare] bill so you can find out what’s in it." —House Speaker...
"The Recovery Act has worked." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (SFGate, June 5, 2010) Background...
Background On June 17, 2010, the House voted to approve H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs and Credit Act...
"The Recovery Act has worked." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (SFGate, June 5, 2010) CLAIM #1 –...
"Everybody agrees that the recession is over." --Larry Summers, (ABC's This Week, December 13, 2009) CLAIM...
“Jobs must be our Number One focus in 2010.” –President Obama, State of the Union address, January 2010 BackgroundAs...
“Welcome to Recovery” –Treasury Secretary Tim F. Geithner, (Op-Ed, August 3, 2010) CLAIM #1 – A January 2009...
"Addressing the challenge of our national debt requires bold leadership and tough choices from members of both parties. Our...
“If America sits on the sidelines while other nations sign trade deals, we will lose the opportunity to create...
"Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to...
Since May, House Democrats have been trying to pass $84.2 billion supplemental spending bill. The ostensible purpose of the...
"In politics, you can say all sorts of things that have no relationship with reality." --Thomas Sowell...
“[T]here's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.” –Vice President Joe Biden, June...
Today, June 4, 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their May Employment Report. At first glance, the news...
Next week, the House is expected to take up billions in dollars in spending, and tax increases, marketed by...
On Sunday, May 9, 2010-the same day the EU and the IMF announced a new $1 trillion deal to protect...
"Deficits of this size are serious, and ultimately unsustainable." -Peter Orszag, President's Director of the Office of...
"Addressing the challenge of our national debt requires bold leadership and tough choices from members of both parties. Our...
"... U.S. fiscal policy is on an unsustainable path to an extent that it cannot be solved by minor...
"If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes." -Paul Volcker, President's Chairman...
Background Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the main cause of the nation's current financial turmoil. With encouragement from Congressional...
Facing political fallout from this Administration's reckless spending spree, President Obama will reportedly use the State of the Union...
President Obama's recent "jobs summit," and Speaker Pelosi's renewed focus on yet another "jobs bill" full of additional government...
President Obama's "jobs summit," coupled with Friday's release of November jobs numbers, once again raise serious questions about the...
"Statistics mean little for those who have lost a job, taken a pay cut, or watched their loved ones...
Since passage of the Democrats' trillion dollar "stimulus," more than 2.8 million jobs have been lost and unemployment stands at...
On November 18, 2009, President Obama arrived in South Korea, the final stop on his Asia trip. Although free...
"It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of...
"If we see money being misspent, we're going to put a stop to it, and we will call it...
"Our team is working with members of Congress every day on this issue (health care), and it is my...
Today, the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent, the highest level in 26 years. Rather than working with Republicans...
According to press reports, Democrats are planning to attach legislation to increase the national debt ceiling to the Fiscal...
Eight months ago the President signed a $787 billion "stimulus" bill that had been rammed through the House without...
"The cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising...
Today, the White House announced the first "hard" evidence of their effort to account for jobs created by the...
"There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As...
Even as unemployment approaches 10 percent nationwide, a recent Heritage Foundation analysis found that House Democrats' government takeover of...
BACKGROUND On July 14, 2009, the Chairmen of the three House Committees with jurisdiction over health care...
"I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy...
“I’m appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying arm to buy...
On August 25, 2009, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) each...
PROTECTING JOBS AND LOWERING TAXES Instead of raising taxes on all Americans in the midst of a recession, Republicans...
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