WASHINGTON – Today, the Committee on House Administration’s Ranking Republican Dan Lungren, R-Calif., issued the following statement on legislation drafted by the Democrats’ top campaign operatives in  response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:  “I’m disappointed that despite my offer to work together to identify areas of bipartisan [...]

Employers Likely to Consider Eliminating Employee Health Benefits, Cutting Hours With unemployment hovering close to 10 percent and underemployment — such as part-time workers wanting full-time work – even higher, Mercer’s annual employer health plan survey illustrates the harsh reality for employers and more importantly the employees that work for them under the Democrats’ health care [...]

WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Grassley today continued to peel back the layers of taxpayer obligations behind last week’s claim and fanfare about General Motors repaying its multi-billion dollar loan from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout. Last week, Grassley asked the Treasury Secretary why the administration had allowed GM to use [...]

Obama Administration Analysis Shows Health Care Law Will Increase Health Spending Significantly, Jeopardize Access to Care Washington, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Republicans today sent a letter to Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) requesting a hearing on the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) analysis of the recently enacted [...]

April 27, 2010 (Remarks as Prepared) Co-chairmen Bowles and Simpson, fellow members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform… We’ve heard from a number of people this morning…the President, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Director Orszag, former CBO directors, other members of the commission…and I know we will hear from more in the [...]

April 23, 2010 WASHINGTON – Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Spencer Bachus wrote to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for the second time in six months asking him to answer specific questions on how the bailout authority that the Obama Administration is advocating will work and how much money will be needed to “resolve” a failed [...]

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today released the following statements in reaction to the analysis of the Democrats’ health care law from the nonpartisan experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): CAMP: “This report confirms Americans’ worst fears [...]

After Democrats Spend One Trillion Dollars, Health Insurance Will be More Expensive Today, the New York Times reports Democrats are scrambling to prevent the predicted health insurance premium increases that are coming for millions of families as a result of their big government health care overhaul.  Just one month after becoming law, Democrats, “fearing that health [...]

Not really, it’s actually SNL. Obama tries to comfort Pelosi and Reid on their popularity.

While the President recently said the economy had “turned a corner,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S.  According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chart below, through March 2010 a total of 48 out of 50 States had seen net job [...]