Obama Administration’s Attack on Plans Americans Have and Like Continues As if more than one-half trillion dollars in Medicare cuts that could jeopardize access to care wasn’t enough bad news for seniors, analysis released yesterday by Avalere Health, a health care research firm, estimates that 1 in 5 seniors could lose their Medicare Part D plan [...]

How the Democrats’ Year-end Tax Hike Will Affect Small Businesses Starting January 1, 2011, Washington Democrats will impose a $3.8 trillion tax hike on hard-working Americans.  This tax increase will affect every American who pays income taxes through higher tax rates on individuals, families, and small businesses. As described below, Washington Democrats are targeting small [...]

How the Democrats’ Year-end Tax Hike Will Affect Senior Citizens Starting January 1, 2011, Washington Democrats will impose a $3.8 trillion tax hike on hard-working Americans, resulting in higher taxes for every American who pays income taxes, as well as on small businesses, the engines of job creation.  Unfortunately, Democrats have done nothing to disarm [...]

Last Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is still at 9.5%.  It would be much higher if the official calculations also looked at the fast-growing number of Americans who have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work. So while Congress should be here trying to find ways to get Americans [...]

Douglas The team that brought you the Obamacare Class Action lawsuit (OCA) is forming a non-profit legal foundation to continue our fight to restore the Constitution – the Liberty Legal Foundation. This week we’re filing the documents to form the foundation and officially request tax-exempt status from the IRS. The LLF will take over prosecuting [...]

Democrats Ignore the First Law of Holes (When You’re Already in One, Stop Digging) Democrats suggest the State and local government bailout bill to be considered in the House on August 10 will temporarily “save” certain government jobs.  But what they won’t tell you is that the $9.6 billion in permanent tax hikes they would [...]

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, today filed a discharge petition on H.R. 5424, the Reform Americans Can Afford Act, which would repeal the Democrats’ health care law and replace it with commonsense solutions to bring down health care costs. House Republican Leader John [...]

Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek August 3, 2010 01:59 PM Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million [...]

The 2010 Medicare Trustees report confirms what employers have been saying for months – that the Democrats’ health care law will result in a substantial and marked decline in employer-sponsored retiree drug coverage. In 2009, 20 percent of seniors participating in Part D did so through a retiree plan offered by their former employer who received a federal [...]

Dear Policy Patriots – Would the Sheriff of Mayberry Mislead You About ObamaCare? Alas, yes. In a $700,000 advertisement, Andy Griffith recently proclaimed the benefits of ObamaCare. What he fails to say in this taxpayer-funded is that ObamaCare’s Medicare spending cuts will be ten times larger than the new benefits it provides to seniors. In [...]