Education & Labor Committee Republicans

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Responsible Budgeting and Spending

Previous  Next A Banner Day for Union Bosses Aug 10, 2010  - Today is a very good day for powerful union leaders. Congress was summoned back into session – with great complexity and expense – to vote on a multi-billion dollar bailout for unionized state workers. At the same time, the Obama administration is preparing to rollback reporting requirements for uni... More Will House Democrats Continue to Delay Troop Support in the Name of Government Bailouts? Jul 19, 2010  - The head of President Obama’s “fiscal responsibility” commission recently made headlines for stating the obvious: the nation’s $13 trillion (and counting) in debt is a “cancer” on our country. Erskine Bowles, commission co-chair and former White House Chief of Staff for President Clinton, called for... More Another Day, Another Report of Rising Costs Under ObamaCare Jun 30, 2010  - More than a year ago, President Obama declared national health care spending had placed the country “on an unsustainable course that threatens the financial stability of families, businesses and government itself.” The president described health care reform as a “necessity that cannot wait.” Despite... More Nonpartisan Budget Expert: Rising Health Care Costs Continue to Pressure Federal Budget May 28, 2010  - According to Speaker Pelosi’s office, ObamaCare will ensure all Americans “have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduce long-term health care costs.” One has to ask how the Speaker’s office came to that conclusion, because according to a recent presentation by the director... More ObamaCare Continues to Pile Up Hidden Costs and Broken Promises May 12, 2010  - In March, while rallying support for her government takeover of health care, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) famously told the American people that Congress needed to “pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…” Well, the last two months have certainly revealed a great deal, including billion... More SOTU Preview: A Phony Freeze & Growing Government … But Where Are the Jobs? Jan 27, 2010  - As President Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address, the Administration continues to pay lip service to job creation in the face of double-digit unemployment rates and continued job losses. But a close look at the policies proposed by the White House in recent days reveals ju... More Status of the Stimulus: Fuzzy Math, Wasteful Spending – and Unemployment Still Rising Nov 4, 2009  - Late last week, the Obama Administration revealed troves of data about its nearly trillion dollar government spending spree, which it continues to describe as an economic stimulus package. Unfortunately for struggling American families and small businesses, the massive spending program simply hasn’t... More What do you call a stimulus that doesn’t stimulate jobs? Jul 9, 2009  - Almost five months after the Democrats’ much-heralded economic stimulus package was signed into law and a week after it was revealed that the unemployment rate has reached its highest level in more than a quarter-century, the American people are left asking: where are the jobs? “With unemployment al... More Previous  Next