RNC Women

MEMORANDUM

From:               RNC Co-Chairman Sharon Day
To:                    Interested Parties
Date:                October 19, 2011
Re:                   Vice President Biden’s Demagoguery Is Demeaning To Women, Victims

Yesterday in Philadelphia, Vice President Biden decided to express his support for President Obama's Stimulus 2.0 plan by explaining to a crowd that he wished opponents “knew what it felt like to be robbed or raped.” Nothing could be more irresponsible and mean spirited. No victim of violent crime would ever wish that others were forced to experience the same trauma they went though – especially to make a brazen political point. So why would the sitting Vice President of the United States?

But this isn’t the first time the Vice President has used this irresponsible argument out on the stump. He used a similar line last week in Flint, Michigan saying that if the President’s stimulus bill isn’t passed, there will be a nationwide epidemic of rape and murder. ... more

My name is Sharon Day and I am proud to serve as Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee. I welcome you to celebrate National Women’s history month with me by discussing the essential role women play in the strengthening of our great Party.

Of the many voting demographics that can be reached through grassroots movements, women are the largest. Since Ronald Reagan’s reelection in 1984, women have consistently out-voted men in every successive presidential election. There is no question that women continue to become increasingly involved in not only electing government officials, but being government officials themselves. There are currently 39 Republican women serving as Governors, Lt. Governors, US Senators and US House Members. This past year, three new Republican female Governors were elected along with one new Republican female Senatorand nine new Republican female House members. In the same year, we saw a groundswell of women activists and volunteers working to support ... more

In the everyday hustle and bustle of the 24 hour news cycle, we too often forget that the men and women who serve in Congress are not just politicians.  The events of the past few days reminded us in heartbreaking fashion that those we elect to represent us are someone’s mother, daughter, father or son long before they become a Representative or Senator.   

The sacrifices made by members of Congress to serve the people they represent are enormous.  Those who step forward to run for public office give up their privacy, their personal lives and – too often – their personal security.  Instead of spending weekends with family and friends, members of Congress spend what we know as days off traveling across their states and districts to listen to the thoughts and concerns of their constituents.  We too often forget to honor the sacrifice and service of these men and women, and fail to thank them for stepping forward to serve.    

One of the bedrocks of our representative form of ... more

With a simple step yesterday, the new Republican majority in the U.S. House showed that things are no longer business as usual in Congress. 

For the first time in the history of the institution, the Constitution was read aloud on the floor of the U.S. House.  From the preamble to the Bill of Rights and through all of the amendments, our nation’s founding document was read aloud by members of Congress from both parties. 

A hallmark of the Pelosi Congress was its effort to enact its policy goals by any means necessary, and whether the programs were constitutional or not.  The most egregious example is the federal takeover of health care that dictates that individual citizens purchase health insurance, a product, from a private company.  Already, a federal district judge has ruled this provision of ObamaCare unconstitutional and more than 20 states have joined legal challenges against the federal takeover. 

Preventing these kinds of abuses is the reason it was so important to have the ... more

Over the past two years, Republicans and energized conservatives worked tirelessly to bring change to Washington, D.C.  The American people rose up, made their voices heard at the ballot box, and declared that they wanted an end to the wasteful Washington spending that was a hallmark of the Pelosi Congress. 

Today, the new Republican majority in the U.S. House takes the first steps to getting our nation’s fiscal house back in order.  Today, the will of the people as expressed at the polls will be put into action in the halls of Congress.

With one of its first acts in the majority, the Republican leadership today will bring to the floor of the U.S. House a resolution to cut Congress’ own budget by 5 percent below last year’s levels.  This reduction would save the taxpayers about $35 million over the next fiscal year, and will send the message that things are not business as usual in Congress.

Wasteful government spending has created a national debt of more than $14 trillion.  This ... more

Last November, millions of Americans took to the polls to elect new leadership to Congress and preserve the ideals that have guided our nation since it's founding.  Today, the wishes of the people became reality as Members of the 112^th Congress were sworn into office and a new Republican majority took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. 

And not a moment too soon.  Just last week the national debt soared to more than $14 trillion, a $1 trillion increase in the past seven months alone.  More and more provisions of ObamaCare are being implemented, and the clock is ticking until the punishing tax hikes and penalties carried in the health care takeover are fully in place. 

With their first day in office, the Republicans of the 112^th Congress will offer a new beginning to the American people.  A vote scheduled for later this afternoon will cut the House budget by $35 million this year.  Democrat critics call this a symbolic move, but the symbol itself is important.  The new ... more

Last year, millions of Americans raised their voices against the federal takeover of health care.  Republican candidates for the U.S. House were among them, and the repeal of ObamaCare became a central part of House Republicans’ Pledge to America. 

Next week, a vote to repeal ObamaCare will be a promise kept by the new Republican majority in Congress. 

The Republican leadership of the U.S. House has set Wednesday, January 12^th as the day to vote on a repeal of the health care law.  The repeal legislation is said to be a brief document that revokes the law – a stark contrast to the thousand page behemoth the Democrats passed last year over the objections of the American people. 

The top priority of the newly elected Republicans in Congress is to protect and create jobs.  And one of the best and quickest ways to preserve jobs is to immediately repeal ObamaCare and the job killing provisions it carries with it.  The new taxes and penalties in the health care law, and the provisions ... more

Before the new Republican majority in Congress is even sworn in to office next January, it is already delivering results for the American taxpayers. 

Bowing to pressure from Republican members of Congress, and finally recognizing the new reality that will see a Republican Speaker of the House next year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pulled his massive 1,000 page, $1.1 trillion spending bill from consideration on the floor of the Senate. 

The bill Harry Reid was trying to force on the American people would have amounted to nearly $575 million in spending per page and would have represented an increase in spending of $174 billion over the levels of two years ago.  Even worse, the bill would have spent $1 billion to implement ObamaCare at a time when unemployment has lingered over 9.4 percent for 19 consecutive months. 

If the American people had not spoken so loudly at the polls last month, this legislative monstrosity almost certainly would be headed for the president’s desk ... more

The Pelosi Congress just doesn’t get it.  The American people are fed up with the wasteful Washington spending and the mountains of debt that the Democrat Congress have saddled the taxpayers with.  The people are so fed up with it that they voted 63 Democrats in the U.S. House out of office and created a new Republican majority in Congress. 

Even after that historic loss at the polls, the Democrats continue to spend like there is no tomorrow.  Senate Democrats, pushing to enact their pet projects into law before Republicans take over the House in January, are now trying to create a showdown on Saturday to force a vote on their $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.  The legislation, which combines the twelve annual appropriations bills that Congress must approve every year, includes more than 6,000 earmarks and would spend more than $1 billion to implement provisions of ObamaCare.

The American people can see that the Democrats in Congress are refusing to treat their tax dollars with ... more

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are planning to leave the American people with one last parting gift before they gavel Congress to a close and a new Republican majority is seated in the U.S. House in January. 

Led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Democrats yesterday filed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill totaling at least 1,924 pages.  The bill comes on the heels of the Democrats’ failure to produce either a budget or  spending bills for most of the departments of the federal government – including appropriations bills for the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security.  Included in the bill is an estimated $5.4 billion for new labor, education and health spending, and $1.25 billion in spending related to the implementation of ObamaCare. 

This attempt to rush another trillion dollar, thousand page bill into law is just another instance of the Democrats refusing to listen to the American people.  The message delivered by the voters last month was loud and clear.  ... more