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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

A federal judge in Virginia today confirmed what millions of Americans have believed since ObamaCare was signed into law – the federal takeover of health care is unconstitutional. 

The heart of President Obama’s health reform law is a provision that forces citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.  U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that this mandate on citizens goes beyond Congress’ enumerated powers to regulate interstate commerce.  The ruling today came in a case separate from a legal challenge brought on similar grounds by 20 other states. 

Republicans in Congress, and governors and attorneys general in states across the country, have long known that ObamaCare is an unconstitutional government intrusion into decisions best made by families and physicians.  Democrats in Congress, spurred on by Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, ignored these concerns during the debate over the bill and forced its enactment.

Now, as the American ... more

A new poll from Bloomberg News shows that more than 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off now than they were when President Obama first took office two years ago.  About 66 percent say the nation is headed in the wrong direction and 50 percent identify unemployment as their top concern. 

One of the chief reasons for this lack of confidence is the lack of certainty that the Pelosi Congress and the Obama White House have provided for America’s small businesses.  New mandates and regulations are revealed within ObamaCare almost weekly, and liberal Democrats in Congress continue to block efforts to extend the Bush tax cuts for every American. 

Liberal House Democrats, fired up in their efforts to make sure every American suffers a tax hike at the end of this month, went so far yesterday as to start chanting, “Just say no!” at the prospect of holding a floor vote on extending the Bush tax cuts.  New reports continue to indicate that the Pelosi Congress could use its final days ... more

Continuing a trend that began shortly before Election Day, the Obama Administration has granted another batch of waivers from provisions of ObamaCare to private companies and employees unions.  At least 222 companies and organizations have now obtained waivers from provisions in the health care takeover dealing with annual medical spending limit requirements. 

Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, the president and his allies argued that the government would not take away a person’s health coverage under his health reform plan.  What he failed to tell the people is that ObamaCare would create rules and regulations that make it more and more difficult for employers to continue to offer health coverage to their employees.

As it became clear that the burdensome red tape ObamaCare creates would force private employers to consider dropping employee coverage entirely, the Obama Administration sprung into action to provide waivers out of the bill’s provisions.  As a spokesman for one of ... more

As if losing their majority in the U.S. House in last month’s elections wasn’t enough, the Pelosi Congress now appears to have lost touch with reality. 

In the same week that saw another ugly jobs report, Democrats in both the House and Senate voted for legislation that would raise taxes on job creators by hundreds of billions of dollars and pull money out of the economy that could be used by small business owners to invest and hire new employees. 

According to the new unemployment figures for November released last week, the economy created just 39,000 jobs last month – or about 100,000 less than it needs to in order to keep up with population growth.  The unemployment rate now stands at 9.8 percent, showing that the economy is faltering rather than gaining strength. 

The reason the economy is stumbling to get back on track is clear – Democrats in Congress and the White House have created enormous uncertainty for small business owners regarding future tax rates and are making it ... more

The American people sent an unmistakable message to the Pelosi Congress in last month’s elections.  They have had enough of the wasteful Washington spending that created more than $13 trillion in debt, and they want new leadership that treats the taxpayers with the respect they deserve. 

Yesterday, the Democrats in the U.S. House provided even more evidence that they failed to hear the message delivered by the voters.  Instead of taking action to cut government spending and tighten the federal belt, they voted instead to pass another temporary spending measure funding the government through the middle of December.  Once again, the Democrats showed themselves unable to make the hard choices that leadership requires. 

And while they continue to fiddle while the federal budget burns, House Democrats remain committed to blocking any effort to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for every American.  In a hastily called floor vote this afternoon, Democrats in the House voted to push their ... more