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Earlier this year, a new drug was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration to treat prostate cancer.  The drug, called Provenge, helps a patient’s immune system fight tumors brought on by prostate cancer.  According to studies, the drug can extend the lives of patients by about four months. 

But according to the decision makers in the federal government who were empowered by ObamaCare to substitute their judgment for that of patients and doctors when it comes to medical decisions, the drug might be too expensive.  

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees Medicare, has begun a “national coverage analysis” of Provenge to decide whether or not Medicare will help cover the costs for the treatment – which can be more than $90,000 per patient. 

While CMS won’t acknowledge that cost is the driving factor in the review of Provenge, men suffering prostate cancer aren’t fooled.  David Dykes, 69, said in a story in the Washington Post, "I ... more

For months, people in the media and political circles predicted that 2010 would become known as the Year of the Republican Woman.  On Tuesday night, those predictions came true.  The RNC Women’s Program is proud of our female candidates and activists who made this happen.

Almost thirty Republican women were elected on Tuesday night in races for governor, U.S. House and U.S. Senate.  This includes four Republican women who were elected governor in their states, one for the U.S. Senate and at least 23 who won election to the U.S. House while others are in the recount situations.   

Just as important, women voters turned out for Republican candidates in numbers likely not seen before in recent history.  According to exit polling of U.S. House races nationwide, the gender gap historically enjoyed by Democrat candidates was almost non-existent on Tuesday night.  CNN reported “this ties 2002 as the lowest ever female vote for Democrats.”

According to the exit polls, the female vote was ... more

None of us have ever seen an election like this.  All across the country, from town hall meetings to rallies on the National Mall, the conservatives of this country have come together to make their voices heard.  Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have heard our message loud and clear – we are ready to turn the page to a new chapter of conservative leadership in America. 

We have asked much of you over the past two years.  We asked you to support our candidates with your time, your sweat and your money.  We asked you to speak out during the debate over health care, to stand up at town halls and to send letters to Congress.   Over the past few months, we asked you to make the phone calls and knock on the doors that can make the difference between winning and losing.

Now there is just one thing left you must do, and there is nothing more important.  It is time to vote. 

Don’t wait until later in the day.  If you haven’t cast your vote yet, don’t even finish reading this.  If ... more

Tomorrow is Election Day.

We have accomplished a great deal.  Between a record number of women candidates running for office and the support of volunteers and activists like you, there is no doubt that 2010 is indeed the Year of the Republican Woman.

But our work isn’t over yet.  Our women candidates NEED your support during the next 24 hours to help propel them across the finish line.  Here are a few things you can do to support your candidates in these final hours:

1. Phone bank – either from home, or your local Victory Center.  Voters who are contacted properly by a Victory volunteer are at least 60% more likely to turn out to vote.
2. Volunteer.  Visit volunteer.gop.com to engage in opportunities in your area.
3. Contribute.  Our candidates need to win, and they need to win big.  Your financial support will help them do just that. 
4. And of course, vote!  In 2008, Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken beat Norm Coleman by only 225 votes for the Minnesota Senate.  In 1998, Harry Reid ... more
   
   

Next Tuesday, voters across the country have the opportunity to change America for the better.  With the simple act of casting a ballot, you can help bring an end to the Democrat majority in Congress that wants to spend more, borrow more and take more control of the lives of the American people. 

Just one vote can be critical.  Ninety years ago, women’s suffrage passed by exactly one vote.  In 1998, Harry Reid won re-election to the United States Senate by less than one tenth of one percent of the vote.  Every vote counts.  Millions of us voting together can change the world. 

Perhaps never before have we had so many reasons to get to the polls.  Just consider: 

- Thanks to the Obama Administration, our national debt now stands at more than $13 trillion;

- If the Obama/Pelosi agenda is allowed to continue unchecked, the projected federal debt in 2020 will be more than $26 trillion;

- ObamaCare alone contained more than $560 billion in taxes and penalties to be levied on the ... more

Now that the trend is becoming clear, many pundits have begun to ask why this has become known as the Year of the Republican Woman.  The answer is simple.  Our female candidates, and the millions of Americans supporting them with their time, their money and their votes, know that we don’t need more government control of our lives.  We don’t need big government to do what the people can and should do for themselves. 

Women make 75% of the buying decisions and 80% of the health care decisions. They are often the ones in the family who balance the checkbook each month.  It is crystal clear to these women that the Democrats in Congress have lost touch with the realities of everyday Americans faced with making tough decisions to make ends meet. 

The time for change has come because the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress have failed to get America’s economy moving again.  The millions of women who are small business owners have felt the pinch especially hard.  When the ... more

In the election cycle heading for a close on Tuesday, scores of Republican women stepped forward to run for office.  At last count, there are 51 Republican women running for Congress to make their communities and states better places to work and raise their families. 

For the past two years, the RNC Women’s Program has worked hard to find female Republican candidates who want to make a difference by running for office.  We took unprecedented steps to bring thousands of female Republican volunteers, activists and donors together at a series of Regional Summits.  We built a social networking platform for Republican women at RNCWomen.com and forged stronger ties with Republican women in Congress to help us comb the nation to find the next generation of female Republican leaders. 

For too long, Democrats in Congress have ignored the will of the people.  When voters expressed outrage at ObamaCare during town hall meetings, Democrats responded not by changing the bill but rather by ... more

In less than two years in office, President Obama has enacted more public debt into law than was accumulated from George Washington’s first term in office through George W. Bush’s second.  But he didn’t do it without help.  Congress controls the power of the purse, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been all too eager to do her part in contributing to our skyrocketing debt. 

The exploding debt passed into law by the Democrat Congress under Pelosi’s watch is one of the chief reasons experts are predicting historic gains for Republicans in next week’s elections.  The current national debt stands at more than $13.6 trillion, and the Office of Management and Budget projects the federal debt will go up to more than $26 trillion in 2020. 

Yet Nancy Pelosi believes that the reason her party is poised to suffer historic losses is not because her leadership is taking America down the road of fiscal ruin, but rather because her accomplishments have not been communicated well enough.  In an ... more

When Nancy Pelosi took up the gavel as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2007, the national debt stood at about $8.6 trillion. 

Now, as her tenure as House Speaker winds down with the election of a new Republican majority in Congress just more than a week away, the debt stands at more than $13.6 trillion.  In little more than three years in command of the chamber of Congress charged with the power of the purse, Nancy Pelosi has seen our national debt explode by more than $5 trillion. 

What Pelosi doesn’t want the American people to remember is her pledge upon taking the gavel that there would be “no new deficit spending.”  In her first speech as Speaker, Pelosi said, "After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending.”

Instead of living up to her promise to bring the public debt under control, Pelosi worked with Harry Reid to enact more public debt than was accumulated from George ... more

In 1998, Harry Reid won re-election to the United States Senate by just one tenth of one percent.  Just 459 votes separated Reid from his Republican opponent.  Two months later, Reid began his climb up the ranks of the Democrat leadership by becoming the Minority Whip of his caucus. 

If anyone you know ever says his or her vote doesn’t matter, remind them of Harry Reid and the 1998 campaign.  Just 459 votes made the difference between Harry Reid becoming the Senate Majority Leader who shepherded ObamaCare into law, or Harry Reid becoming just another attorney from Searchlight, Nevada. 

Yesterday, Reid gave the voters of Nevada even more reason to get to the polls and cast their ballot to turn the page.  In an interview on MSNBC, Reid said, “You know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.”  Politico reported that the Reid campaign followed up by saying the 2009 stimulus bill pushed through the Senate by Reid staved off disastrous consequences. 

In fact, the opposite is ... more