http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/ en Copyright 2011 2011-10-19T20:17:43+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/memo_vice_president_bidens_demagoguery_is_demeaning_to_women_victims/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/memo_vice_president_bidens_demagoguery_is_demeaning_to_women_victims/#When:20:17:43Z MEMORANDUM From:               RNC Co-Chairman Sharon DayTo:                    Interested PartiesDate:                October 19, 2011Re:                   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.  Clearly this isn’t another case of “Joe being Joe,” but a calculated messaging point from the Administration to try and gin up support for another round of failed stimulus spending. This is a familiar theme from the White House which has often resorted to over-the-top rhetoric in an attempt to generate support for its policies. So why all the silence from the media? Where is the outrage from women’s and victim’s rights groups?   To link well-justified, bipartisan opposition to the President’s latest stimulus proposal to violent crime is intellectually dishonest and reeks of the kind of gutter politics that the Obama Administration purports to be above. This is the kind of demagoguery one might expect from backbench bombthrowers not a constitutional officer of the United States who is second in line to the presidency and who at any minute could be called upon to lead the free world. Not only is this rhetoric beneath our nation’s second highest constitutional office, it undermines serious policy discussions taking place about how to put Americans back to work.   Our economy is hurting and the Obama Administration’s policies have only prolonged the pain, but that is no excuse for Vice President Biden to wish his political opponents to be subjected to rape or have a gun held to their head. Victims of violent crime should never be used for political gain. The office he holds demands that what he says be treated with a level of importance. It’s time for the media and women’s groups to step up and hold the Vice President accountable for his irresponsible and insensitive choice of words.   Text "ENLIST" 91919 to join the GOP Mobile Army and get exclusive campaign updates.   2011-10-19T20:17:43+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/celebrate_our_history/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/celebrate_our_history/#When:17:35:39Z 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 Republican candidates. Women voters have high stakes in the current issues since women make 75% of buying decisions and 80% of health care decisions. Women are also the ones who often balance the family checkbook and handle doctor visits, making national politics very relevant to women’s daily lives and their ability to care for their families. Women comprise a diverse voting bloc including school teachers, small business owners, attorneys, and entrepreneurs. The diversity of women’s professions means they have diverse interests in governmental policy. Their diversity also brings a wide range of expertise and personal experience to the national debate, making women very influential in the grassroots campaigns to bring the Republican message to more Americans. Through both large national groups, and by forming smaller and local groups, women can have even greater influence in helping to achieve support for the Republican Party in the times ahead. I look forward to working with all of you to strengthen and grow our Party. Together we can we can build on our successes in 2010, return a Republican majority to the United States Senate, and defeat Barack Obama in 2012. God Bless our great country and God Bless each of you. 2011-04-21T17:35:39+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/those_who_serve/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/those_who_serve/#When:20:11:48Z 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 government is the right of the people to petition their government and speak freely to their elected representatives in Congress.  We must not allow the events of this past weekend to fundamentally alter the way we govern ourselves.  We must not allow a wall of fear to be erected between the voters and those we elect to represent us.  And we must not forget to thank the men and women who offer themselves up to serve in public office.  The sacrifices they make are real, as are the risks they increasingly face.  The next time you see one of your members of Congress – of either party - let them know you appreciate their service.  They deserve our thanks.    2011-01-10T20:11:48+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/respect_for_the_constitution/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/respect_for_the_constitution/#When:20:40:19Z 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 Constitution read aloud in Congress yesterday – and it is the reason that the new Republican leadership requires each new bill introduced to include a statement explaining from which part of the Constitution the legislation would gain its authority.  For too long under the Pelosi Congress the Constitution was viewed as a roadblock to get around rather than the foundation of the rights and liberties we enjoy as Americans.  By having the Constitution read on the floor of the House, the new Republican majority showed they will respect our nation’s founding document.  Through their actions over the next two years, they will show they mean to put that respect into action to protect the freedoms of every American.  2011-01-07T20:40:19+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/words_into_action/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/words_into_action/#When:18:20:18Z 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 burden on future generations threatens our economy, destroys confidence in the government’s ability to treat the taxpayers with respect and makes it more difficult to create jobs for the millions of Americans who are still out of work.  Cutting Congress’ budget certainly won’t solve the problem in a single step, and a simple $35 million reduction in spending may not seem like much, but it is a start.  It is a declaration that the wasteful spending of the Pelosi Congress is over, and that the wishes of the American people as expressed at the ballot box will be put into action beginning today.    2011-01-06T18:20:18+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/new_beginnings/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/new_beginnings/#When:16:03:52Z 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 112th 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 112th 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 Republican majority will cut federal spending and tighten the government’s belt, and they will begin with Congress itself.     History was written on Election Day last November, and again today as the new Republican Members of Congress took their seats.  The millions of Americans who took to the polls last fall are no doubt watching today as their votes are turned into action.   As the new Republican majority gets down to work, I join Republicans everywhere in wishing them well as they begin the task of carrying out the wishes of the American people as expressed at the ballot box.  This is an historic day for our country, and a new beginning for our elected leaders in Congress.  May God bless them, and continue to bless the United States of America.   2011-01-05T16:03:52+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/promises_kept/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/promises_kept/#When:18:34:44Z 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 12th 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 that penalize small businesses from growing too large, will prolong our economic difficulty and make it more difficult for small businesses to invest in themselves and grow.     The vote next Wednesday is just the first step in the long road to final repeal of ObamaCare.  But it is a step worth taking to protect American jobs and live up to the trust of the American people.  2011-01-04T18:34:44+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/a_win_for_the_taxpayers/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/a_win_for_the_taxpayers/#When:19:47:31Z 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 right now.  Instead, Democrats have been forced to go back to the drawing board to develop a short term extension of federal spending until the new Congress is seated in January.  If just the prospect of a Republican majority in the House forced the Democrats’ hand and protected the taxpayers this week, imagine what the reality of a new Republican majority will mean when Congress reconvenes next month.  The American people voted in November for a Congress that will treat the taxpayers with respect.  Next month, they may finally have it.          2010-12-17T19:47:31+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/they_dona/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/they_dona/#When:15:53:30Z 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 the respect they deserve.  According to new Gallup polling, just 13% of the American people approve of the way Congress is handling its job.  The 83% disapproval rating is the lowest Gallup has measured in more than 30 years.  It is no accident that the Pelosi Congress is setting records for disapproval from the American people.  And at the same time that Democrats in the Senate try to rush a vote on a thousand page, $1.1 trillion spending bill, Democrats in the House are actively working to block passage of a bill that would make sure that taxes don’t go up for every American on January 1st.  With their last week in control of both chambers of Congress, Democrats are looking to boost spending with one hand and raise taxes with the other.  The Democrats either didn’t hear the message delivered by the American people at the polls last month, or they are ignoring what they were told.  Either way, the Democrats have proven once again that they just don’t get it, and that their time in control of both chambers of Congress can’t end soon enough.  2010-12-16T15:53:30+00:00 http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/parting_gift/ http://www.gop.com/index.php/rnc_women/comments/parting_gift/#When:15:15:18Z 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.  They have had enough wasteful Washington spending and they reject the federal takeover of health care that will give bureaucrats power over decisions best made between families and their physicians.  True to form even to the last, the Democrats continue to ignore the wishes of the people.  The people want fiscal discipline and belt tightening from Congress.  Instead, Democrats in the Senate are offering one last parting gift to the taxpayers before they leave Washington for the year – another bloated spending bill that will create even more debt for future generations to repay. 2010-12-15T15:15:18+00:00