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Marcy Kaptur looking for an excuse to vote yes?
Roll Call:
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who is undecided on the health care vote, said she is urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to hold a separate vote reaffirming Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) strict language limiting abortion insurance coverage to help clear the way for passage of the reform package Sunday.
Nancy Pelosi’s answer? [...]
What part of “No” don’t they understand?
Jim Jordan talks about the effort to ram health care reform through congress:
Chart of the Day: What Unsustainable Looks Like
Veronique de Rugy:
In 2010, Medicare and Medicaid cost 5.0 percent of GDP and Social Security cost 4.8 percent of GDP. Combined, that’s less than 10 percent of GDP. By 2020, the combined cost of these three programs is already projected to grow to 11.4 percent of GDP; extrapolating forward at constant [...]
Develop the Outer Continental Shelf
If there is a more idiotic component of our energy policy than refusing to develop the Outer Continental Shelf I am hard pressed to name it. No other coutnry in the world refuses to develop there resources in the way we have. That is right, NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!
Heck, we haven’t even studied [...]
Smart energy policy
I am out here at CPAC 2010 in Washington, DC networking with a host of other bloggers. I had the chance to talk to John C. Felmy who is chief economist at API about energy policy and moving forward with smart policies.
A lot of people like to claim that conservatives don’t have any solutions – that we [...]
Fisher blames Ohio recession on Small Business Administration
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That’s right, folks. Former Ohio Jobs Czar, and now US Senate candidate, Lee Fisher put his brain trust together to get to the bottom of the economic problems of Ohio and this is what he came up with:
One of the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate said regulations and big banking [...]
Oil and Gas and Jobs
A video worth watching from API:
Jobs continue to be one of the main topics of conversation in Washington. API’s President and CEO Jack Gerard explains the oil and natural gas industry’s potential as a jobs creator:
And I can only say amen to this:
The U.S. oil and natural gas industry could help to create hundreds of [...]
Rob Portman calls for payroll tax holiday
US Senate Candidate Rob Portman offers a rather bold proposal to stimulate the economy:
The Cincinnati Republican spoke in Cleveland Friday afternoon. Among his proposals was one that he maintains would jump-start both hiring, and spending.
Portman said “to spur immediate investment by employers and encourage consumption by employees; I support a one year payroll tax holiday. [...]
The Failed Stimulus: Part Two
Another one of those picture paints a thousand words type things:
Key Quote:
This suggests that there is no real correlation between unemployment rates in the states and the number of jobs “created or saved” with stimulus money.
Congressman Bob Latta on Pelosi-Obama Healthcare Bill
Congressman Bob Latta’s (R-OH) statement after voting against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s government takeover of our nation’s health care system.
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