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Drowning in Red Ink
Jun 11, 2010This month, our country reached a staggering milestone – the national debt topped $13 trillion. To put that in perspective, if you were to spend $1 per second, it would take you about 412,000 years to rack up $13 trillion in debt. While the median income per person in 2004 was $23,535, each American taxpayer’s share of the national debt is $118,500.
Filed under: EconomyAmerica Speaking Out: Your Voice Matters
May 27, 2010I am proud to join my Republican colleagues to announce the creation of America Speaking Out. America Speaking Out is a project to create a new set of policies to generate real solutions for the problems our country is current facing – and it gives every American the opportunity to take part in the discussion of exactly how to do that.
Filed under: GeneralTo Budget or Not to Budget That Is the Question
May 21, 2010In 1974, Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. This legislation established procedures for how Congress creates and adopts the annual budget for the federal government. This process allows the American people to see the spending priorities of Congress and also helps to hold Congress to a spending limit. For the first time since this bill was drafted, it appears as though we may not draft and pass a budget for the 2011 fiscal year.
Filed under: EconomyTown Hall Recap: Your Voice Is Important
Apr 16, 2010Earlier this month, I wrapped up another 18 town hall meetings, including stops in Beckham, Custer, Canadian, Lincoln, Logan, Kingfisher, Garfield, Major, Alfalfa, Dewey, Woods, and Blaine counties, and am proud to report I am now more than half way through my annual 50 town hall tour of Oklahoma’s Third Congressional District.
Filed under: EconomyExecutive Orders Cant Change Statutory Law
Mar 24, 2010As they did in the Senate with the ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ and the ‘Louisiana Purchase,’ backroom promises were made to some members in the House of Representatives in exchange for a yes vote on the recently passed health care bill. One of the most controversial was President Obama’s promise to sign an executive order he claims would reinforce a ban within the bill on the use of federal funds for abortions in a last minute effort to assuage pro-life Democrats to abandon their constituency and their core beliefs.
Filed under: Health CareThe American People Deserve Better Than Costly, Flawed Government Takeover of Health Care
Mar 22, 2010The debate in Washington this month reached a level of intensity that I have never seen. People took to the streets and to the halls of Congress to loudly declare in one united voice their strong opposition to the government takeover of health care. And, after fifteen months of ignoring the political minority and the will of the American people, the House of Representatives passed a final version of the legislation. I joined the entire Oklahoma delegation opposing this costly and flawed legislation.
Filed under: Health CareThe 2010 Census: Its Your Constitutional Duty
Mar 12, 2010“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State.”
-The United States Constitution
A Disconnected Congress
Mar 11, 2010The House of Representatives spent much of yesterday discussing H.ConRes. 248, the Afghanistan War Powers Resolution, sponsored by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). The resolution would have required the president to remove all U.S.
Filed under: EconomyReining in the EPA
Mar 5, 2010My Republican colleagues and I introduced a measure, H.J. 77, in the House of Representatives that would rein in the aggressive power-grab of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Last December the EPA released an endangerment finding which stated that gases such as methane and carbon dioxide were a threat to public health and should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. This endangerment finding is really just an underhanded way of imposing cap and tax regulations on the American people.
Filed under: AgricultureCongressional Art Contest Application Process Begins
Feb 26, 2010I am pleased to announce that the application process for the annual Congressional Art Contest has begun. The contest, sponsored by the Congressional Arts Caucus, is an exciting opportunity for high school students who are interested in art. The winning selection will have their artwork displayed for a year in the United States Capitol Building, where it will be seen by the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the nation’s capitol each year. The winning artist will also receive a trip to Washington, D.C.
Filed under: Constituent Services