Morgan Griffith Weekly Republican Address TEXT PODCAST VIDEO 10/01/11

Morgan Griffith Weekly Republican Address TEXT PODCAST VIDEO 10/01/11 Podcast of the address: Download MP3 for PODCAST |||| FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT BELOW. || Download Video MPEG Video || MP4 Video

Weekly Republican Address: Rep. Griffith on Addressing Excessive Regulations to Protect Jobs

Washington (Sep 30)

Delivering the Weekly Republican Address, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) calls on President Obama and the Democratic-led Senate to support bipartisan House proposals that would protect jobs from excessive federal regulations. Listening to America’s job creators, House Republicans are acting on a series of jobs bills aimed at cutting red tape and addressing excessive regulations that hamper job creation.

The bills that the House will consider next week deal with new cement and boiler rules that put thousands of Americans jobs at risk. “President Obama, who has said he’s willing to consider stopping excessive regulations, should call on the Democrat-led Senate to follow the House in passing these jobs bills,” Rep. Griffith says. A member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Griffith is in his first term representing the Ninth Congressional District of Virginia. The full text of the address and MP3 for PODCAST follows. Once the embargo is lifted at 6 am 10/01/11, the address will be available here for viewing and for downloading.

“Hello, I’m Morgan Griffith, and I represent the people of Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District. It’s an honor to address you on their behalf.

“For years, excessive regulations have been a source of frustration for businesses trying to stay afloat. Now, with our economy struggling and red tape still piling up, these nuisances have become full-blown government barriers to job creation. According to a recent national survey, nearly seven in ten Americans believe new regulations will result in job losses or higher prices on goods and services. They’re right, on both counts.

“That’s why the Republican majority in the House is focused on lifting the burden of excessive regulations.

“Of course, we all recognize the need for reasonable regulations to protect the public. There are good regulations, for instance, that ensure public safety and protect our environment. But there are also unnecessary and unreasonable regulations that hurt jobs in some of our nation’s most critical industries. Here are just two examples:

“The government recently finalized rules that would impose costly burdens on the producers of cement, which is the backbone of just about every construction project. If these rules were to take effect, roughly 20 percent of the country’s cement plants would shut down. Thousands of jobs would be sent overseas permanently, just like that. In Ragland, Alabama, a small town where nearly one in five are considered poor, these new rules led to the suspension of a $350 million cement project. It was on track to create more than 1,500 construction jobs.

“Washington is also trying to hand down rules that would affect boilers used by thousands of major employers, including hospitals, factories, and even colleges. These regulations would impose billions of dollars in new costs, make many goods and services more expensive, and put more than 200,000 jobs at risk. I was startled to learn that because of these rules, Celanese, a Dallas-based chemical company, may significantly scale back or close a plant that employs hundreds of people in my district.

“Understand that the investments required by these rules are irreversible. For those businesses that cannot make these investments, and decide to stop producing their product at a particular location, the job losses are also irreversible. The good news here is, excessive regulations are reversible and fixable.

“Todd Elliott testified on behalf of Celanese at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. ‘It is very important for the Congress to understand that we compete in a global marketplace,’ Todd said. ‘If our costs become too high, we lose competitiveness and jobs. We encourage you to pursue cost-effective regulations and help create … the jobs our nation so badly needs.’

“Republicans are listening to the American job creators. The House is working on a series of bills this fall aimed at cutting red tape and stopping the excessive regulations that hamper job creation. Next week, we’ll take up bipartisan bills that address the concerns employers have about both the cement and boiler rules.

Morgan Griffith

“The bill I’ve sponsored, H.R. 2250, recognizes the need for reasonable boiler regulations and doesn’t try to haphazardly cancel these rules. Instead, we are saying the government should go back to the drawing board and come up with a more reasonable approach that protects the public without imposing unnecessary costs on employers and workers. “These bills would save thousands of American jobs, and they are bipartisan. Members of both parties support these ideas right now. President Obama, who has said he’s willing to consider stopping excessive regulations, should call on the Democrat-led Senate to follow the House in passing these jobs bills. Let’s take this opportunity to widen our common ground and do whatever we can to get government out of the way so our economy can return to creating jobs. “Thank you so much for listening.”

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With less than a week before Election Day, conservative candidate Bill Maloney released the ad titled “Pitt.” VIDEO

With less than a week before Election Day, conservative candidate Bill Maloney released the ad titled “Pitt.” VIDEO

NEW MALONEY AD RELEASED: ”PITT”

MORGANTOWN — With less than a week before Election Day, conservative candidate Bill Maloney released the ad titled “Pitt.” The spot runs statewide starting today, September 28, 2011.

The ad highlights Bill’s background and reminds West Virginians why he’s running for governor.

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Newt Gingrich Why We Need A 21st Century Contract with America VIDEO

Newt Gingrich Why We Need A 21st Century Contract with America VIDEO

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

-President Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, December, 1862

This quote from Abraham Lincoln is appropriate because the crisis we face is deeper and broader than any crisis since the 1860s.

The 2012 election is not a political election in any normal sense of ambitious people competing for power within an accepted framework of values and principles.

It is an historic election in which the outcome will potentially change the nature of America for generations to come.

No simple set of slogans or “jobs programs” or poll driven gimmicks will meet the needs of America in 2012.

Consider the realities of our time.

America is dramatically and frighteningly on the wrong track:

deep and persistent unemployment;
a deeper drop in housing prices than in the Great Depression;

an anti-American energy policy that kills jobs, endangers our national security and sends $400 billion plus overseas every year thus weakening the dollar and the economy;

a tax, regulatory, and litigation system that is killing American manufacturing and putting our national security at risk as we rely more and more on foreign countries for manufactured goods;
enormous government deficits on a scale unimagined and unsustainable;

Washington bureaucracies that dictate destructive policies and treat us as subjects rather than citizens;

a regulatory-litigation bureaucratic system which makes it virtually impossible for our government to be effective or agile or even just competent;

schools that no longer teach American history and generally fail to prepare young Americans for either citizenship or work (leading to a Nation at Risk, as the Reagan Administration described the effect of our schools 28 years ago and it is worse now);

increasingly radical judges who impose anti-American values on the American people in a repetition of the British tyrannical judges who were the second most frequently cited complaint
of the American colonists;

a radical elite which has contempt for the American people, sympathy for America’s enemies, and overt hostility to American values and which dominates the universities, the news rooms, and increasingly the bureaucracies and the courts.

Three large facts come from these ten specific challenges to the survival of America as the freest, most prosperous, and safest country in the world:

No single, narrow solution can meet our challenges. These problems are so pervasive and so widespread that only a comprehensive strategy can break through and force the changes needed for America’s survival as a free, prosperous, safe country based on the principles of the Founding Fathers.

The combined forces of the elites—in the news media, the government employee unions, the bureaucracies, the courts, the academic world, and in public office—will fight bitterly and ruthlessly to protect their world from being changed by the American people.

Therefore any election victory in 2012 will be the beginning and not the end of the struggle. It will take eight years or more of relentless, determined, intelligent effort to uproot and change the system of the elites—laws, bureaucracies, courts, schools-- and replace it with laws and systems based on historic American values and policies.

The scale of the challenge and the intensity of the opposition require that we approach a 21st Century Contract with America with a much more profound and serious strategy than the original 1994 Contract with America.

The 21st Century Contract with America will therefore be much larger than the original, and will consist of four parts.

A set of legislative proposals to shift America back to job creation, prosperity, freedom, and safety;

A “First Day” project of Executive Orders to be signed on inauguration day to immediately transform the way the executive branch works;

A training program for the transition teams and the appointees who will lead the shift back to Constitutional, limited government;

A system of citizen involvement to help us sustain grassroots support for change and help implement the change through 2021;

The center of activity for these four components exists at www.newt.org/contract.

The first test of the 21st Contract has to be its effectiveness. Assuming its implementation as outlined, does the Contract include everything that is required to put America back on the right track.

The second test of the 21st Century Contract has to be its potential for popular support.

Putting America back on the right track will be an enormous, protracted struggle with entrenched elites. The American people have to decide that the struggle is legitimate and necessary and that they are determined that the elites will be defeated and their laws and systems will be replaced.

We have had seven decisive changes in American history (Founding Fathers, the Federalists, the Jeffersonians, the Jacksonians, the Lincoln Republicans, the Progressives, and the New Deal). Each has involved a deep intense struggle. In each case it took the will of the American people expressed at the ballot box to impose change on a hostile, entrenched, reactionary elite. In each case the struggle lasted for years and required flexibility and innovation from the reforming side.

The primary purpose of the 21st Century Contract with America is to lay out the scale of change that is necessary and give the American people profound reasons to believe that with courageous, systematic effort we can get America back on the right track.

The secondary purpose of the 21st Century Contract with America is to create a general management guidance so that everyone who wants to know where we are going and what we are trying to achieve will have a clear sense of purpose and definition.

HOW THIS CONTRACT IS DIFFERENT FROM 1994

There are three primary differences between the 21st Century Contract with America and the original 1994 Contract with America:

Since the problems today are much bigger and the institutions have grown even more elitist, the Contract has to be much bigger and more fundamental in the changes it proposes;

The 1994 Contract grew out of Reagan’s philosophy and could be presented as a completed document but the 21st Century Contract is based on Lincoln’s principle that “As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.” Therefore the new contract has to be a work in progress which will be developed over the next year and finally unveiled in a completed form on September 27, 2012. The other reason for a more participatory, developmental approach is that after the secretly drafted stimulus and the secretly drafted Obamacare the American people are tired of imposed solutions they don’t understand and haven’t helped develop;

Because the 21st Century Contract calls for dramatically broader and deeper change, it requires much more emphasis on implementation and so three of the four areas of the Contract (Executive Orders on the First Day, training for appointees, a citizen based movement to insist on implementation and to help monitor implementation for eight years).

HOW THIS CONTRACT IS SIMILAR TO 1994

There are three primary similarities between the 21st Century Contract with America and the original 1994 Contract with America:

Both contracts are premised on the belief that a successful turnaround in the direction of our country is possible. When I was sworn in as the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years in January 1995, the Congressional Budget Office projected that over the next decade the cumulative federal budget deficits would total $2.7 trillion. Shortly after I left office in January 1999, CBO projected that over the next decade that federal surpluses would total over $2.2 trillion– a four-year turnaround in the fiscal outlook of the United States of nearly $5 trillion. A comparable four-year improvement in the U.S fiscal outlook today would total over $8 trillion (as % of GDP).

Both contracts are premised on the belief that a successful national turnaround begins with profound policy turnaround. The 1994 Contract focused on balanced budgets, welfare reform, and controlled spending. The result was 11 million new jobs, four balanced budgets, welfare reform, and paying down of over $400 billion in national debt.

Both contracts are premised on the belief that a policy turnaround is only possible when the American people are presented during a political campaign with a clear set of choices -- and persuasive reasons why the country should move in a particular direction -- which they then endorse on Election Day.

WITH ME AND NOT FOR ME

It is because of the very scale, seriousness, and intensity of the historic mission before the American people that I never ask people to be for me.

When people are for a candidate they vote and then go home expecting the candidate to get the job done.

The American Constitution does not give any leader the ability to impose this much change.

This kind of change only occurs when the American people are fully mobilized and focused on insisting that their elected officials follow through and get the job done.

Furthermore, the American people will have to monitor implementation and help us identify when things aren’t working right. They will also have to help come up with better solutions when the first set sometimes fail to get the job done.

No one person can achieve change on this scale but millions of mobilized citizens can.

Finally, as we enforce the Tenth Amendment and shrink the Washington bureaucracy and return power to the states, citizens will have to rise and fill the gap left by the decline of bureaucracies.

For all these reasons I ask people to be with me for the next eight year in implementing the 21st Century Contract with America. Please join me at www.newt.org/contract.


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Chris Christie Keynote Address Ronald Reagan Library 09/27/11 FULL VIDEO and TEXT TRANSCRIPT

Chris Christie Keynote Address Ronald Reagan Library 09/27/11 FULL VIDEO and TEXT TRANSCRIPT

Full Text of Governor Chris Christie's Speech at the Ronald Reagan Library: Simi Valley, CA September 27, 2011

Mrs. Reagan, distinguished guests. It is an honor for me to be here at the Reagan Library to speak to you today. I want to thank Mrs. Reagan for her gracious invitation. I am thrilled to be here.

Ronald Reagan believed in this country. He embodied the strength, perseverance and faith that has propelled immigrants for centuries to embark on dangerous journeys to come here, to give up all that was familiar for all that was possible.

He judged that as good as things were and had been for many Americans, they could and would be better for more Americans in the future.

It is this vision for our country that guided his administration over the course of eight years. His commitment to making America stronger, better and more resilient is what allowed him the freedom to challenge conventional wisdom, reach across party lines and dare to put results ahead of political opportunism.

Everybody in this room and in countless other rooms across this great country has his or her favorite Reagan story. For me, that story happened thirty years ago, in August 1981. The air traffic controllers, in violation of their contracts, went on strike. President Reagan ordered them back to work, making clear that those who refused would be fired. In the end, thousands refused, and thousands were fired.

I cite this incident not as a parable of labor relations but as a parable of principle. Ronald Reagan was a man who said what he meant and meant what he said. Those who thought he was bluffing were sadly mistaken. Reagan’s demand was not an empty political play; it was leadership, pure and simple.

Reagan said it best himself, “I think it convinced people who might have thought otherwise that I meant what I said. Incidentally, I would have been just as forceful if I thought management had been wrong in the dispute.”

I recall this pivotal moment for another reason as well. Most Americans at the time and since no doubt viewed Reagan’s firm handling of the PATCO strike as a domestic matter, a confrontation between the president and a public sector union. But this misses a critical point.

To quote a phrase from another American moment, the whole world was watching. Thanks to newspapers and television – and increasingly the Internet and social media – what happens here doesn’t stay here.

Another way of saying what I have just described is that Americans do not have the luxury of thinking that what we have long viewed as purely domestic matters have no consequences beyond our borders. To the contrary. What we say and what we do here at home affects how others see us and in turn affects what it is they say and do.

America’s role and significance in the world is defined, first and foremost, by who we are at home. It is defined by how we conduct ourselves with each other. It is defined by how we deal with our own problems. It is determined in large measure by how we set an example for the world.

We tend to still understand foreign policy as something designed by officials in the State Department and carried out by ambassadors and others overseas. And to some extent it is. But one of the most powerful forms of foreign policy is the example we set.

This is where it is instructive to harken back to Ronald Reagan and the PATCO affair. President Reagan’s willingness to articulate a determined stand and then carry it out at home sent the signal that the occupant of the Oval Office was someone who could be predicted to stand by his friends and stand up to his adversaries.

If President Reagan would do that at home, leaders around the world realized that he would do it abroad as well. Principle would not stop at the water’s edge. The Reagan who challenged Soviet aggression, or who attacked a Libya that supported terror was the same Reagan who stood up years before to PATCO at home for what he believed was right.

All this should and does have meaning for us today. The image of the United States around the world is not what it was, it is not what it can be and it is not what it needs to be. This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens--which is exactly what has been the case for years now.

We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest. We are seeing just this in the partisan divide that has so far made it impossible to reduce our staggering deficits and to create an environment in which there is more job creation than job destruction.

This is where the contrast between what has happened in New Jersey and what is happening in Washington, DC is the most clear.

In New Jersey over the last 20 months, you have actually seen divided government that is working. To be clear, it does not mean that we have no argument or acrimony. There are serious disagreements, sometimes expressed loudly—Jersey style.

Here is what we did. We identified the problems. We proposed specific means to fix them. We educated the public on the dire consequences of inaction. And we compromised, on a bi-partisan basis, to get results. We took action.

How so you ask? Leadership and compromise.

Leadership and compromise is the only way you can balance two budgets with over $13 billion in deficits without raising taxes while protecting core services.

Leadership and compromise is the only way you reform New Jersey’s pension and health benefits system that was collectively $121 billion underfunded.

Leadership and compromise is the only way you cap the highest property taxes in the nation and cap the interest arbitration awards of some of the most powerful public sector unions in the nation at no greater than a 2% increase.

In New Jersey we have done this, and more, because the Executive Branch has not sat by and waited for others to go first to suggest solutions to our state’s most difficult problems.

Being a mayor, being a governor, being a president means leading by taking risk on the most important issues of the day. It has happened in Trenton.

In New Jersey we have done this with a legislative branch, held by the opposite party, because it is led by two people who have more often put the interests of our state above the partisan politics of their caucuses.

Our bi-partisan accomplishments in New Jersey have helped to set a tone that has taken hold across many other states. It is a simple but powerful message--lead on the tough issues by telling your citizens the truth about the depth of our challenges. Tell them the truth about the difficulty of the solutions. This is the only effective way to lead in America during these times.

In Washington, on the other hand, we have watched as we drift from conflict to conflict, with little or no resolution.

We watch a president who once talked about the courage of his convictions, but still has yet to find the courage to lead.

We watch a Congress at war with itself because they are unwilling to leave campaign style politics at the Capitol’s door. The result is a debt ceiling limitation debate that made our democracy appear as if we could no longer effectively govern ourselves.

And still we continue to wait and hope that our president will finally stop being a bystander in the Oval Office. We hope that he will shake off the paralysis that has made it impossible for him to take on the really big things that are obvious to all Americans and to a watching and anxious world community.

Yes, we hope. Because each and every time the president lets a moment to act pass him by, his failure is our failure too. The failure to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson Bowles Commission, a report the president asked for himself...the failure to act on the country's crushing unemployment...the failure to act on ever expanding and rapidly eroding entitlement programs...the failure to discern pork barrel spending from real infrastructure investment.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Chris Christie Keynote Address Ronald Reagan Library 09/27/11 FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT in PDF FORMAT

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Paul Ryan Kevin McCarthy Facebook townhall LIVE STREAMING VIDEO VIDEO 09/26/11 5 PM ET

Kevin McCarthy @GOPWhip and Paul Ryan @GOPLeader a Facebook townhall. Watch LIVE STREAMING VIDEO VIDEO 09/26/11 5 PM ET.

Kevin McCarthy released this statement following House passage of (H.R. 2401) Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act

Washington D.C. – Congressman Kevin McCarthy released the following statement following House passage of the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act (H.R. 2401): "The TRAIN Act is part of the House Republican regulatory reform agenda targeting unnecessary regulations currently on the books and preventing costly proposed regulations from being enacted. The Obama Administration's current and pending regulatory policies are increasing costs and adding to the economic uncertainty facing job creators.

Federal regulations cost the private sector $1.75 trillion every year – just more than $10,000 per employee. Today, there are more than 4,000 pending regulations from the Obama Administration for which the costs and burdens we don't yet fully know. Our economy surely cannot grow with such uncertainty hanging over the heads of our entrepreneurs and small businesses.

"The TRAIN Act delays two regulations that could drive up energy and electricity costs for working families and businesses, until a full analysis on their economic impact can be conducted. Regulations have consequences on all Americans, and Washington should not make doing business more costly and more difficult, especially in this challenging economic climate. I'll continue to fight for legislation that makes it easier for Americans to get back to work and get our economy back on track."

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Eric Cantor Calls On Senator Reid To Stop Playing Politics With FEMA Disaster Relief

Eric Cantor Calls On Senator Reid To Stop Playing Politics With FEMA Disaster Relief

“There are people who are suffering in a big way right now, and they need to know that FEMA and the disaster relief monies will be there for them. We are told that FEMA will run dry and the Disaster Relief Fund will have no money by next week. That is why the House acted. The President made his request for the Disaster Relief Fund, we doubled that request and did it in a responsible manner and sent it over to the Senate. Harry Reid now says he won't take that bill up. Harry Reid is arguing with himself. This is why people don't like Washington.

"We have the money in the bill, it's there in a responsible manner, let's get the money to the people that need it. Harry Reid is now talking about perhaps bringing up a clean CR without disaster relief funding. If that happens, FEMA will run out of money and it will be on Harry Reid's shoulders because he won't act. The bill is there in front of him. The Senate should take the bill up and get the people the disaster relief they need. You're also going to hear from two of our freshmen from Pennsylvania whose districts are most hard hit as far as people really suffering and who need the money.

Q & A:

“The intention for us is to complete the TRAIN Act and to finish business of the day. The point is this: there is no brinksmanship, Harry Reid is holding a bill up with no reason but for politics. Again, this is why the people just don't have the respect for this institution and this town anymore. You heard the stories, people need the money. The money is in the bill, the emergency disaster request from the President is funded and then some, times two, and so there's no reason that Harry Reid is holding this up other than politics. Let’s get on with it and get the people their money.”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) Remarks at GOP Stakeout September 23, 2011

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Susan Collins Weekly Republican Address TEXT VIDEO 09/24/11

Susan Collins Weekly Republican Address TEXT VIDEO 09/24/11

In the Weekly Republican Address, Maine Sen. Susan Collins discusses the burdens excessive regulations place on businesses and how they hurt job creation.

I'm Senator Susan Collins from the Great State of Maine.

Last month, our nation produced no net new jobs. More than 14 million Americans could not find work.

I’ve asked employers what would it take to help them add more jobs. No matter the size of their business or the size of their workforce, they tell me that Washington must stop imposing crushing new regulations.

Some regulations are just plain silly. Last year, the federal government issued a warning to a company that sells packaged walnuts. Washington claimed that the walnuts were being marketed as a drug, so the government ordered the company to stop telling consumers about the health benefits of nuts.

Other regulations have far more serious consequences. The EPA has proposed a new rule on emissions from boilers that it admits would cost the private sector billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

No wonder employers dread what is coming next out of Washington.

Over-regulation is hurting our economy; unfortunately, the problem is only....
...growing worse. Right now, federal agencies are at work on more than 4,200 new rules, 845 of which affects small businesses, the engine of job creation. More than 100 have an economic impact of more than $100 million each.

No business owner I know questions the legitimate role of limited government in protecting our health and safety. Too often, however, our small businesses are buried under a mountain of paperwork.

Business owners are reluctant to create jobs today if they're going to need to pay more tomorrow to comply with onerous new regulations. That's why employers say that uncertainty generated by Washington is a big wet blanket on our economy.

We Republicans say, enough is enough. America needs a ‘time out’ from the regulations that discourage job creation and hurt our economy.

Republicans have many good ideas about how to tame the regulatory behemoth. We want to prevent agencies from imposing new regulations without first thoroughly considering their costs and benefits. In addition, many of us have called for a one-year moratorium on certain costly new rules.

If a rule would have an adverse impact on jobs, the economy, or America's international competitiveness, it should not go into effect.

That EPA rule on boilers is a good example of why we need a regulatory time out. If it went into effect as written, a recent study estimates that this rule, along with other pending regulations, could cause 36 pulp and paper mills across the country to close. That would put more than 20,000 Americans out of work -- 18 percent of that industry's workforce.

And that is just for starters. Once these mills close, their suppliers would also be forced to lay off workers. Estimates are that nearly 90,000 Americans would lose their jobs. Even that is not the end of the story. People and businesses would still need paper. Where do you think we would get it? We'd be strengthening the economies of other countries like China, India and Brazil, while America's economy grows weaker.

American businesses need pro-growth policies that will end the uncertainty and kick-start hiring and investment.

American workers need policies that will get them off the sidelines and back on the job.

The American economy needs a time out from excessive and costly regulations.

In sports, a ‘time out’ gives athletes a chance to catch their breaths and make better decisions.

American workers and businesses are the athletes in a global competition that we must win. We need a time out from excessive regulations so that America can get back to work. ####

Republican Presidential Debate Orlando Florida Fox News, Google 9/22/11 (Full Length Streaming VIDEO)

Republican Presidential Debate Orlando Florida Fox News, Google 9/22/11 (Full Length Streaming VIDEO)

You asked the questions. The Republican candidates answered in the Fox News/Google Debate on September 22, 2012.

The nine candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, businessman Herman Cain, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

Republican presidential debate Thursday September 22, Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center, hosted by Fox News and Google in conjunction with the Republican Party of Florida. Fox News' Bret Baier moderated Fox News anchors Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace were panelists.

Republican presidential debate Fox News, Google Orlando Florida 9/22/11 LIVE STREAMING VIDEO

UPDATE: 09/23/11 Republican Presidential Debate Orlando Florida Fox News, Google 9/22/11 (Full Length Streaming VIDEO)

Republican presidential debate Fox News, Google Orlando Florida 9/22/11 LIVE STREAMING VIDEO

Republican presidential debate Thursday September 22, from 9 to 11 p.m. ET in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center, hosted by Fox News and Google in conjunction with the Republican Party of Florida. Fox News' Bret Baier will moderate Fox News anchors Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace are panelists.

Republican Presidential Candidates’ Debate from the Reagan Library

The nine candidates are Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, businessman Herman Cain, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

Michele Bachmann Calls on President Obama to Stop Ahmadinejad from Coming to the UN

Bachmann: “The President must not continue to lead from behind on key issues of national and international security”

Urbandale, Iowa – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann issued the following statement in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York City:

“By his own words, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shown himself to be an enemy not only of Israel, but also of the United States. In his repeated statements wishing to see another sovereign nation ‘wiped off the map,’ he has proven that he is in violation of the United Nations charter, and of international law. He is, in the most literal sense, an outlaw and he should not be allowed in the United States.

“I call upon President Obama to stop Ahmadinejad from coming to the UN. This administration tried and failed to do ‘outreach’ to Iran, reminding us once again that appeasement of deadly dictators is never a wise or effective strategy. The President must not continue to lead from behind on key issues of national and international security. When madmen in positions of power make wild and genocidal threats – we should listen to them, and take the necessary counter-measures to stop them and their evil intents. Such threats are an affront to Israel, the United States, and all of the peace-loving peoples of the world. That’s why I am committed to doing whatever is necessary to prevent the emergence of a nuclear Iran.”

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Rick Perry, Obama “President Zero” VIDEO

Rick Perry; Obama “President Zero” VIDEO. Video: Proven Leadership to Get America Working Again

“We don’t need a president who apologizes for America, I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived.”

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Jon Huntsman's Statement on President Obama's Deficit Speech

Jon Huntsman issued the following statement on President Obama's deficit speech:

“President Obama continues to demonstrate that he has no new ideas on how to create American jobs. For two and a half years he's been peddling a version of the Buffett Tax Hike as a key pillar of his failed attempt to tax and spend and regulate this country to prosperity. That simply hasn't worked and it won't work now. President Obama’s veto threats and partisan demands are a poor attempt to camouflage a $1.5 trillion tax hike that is deeply misguided and the latest example of his ineffective leadership on the economy.

"The most important thing Congress and the super-committee can do is deal with the structural problems that are causing our debt and impeding job creation. Meaningful entitlement reform and revenue-neutral tax reform should be priority #1; tax increases should not make the list.

"I recently presented a jobs plan to the American people that dramatically reforms our country’s tax and regulatory system –that’s what we need as a country to create jobs and it's exactly why the Wall Street Journal endorsed my plan. I urge Congress to resoundingly reject the President's $1.5 trillion tax increase and work together on the structural reforms to entitlements and taxes that we so desperately need.”

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Newt Gingrich Statement on President Obama's Deficit Cutting Plan

Newt: Obama Fails the Test of Leadership

Council Bluffs, IA - Newt Gingrich released the following statement today reacting to President Obama's plan to reduce the deficit:

"Once again, President Obama fails the test of leadership. In the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression, job creation must be job one for our political leaders. Instead, the president has chosen a path of political gamesmanship and class warfare with a plan that would kill jobs with higher taxes on small businesses and private capital. America only works when Americans are working, and President Obama's latest proposal just doesn't work."

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President Obama’s Plan For A Massive Tax Hike Is A Blueprint For Pleasing His Base Filled With Previously Rejected Proposals

The $1.5 Trillion Tax Hike The President’s Plan For A Massive Tax Hike Is A Blueprint For Pleasing His Base Filled With Previously Rejected Proposals

“President Barack Obama Will Lay Out A Plan On Monday To Cut The U.S. Deficit, Striking A Populist Tone Aimed At Galvanizing His Democratic Party Base Ahead Of The November 2012 Election.” (Alister Bull, “Obama Deficit Plan Aimed At Democratic Base,” Reuters, 9/19/11)

PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL LAY OUT “HIS VISION” FOR BASE-PLEASING TAX HIKES BUT NOT A SERIOUS PROPOSAL THAT CAN ACTUALLY PASS.

White House Official: “It Will Be His Vision … Not A Legislative Compromised Being Crafted To Garner Some Number Of Votes In The House And The Senate.” “The White House also warned not to expect the president to offer up things that he had agreed to as compromises over the summer when he and Boehner were striving for a ‘grand bargain.’ ‘It will be his vision,’ explained the official. ‘Because it is a vision and not a legislative compromise being crafted to garner some number of votes in the House and the Senate, it is inherently different from the grand bargain he was working on with the speaker.’” (George E. Condon Jr., “Obama Proposing $1.5 Trillion In New Taxes,” National Journal, 9/18/11)

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer Says The Plan Is The “President’s Vision,” Not “Legislative Negotiations.” “‘I would view this as the president's vision for how we achieve deficit reduction, which makes it inherently different than the sorts of legislative negotiations we were undertaking with the speaker over the summer,’ said the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer.” (Jim Kuhnhenn, “Obama To Propose $1.5 Trillion In New Tax Revenue,” The Associated Press, 9/18/11)

Obama’s Vision “Reads More Like A Blueprint For Shoring Up His Restless Democratic Base.” “Suffering an erosion of support from the broad coalition that elected him, Obama has crafted a plan that reads more like a blueprint for shoring up his restless Democratic base than a vehicle for reaching across the aisle in search of bipartisan compromise.” (Carrie Budoff Brown and Jennifer Epstein, “Barack Obama To Unveil $3 Trillion Deficit-Cutting Plan,” Politico, 9/18/11)

 Former White House Economist Jared Bernstein: “These Things Are Critical To The Base.” “‘These things are critical to the base,’ said Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington and a former economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.” (Alister Bull, “Obama Deficit Plan Aimed At Democratic Base,” Reuters, 9/19/11)

 Democratic Leadership Aide: Obama’s Speech Is Not A “Game-Changer.” “‘It’s more of a box-checker than a game-changer,’ one Democratic leadership aide said of Obama’s speech when asked how it might affect the super committee’s work, adding that any influence the president would have on the group likely would come in concert with advice from Congressional
leadership.” (Meredith Shiner, “Obama To Make $4 Trillion Pitch To Cut Deficit,” Roll Call, 9/18/11)

Obama’s Speech Will Be Heavy On Populist “Principles”

Obama Will Outline His “Principles” For Tax Reform. “To that end, the president will outline five principles he will insist on in tax reform – it should lower tax rates; it should cut wasteful loopholes and tax breaks; it should reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion; it should boost job creation and growth; and it should ‘be consistent’ with the Buffett rule in that everybody shares the burden.” (George E. Condon Jr., “Obama Proposing $1.5 Trillion In New Taxes,” National Journal, 9/18/11)

 But Will Leave The Details To Congress. “The president will not specify a specific rate or details of the Buffett Rule in announcing his proposal, leaving it to Congress to decide how to calculate such a rate as part of the larger debate over rewriting the tax code, the official said.” (Jessica Yellin, “Obama To Propose New Tax Rate For Millionaires,” CNN, 9/19/11)

 The White House Acknowledges That They Will Not Score The “Buffet Rule” But Will Cite It As A “Guiding Principle.” “Administration officials said Sunday night that they were not including
any revenue from the Buffett Rule in Mr. Obama’s overall $3 trillion proposal, adding that it was more of a guiding principle the president will adopt as budget negotiations with Congress advance.” (Brian Knowlton And Jackie Calmes, “Republicans Call Obama’s Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare,’ The New York Times, 9/18/11)

OBAMA’S RECYCLED PROPOSALS IS HIS FOURTH ATTEMPT TO INJECT HIS REJECTED POLICIES INTO THE DEBATE OVER AMERICA’S DEBT

White House Officials Acknowledge That Obama’s Tax Proposals “Will Look Familiar Because They Have Been Previously Proposed By Obama.” “The other $700 billion, the officials said, would come from other changes in tax law. Many of those measures, they acknowledged, will look very familiar because they have previously been proposed by Obama.” (George E. Condon Jr., “Obama Proposing $1.5 Trillion In New Taxes,” National Journal, 9/18/11)

The Plan Is Obama’s “Fourth Package Of Deficit Reduction Ideas This Year” And “Is Unlikely To Pass As Proposed.” “While some pieces of Mr. Obama's plan may be agreed upon, Congress is unlikely to pass the package as proposed given Republican resistance to tax increases. Instead the plan marks the White House's opening salvo in negotiations over the next two months on how to reduce the deficit. It is the president's fourth package of deficit-reduction ideas this year.” (Carol Lee and Damian Paletta, “New Obama Deficit Plan,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/19/11)

 “‘I Think This Is Less 'Let's Be The Grownups In The Room And Start At The 50 Yard Line,' And More 'Let's Start On Our Side Of The Field’,’ Said Jared Bernstein, Former Economic Adviser To Vice President Joe Biden.” (Carol Lee and Damian Paletta, “New Obama Deficit Plan,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/19/11)

“On Capitol Hill, It’s Unclear How Seriously Obama’s Speech Will Be Received.” “On Capitol Hill, it’s unclear how seriously Obama’s speech will be received. Even Congressional Democrats were not given much advance notice, and the super committee’s job of finding at least $1.2 trillion in savings is difficult enough without voices from the White House tipping the delicate balance Democrats and Republicans must strike to avoid serious across-the-board discretionary cuts.” (Meredith Shiner, “Obama To Make $4 Trillion Pitch To Cut Deficit,” Roll Call, 9/18/11)

“Many Congressional Democrats … Say There Is Little Chance They Will Be Able To Support The Bill As A Single Entity, Citing An Array Of Elements They Cannot Abide.” “President Obama
anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing an array of elements they cannot abide.” (Jennifer Steinhauer, “Some Democrats Are Balking At Obama’s Jobs Bill,” The New York Times, 9/14/11)

The Nashua Telegraph: Nearly Two Years After The First Stimulus Failed “The President’s Response Is To Simply Offer More Of The Same.” “Americans were led to believe previous stimulus packages – the official initial bailout of 2009 and the more discreet payouts layered in the 2010 budget deal – would bring the unemployment rate to within a whisker of 8 percent. Nearly two years later, with the rate stuck at above 9 percent and no sign of improvement, the president’s response is to simply offer more of the same.” (Editorial, “Few Fresh Ideas In Obama Jobs Bill,” The Nashua Telegraph, 9/18/11)

Special Taxes For Millionaires Have Been Repeatedly Rejected.

“In A Bit Of Political Salesmanship” Obama Will Name The New Principle After Warren Buffett Who Insists The Wealthy Pay Lower Taxes Than Middle-Income Workers. “Mr. Obama, in a bit of political salesmanship, plans to call his proposal the “Buffett Rule,” in a reference to Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire investor who has complained repeatedly that the richest Americans generally pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than do middle-income workers because investment gains are taxed at a lower rate than wages.” (Brian Knowlton And Jackie Calmes, “Republicans Call Obama’s Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare,’ The New York Times, 9/18/11)

 “The Proposal Could Invite Scrutiny From Some Economists Who Have Disputed Mr. Buffett’s Assertion That The Megarich Pay A Lower Tax Rate Over All.” (Brian Knowlton And Jackie Calmes, “Republicans Call Obama’s Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare,’ The New York Times, 9/18/11)

 Former Clinton OMB Director Alice Rivlin Said Of The “Buffet Rule” That “The Way To Fix The Tax Code Is To Fix The Tax Code, Not To Add Another Complication At The Margin.” (CNN, “State Of The Union,” 9/18/11)

2009: “Obama Endorsed A House Committee's Plan To Fund Part Of The New Program By Imposing A Surtax On Families Making Over $1 Million A Year …” (Josh Gerstein, “President Obama Backs Millionaire's Tax,” Politico, 7/23/09)

2010: The Senate Defeated An Attempt To Create A Millionaire’s Tax Bracket. “Senate lawmakers then defeated a separate attempt by a vote of 53-37 to raise the threshold for middle-class tax cuts to $1 million and then extend that tax level permanently.” (Corey Boles, “Obama Signals Openness To A Tax-Cut Deal,” The Wall Street Journal, 12/6/10)

 Democrat Senators Durbin, Feingold, Harkin, Lieberman And Rockefeller Voted Against The Measure. (S.Amdt 4728 To HR 4853, Roll Call #259: Motion To Invoke Cloture Rejected, 53-37, D 53-4, R 0-32, I 1-1, 12/4/11; Durbin, Feingold, Harkin, Lieberman And Rockefeller Voted Nay)

2011: In July, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) And Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) Voted Against A Defeated Motion That Would Have Expressed The Sense Of The Senate That Millionaires Pay Higher Taxes As Part Of A Deal On Deficit Reduction. (S. 1323, Roll Call #108; Motion To Invoke Cloture Rejected, 51-49, D 49-2, R 0-47, I 2-0, 7/13/11,; Nelson And Pryor Voted Nay)

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A Day on the Road with Mitt Romney VIDEO

Mitt is on the road talking to voters across the country. Voters like you will decide the outcome of this election, so Mitt wants to hear from you.

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9-9-9: A Vision for Economic Growth VIDEO FULL TEXT

Achieves the broadest possible tax base along with the
lowest possible rate of 9%
• It ends the Payroll Tax completely – a permanent holiday!
• Ends the Death Tax
• Business Flat Tax – 9%
• Gross income less all investments, all purchases from other
businesses and all dividends paid to shareholders
• Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for
payroll employed in the zone
• Individual Flat Tax – 9%
• Gross income less charitable deductions
• Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for
those living and/or working in the zone
• National Sales Tax – 9%
• This gets the Fair Tax off the sidelines and into the game.

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Peter Roskam Weekly Republican Address TEXT VIDEO 09/17/11

Peter Roskam Weekly Republican Address TEXT VIDEO 09/17/11 Podcast of the address: Download MP3 for PODCAST || FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT BELOW. || Download Video MPEG Video || MP4 Video

Washington (Sep 16) Delivering the Weekly Republican Address, Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) talks about how excessive federal regulations are hurting job creation in America, and discusses the House’s efforts to address the problem. “In the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor has scheduled several bills for a vote this fall aimed at cutting red tape and addressing the excessive, Washington-imposed regulations that hamper job creation,” Roskam says. One such bill passed the House on Thursday. Last week, Roskam recruited job creators hurt by Washington overregulation to attend the president’s address to Congress as guests of Speaker Boehner. Rep. Roskam is in his third term as Congressman for the Sixth District of Illinois and is the Chief Deputy Whip.

“Hello, I’m Peter Roskam. I serve as the House Republicans’ Chief Deputy Whip, and I have the honor of representing the people of Illinois’ Sixth Congressional District.

“Like you, I’m frustrated with America’s jobs crisis: more than 650,000 people are out of work in Illinois, President Obama’s home state.

“Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation. Among them: our unsustainable debt, the constant threat of higher taxes, and excessive regulations.

“Today I’d like to talk to you about excessive federal regulations, how they hurt jobs and household budgets, and what we can do about it.

“Let me start with this: appropriate and responsible regulations help protect our health and safety. But things have changed quickly – and for the worse. Washington has become a red tape factory, with more than 4,000 rules in the pipeline – hundreds of which would cost our economy more than $100 million each annually. The disappointing reality is that what may be a faceless regulation to most can have a profound impact on local economies and families like yours.

“Just one rule has Chicago White Metal Casting, a manufacturer in my district employing 240, fighting to survive in an already tough economy. Already facing a stream of regulations, they’ll soon face new regulations from unelected bureaucrats implementing a back-door national energy tax – after it failed in Congress. Chicago White Metal Casting already has one employee who spends half his time dealing with existing federal audits, certification requirements, and complex paperwork.

“By now, you’ve probably heard about the case of Boeing, one of the world’s leading manufacturers. This Chicago-based company invested more than $1 billion in a new plant in South Carolina that would generate thousands of good-paying jobs … only to be sued by the government and told that the plant can’t open. Who in the government sued them? No one that’s elected, I’ll tell you that. No, Boeing is being sued by the National Labor Relations Board, which is charged with looking out for labor unions.

“I’d also like to share with you the story of Gibson Guitars, a company that makes world-class guitars. Well a few weeks ago, Gibson was raided by 26 armed federal agents. No charges have been filed and regulators have not explained to the company what they may have done wrong or how to rectify the situation. Well I’d like to know how job creators can be expected to prosper with the threat of a federal raid hanging over them?

“Stories like these are cropping up coast-to-coast. One Illinois farmer stood up at a town hall meeting last month and pleaded with the president. He said, ‘please don’t challenge us with more rules and regulations from Washington.’

“I couldn’t have said it better myself.

“That farmer was one of several job creators who attended [the] president’s speech to the Congress as guests of House Speaker John Boehner.

“Republicans are listening to America’s job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions. In the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor has scheduled several bills for a vote this fall aimed at cutting red tape and addressing the excessive, Washington-imposed regulations that hamper job creation.

“This week, the House passed a bill to eliminate the barriers Boeing faces. It stops the government from telling an employer where it can – and cannot – create jobs.

“We can take common-sense steps like these and still have rules that look out for our health and safety. What’s important is that these rules are effective and dependable. Job creators should be able to focus on their work – not on Washington’s busy-work.

“In his speech last week, the president talked about the urgency of this moment. He said we can act ‘right now.’ I agree.

“He can help us fix this hostile regulatory environment immediately. He already canceled some counterproductive rules that hurt our economy, and he can cancel more.

“He can call on the Democrat-led Senate to pass the dozen or so jobs bills we’ve passed in the House and ones that are on their way. That includes the Boeing bill that I just mentioned. There’s also the REINS Act, common-sense legislation that gives Congress a say before Washington imposes new rules and regulations. So instead of being circumvented, the people’s representatives should be able to hold accountable unelected bureaucrats who encroach on our freedoms and make it harder to create jobs.

I hope the president will consider our ideas as we take a look at his. Let’s listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation. Let’s help small businesses return to creating jobs so that they can pick up where they left off instead of being left behind.

“You can learn more about our jobs plan by visiting Jobs.GOP.gov. Thank you for listening.”

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Michele Bachmann's new web video “No to Obamacare and Perrycare” VIDEO FULL TEXT

Michele Bachmann's new web video “No to Obamacare and Perrycare” VIDEO

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Bachmann: “I oppose any governor or president who mandates a family’s healthcare choices”

Los Angeles, Calif. – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann released a new web video today titled “No to Obamacare and Perrycare” in which she takes a stand against the abuse of executive power and crony capitalism. The video highlights her specific opposition to individual mandates in Obamacare and Governor Rick Perry’s executive order for a mandate requiring 12-year-old girls to take the HPV vaccine.

“Whether it’s Obamacare or Perrycare, I oppose any governor or president who mandates a family’s healthcare choices,” Bachmann states in the video. “Especially if the decision-making process occurs behind closed doors, bypassing legislative action, and favors campaign contributors over families.”

The following is full text of the video:

“Hi, I’m Michele Bachmann. There are many important issues in this presidential campaign – including the role of government, abuse of executive power and crony capitalism. As a mother of three daughters, I believe that parents are the ones who should decide whether or not their young daughters should receive injections for sexually transmitted diseases. These are decisions that are best left to parents, the children and their doctors and should take into consideration the child’s health and the family’s values.

“Whether its Obamacare or Perrycare I oppose any governor or president who mandates a family’s healthcare choices and violates the rights of parents on these issues – especially if the decision-making process occurs behind closed doors, bypassing legislative action, and favors campaign contributors over families. That’s not right. As President, I’ll do what’s right for families.”

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President Obama’s socialized medicine plan was dealt a serious blow today by a new Beacon Hill Institute study

ObamaCare Undermined by Study that RomneyCare Killed 18,000 Jobs, Cost $8 billion.

If RomneyCare kills 18,000 jobs, imagine ObamaCare’s impact on U.S. jobs and economy

AUSTIN – President Obama’s socialized medicine plan was dealt a serious blow today by a new Beacon Hill Institute study showing that Governor Mitt Romney’s “RomneyCare” plan has cost 18,000 jobs and $8 billion.

“If RomneyCare killed 18,000 jobs in Massachusetts, imagine what ObamaCare will do to a U.S. economy already hurting from too much liberalism,” said Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan. “These government-mandated health schemes kill too many jobs and cost too much. RomneyCare’s job-killing results are another reason ObamaCare must be stopped.”

Yesterday, Governor Romney defended RomneyCare at a town hall meeting in Sun Lakes, Arizona, saying, “I like what we did.” (1)

A new study released today by the Beacon Hill Institute at Massachusetts’s Suffolk University proves Romney’s universal healthcare mandate has killed 18,000 jobs, robbed the state of millions in lost investment and slowed the growth of personal income for Massachusetts workers and families. (2)

“Governor Romney’s record is 18,000 jobs lost from RomneyCare and 47th in the nation for job creation,” Sullivan continued. “America already has a president who is killing jobs with government-run medicine. We can’t afford another.”

According to the study, Romney’s socialized medicine mandate:

Has cost the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 18,000 jobs,
Slowed the growth of personal income for workers and families,
Reduced investment in Massachusetts by between $21.28 million and $29.33 million

Additionally, an earlier study by Beacon Hill found that RomneyCare has cost taxpayers nationwide – not just in Massachusetts – nearly $4 billion in higher Medicaid and Medicare expenditures. Private insurance costs in the state have increased by another $4.3 billion. The Institute calculated the cumulative cost of RomneyCare to be $8.569 billion. (3)

SOURCES:

1. Mitt Romney town hall, Sun Lakes, AZ, broadcast by CNN, 9/14/11
2. The Economic Effects of Massachusetts Health Care Reform,” Beacon Hill Institute, 9/15/11 PDF
3. “The High Price of Massachusetts Health Care Reform,” Beacon Hill Institute, 7/13/11 PDF

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H.R. 2587 Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act Sponsor Tim Scott FULL TEXT

H.R. 2587 Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act. Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Tim, Committee: Education and Labor Committee. Date: September 15, 2011 (112th Congress, 1st Session) Staff Contact: Sarah Makin.

H.R. 2587 would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. The bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in future and pending cases, from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstances. The legislation would effectively prevent the NLRB from restricting where an employer can create jobs in the United States. The bill would eliminate an extreme enforcement remedy available to the board; more than a dozen alternative remedies remain available to hold employers accountable for unlawful labor practices and make employees whole. The bill would apply to any complaint for which a final adjudication by the NRLB has not been made by the date of enactment.

The NLRB is touted as “an independent federal agency vested with the power to safeguard employees' rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.”

The National Labor Relations Act currently empowers the NLRB to order employers to close or relocate American workplaces, threatening jobs and business growth across the nation. On April 20, 2011, the NLRB filed a complaint against The Boeing Company for opening a plant in South Carolina and demanded the operation be transferred to Puget Sound, Washington. Yet, not one union employee at Boeing’s Puget Sound facility has lost his or her job as a result of the proposed South Carolina plant. Still, the NLRB is pursuing a “restoration order” against Boeing that would cost South Carolina thousands of jobs and deter future investment in the United States. If successful, the NLRB’s action will destroy thousands of jobs in South Carolina and will have a negative effect on job creators across the country.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), enacting H.R. 2587 would not affect federal spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. H.R. 2587 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

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H.RES.372 -- Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. (Reported in House - RH)

HRES 372 RH House Calendar No. 61 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 372 [Report No. 112-183]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 26, 2011

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, to final passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

House Calendar No. 61 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 372 [Report No. 112-183]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

July 26, 2011

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

H.RES.372 -- Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. (Reported in House - RH)

HRES 372 RH

House Calendar No. 61

112th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 372

[Report No. 112-183]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 26, 2011

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, to final passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

House Calendar No. 61

112th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 372

[Report No. 112-183]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2587) to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.

July 26, 2011 Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Bill Summary & Status 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) H.RES.372

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Can we get 100 'Likes' for Bob Turner's MAJOR victory in NY-9 yesterday?

New York Republican State Committee Bob Turner NY-9

Thank you to all of the voters, volunteers and supporters from across the state and especially in NY-9 for coming out and supporting our strong slate of Republican candidates.

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CNN / Tea Party Republican Debate Tampa, Florida 09/12/11 FULL DEBATE STREAMING VIDEO. The CNN / Tea Party Republican Debate at 8 p.m. ET Monday from Tampa, Florida moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

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Rudy Giuliani Weekly Republican Address TEXT VIDEO 09/10/11

In the Weekly Republican Address, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discusses the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks and considers the lessons of that day and the decade since.

Everyone can remember exactly where they were when they first learned that our country had been attacked. As with Pearl Harbor and the John F. Kennedy assassination, these defining events have a big impact on a nation because they're not just a shared experience, they're a shared memory.

On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, we must take stock of what we've learned.

The attacks had two purposes. The first was to kill as many Americans as possible. The second was to destroy America's spirit.

As we remember the thousands of lives lost on that day, there’s no doubt that the terrorists achieved their first goal and will leave us with a deep wound forever.

When it comes to destroying our spirit, however as we consider the rescue and recovery effort we witnessed at the time of and in the aftermath of the attacks, it’s clear that the terrorists failed. The country was not broken, but rather, it was more united in the days after September 11 than at any time in my lifetime.

We displayed heroic spirit in many ways, but perhaps the most heroic was the unity of spirit that we shared as Americans. The American people demonstrated one of the most basic values that we share our love of freedom and the value we place on individual human life.

People often ask me, ‘Is America safer now than it was before September 11?’ The answer is: ‘Yes, but not as safe as we should be.’ We're safer because we faced a difficult truth. A danger that we allowed to fester and grow without confronting properly, was suddenly staring us in the face.

The engagement of Islamic extremist terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is an important part of our having prevented additional large-scale attacks. We’ve made significant improvements in intelligence gathering and in airport security.

But much work remains. We have not significantly improved port security and our state and local governments range from very well prepared to not prepared at all.

We’ve even seen some massive breakdowns in security, as demonstrated by the near attack on Christmas morning in 2009, as well as the inappropriate decision-making and irrational application of political correctness in the attack at Fort Hood.

Perhaps the most dangerous impulse we've developed since September 11 is impatience demonstrated by the calls to put our armed forces on timetables.

It's a reemergence of a dangerous historical pattern that sometimes afflicts America -- a desire to demilitarize by minimizing the dangers we face and that’s led to catastrophes in the past, including the ‘peace dividend’ taken in the 90's as Islamic extremist terrorists were attacking us regularly.

American security requires a long-term military presence in the part of the world where people and organizations are plotting to kill us. The timetable should not be based on a politically expedient calendar, but on when we've eliminated the threat of domestic attacks being generated in that particular part of the world. We must not allow impatience to prevent our military from achieving its objective in Iraq and Afghanistan and the objective is the elimination of the threat to our nation.

Finally, America must take care of those who were harmed during the difficult and dangerous recovery effort. We must not forget what it meant to the country to watch these brave men and women work toward recovery and they shouldn't be abandoned now. If they become ill, we are responsible for taking care of them.

After all, they took care of us.

The lesson of September 11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack in our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us.

Instead, it drew us closer and it made us more united. Our love for freedom and for one another had given us a strength that surprised even ourselves. At the same time, it's a strength that must be guarded and nurtured. We must rediscover our unity.

We must never forget what we witnessed on that day, both the incomprehensible face of pure evil and the depth of love and compassion. Today, 10 years later, the fight continues and the memories remain etched into our national character. ####

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