U.S Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today welcoming Rep. Parker Griffith (AL-5) to the House Republican Conference: I am delighted to welcome Congressman Parker Griffith to the Republican Party and to the House Republican Conference. Congressman Griffith's decision is historic b [...]  More

 U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today after the U.S. Senate voted to advance debate over a government takeover of health care: “The American people should be appalled. In the dead of the night, when families are immersed in travel and events aro [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and the American Energy Solutions Group, issued the following statement today in support of the effort by Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton (R-TX) and other House Republicans to block enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) &ldqu [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today during a Republican leadership press conference: We just completed our second meeting of the House Republican Conference this week, and I must say House Republicans are disappointed with the lack of leadership by Democrats in Congress an [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence published a piece on BigGovernment.com today regarding Copenhagen. See the following excerpt: All across this nation, families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and many more worry that they will be next. But Americans are meeting these times [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the Democrat proposal to increase the statutory limit on the national debt by $290 billion: I rise today in opposition to H.R. 4314.  It is a bill that will increase [...]  More

Earlier this year, we created a video, "Never Again," to speak against President Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay prison. Since the announcement was made that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be moved to Illinois, we felt the video worth highlighting again. GOP.gov has an entire section on this topic, including information on the Keep Te [...]  More

Rep. Peter Roskam (IL) published a post on Right Wing News today. As a representative from Illinois, his opinon on the decision to move Guantanmo Bay prisoners to the state is particularly important. Here's the post: President Obama's decision to relocate Guantanamo Bay's inmates to my home state of Illinois is a misguided decision that will ultim [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of U.S. sanctions on Iran. Watch it here and find text below: I rise in support of H.R. 2194, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sa [...]  More

Conservative blog, America's Right, has honed in on President Obama's decision to move Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Illinois. After quoting from House Leader John Boehner and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, blogger Jeff Schreiber writes: There is no rational basis whatsoever for this decision by the Obama administration, other than [...]  More

Republican Members of Congress will participate in a press conference TODAY at 4:00pm ET on the Administration’s ill-advised decision to bring terrorists to a facility in Thomson, Illinois for detention.   WHO:             Representative Donald Manzullo (Illinois-16) &nbs [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the president’s reported plan to transfer certain terrorists held at the Guantanamo Bay detentio [...]  More

House Republicans have a lot to say about keeping their commitment to the environment and finding sources of clean energy. As world leaders meet in Copenhagen, check out what some of your Republican leaders have to say about the issues in a special section we created on GOP.gov. Find details about the Republicans' "American Energy Act", including [...]  More

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT) published a blog post on Townhall today. See the following excerpt: During a time that our deficit is growing at an unprecedented rate and our economy is suffering, the House yesterday passed the FY10 Omnibus Appropriations bill, by a vote of 221-202.  The bill provides, among other things, massive funding increases f [...]  More

Rep. Candice Miller (MI) in a recent op/ed: Far too many of our family, friends and neighbors have lost their jobs as the auto companies have gone through painful restructuring and manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to lower-wage nations. There is no more pressing issue facing America than getting our economy moving again so jobs can be creat [...]  More

Don't miss this week's Weekly Republican Address with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN):   More

From the office of Congressman Bill Cassidy (LA): Today, Louisiana Congressman Bill Cassidy released a new video blog in response to an eMail from Jimmy in Zachary, Louisiana, who is worried about the rising national debt. Watch it:   More

House Republicans have been making waves in the blogosphere lately. Each week, we'll feature some of our best posts for you here at the GOP.gov blog. Check out some of our best posts from this week: The Death Tax is a "Double Tax" by Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) Red County EPA’s 'Cap and Trade' regulations are job killers by Rep. Mike Rogers (MI) [...]  More

"The irony of this late-breaking Medicare proposal is that it could be a bigger step toward a single-payer system than the milquetoast public option plans rejected by Senate moderates as too disruptive of the private market." - Washington Post editorial, December 10, 2009 While Democrats' latest back-room deal is being reported as a moderate compr [...]  More

House Republican Leader John Boehner wrote an op/ed today for The Washington Post in response to a meeting House Republicans had earlier this week with President Obama regarding job creation. Boehner writes directly of the President's accusation that Republicans are "scaring" the American people. Read the following excerpts: Republicans took the o [...]  More

The Wall Street Journal featured a hard hitting editorial today railing against the Democrats' plan to eliminate the public option in favor of a plan that brings government-run health care to America faster. The last bit is worth note: This last-minute, back-room ploy shows again that Democrats are simply winging it as they rush to pass something& [...]  More

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA) published a post on RedState today, entitled, "The Bailout That Never Ends." Please see the following excerpt: The $700 billion Wall Street bailout last year proved exceedingly unpopular with regular Americans. Nevertheless, House Democrats, with their tin ears to the ground, are looking to make bailouts the status quo [...]  More

From the office of House Leader John Boehner: House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called for an end to Washington’s unprecedented borrowing and spending binge during floor remarks today opposing Democrats’ 2,500-page omnibus spending bill. Noting that “America is broke,” Boehner challenged President Obama to go thro [...]  More

Rep. Steve Buyer (IN) published a blog post on The Hill today. Read the following excerpt: As former chairman, and current ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, one of my highest priorities has been to ensure that veterans have every opportunity to live full and prosperous lives. This principle includes providing veter [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today regarding the Democrat regulatory reform plan and the House Republican effort to end the Wall Street bailout – known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) – and help reduce the deficit: I want to begin by commending the [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the Democrats’ fiscal year 2010 omnibus spending bill. Watch it here and see the text below: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the conference report before us [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to H.R. 4137, the Democrat financial regulatory bill: Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the rule and to the underlying bill, the so-called, ‘Wall Street Refor [...]  More

House Republican leaders met today following the White House meeting with President Obama. Here is a transcript of that press conference. Republican Leader John Boehner (OH), Republican Whip Eric Cantor (VA), Conference Chair Mike Pence (IN), and Rep. Dave Camp (MI) all spoke. Republican Leader John Boehner [In progress]…That will make i [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement today at the White House after meeting with the President and other Congressional leaders about the economy: House Republicans welcome the opportunity to sit down with the President and our colleagues in the House and Senate and discuss how we ca [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared on the NewsHour last night to talk about the President's Afghanistan strategy. Watch it here and read excerpts below: REP. MIKE PENCE, R-Ind.: Well, let me say, Jim, first, what I do agree with the president on -- and we -- I think House Republicans, like most Americans, appreciate the presi [...]  More

From The Hill: The House Armed Services Commiittee Republicans used their Twitter account on Tuesday to live-tweet testimony from two top U.S. figures in Afghanistan. Commanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry both testified before the panel about President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy.  D [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence discusses EPA regulation, and Cap and Tax on Fox Business:    More

From the office of Rep. Buck McKeon (CA): Today, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) introduced a resolution, H. Res. 952, allowing Congressional Medal of Honor recipients to properly display the United States flag on their property at all times.   Recent media reports, including from the Mar [...]  More

House Republican leadership held their weeky press conference earlier today. Watch the video below and find audio, photos and transcript here.   More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on the intent of the president and Democrats to use TARP funds for a second stimulus: Last year I opposed the Wall Street bailout because I thought it was wrong to take $700 billion in ba [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today after the administration signaled a willingness to use extra funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to pay for a second stimulus plan: Last year I voted against the financial bailout bill because it passed the costs of Wall S [...]  More

House Republican Leader John Boehner (OH) issued the following statement in advance of President Obama’s “jobs speech” tomorrow at the Brookings Institution: “Last week, at the White House jobs summit, President Obama acknowledged that the private sector, not government, is the key to creating jobs and getting our econo [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and the American Energy Solutions Group, issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was finalizing an endangerment finding that would allow the administration to regulate the emission of carbon dioxide: If the Democrat Co [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today as the global climate change talks began in Copenhagen, Denmark: At a time of double-digit unemployment, the last thing our country needs is a jobs-killing cap and trade scheme imposed on our families and small businesses by bureaucrats a [...]  More

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (WI) published a weekly column today discussing ongoing plans in Afghanistan. Read it here: President Obama started the month of December by announcing that an additional 30,000 American troops will be sent to Afghanistan before approximately August 31, 2010.   Our military commanders on the ground requested the ad [...]  More

From the Office of House Leader John Boehner: Doubling down on their flawed economic policies, the White House and congressional Democrats are preparing yet another “stimulus” bill – to be “paid for” with taxpayer dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) – their own bailout slush fund.  The Ame [...]  More

by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) *Please see original version of this post at Red County. Four months ago, I introduced legislation (H.R. 3129) to prevent the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from bilking taxpayers out of nearly $13 million for research on man-made global warming. Despite scathing attacks from some liberal [...]  More

Rep. Steve Scalise (LA) spoke on the house floor yesterday about the stimulus bill and President Obama’s comments at a Joint Session of Congress on February 24, 2009. The comments regarded Vice-President Joe Biden's role in a "tough, unprecedented oversight effort" of the stimulus bill because "nobody messes with Joe."   Scalise noted t [...]  More

From the Office of House Leader John Boehner: Just hours before the White House “jobs summit”, House Republicans convened a roundtable with leading economists to discuss job-threatening policies moving through Congress that are creating uncertainty for small businesses, the engine of job creation in America.  CNN and MSNBC covered [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in anticipation of the White House “jobs summit” scheduled for later today: Today, in the midst of a harsh recession, the president will convene a jobs summit at the White Hou [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared yesterday on MSNBC's "Hardball":   More

From the office of House Republican Leader John Boehner: On the same day [today] as the White House “jobs summit,” Leader Boehner will host a roundtable discussion with leading economists and GOP leaders tomorrow in the conference room of H-204 (Leader Boehner’s Office), the Capitol @ 11am to discuss job-threatening policies movi [...]  More

Get all the details, including audio and transcript of today's House Republican Leadership Press Conference here. Watch the video here:   More

Watch House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence on Fox News' "Live Desk" today:   More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence spoke today on the House floor, expressing his support for sending reinforcement troops to Afghanistan. Watch the clip here:   More

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor will appear today at 2 p.m. EDT in a live Facebook webcast at the Heritage Foundation. The Congressman will take questions from the audience as well as questions submitted online here. According to Heritage, by posting question or comment in the chatroom, your personal Facebook status will also be updated. This i [...]  More

Please see a selection of the following House Republicans' responses to President Obama's speech last night on the troop increase in Afghanistan. These are excerpts of their published comments: Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO): "After much delay, it is good to see that the president and the administration have finally decided to give our troops critic [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement today after President Obama announced he will be sending reinforcements to Afghanistan: After months of deliberation, the president has decided to endorse the request for reinforcements by o [...]  More

Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) wrote a piece today for The Washington Examiner. See an excerpt here: In the wake of the Fort Hood terrorist attack that killed 14 innocent and unsuspecting Americans, including one unborn child, President Obama's , attorney general, Eric Holder, has granted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attack [...]  More

House Republicans post regularly on The Hill's Congress Blog. Check out a selection of posts with excerpts here: Iran's Poker Face by Rep. Ed Royce (CA) On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency voted overwhelmingly to censure Iran over its nuclear program.  The IAEA resolution called on Iran to confirm that it has no other plans to b [...]  More