Brian Faughnan of RedState attended the Republican retreat in Baltimore this weekend. Following President Obama's address to House Republicans yesterday, he was able to snag a couple of off the cuff interviews with Members of Congress. Here is the first video with Rep. Paul Ryan (WI): Watch the rest of the videos here.   More

House Republican leadership today responded to their session with President Obama in a press conference. Watch House Republican Leader John Boehner and others here:   More

House Republicans just wrapped up a meeting with President Obama at their yearly retreat in Balitmore. The event was aired live on CSPAN and the President's speech was followed by a question/answer session with House Republicans. House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT), Rep. Shelly Moore-Capito (WV), Rep. Jeb Hens [...]  More

From CSPAN: Pres. Obama today speaks to House Republicans at their two-day retreat in Baltimore, MD. He is expected to repeat his State of the Union address plea for bipartisanship on health care and other economic issues. GOP leaders will comment later, following a question-and-answer session with the president. Watch it here.   More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared on Good Morning America today. Watch the video and see excerpts below. GMA Host George Stephanopoulos:  Let’s begin with the first big story we have. Breaking news overnight, that the White House is now starting to look into alternate locations for this Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tri [...]  More

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From the office of Vice-Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Tonight, I’m calling on Congress to publish all earmark requests on a single website before there’s a vote so that the American people can see how their money is being spent.” – President Obama, Jan. 27, 2010   In August 2009, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers (R- [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared this morning on Morning Joe. The Congressman gave his response to the State of the Union and talked about his decision not to run for U.S. Senate. Watch it here:   More

House Republican Conference Chairman made the following remarks regarding the Declaration of Health Care Independence: I'm Mike Pence; I'm the House Republican Conference Chairman.   Tonight the President of the United States will come to the People's House and deliver his report on the state of the union, and we will find out as a nation whe [...]  More

Republicans have solutions for getting our economy back on track and getting our citizens back to work. Last night, Governor Bob McDonnell told the nation where to find them: right here, at GOP.gov. On our solutions page, you'll find detailed plans on the budget, jobs, health care and energy. Read here: House Republicans are continuing to offer th [...]  More

Newly elected Governor Bob McDonnell delivered the Republican response to President Obama's first State of the Union last night. Please see a few key excerpts: JOBS “Good government policy should spur economic growth, and strengthen the private sector’s ability to create new jobs. We must enact policies that promote entrepreneurship an [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared today on MSNBC to discuss President Obama's State of the Union address tonight. See the clip here:   More

Reps. Ducan Hunter (CA) and Jason Chaffetz (UT) published a piece today at Townhall. Their post, entitled "Crushing the Status Quo With Policies That Work": When talking about jobs, the real solution rests with small business -- the foundation of the American economy.  These are the jobs that will help revive our economy and provide sustainab [...]  More

Rep. Paul Ryan (WI), the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, wrote a piece today for the Wall Street Journal in effort to re-introduce his fiscal plan for America, "The Road Map for America's Future." Congressman Ryan predicts how President Obama will attempt to regain a mantel of "fiscal responsibility" in his State of the Union speech to [...]  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 this evening’s State of the Union address by President Obama: Tonight, the President of the United States will return to the well of this Congress and deliver his [...]  More

Like you, House Republicans are active on Facebook. Nearly every single House Republican Member of Congress has their own personal page and the Republican Conference is no exception. If you love Facebook, feel free to check in at the Republican Conference page. There, we update you with articles written by your favorite Members, editorials that ma [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence wrote an op/ed today for The Hill. As the nation prepares for President Obama's first State of the Union address tonight, Republicans continue to amp up their own message of fiscal responsibility and freedom. Please read the following excerpt: The strength of our nation is not found in the halls of C [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared today at the Bloggers Briefing at the Heritage Foundation. After taking questions from bloggers, he sat down with Heritage staff. Take a look at "In the Green Room: Rep. Mike Pence Reflects on the State of Conservatism":   More

U.S. Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) and U.S. Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) released a joint statement today commending the decision by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission to delay the country’s parliamentary election by four months: We commend the Independent Election Commission’s decision to delay Afghanistan’s [...]  More

From the House Republican Energy and Commerce Committee: CBO estimates that if the federal government paid all of the costs of covering newly eligible Medicaid enrollees for all states through 2019, net spending would increase by about $35 billion over the 2010-2019 period relative to spending under H.R. 3590 as passed by the Senate.  ...The [...]  More

Rep. Geoff Davis (KY) published his weekly column on his web site today. Read an excerpt of "Empower the People to Spur Job Creation": Despite President Barack Obama’s inaugural promise to create jobs and contain unemployment through passage of a stimulus package that would “provide an immediate jolt” to our economy, Kentuckians [...]  More

Rep. Cynthia Lummis (WY) appeared today on Fox News to discuss the state of the health care bill. Watch it here:   More

by Rep. Peter Roskam (IL) How is your performance at work judged?  If you’re an executive at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, you can manage organizations that have cost taxpayers more than $110 billion, have an unlimited commitment of taxpayer resources, and yet you can still make $6 million. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) wrote a letter about Fan [...]  More

*This post first published at The Hill. by Rep. Phil Gingrey (GA) A year ago, the President made a promise on his first day in office – to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  Like many of the President’s promises, this is another one he has failed to keep – though, in this case, I am thankful for the lack o [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence spoke today at the March for Life. We've got the clip for you here:   More

Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) produced a video last year for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It's worth a moment to watch this moving tribute:   More

Rep. Steve King (IA) wrote an op/ed today for The Washington Times, entitled, "American Youth Increasingly Pro-Life." He also spoke at the March for Life event today on the National Mall. See the speech and read the op/ed below:  Much has been said about Barack Obama receiving the “youth vote” in the 2008 election. Pundits claime [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence wrote a piece today for The Washington Times, "Fighting for Life in 2010": Life is winning across America but continues to lose in Washington, DC. The best efforts of pro-abortion advocates to spread abortion on demand have only emboldened more Americans to embrace the sanctity of human life.  [...]  More

Rep. Tom McClintock (CA) wrote a a blost today on RedState regarding the irresponsible remarks recently made by MSNBC host Ed Schultz. Read an excerpt: I never thought I would see the day when a commentator entrusted by a major broadcast network with the ability to reach millions of listeners would use his influence to incite voter fraud, but this [...]  More

What's the gift? Unlimited liabilities for taxpayers and $42 million in Wall Street-Style Compensation for 12 government eployees. From the House Republican Conference Policy Shop: "The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises...It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system."& [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown” today to discuss the election in Massachusetts and health care. Here is an excerpt of Congressman Pence's comments. View the full clip here. "I don’t think it was so much a victory for the Republican Party as i [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, gave the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives: Well, if you are concerned about runaway federal spending and a rising national debt, you won't find a lot of comfort in today's headlines. After passing a government takeover of health care [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today after the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Citizens United in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: Freedom won today in the Supreme Court. Today’s ruling in the Citizens United case takes us o [...]  More

YouTube's blog "Citizen Tube" put up a post today reviewing the U.S. Government on YouTube. It was no surprise to us that Republicans took the cake by a landslide. From the post: Soon after, we launched our Senate and House Hubs with the U.S. Congress, and then we brought the entire federal government to the site on YouTube.com/usgovernment. On th [...]  More

From the office of Vice-Chair of the House Republican Conference Cathy McMorris Rodgers: In the last few days, several major media outlets have covered a new non-partisan report, “Twongress, The Power of Twitter in Congress.”   According to the report, House Republicans are the majority of Twitter users on Capitol Hill and they ha [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared on MSNBC today to discuss the Massachusetts Senate race and the state of looming health care legislation. Watch the clip here:   More

House Republican leadership met this morning for their weekly press conference. On the heels of Republican and Senator-elect Scott Brown's win last night in Massachusetts, the GOP was in high spirits. Find text and audio here and watch the video below:   More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence has a few ideas about winning back a Republican majority. He wrote about them today in Human Events. See an excerpt of "Winning Back America:" That is why House Republicans have offered American solutions to the challenges we face, not government solutions.  We introduced a comprehensive strateg [...]  More

Congressman Pete Hoekstra (MI), top Republican on the House Permanant Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote a piece today for Human Events. See the following excerpt of "Where are the Other Abdulmutallabs?": President Obama’s failure to appreciate the seriousness of the Fort Hood and Detroit attacks reflects fundamental problems in his app [...]  More

From the office of House Republican Leader John Boehner: During a national radio appearance yesterday afternoon on The Lars Larson Show, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said “we can win this fight” to stop Democrats’ costly government takeover of health care, but only if the American people stay engaged.  Boehne [...]  More

*This blog post first published at Townhall. by Rep. Tom Rooney (FL) The 10th Amendment states “The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  This is a simple straightforward and single sentence Amendment.  Ev [...]  More

Courtesy of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, we now know that botox is just one of the treatments that is not banned from government subsidies under the Democrats' health care bills. Check out a few other gems: 1.     Taxpayer payment for visiting doctors who prescribe marijuana* 2.     Taxpayer cov [...]  More

The U.K. Telegraph published a list of the top 100 liberals and conservatives in the world. House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence made the list at #17. The paper reads: Any conversation about rising stars within the conservative movement involves Mike Pence. A lawyer, former talk radio host and now the third-ranking Republican in the Hou [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence published a blog post on RedState today. Read an excerpt: When Harry Reid passed a government-run health care bill two weeks ago, he believed the long battle was done. He was wrong. After months of speaking out against a government takeover of health care — via phone calls, letters, town halls, [...]  More

The New York Times political blog yesterday covered what they called, "The Capitol Hill Twitterverse." It was no surprise to find out Republicans out-Tweet their Democrat counterparts by five times. Read the article and be enlightened: It may have been sort of a counterintuitive thought at one time, but it’s become pretty well-established th [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today regarding the earthquake in Haiti: Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti during this terrible tragedy. Every American should pray for the families of Haiti and seek opportunities to support organizations providing relief services. It [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, gave the following statement today at a leadership press conference: As Democrats struggle to put together a government takeover of health care behind closed doors, House Republicans have one message for the American people: This fight ain’t over. The President of the [...]  More

  U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today regarding the president's address to the House Republican Conference later this month: House Republicans are grateful that the President of the United States has accepted our invitation to meet with the Republican Conference later [...]  More

Read about House Republican Leader John Boehner today in the New York Times: At a meeting of the House Republican conference on Wednesday morning, the Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, told his colleagues that he believed they could defeat the Democrats’ health care legislation, according to officials who heard his [...]  More

Rep. Vern Buchanan (FL) published a blog post today in the Washington Examiner, regarding transparency. Check out an excerpt of "Congress Should Pass 'Right to Know' Transparency Laws": Everyone knows that Congress is elected by the people to serve the people. Yet far too often that democratic principle is ignored by Washington powerbrokers who wo [...]  More

From the office of House Leader John Boehner: At the White House today, House GOP leaders urged President Obama to scrap job-killing policies that are causing small businesses to hold off on hiring and presented him with a better plan to put people back to work. Republicans are renewing this call to action a day after President Obama proposed doub [...]  More

The Obama administration has taken some heat and mockery for using the nebulous and non-economic term of jobs being “saved or created” by the $787 billion stimulus program. So it’s gotten rid of it. In a little-noticed December 18, 2009 memo from Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag the Obama administration is [...]  More

Congressman Tom Price wrote a piece for the launch of The Daily Caller. Read an excerpt of "How the GOP gets its mojo back" here: Few New Years have come in with as much contempt for the past year as 2010.  While so many were promised change in 2009, the futility of runaway government crippled our national productivity.  Unbridled spendi [...]  More

by Rep. Joe Wilson (SC) *This piece originally published in The State. We all remember the Wendy's ad campaign, "Where's the Beef?" This iconic campaign triggered fast food consumers across the nation to take notice of the product - or lack thereof - they were receiving at the drive-through. Sometimes it takes creative campaigns like this to get [...]  More

House Republicans continue blogging regularly. We wanted to share with you some of our favorites from the past week: Dear Mr. President: Your Policies are Damaging Women the Most By Reps. McMorris Rodgers, Blackburn, Myrick, C.Miller, Granger, Brown-Waite, Capito, M. Bono Mack, Jenkins Pajamas Media Health Care and Closed Doors by Eric Cantor By [...]  More

From the GOP.gov media department: Today, President Obama said that his stimulus bill was “a major force in breaking the trajectory of this recession and stimulating growth and hiring.” But the reality of more than 2.7 million JOB LOSSES since the president signed his stimulus plan into law, trumps the rhetoric of his latest remarks. S [...]  More

Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) put together this video for last year's anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As this year's anniversary approaches, the tribute is worth another look:   More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement today after the Department of Labor reported the national unemployment rate for December remained at 10 percent, with 85,000 jobs lost last month: These are difficult times for America’s families and today’s unemployment report delive [...]  More

How do some Democrats feel about how the Obama Administration is handling final negotiations of the health care bill? Democrat Congressman Joe Sestak (PA) was filmed recently expressing his opinion about the matter. Sestak said the following: “They said it would be transparent, why isn’t it? At times I find the Caucus is a real disappo [...]  More

House Republican Women have a message for President Obama: Your policies are most damaging to American women. Reps Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Marsha Blackburn, Sue Myrick, Candice Miller, Michele Bachmann, Kay Granger, Ginny Brown-Waite, Shelley Moore Capito, Mary Bono Mack, & Lynn Jenkins published this piece on Pajamas Media to express their op [...]  More

From the office of Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (GA): U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland today called on congressional leaders to honor their campaign promises by accepting C-SPAN’s request to air health care legislation negotiations.   “Between Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vague pledge to lead the most open, honest and transparent Cong [...]  More

In late 2009, House Democrats crafted a health care bill behind closed doors, without letting Republicans or the public know about the details. The House Republican Conference created a video to demonstrate these shady tactics. After the bill narrowly passed the House, Senate Democrats did the exact same thing. Now, top Democrats are holding close [...]  More

NPR recently covered the rise of Republicans' effective use of social media. The GOP has notably utilized YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, blogs and more this year. Both politicians and grassroots activists have taken advantage of new media to get their message across. Here is an excerpt from NPR: Republican strategist Mindy Finn, who helped Virginia G [...]  More

by Rep. Candice Miller (MI) and Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI) *This post first appeared on Real Clear Politics How does an individual like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get on a plane with an explosive device with the intent to cause catastrophic harm? Clearly, the security measures we put in place did not work. The key question now is what lessons the Obam [...]  More

Rep. Connie Mack (FL) wrote an op/ed for Human Events today regarding the Christmas Day terrorist threat in the air. Please read an excerpt here: On Christmas Day, terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through the cracks of our nation’s security and attempted to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on its way to Detroit.  Because of the brav [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote the following blog entries during a bipartisan Congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan to visit with American troops and receive briefings on the situation in Afghanistan from U.S. and Afghan leaders. Here is an excerpt of one entry: Today, a [...]  More

From the House Republican Conference: The Mayo Clinic was praised by President Obama for providing “outstanding care” “There are some places, like the Mayo Clinic, many of you have heard of, provides outstanding care, some of the best in the world.  People fly in from everywhere to go to Mayo Clinic to get treated.  Tur [...]  More