GOP Blog Archives for January 2010
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:
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 opnion:
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 closed door meetings to finalize the details of the bill.
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:
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:
Read about House Republican Leader John Boehner today in the New York Times:
U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today regarding the earthquake in Haiti:
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:
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (WY) appeared today on Fox News to discuss the state of the health care bill. Watch it here:
Rep. Geoff Davis (KY) published his weekly column on his web site today. Read an excerpt of "Empower the People to Spur Job Creation":
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:
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:
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 tonight -- but doesn't see that message translating to realistic solutions. He writes:
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:
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 Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence appeared on Good Morning America today. Watch the video and see excerpts below.
House Republican leadership today responded to their session with President Obama in a press conference. Watch House Republican Leader John Boehner and others here:
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):
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 Hensarling (TX), Rep. Paul Ryan (WI), Rep. Peter Roskam (IL), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN) were all able to put questions to the President.
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.
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:
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:
From the GOP.gov media department:
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:
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 changing the way stimulus jobs are counted. The memo, first noted by ProPublica, says that those receiving stimulus funds no longer have to say whether a job has been saved or created. “Instead, recipients will more easily and objectively report on jobs funded with Recovery Act dollars,” Orszag wrote. In other words, if the project is being funded with stimulus dollars – even if the person worked at that company or organization before and will work the same place afterwards – that’s a stimulus job. This change has not yet hit the Recovery.gov website, which lists 640,329 “Jobs Created/Saved as Reported by Recipients.” OMB spokesman Tom Gavin says that “Recovery.gov is the purview of the Recovery Board” and is “completely independent of OMB.” A call to the Recovery Board was not immediately returned. Orszag’s memo also indicates the reporting of jobs will be less frequent; “recipients will now report job estimates on a quarterly, rather than cumulative, basis.” Gavin said that after talking to funding recipients, good government groups, Democratic and Republican members of Congress and the Government Accountability Office, the administration decided to change its counting mechanism. In its November report, titled “Recipient Reported Jobs Data Provide Some Insight into Use of Recovery Act Funding, but Data Quality and Reporting Issues Need Attention,” GAO specifically made recommendations as to how to change the counting procedures, saying the Obama administration should “consider being more explicit that ‘jobs created or retained’ are to be reported as hours worked and paid for with Recovery Act funds.” “Instead of putting the GAO report on a shelf as is typically done we took the recommendations to heart,” Gavin told ABC News. “The changes are designed to make the definitions clearer, to simplify the process, and to increase the accuracy of the data that’s reported.” But Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to the chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board Earl Devaney saying that “the new guidance counts every jobs that is funded using stimulus money – even if it existed before the Recovery Act, and was not in any danger of being eliminated – as ‘created or saved.’ This definition ignores the plain meanings of the words ‘created’ and ‘saved’ and makes Recovery.gov’s ‘ ‘JOBS CREATED/SAVED’ label a falsehood, further eroding the confidence of the American people in their government.” “It’s funny,” Gavin says. “A lot of the people who are being critical of this effort to simplify the process are the same people who three months ago were complaining the process was too complex.”
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":
U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, gave the following statement today at a leadership press conference:
House Republicans continue blogging regularly. We wanted to share with you some of our favorites from the past week:
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence published a blog post on RedState today. Read an excerpt:
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:
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?":
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:"
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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:
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:
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:
House Republican Conference Chairman made the following remarks regarding the Declaration of Health Care Independence:
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:
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:
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:
From the office of Vice-Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers:
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence wrote a piece today for The Washington Times, "Fighting for Life in 2010":
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence spoke today at the March for Life. We've got the clip for you here:
What's the gift? Unlimited liabilities for taxpayers and $42 million in Wall Street-Style Compensation for 12 government eployees.
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:
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.
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