Rep. Doug Lamborn (CO) published a blog post in the The Hill today regarding NPR's firing of Juan Williams. Read an excerpt here: National Public Radio’s (NPR) recent firing of longtime news analyst Juan Williams was a wake-up call for many Americans to the political correctness and liberal bias at NPR. However, it is not so much that bia [...]  More

Rep. Randy Neugebauer published in op/ed in the Washington Times today. Please see the following excerpt of "Printing Press Prosperity": As a member of Congress, I know firsthand how dangerous it would be to give us the opportunity to "paper over" our complete lack of fiscal discipline, a practice also known as "quantitative easing." However, r [...]  More

Rep. Ted Poe (TX) published an op/ed today in Human Events. Read an excerpt of "Just Another Day on the Texas Border" for a look at border issues as a whole and related to the David Hartley murder case: It was just another day in south Texas as gunfire erupted in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and warnings went out to people on both si [...]  More

Washington's runaway spending amounts to generational theft -- and that's not okay. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor's office created this video, "Piggy Bank", on the issue. You can start changing the culture of spending in Washington by voting on YouCut today.   More

The unemployment rate is bad -- and has been for sometime. Though President Obama promised his economic policies would make things better -- they haven't. A recent New York Times piece, "Job Losses Outweigh Obama's Successes", analyzes things: On the evening of Dec. 3 last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics sent an advance copy of the next morn [...]  More

Rep. Phil Roe (TN) has an important question for President Obama. Will he ever get serious about working with Republicans to restore America's fiscal health. Read an excerpt of his latest blog post here: In a recent interview with the National Journal, President Obama was quoted saying he would be “happy to sit down” with Republican m [...]  More

Have you become a Facebook fan of the GOP Conference yet? If not, then do it now. There, you'll find the latest articles, papers, videos and more from House Republicans. You can connect with other Republicans and discuss the topics of the day. Make your voice heard on Facebook. Follow @GOPConference on Twitter for the fastest updates and personal [...]  More

There have been a lot of empty promises made in the past couple of years and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that there will be "no new deficit spending" is one of them. CNS News reports that Pelosi "has added more to the national debt than the first 57 House speakers combined." Read an excerpt here: When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her i [...]  More

In more bad news about Fanne and Freddie, the Wall Street Journal reports: Propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will cost taxpayers $154 billion under the most likely scenario for home prices, the mortgage giants' regulator said Thursday. But the bill could end up much greater—nearly double the $135 billion already spent—if grimme [...]  More

The House Republican Energy and Commerce Committee hasn't let up on ObamaCare -- and for good reason. The health care legislation now has record disapproval and has clearly been a hindrance to American business. Most noticably, McDonald's Corporation was faced with dropping health insurance for lower-income empoyees. With this kind of threat, GOPe [...]  More

Gallup has a new poll out, putting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's favorable rating at only 29%. Read up: Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's favorable rating is down seven percentage points since May to 29%, a new low for her since assuming the top congressional post. Pelosi's ratings were 2-to-1 positive, 44% to 22%, when she first assumed t [...]  More

From the office of Congressman Phil Roe (TN): There’s no denying the fact our country is facing some of the toughest economic times many of us have ever seen. Unfortunately, the leadership in our country has fallen short and has taken us down the wrong path. With increasing poverty levels and high unemployment rates, the Administration&rsquo [...]  More

Medica Insurance Company announced it would no longer sell “child-only” health insurance plans in Minnesota because of an ObamaCare mandate that permits parents to wait until their children are sick before they buy health insurance.      The Minnesota company’s announcement means that families in Minnesota cannot b [...]  More

We all know the unemployment rate in America is devastatingly high right now -- but most people don't know how bad it really is. Aside from those out of work, many Americans are "underemployed" and only able to work part-time. The House Republican Conference policy shop published a paper today on this subject: On October 8, 2010, the Bureau of Lab [...]  More

From the Republican Study Committee: The American people are fed up with an out-of-touch majority in Washington that refuses to listen to calls for an accountable, Constitutional government. House Republicans have heard you: we're putting the power back into the hands of We the People. Watch it:   More

From the House Republican Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: There's an anvil around the necks of America's small businesses that's preventing our innovators from growing jobs. It's called ObamaCare. House Republicans have heard your calls for real health care reform and are working to deliver it. Watch the video here:   More

Rep. John Campbell (CA) does his blogging at Townhall. Read an excerpt of his latest: Another year, another trillion dollars in debt…or so it appears this Congress goes. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released a FY2010 analysis pegging the federal budget deficit for the past year at $1.291 trillion. According to the CBO [...]  More

Republicans have been asking "Where are the jobs?" for months now yet in the month of September America lost another 95,000 jobs due to the bad economic policies of the Obama Administration. House Republican Leader John Boehner's shop released a new video today, asking again, "Where are the jobs?" Watch it here:   More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (IN) has been adamant that Congress be brought back into session as soon as possible to vote on the preservation of tax cuts for Americans. Roll Call published a piece on Pence's opinion this weekend. Read an excerpt here:Rep. Mike Pence on Saturday called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to bring [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (IN) deliverd the Weekly Republican Address. A transcript can be seen below the video: “Hello, I’m Mike Pence of Indiana. “These are difficult times in the life of this nation.  Families are hurting, American businesses are struggling.  In the city and on the farm, th [...]  More

The unemployment rate isn't high for no good reason. The Obama Administration has played a huge part in helping create this situation through the passage of their highly unpopular health care legislation earlier this year. House Republicans have done everything in their power to speak out against it. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Darrell Issa and Peter [...]  More

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence will deliver the Weekly Republican Address this week. Stop by GOP.gov tomorrow morning for a first look at the message this week.   More

Rep. Geoff Davis (KY) wrote a piece regarding the continued concern over specific aspects of ObamaCare, including worries for seniors. Read an excerpt of the piece on rhetoric v. reality: Rhetoric: “Don’t pay attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut.” (President Obama, 9/9/2009) Reality: President Obam [...]  More

Rep. Pete Hoekstra top Republican on the House Permanant Select Committee on Intelligence, published a blog post in The Hill today. The Congressman has been outspoken on national security issues, including maintaining the status of Guantanamo Bay. Read an excerpt of this piece: One of the last acts of this Democratic Congress on national security [...]  More

“It's not about tactics or about positioning or messaging. What the president seems to continue to miss is it’s really is about the policies.” -- Rep. Mike Pence (IN) House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence discussed President Obama’s recent comments about the failed stimulus and the need to cut spending this mo [...]  More

Under ObamaCare, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs cannot be reimbursed tax-free from Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) without a prescription beginning January 1, 2011.   Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards (SIGIS) released this list of OTC medications that will require a prescription for a tax-free withdr [...]  More

America's unemployment rate has been bad for some time. The latest numbers put national unemployment rate at 9.6%. Now, the Obama Administration is set to finalize more job-killing regulations through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We've broken down the job loss and cost to be incurred when these regulations go live. A sample of that i [...]  More

From America Speaking Out: The number one issue on the minds of the American people is creating jobs. Unfortunately, Washington Democrats appear more concerned about saving their own jobs than creating new ones for the American people. With an opportunity to stop a record tax increase scheduled to hit taxpayers in January and cost the nation untol [...]  More

Rep. Ron Paul (TX) published an op/ed in today in The Hill. The piece regards the dangerous steps the Obama Administration has taken with the American economy -- spending money as fast as they can it would seem. Read an excerpt here: Last week we received worse than expected unemployment numbers, challenging recent claims that the recession has c [...]  More

The dismissal of the U.S. v. New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case has been one of much controversy and many House Republicans have weighed in since it happened. With new evidence coming forth now, Rep. Frank Wolf (VA) wrote a new piece surrounding the subject. A telling video of the case can be seen at the Human Events web site [...]  More

The latest jobs report, which came out today, says that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September.  Each month, the country awaits improvement and each month, it is disappointed. There is more to unemployment than just this number, though. A thorough breakdown of unemployment by the numbers can be seen below: $1,161,000,000,000:  The tot [...]  More

The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is looking out for you. Committee Member Rep. John Boozman published a press release regarding the Committee's latest, revealing report: "Sitting on Our Assets: The Federal Government’s Misuse of Taxpayer-Owned Assets." Read an excerpt of the release: Mismanagement of federally owned assets a [...]  More

Rep. Darrell Issa, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is a popular figure on political talk shows, blogs and the pages of newspapers due to his vocal stance on many issues related to the Committee. Today, he published an op/ed in Politico regarding more -- and easier -- transparency in government due to Face [...]  More

In The Hill today, Rep. Phil Roe (TN) writes about the EPA's damaging policies: Since the Senate will not pass the flawed cap and trade legislation, the administration is taking matters into their own hands, using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as their lead enforcement agency. New regulations planned by the EPA could have detrimenta [...]  More

With all the controversy surrounding the stimulus plan, you would think the Obama Administration would take great pains to let the American people know where their money was going. That is not the case here. According to a recent report, there is $162 million in stimulus funds undisclosed. Read about it: Recovery.gov promised transparency on how t [...]  More

Ozone Rule Would Kill 7.3 Million Jobs, Raise Costs Reports indicate that the Obama administration will soon finalize a new job-killing environmental regulation.  Earlier this year, just two years after a significant adjustment to the ground-level ozone standard, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed lowering the limit from the cu [...]  More

TARP has not gone away, friends. The House Republican Policy Shop is here to make sure you are up to speed on the latest news regarding this "living dead bailout." See an excerpt from the most recent report: October 3, 2010, marked the expiration of the Treasury Department’s statutory authority for using funds authorized under the $700 bill [...]  More

The Wall Street Journal reports 3M will stop offering health insurance to its retirees in 2013 because of ObamaCare. In a memo to its employees, 3M said, "As you know, the recently enacted health care reform law has fundamentally changed the health care insurance market."     3M is the latest company to announce that ObamaCare has forced [...]  More

On Wednesday, The Boston Globe reported that ObamaCare will cause 22,000 seniors in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire to lose their current Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.        Meanwhile, The Principal Financial Group announced Thursday that it will no longer sell healt [...]  More

In more bad news from ObamaCare, Reuters reports this: The U.S. healthcare reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday. The group's Center for Workforce Studies released new estimates that showed shortages would be 50 perce [...]  More