Vitter: Congress Should Pass the No Cost Stimulus Act
And my bill does it all without costing the taxpayer an additional dime. It is called the No Cost Stimulus Act.
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And my bill does it all without costing the taxpayer an additional dime. It is called the No Cost Stimulus Act.
Common sense tells us we should use all the energy tools in our energy toolbox to expand domestic oil, natural gas and coal production and reduce our dependencies on foreign sources, while transitioning
The billion dollars a day we spend on foreign oil should be invested in American jobs producing clean energy here at home.
In the meantime, acting Architect Stephen Ayers has taken on all of the responsibilities without any of the authority that comes from confirmation. “He’s doing a fantastic job,” said Rep.
reiterated many of the themes in last week’s State of the Union address, pressing Senators to continue trying to pass health care reform and telling them he wanted to pass many of his job creation proposals “without
And Democratic incumbents are not without their own resources. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had almost $1.6 million in the bank at the beginning of the year, while Rep.
May 2009 — It’s time to kiss and make up, as Obama visits Sin City and declares that everyone should have a piece of the “Las Vegas dream.”
Reid employed the same strategy last October, when the Obama administration was without a surgeon general at the same time officials were dealing with the outbreak of a flu pandemic.
“You don’t get $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, more than any administration has proposed in more than a decade, without making lots of hard choices,” Orszag told the House Budget Committee.
“You couldn’t swing a dead cat in a room without hitting at least three supply-siders. … I looked around looking for all these supply-siders in whom at the end of the day I could make common cause, and
“They’re asking whether they should even cooperate with the OCE … whether they ought to hunker down and wait for the inquiry to get kicked up to the [House ethics] committee,” said one individual
“He in my mind is everything a Senator should be.— But Mark Warner said there have been times when he’s chafed at the constraints of the job.
Section Nine of Article 1 of the Constitution, which sets forth limits on Congress, provides that “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress
As some of K Street’s biggest law firms have faced a series of layoffs, many of the typical cushy jobs for lawmakers without plumb committee assignments are no longer available because of the struggling
If there’s somewhere we can try them without spending more money, why spend more money?
We should not punish excellence. It is quite difficult to understand the financial community’s culture of very large annual bonuses.
—“The decision to prosecute enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who were captured on foreign battlefields in civilian court is without precedent in our nation’s history.
“My first concern when looking for a qualified candidate to support was an ability to keep this district in Republican hands without having to spend large amounts of funds,— Radanovich said.
“I think the president should have been more clear about a way forward on health care last night. You know, he just can’t — I think he should have been more clear.
due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without