For all the complaining that the House Republicans did about the last Congress, they certainly are slow to get started. This week, Education and Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN-02) will hold his first committee meeting … and Thursday and Friday the House is not scheduled to be in session. So much for focusing on JOBS. [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) Press Release : Our Economy is in a Hole and the Only Solution Majority Leadership Has Offered is to Keep Digging That press release was August of 2010 … but the sentiment is just as appropriate today … although there is a new Majority, and that Republican Majority wants to keep spending. [...]
There is only one poll that counts, the one on Election Day. Until that day, all polls are really expectation polls … who is surging, who is holding and who is sinking. The first results are in from the WMUR, ABC News, NH GOP 2012 Straw Poll conducted Saturday at the NH GOP annual meeting [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) as chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, is interested in studying ways to roll back the so-called “employer mandate,’’ which will require businesses with more than 50 employees to provide health care to their employees or pay a penalty. Mr. Kline’s has already taken action … voting to eliminate [...]
This week, the House is schedule to vote H.R. 2 : Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act … although the Job-Killing aspects has been questioned by others. While “repeal” has moved to a vote without any affected committee hearings, the “replace” part has started slowly. Some members may like certain parts of the existing [...]
“This debate about how we’re going to restructure spending is inevitable. My view is, let’s have it now,” Mr. Pawlenty said in a Wall Street Journal interview. “Let’s call their bluff.” Mr. Pawlenty said Congress should pass legislation that would put interest and debt payments ahead of other federal spending and allow the federal government [...]
Following up on an earlier commentary, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is recommening canceling General Dynamics’s $15.5 billion Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program as part of an effort to cut $178 billion in DoD spending over the next five years. Secretary Gates offered his assessment of the beleaguered EFV and the future of Marine Corps [...]
For Minnesotans seeing Tim Pawlenty promote his biography at the National Press Club heard a new description for Mr. Pawlenty … former Governor … essentially, this description just formalized why he was known as GINO (Governor In Name Only). In reality, it was not a surprise to see Mr. Pawlenty promoting himself, but what was [...]
This week, John Kline (R-MN-02) issued a press release touting the JOB KILLING concerns cited in a report issued by Republican Leadership : “This report makes a clear and convincing argument that the onerous mandates, tax hikes, and massive new spending at the heart of ObamaCare will hurt the economy and destroy jobs,” said Kline, [...]
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