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Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) on Monday defended Newt Gingrich for referring to President Barack Obama as the "food stamp president," disputing critics who have blasted the former speaker's comments as racially charged.
U.S. Rep. Tim Scott already has attracted more than your average congressional freshman and said he plans to form a new political action committee to expand his reach.
A few months ago, Breitbart News editor and author Peter Schweizer published a book titled Throw Them All Out which suggested that members of Congress were using their influence and access in the legislative process to fatten their investment portfolios.
January has been quite a month. New Hampshire enjoyed the national spotlight as Americans were reminded how much Granite Staters cherish our first-in-the-nation presidential primary tradition, and how seriously we take our responsibility of getting to know the candidates.
South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott hasn't given his highly-coveted endorsement in this week’s Republican presidential primary, but the first-term congressman said in an interview Wednesday he had no problems with the tone of the race so far.
Last week U.S. 7th District Representative Sean Duffy (R-Weston) introduced a bill that would encourage members of Congress, senior employees of Congress, the U.S. President, and the president's cabinet to change how their private investments are done.
On behalf of Wisconsin’s pulp and paper industry we would like to thank Congressman Sean Duffy for supporting the House of Representatives passage of the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011.
A balanced budget amendment came up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 18. Congress has yet to recognize that America must start living within its means or we will lose the economic fabric that has made this country great.
The freshman Quayle's economic platform is the Reagan model: fewer regulations, lower tax rates and increased free trade.
The effort to restore responsibility to your government's finances suffered a setback on Capitol Hill recently, and Frank Guinta wants to make sure you know about it.
President Obama was in the Granite State Tuesday speaking about jobs and the economy, but Congressman Frank Guinta (R-Manchester) says actions speak louder than words. The first-term District I representative believes the president and his Democratic party are stalling progress on the jobs front.
Florida Rep. Allen West said Wednesday if the failure of the defense-reduction supercommittee leads to additional cuts to the Defense budget it would not only send a “horrible message” to Americans but also to “our adversaries and our enemies all across the world.”
Freshman Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Friday morning that the House should approve legislation scaling back proposed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules allowing for faster union elections, in part because the NLRB has “lost its marbles.”
Congressman Ben Quayle has introduced HR 3392, the Regulatory Review Act, which requires Congressional review for all major federal regulations every ten years. Under Rep. Quayle’s bill, every federal agency is required to review any federal regulation with an annual economic impact exceeding $100 million and find ways to make those regulations less costly and less burdensome for businesses.
House Republican Conference Chairman and deficit reduction "supercommittee" co-chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) reiterated the GOP position on Thursday evening that the deficit problem should be solved with spending cuts, less than one week before the supercommittee is hoping to find some solution that both parties can support.
Rep. Allen West says President Barack Obama and his economic and foreign policies have failed America. In a wide-ranging Newsmax.TV video interview, the Florida Republican says the Iranian nuclear threat is a "Chamberlain-Churchill" moment for the United States and that Obama’s “stimulus Mini-Me” won’t work.
More than 30 environmental laws would be waived and the Department of Homeland Security would be allowed to build roads, erect fences, set up monitoring equipment and use vehicles to patrol public lands within 100 miles of the Mexican and Canadian borders, according to proposed legislation in the House. No current plans exist to build such infrastructure, but a border-long environmental assessment is being completed to expedite such plans if needed in the future.
We can and we will put America back on the right track, but that requires one important step -- get the federal government out of the way. We became the greatest nation on Earth because of the ingenuity, creativity and hard work of our job creators.
The Obama administration's decision to postpone a ruling on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline till 2013 is a poorly disguised political punt. The ruling has 2012 presidential politics written all over it, despite the environmental reasons given.
After an unprecedented spending binge, apologists for big government once again want to raise taxes to reduce the deficit. We've seen this before.
