• While Dems Prepare for Massive Taxpayer-Funded Spending Spree, House GOP Continues Push for Pro-Growth Economic Reforms
    Oct 23, 2008  - While House Republicans fight for pro-growth economic reforms on behalf of American families, seniors, and small businesses, congressional Democrats continue their push for more spending, higher deficits, and new tax hikes.  Columnist Debra Saunders asked some important questions about the Demo... More
  • House GOP Continues Push to Investigate Mortgage Meltdown, Enact Pro-Growth Economic Reforms
    Oct 22, 2008  - House Republicans are fighting on behalf of American families, seniors, and small businesses struggling in the face of an economic crisis that traces its roots back to the evolving turmoil in the housing market.  Yesterday, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other key House Republi... More
  • Survey Shows Americans Believe Cutting Taxes is Better "Stimulus" Approach
    Oct 22, 2008  - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced she’ll bring legislation to the House floor before January that would increase government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in an effort to provide “stimulus” to our flagging economy.  But according to a newly released Fox poll:   ... More
  • Video: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Reveals the Democratic "Stimulus" Plan: Massive New Spending, Higher Deficits, Tax Increases
    Oct 21, 2008  - Noted journalist and media pundit Michael Kinsley once famously said “a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”  Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) – the powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee – told the truth yesterday when he admitted that the Democrats’ so-called “stimulus” p... More
  • Rep. Paul Ryan: Congress Should Strengthen Economy Through "Fast-Acting Tax Policy That Boosts Incentive to Invest and Create Jobs"
    Oct 20, 2008  - In a House Budget Committee hearing with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, the panel’s Ranking Republican Member, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), warned that the $300 billion government spending package being crafted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her liberal allies in Congress will lead... More
  • Sen. Obama Embraces Speaker Pelosi's Massive $300 Billion Spending Spree Paid for by American Taxpayers Like "Joe the Plumber"
    Oct 16, 2008  - Senator Barack Obama’s (D-IL) “spread your wealth around” remark to Joe the Plumber over the weekend was a startling confession about not only his plans to raise taxes on middle class families and small businesses, but his governing philosophy as well.  The fundamental difference between Republ... More
  • Taxpayer Alert: Dems Plot $300 Billion Spending Hike to Exploit Nation's Economic Troubles
    Oct 15, 2008  - It’s bad enough that Congress had to pass a $700 billion economic rescue bill to deal with the mess created by Democrats’ coddling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  But now the Democrats who run Congress are plotting to cash in on the nation’s economic troubles by pushing a massive spending bill ... More
  • Pressure Builds on Democratic Leaders to End Taxpayer-Funded Giveaways to ACORN
    Oct 10, 2008  - Allegations of voter fraud continue to mount against the left-wing group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group closely aligned with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).  The most recent revelations come out of Pittsburgh, where a district attorney announced today that he w... More
  • When Will Chairman Waxman Schedule a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Hearing & Call on Franklin Raines to Testify?
    Oct 9, 2008  - When will Chairman Waxman schedule a hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and call Franklin Raines to testify?  House Democrats continue to refuse to examine the two government-sponsored institutions that started the mortgage meltdown in the first place – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and they ... More
  • House Democrats Duck Investigating "Toxic Twins" at the Heart of the Mortgage Meltdown
    Oct 8, 2008  - Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Democrats still refuse to set a date for a hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and call on former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines to testify about his contribution to today’s market turmoil.  Republicans believe Con... More