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Bailout Update: Chairman Frank Wants to Funnel $100 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Corrupt Liberal Housing Group
Sep 26, 2008
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Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Dave Weldon (FL-15) issued the following statement on the Paulson bailout plan negotiations:
"While the media has been reporting Rep. Barney Frank’s accusation that House Republicans are to blame for stalling the bailout, the true deal-breaker is Franks’ o...
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Democrats Capitulate on Extending Offshore Drilling Ban
Sep 24, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Dave Weldon (FL-15) issued the following statement on press reports that House Democrats have reversed course and decided to heed Republican demands to lift the congressional ban on offshore oil exploration:
“My Republican colleagues and I have been making the case...
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Weldon Denounces Sham Democrat "Energy" Bill
Sep 15, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Dave Weldon (FL-15) issued the following statement following Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to allow a vote on the comprehensive American Energy Act (H.R. 6566) and instead introduced a non-energy bill (H.R. 6899) that actually increases federal regulations o...
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Weldon Says Russian Waiver Means Pink Slips for KSC
Sep 12, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Dave Weldon (FL-15) denounced the efforts by Senator Bill Nelson and others to obtain a waiver of the Iran Nonproliferation Act for NASA. This waiver would allow the U.S. to purchase the Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft and force the U.S. to rely on Russia over...
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Momentum Building for Extending Shuttle Life
Jun 6, 2008
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Washington, D.C. - Presidential nominee John McCain recently stated his support for extending the Shuttle operational life beyond 2010. This coincides with Former U.S. Senator and Mercury Astronaut, John Glenn’s recent announcement of extending the Space Shuttle. Congressman Weldon has b...
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Government Accountability Office Report: Space Gap Likely To Widen
May 10, 2008
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Earlier today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified before a Congressional Committee indicating that a number of technological challenges facing the Constellation program are likely to delay the program, thus widening the “space gap.”
“History has shown us time and again that no ma...
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NASA Reveals Massive Layoffs
Apr 3, 2008
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Today NASA was forced to report that there will be far more layoffs at Kennedy Space Center and other major manned space flight centers across the country than the public had previously been led to believe. Because of his concern for the draconian job losses that seemed poised to hit KSC in pa...
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House Democrats Write $50 Billion Foreign Aid Check
Apr 2, 2008
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Today, Democrats forced through Congress a bill to hand out $50 billion over the next five years in foreign aid to Africa. The Majority leadership denied Rep. Weldon the opportunity to offer an amendment to scale back the size of funding in the bill.
Over the past five years, U.S. taxpayers have...
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House Democrats Refuse to Renew Bipartisan Terrorist Surveillance Act
Mar 15, 2008
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Today House Democrats recessed Congress for 18 days, after passing a deeply flawed foreign terrorist surveillance bill (known as FISA) bill that hinders the ability of our intelligence agencies to listen in on foreign terrorists while preserving trial lawyers’ ability to sue telecommunication compan...
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Democrats Break Their Own Ethics Rules To Pass New Ethics Rules
Mar 13, 2008
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Earlier this week House Democrats continued to prove their word means little, and as they do, Congressional approval ratings continues to plummet to all time lows - well below those of the President.
The latest chapter in the Democrat’s long list of shenanigans occurred late Tuesday night when th...
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