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  • Minnesotans line up for a stimulus shot
    Dec 29, 2008  - The first big wave of change in the new Obama administration, a roughly $850 billion economic stimulus package, has brought out a swarm of Minnesota officials, businesses and special interest groups vying for a chunk of the nationwide infrastructure buildup. With President-elect Barack Obama and th... More
  • US lawmakers urge Bush not to forget Taiwan
    Dec 25, 2008  - Fourteen members of the US Congress have written to US President George W. Bush urging him not to forget Taiwan during his final days in office. They want Bush to warn President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) that he must respect Taiwan’s basic freedoms and civil rights as he tries to improve relations with Ch... More
  • The Need For More Transparency in Budgeting
    Dec 22, 2008  - Last week, the U.S. Treasury released the Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Report of the U.S. Government. According to a Treasury press release: "Revenue results in this year’s Financial Report were $2.7 trillion, increasing slightly by $34 billion or just over 1 percent, compared to last year. Tot... More
  • LTE: Bachmann was right
    Dec 20, 2008  - It is with great interest that I read the Dec. 18 Business section headline "Oil slides below $40 despite OPEC cut." I was reminded that only a few months ago, the experts and those in the know were predicting that oil would reach $200 per barrel by Christmas and $300 per barrel or more in 2009.... More
  • A Pork-Barrel Stimulus Package
    Dec 19, 2008  - It’s no secret that when President Obama gets sworn into office, among his top priorities will be to guide Congress through an $850 billion economic stimulus package. As a result, this astronomical number has created a tsunami of activity from special interest groups looking for their piece of the p... More
  • American people angered by bailouts, says Bachmann
    Dec 17, 2008  - Sixth District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-MN, says the massive bailouts only accomplish an angering of American people. Bachmann voted against the $700 billion bailout and she has expressed opposition at providing a bailout for the Big Three automakers. She offered the following analysis ... More
  • Restoring the GOP
    Dec 16, 2008  - The Hill newspaper's Congress Blog posed a question today to Capitol Hill's influential lawmakers, pundits and interest group leaders in their weekly "Big Question" feature: "What’s the next step for the GOP on the path back to electoral competitiveness?" Here's what I had to say: "The resu... More
  • Bachmann to Bush: Don't Bail Out Automakers on Taxpayers' Dime
    Dec 16, 2008  - Today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann joined several colleagues in writing to President Bush to urge him not to use any of the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail out the domestic auto industry.  The letter reminds President Bush that Congress appropriated the TARP money explic... More
  • Government Takeover Grows Bigger and Bigger
    Dec 12, 2008  -  A front page story in Thursday's USA Today newspaper caught my attention: "Federal share of economy soaring" The article warns that the seemingly endless flow of bailout money flooding from the U.S. Treasury Department to Bear Stearns, AIG, the financial markets, etc., has put the federal sh... More
  • Bachmann Opposes Auto Industry Bailout
    Dec 11, 2008  - Last night, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-6), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, made the following statement in opposition to the proposed $15-billion auto industry bailout: "Today Congress is about to embark upon another corporate bailout - this time for Detroit's Big... More