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What the Next Speaker Must Do
Nov 5, 2010
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By JOHN BOEHNER, Wall Street Journal
I grew up in a small house on a hill in Cincinnati, Ohio, with 11 brothers and sisters. My dad ran a bar, Andy's Café, that my grandfather Andrew Boehner opened in 1938. We didn't have much but were thankful for what we had. And we didn't think much about ...
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MIKE CONAWAY: Lifting Cuban Travel Ban Would Aid Castro Regime
Jun 21, 2010
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — After reading the Standard-Times’ recent editorial regarding legislative efforts to lift the travel ban to Cuba, I felt the need to respond. This is an issue that my colleagues and I on the Agriculture Committee continue to examine and in the newspaper’s analysis of the issue, I ...
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The father of Mojo football leaves a big legacy
Oct 5, 2009
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BY KEN BRODNAX
How
ironic is that the man who launched the Permian tradition of football
excellence would die on the day that the Panthers and cross-town rival
Odessa High would meet for the 51st time?
Gene Mayfield, who led
Permian to a completely unexpected state...
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AP: Obama Admin: Cap and Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 a Year
Sep 16, 2009
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The
Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law
would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent
of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.
A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of
Treasury says the ...
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CBO predicts lower GDP in a decade
Feb 13, 2009
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“The Congressional Budget Office says President Obama's giant economic recovery bill will actually hurt Americans' paychecks in the long run, even if the plan's tax cuts start out putting an extra $13 a week in most worker's pockets.
Building on a report issued last week, the Congressional Budge...
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Economy at the fore
Jan 8, 2009
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The West Texas delegation has a collective laundry list of challenging issues for the 111th Congress to take up.
To name a few: the economy, energy, education, immigration, border security, health care spending, the death tax, freedom of information and the war on terror.
But the Republicans who ...
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Economic Stimulus Bill a Temporary Step in the Right Direction
Jan 29, 2008
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the bipartisan economic stimulus bill crafted by the President along with House leadership with the goal of preventing our economy from slipping into a recession. Congressman Mike Conaway (TX-11) made the following statement after the bill’s pas...
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God Gets Flagged Down by AOC
Oct 10, 2007
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By Emily Yehle, Roll Call Staff God makes appearances on the dollar bill, is etched into the walls of Congress and shows up in the Pledge of Allegiance — but apparently has no business accompanying the American flags flown over the Capitol. Members of Congress criticized, lectured and called for the...
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Our Common Struggle, by Nouri Al-Maliki
Jun 13, 2007
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BAGHDAD, Iraq--Americans keen to understand the ongoing struggle for a new Iraq can be guided by the example of their own history. In the 1860s, your country fought a great struggle of its own, a civil war that took hundreds of thousands of lives but ended in the triumph of freedom and the birth of ...
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Congressman Invokes Bipartisanship of Ford's Era on Eve of Second Term
Jan 3, 2007
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Swearing in congressman Mike Conaway on a national day of mourning for President Ford, U.S. District Judge Robert Junell said Ford "would have approved" because the Tuesday mock ceremony represented business of the late longtime Michigan congressman's beloved House of Representatives.
With 75 sp...
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