U.S. Representative Ed Royce

40th District of California
 
  • "Sarbanes-Oxley Has Devastated The U.S. IPO Market" by Rep. Royce
    Jul 28, 2012  - 8.6%. No, it isn't the latest unemployment number, and it certainly isn't the yield on 10-year Treasuries. Rather, it was America's share of global initial public offerings last year. The home of the deepest, most liquid capital markets in the world produced fewer than one-tenth of the IPOs around t... More
  • "Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling Strains U.S. Economy" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Jun 29, 2012  - "The Court regards its strained statutory interpretation as judicial modesty. It is not. It amounts instead to a vast judicial overreaching. It creates a debilitated, inoperable version of health-care regulation that Congress did not enact and the public does not expect." While there will be much de... More
  • "Internet freedom again under U.N. threat" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Jun 27, 2012  - Few technologies have been as revolutionary and valuable as the Internet. So it is no surprise that a coalition of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia and others, backed by supportive U.N. bureaucrats, just won't give up targeting it for a hostile takeover. Their play is to try to upend its governance model t... More
  • "Our North Korean policy has become based on blind trust" by Rep. Ed Royce
    May 1, 2012  - The following blog by Rep. Ed Royce appeared in The Hill's Congress Blog: Top U.S. officials – including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – are in Beijing this week for the latest installment of the "strategic and economic dialogue." With Iran, North Korea, trade – and now an escaped blind human r... More
  • "Royce Bill Key to Small Business Growth, Job Creation"
    Apr 20, 2012  - Rep. Ed Royce penned the following oped for the FlashReport -- Under a Republican majority, the focus of the 112th Congress has been jobs, and rightly so, the percentage of working age adults participating in the work force has, since 2009, slid to a new 30-year low of 63.8%. I'm proud of the legisl... More
  • "Over-Regulation Dragging Down Capital Markets, Small Business" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Mar 13, 2012  - Rep. Ed Royce blogs on the JOBS Act for The Hill's Congress Blog -- If the name of the bill didn’t give it away, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is meant to spur job creation. Instead of taking President Obama’s approach of borrow and spend, this bill takes a look at how start-up comp... More
  • Good News for Parched Farms
    Feb 29, 2012  - The following oped by Rep. Ed Royce appeared in today's Orange County Register: "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." – John Davis, editor, Earth First! Journal While "mainstream" environmentalists may claim Mr. Davis does not represent them, actions taken in California on beh... More
  • "Obama's Budget Blunder" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Feb 15, 2012  - Rep. Ed Royce penned the following oped for The FlashReport, a popular California conservative website: Remember when the President assured us that his $800 billion stimulus package would keep unemployment below eight percent? Or that time he promised to cut our deficit in half by the end of his fir... More
  • "SOPA/PIPA Legislation Approach Undermines Internet Communications and Corrodes our Liberty" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Jan 25, 2012  - Rep. Royce penned this oped on SOPA/PIPA legislation for Fox and Hounds - As most people know by now, Congress has been debating online piracy legislation. As one who has consistently opposed taxing and regulating the Internet, I am not surprised that the first impulse of many in Washington is to re... More
  • "China profits from U.S. pipeline blunder" by Rep. Ed Royce
    Jan 23, 2012  - The following oped by Rep. Ed Royce appeared in the Orange County Register -- It was announced the other day that the Obama administration has decided to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project. It has delayed this project for years, even though its own State Department judged it environmentally saf... More