Monday Morning Memo

10-31-16 --In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, ObamaCare’s 2017 signup period begins Tuesday with higher premiums and higher costs for taxpayers, questions over phony applicants getting approvals and millions choosing to pay a tax penalty.   

The Pentagon puts a stop to demands that guard members who served in Afghanistan and Iran repay bonuses and education payments. Government lawyers put Big Labor Unions over local businesses. And, let’s treat teachers, firefighters and police officers fairly in Social Security.

10-24-16 -- this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady demands answers from the IRS on how $12 million in your tax dollars got wasted on an email system that never worked, addresses the explosion of asylum requests from illegal immigrants and the White House’s handling of the threat of ground-based Russian missiles.

10-17-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, Congressman Kevin Brady explains why elections should be a contest of ideas, such as the Better Way. The Ways and Means Chairman also takes on why the Department of Labor’s pending overtime rule is terrible for workers, the latest round of IRS targeting on a Texas tea party group, the President’s back door “Obamacare” for your retirement and this White House’s continuing efforts to ignore Congress and the courts to bailout ObamaCare insurance companies.

10-10-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, while some in Washington actually believe the underwhelming jobs report is good our economy needs action now on pro-growth policies. ISIS calls for random knife attacks. Thousands of deportations cases are being quietly delayed.

10-3-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, Congressman Kevin Brady discusses Presidential veto threats, a new report on how the Obama Administration is trying to shore up ObamaCare by circumventing Congress and efforts to stop the Internet handover and protect student privacy.

Finally, Congress extends government funding through December while the Ways and Means Committee digs deep into Medicare fraud.

As the battle continues over a controversial internet oversight transfer, Congress has only 5 days to approve funding for the day to day operations of the government which also runs out on Saturday.

President Obama orders climate change be part of military planning. And, finally a House panel holds a Planned Parenthood contractor in contempt.

Congressman Brady strongly opposes a looming change in internet authority.  And finally, what’s the cost of all those Executive Orders issued with the President’s pen and phone.

Congressman Brady takes action so states can use a 2012 federal law he fought for to drug test unemployment applicants. The Ways and Means Committee passes out key bills for Americans suffering from kidney failure and those who are losing their insurance due to ObamaCare Co-Op failures.

A Federal Election Commissioner has a warning for conservative media that the First Amendment is in jeopardy. Government climate scientists are being laughed at for a biased study on the Louisiana flooding.

And, the Ways and Means Committee prepares to vote on a common sense bill to keep the IRS from taxing the medals of Olympians and Paraolympians.

It’s been a long, hot summer. The President’s unpopular health care insurance law continues to melt down, Europe is trying to take a bite out of Apple, Chicago racked up its most violent August in decades and deportations under Obama could hit 10 year low.

As the House prepares to build on its successes with a long list of important bills in September, the Ways and Means Committee is cranking up with hearings on Medicare and Unemployment Insurance.

Why are hundreds of millions in Zika funding not getting to the states? The House Oversight Committee takes on the Clinton Foundation. A U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel. As the CBO shows how Obamanomics has been a big swing and a miss, enthusiasm for fixing America’s broken tax code is growing at town hall meetings.  

Americans need a #BetterWay amid “America’s worsening retirement problem” and a devastating Wall Street Journal report on how the middle class is getting the shortest end of the ObamaCare stick.

ObamaCare continues to fail ahead of schedule, as insurers bail leaving one county in District 8 with only one option. Medicaid reduces medical options for those at the lower end of the economic ladder. Congressman Brady weighs in on the contingency of the $400 million released to Iran and the terrible message the State Department send to the world. Seniors say no to Social Security’s texting requirement. Congressman Brady fights for fairness in Social Security and stands with JP Wayne Mack and his chaplains.

Economic scholars say a $15 minimum wage "does not guarantee that a single new job will be created" and "cannot stop employers from reducing the number of weekly work hours." And, finally, ObamaCare’s 2017 signup season means big problems for the next President.

Many families in the greater Houston area are scrambling to find new doctors because the medical professionals they count on will not be in-network in less than two months. The IRS opens an investigation into Clinton Foundation activities. And finally, the pro-life activists behind the Planned Parenthood investigation have been cleared, but what they learned continues to haunt Americans.

The feds remove the lesser prairie chicken from Endangered Species protection. In another win for Texas, the 5^th Circuit Court blocks the EPA’s hazy 'regional haze' rules. And the House Ways and Means Committee goes after a White House bent on making their own rules.

The House passes the Separation of Powers Protection Act to restore constitutional checks and balances. The Ways and Means Committee shows how ObamaCare’s mandates and rigid rules are hurting Americans as President Obama pushes for a public option.

After Brexit, the US needs a free trade agreement with the UK. No one should use a tragedy like the deaths of police officers for political gain. And finally, Congress takes action on opioid addiction.

Congressman Kevin Brady weighs in on the June jobs numbers, illegal ObamaCare spending  that is ‘stealing from the taxpayers’, ending mandates that take away Americans health care choices and hurt their access to rural hospitals.

The Ways and Means Committee passes out important legislation to stop the IRS from seizing assets of farmers, ranchers and small businesses. House Speaker Paul Ryan moves to stop Hillary Clinton from receiving any classified information during the campaign as lawyers ready ‘Hillary’ defenses to other charges of mishandling classified information. Finally, the House takes a huge bipartisan step towards fixing America’s broken mental health system.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules against common sense protection for Texas women. It’s time to rethink our foster care system.The Senate blocked a congressional compromise bill to combat the Zika virus at a critical time, during the summer mosquito season.It’s not enough to buy American, we need the freedom to be able to sell American to a growing customer base abroad.

Finally, as House Republicans fight to rein in the IRS and give Americans a pro-growth, simpler, flatter tax code, the Obama Treasury Department is adding more red tape that threatens American jobs and hurts our competitiveness.

The congressman also shares his insight into the publicity stunt sit-in that didn’t stop the House from passing a key bill for our veterans, military construction and to combat the Zika virus.

Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court crushes the President’s unconstitutional amnesty plans as a federal judge slaps down the Department of the Interior over unlawful efforts to stop Fracking.

Major developments in the IRS targeting and asset seizure scandals. And finally, the Ways and Means Committee passes out bills to help children before they end up in foster care and to help Americans buried under ObamaCare mandates and added costs.  

The House moves to kill bad White House energy tax proposals, provide tough financial discipline – but no bailout – for Puerto Rico, fight poverty a #BetterWay, and cut Congress’s budgets.

The IRS computer hack was worse than the tax agency admitted. A California federal appeals court makes a bizarre ruling that there is no constitutional right to carry concealed weapons. And for what is right with America, look no further that the nine young servant leaders District 8 is sending to our U.S. Military Academies.

6-6-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, the Ways and Means Committee keeps breaking major news – this time about a highly unusual White House meeting. Meanwhile the majority of the state co-ops founded under ObamaCare have closed.

This week, the Poverty, Opportunity and Upward Mobility Task Force will take the first big step towards changing welfare as we know it. Congress remains at the forefront of fighting Zika. Fracking gets the green light off California’s coast.

As the recovery effort from the recent floods begins, so does hurricane season. The latest jobs numbers are just another indication of the failure of Obamanomics. Finally, the House is preparing to vote on a key bill for local hospitals

Finally, remembering the men and women who paid freedom’s steepest price.

The U.S. Supreme Court hands the Little Sisters of the Poor a victory an overdue constitutional victory over ObamaCare which is heading into a ‘death spiral.’

Finally, the House votes to protect American taxpayers from Identity Theft and looks at ways to address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis without a bailout.

5-16-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, the U.S. House of Representatives wins their ObamaCare lawsuit. The Ways and Means Committee takes on poverty with four bills to reform welfare by reducing poverty and improving the lives of low-income families.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passes Congressman Brady’s American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act. Tax revenues set records. Congressman Brady weighs in with the Surface Transportation Board on the Texas High Speed Rail petitions. The House passes key legislation to help recover missing children.

Finally, CEOs weigh in on why Texas has the proven formula for business and more than a dozen bills to combat the opioid scourge pass the House.

Meanwhile, the Ways and Means Committee prepares a package of bills to reform the nation’s welfare system as Congress takes a hard look at the island of Puerto Rico’s finances.

4-25-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast as the 8th Congressional District coped with flooding, President Obama pushed a dangerous global warming agenda on the American People.

The U.S. House Select Panel on Infant Lives held a stomach churning hearing. Member of the Texas Congressional Delegation lined up to support Texas in the Voter ID appeal.

The House acted on IRS Accountability and this week will take up necessary help for American manufacturers.

Finally, as Americans rush to mail their taxes off by midnight Monday, the House is preparing to take up four Ways and Means Committee-passed bills that demand more IRS Accountability.

An 18-count indictment is handed up in a major Social Security scam. Stopping all GITMO transfers is a smart national security policy.

Finally, White House weather predictions for 2030 boggle the mind.

American taxpayers get a big bill for another failed California solar project as Justice Scalia’s absence was keenly felt when a California teacher’s case against forced union dues ended in a tie.

Finally, as the Obama FDA pushed through greater use of abortion drugs, the IRS can’t seem to implement necessary reforms to protect taxpayers’ sensitive financial and personal data.

It’s time for Social Security to treat teachers and first responders the same as all other workers when they retire; and for the agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid and ObamaCare to stop unlawful payments to insurance companies. As ObamaCare turned 6, the unpopular law was back before the Supreme Court for the 4^th time -- this time for forcing religious non-profits to go against their beliefs.

The Obama White House continues their assault on domestic energy production with a terrible decision on Atlantic drilling leases. The President nominates an anti-Second Amendment judge to replace Justice Scalia as the House voted to challenge his amnesty plans in the Supreme Court. America’s immigration courts are headed for a backlog of over 1 million cases as a new report shows 124 criminal illegal immigrants released from jail went on to commit 138 murders.

Finally, Happy Easter.

While his own Attorney General says no again to transferring GITMO detainees to our shores, the White House faces an important deadline on a Genocide Declaration. And, America says a final goodbye to a great first lady.

A new poll says only 15% of American adults say ObamaCare has helped them and more say it’s been harmful. Congressman Brady is helping lead task forces to replace ObamaCare and reform welfare to provide real opportunity for all Americans suffering in this weak economy.

Finally, the GSA is grilled over its firearm donation program and the National Science Foundation and National Institute for Health are facing ridicule for spending millions of your tax dollars on grants to study speed dating and prohibition laws for malt liquor.

As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Texas’ common sense abortion law this week, abortion clinics are closing throughout the country. A government watchdog finds ObamaCare ‘vulnerable’ to fraud as Texas and 5 other states sue over the law.

Finally, Congressman Brady votes to protect American Heritage and our  Second Amendment rights.

The Ways and Means Committee takes on international tax reform this week to protect American workers. Chairman Brady works to prevent political appointee “burrowing”.

Three subpoenas are issued in the House investigation of Planned Parenthood. The President is under increasing pressure to abandon his GITMO closing plans.

And finally, the national VA has yet again failed our veterans.

Congressman Brady speaks at the Heritage Foundation about how “embarrassing” the United States Economic Freedom Score is, “We’re number 11 can’t be the motto of this great nation” as Speaker Ryan taps Brady to lead task forces to develop a bold agenda for America on tax, health care and welfare reform.

6,600 ISIS fighters have western passports. Congress acted to stop them from bypassing our nation’s security. Congress also acted to restore Congress’ power over Iran sanctions. Finally, the House took its 68^th vote on repealing, defunding or dismantling ObamaCare.

The Ways & Means Committee is going bold this week kicking off a series of hearings on delivering pro-growth policies for all Americans.

As congress moves on important reforms to Save Medicare, young Americans are being hit hard by ObamaCare fines and Hillary Clinton eyes more Social Security taxes.

Finally, pro-life members of Congress line up to defend Texas common sense abortion law, HB 2.

A federal judge shoots down President Obama's executive privilege claim over his ATF’s ill-fated gun walking operation as a Fast and Furious assault weapon is recovered from El Chapo’s compound.

This White House kicked off 2016 with a red tape parade, as they continue to ignore hundreds of thousands of illegal visa overstays from countries such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

1-18-16 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, House Ways & Means Chairman Kevin Brady fights to protect taxpayers from the IRS, the President’s misguided war on energy, the Obama EPA’s overreaching Waters of the United States rule and Pentagon efforts to move GITMO Detainees.

Finally, the Republican Congress is hard at work on a 5 part agenda to get America back on track.

As President Obama tries again to infringe on our Second Amendment rights, conservatives are answering with the ‘‘Separation of Powers Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act.’’

Fully funding our military has never been more important. The Islamic State now has scientists and a factory capable of modifying stolen military technology such as heat-seeking missiles.

Finally, what to expect at President Obama’s last State of the Union address this week.

And 2016 marks the start of a broad, enthusiastic push to reform our nation’s broken tax code.

The Pentagon finally moves forward on a court martial for Bowe Bergdahl. Americans are shocked to learn of a secret U.S. policy that prevents immigration officials from looking at visa applicants social media.  The House Armed Services Committee has more on a new Obama Administration email scandal. And finally, President Obama is teeing up gun control for 2016.

This week Congressman Brady will chair a Health subcommittee hearing on ObamaCare’s failed Co-Op program as another subcommittee takes on welfare reform.  Funding the military while denying the President a blank check; House GOP begins impeachment against IRS chief; 18 Texas counties deemed EPA 'nonattainment areas'; as the House votes for a level playing field for local businesses. Finally, big news about Veterans Day 2015.

Once again the U.S. Senate failed America by hiding behind their 60 vote rule on an important bill to stop sanctuary cities. States can now sue the EPA over new global warming Power Plant rules. A Federal Judge says the White House can’t delay the House of Representatives’ lawsuit over ObamaCare.

And the House passes the Reconciliation Bill aimed in dismantling the key pillars of the President’s unpopular, unworkable health insurance law and defunding Planned Parenthood.

The Social Security Advisory Board has good news for Congressman Brady’s effort to repeal a Social Security provision that penalizes firefighters, police and teachers. Senate Democrats buck the president on defense spending. As the president signs a bipartisan change to his healthcare law he also nominates a DC insider with no watchdog or military experience to be the VA’s Inspector General. And, the Ways & Means Committee is advancing welfare reform.

In a win for American energy and the constitution, a U.S. federal judge in Wyoming has put the Obama federal land fracking rule on ice. The House passes legislation to let states stop Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. And finally, do you know how many jobs trade supports in District 8?

A bill to open up US oil exports for the first time in 40 years is heading for the House floor. The President is pressured to nominate a VA watchdog. A bipartisan effort is launched to diagnose, treat and cure Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. A federal court of appeals rules against ObamaCare’s birth control mandate. And, Congressman Brady joins a hundred of his colleagues in pushing the Senate to revise their rules so more bills can get an up or down vote.

After more than 30 different town hall meetings throughout the district, Congressman Brady has a lot to take back to Washington for the many battles ahead, including Iran, Planned Parenthood and the need for the Senate to pass too long delayed legislation such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

8-31-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Congressman Kevin Brady has more on the VA’s claims that they have fewer than 100,000 waiting disability claims older than four months.

The EPA withholds mine spill documents from Congress.

According to the Pew Research Center, one out of every dozen newborn babies delivered here in the U.S. is the child of an illegal immigrant.

Team Obama pushes for a lowered appeals bond for a sponsor of terrorism. The costs of the OPM data breach are adding up – especially at the Pentagon. The CBO  forecasts unsustainable debt in long term.

And finally, Blue Bell returns.

He also discusses the White House’s latest efforts to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), the disorganized coalition fight against the Islamic State, a big problem with tax dollars and public housing, school lunch fraud involving federal employees and saving Social Security.

As Congressman Brady prepares to hold his second veterans town hall of this August, President Obama signs a Ways & Means bill to protect veterans from a job killing ObamaCare mandate, one of many House-passed veterans initiatives.

The House is one step closer to passing one of Congressman Brady’s Federal Reserve reform bills as Congressman Brady and the leader of the House Republican Conference team up on an important medical initiative.


8-10-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, the Obama recovery’s Main Street jobs gap gets bigger, not smaller as families deal with stagnant paychecks. The President doesn’t act presidential in his comments about Iran and Republicans as Congressman Brady holds more town halls in August.

Investigations into atrocities at Houston’s Planned Parenthood. Texas’ Voter ID Law takes a hit in the 5^th Circuit. And where is the pink slip for the key OPM official in charge of cyber security?

7-20-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Congressman Kevin Brady discusses his concerns with the Iran deal, HealthCare.gov subsidies for fake applicants, forcing nuns to comply with ObamaCare and his disgust with Planned Parenthood selling unborn babies’ organs.

There are heavy consequences of doing nothing to save Social Security and Medicare. Defense Authorization Conferees are almost ready for a vote. New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is dead wrong on education. Finally, stunning new documents reveal even more about the IRS targeting.

7-13-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, the House Ways & Means Committee is seeking fresh ideas for helping Americans trapped in the Social Security Disability program which is teetering on the edge on bankruptcy. Coming up this week on Capitol Hill, a key hearing on welfare reform and did you ever try finding out if your doctor is in an ObamaCare insurance plan’s network?  

Another month, another OPM hack announcement -- now tens of millions of people’s personal data is at risk. A federal judge in Texas threatens to hold the Department of Homeland Security Secretary and top immigration officials in contempt of court. And finally, the House passes the 21^st Century Cures Act. What does it mean for curing disease?

7-6-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, ObamaCare’s next  hurdles, new Democrat reform promises and six months of major successes for Congressman Brady’s health subcommittee.

The Supreme Court sides with families and small businesses over the EPA. The Obama administration defies a federal judge on amnesty. Small businesses mount resistance to new overtime rules and health care penalties. And finally, the Obama Recovery Disappoints on Jobs – Again.

On a positive note, Congress delivered on bipartisan trade rules, the house protected Americans from onerous global warming rules and two House committees came together to work on welfare reform.

Finally, the VA’s problems are about their culture, not their funding and America gets ready to celebrate our nation’s independence.

The Senate defied a veto threat to pass  military spending policy, but  then chose not to fund a pay raise for our troops. While the House voted against a bill that would place our nation, our families and our communities at risk of further terrorist attacks. Finally, it seems the Obama White House is more concerned with reducing wait times for terrorists at GITMO than for our heroes at the VA.

6-15-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Congressman Kevin Brady clears up the confusion over TPA and TPP and puts to rest some internet trade rumors. The House passes annual infrastructure and military funding while repealing a 2009 law that would have forced a $3 billion fine on American taxpayers. Finally, Texas Congressional District 8 sends off incoming military academy cadets and midshipmen at an annual district event.

6-8-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, how the economy can benefit from trade and congressional passage of important national security reforms. The House is funding science and space exploration while stopping the Justice Department from putting limits on your 2^nd Amendment rights.

The House Ways & Means Committee passed out to the floor a series of bills to make Medicare stronger and more responsive, including two of Congressman Kevin Brady’s bills.

The House is playing hardball with State Department funding over their Benghazi Freedom of Information delays. And finally, no federal program should pay more than a job. No programs should trap Americans in poverty. Congress should fund programs that are proven to work without a dime to those that don’t.

6-1-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Congressman Kevin Brady explains how Trade Promotion Authority is about economic freedom and Congress’ role in sales agreements with our nations. The majority of Americans support free trade.

5-25-15 -- In this week’s Memorial Day Monday Morning Memo podcast, the Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady talks about the free market’s role in saving Medicare, how his office has returned $1.2 million in savings to the taxpayers, new research shows the bureaucratic nightmare that young Americans face in ObamaCare, takes on the bogus claims about free trade and shares good news about innovation and jobs.  

5-18-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, the US House overwhelmingly passed a bi-partisan bill requiring President Obama to submit any nuclear deal with Iran to Congress for review, funding for our military and intelligence warriors and pro-life legislation to shield unborn children from excruciating pain or near-birth abortions.

One new report says ‘Red Tape’ from the Obama Administration costs Americans more than $80 Billion annually, while another says faulty forecasting is making Social Security look more secure than it is. Finally, the House works to balance intelligence gathering needs with privacy concerns and for a path towards common sense trade rules.

A new warning about ISIS terrorists ready to strike in the USA. The Senate votes to give Congress a say on any Iran deal. Uncle Sam hauls in a record amount in April. And the District Work Period is set to wrap up with a town hall meeting in Spring.

The House uses the Appropriations progress to continue VA reforms and to stop the President from closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.

A New House Ways & Means Committee report has shocking information about how the IRS diverted customer service funds while paying bonuses, allowing union activity on work time and prioritizing the President’s health care law over taxpayers.

The 114^th Congress has completed a whirlwind first 100 Days. And finally, serious questions are being raised about the White House’s efforts to protect Christians.

By veto proof majorities, Congress sent the first step in real Medicare reform to the President’s desk. The House Speaker is demanding the White House do more to defeat terrorism. And finally, support is growing to put Congress’s priorities first in trade negotiations.

A Texas federal judge has slapped the White House’s amnesty program with a scathing ruling as an Ohio Federal Judge orders the IRS to come clean on which Tea Party groups they targeted.More proof that ObamaCare has led to higher insurance premiums. Newspapers around the country call on the Senate to pass Medicare reform. The head of the DNC says abortion should have no restrictions at all.

And finally, those wounded and killed at Fort Hood in 2009 are awarded their Purple Hearts and Defense of Freedom Medals.

4-6-15 -- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Eric Holder’s Justice Department chose Easter time to announce that former IRS official Lois Lerner will not face contempt charges for refusing to answer Congress’ questions about the IRS targeting scandal. Meanwhile, the IRS Commissioner is blaming Congress for his agency giving taxpayers a “truly an abysmal level of service.”

The President vetoed Congress’ effort to stop union Ambush elections just as Big Labor bosses are fighting American businesses trying to compete globally.

70% of Americans say it’s time to kill off the Death Tax. The Senate’s decision to leave for Easter without voting on Medicare reform has left doctors and patients in limbo. Finally, ObamaCare is forcing colleges to drop student health plans which so many students rely on.

Likely voters don’t want the IRS enforcing ObamaCare. Too many federal government employees owe billions in back income taxes and FEMA reportedly wants to force states to have global warming plans.

Wishing you a Happy Holy Week and Easter!

The House is preparing to vote to balance the budget and take the first steps to save Medicare. However, the President is focused on getting America into another global warming boondoggle. 

The special congressional committee investigating what happened to our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi is using subpoenas to seek information about then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail account and server for official business. This comes as House Republicans turn up the heat on the stalling over release of the IRS targeting emails.

Funding for the Senate’s Department of Homeland Security bill passed without Congressman Brady’s support. The EPA is in a hurry to put Americans under new global warming rules as the Senate fails to override the Keystone XL veto.

 The Obama Recovery remains dead last for economic growth as the majority of  ObamaCare users learn they must pay back over paid tax credits when they file their 2014 taxes.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could end ObamaCare in the vast majority of U.S. States, the U.S. Treasury Secretary won't tell Congress why they went around Congress to  approve a $3 billion bailout of ObamaCare health insurance companies.

The Health Care Cost Institute is trying to start a trend of revealing medical prices on the internet, while the FCC’s 5 unelected bureaucrats are trying to seize control of the web and the ATF is trying to outlaw popular rifle ammunition.

Finally, it’s going to be a big week on Capitol Hill as the Israeli Prime Minister speaks to a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday.

Republicans move to increase oversight over the EPA’s ‘Sue and Settle’ lawsuits. HUD pays out $37 million a month in subsidies to ineligible households. And a tip of the jobs hat to Texas.

Business confidence needs to grow to get job creation really moving again and according to a new NFIB survey that confidence is tied up in Washington Red Tape and taxes.

The Keystone XL pipeline is just a signature away from being built as more conservative, free enterprise groups stand up for selling American around the world.Welfare reform is getting a fresh look in the New American Congress.

Finally, Congressman Brady is looking forward to meeting with constituents this week all over District 8.

 2-9-15 --

In this week’s Monday Morning Memo as the House of Representatives moves swiftly to get Washington out of the way of small business so Main Street can help close the jobs gap, the White House is more focused on how many votes have been held to repeal the President’s controversial and unpopular health insurance law than having a plan should the Supreme Court gut the law. Treasury Secretary Lew dodged Congressman Brady’s questions on that issue. Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to make history as the first Pope to address a joint session of Congress, but Democrats are focused on boycotting the Prime Minister of our ally, Israel.

Academics have always rated Democrat Secretaries of State higher than many Republicans, but John Kerry’s short tenure isn’t apparently their cup of tea, according to the results of Foreign Policy magazine’s 2014  Ivory Tower survey.

The new Congress is moving quickly to pass serious energy legislation that will create jobs as India says “No, Thank you” to President Obama’s global warming pleas.

Congressman Brady filed a bipartisan bill to make Texas’ sales tax deduction permanent. Lawmakers show their support for school choice and a new bill filed in the House Ways & Means Committee is designed to stop IRS political targeting.

A new study shows 60% of 2014 job growth was the result of extended Unemployment Insurance being allowed to expire and what’s the full story of the deficit drop.

The House has put dozens of bills on Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s desk including new natural gas permitting rules. The President’s stale demands for new taxes leave the middle class behind as his own Labor Department counters his State of the Union statement that wages are growing. They aren’t.

Finally, the House marks the 42^nd anniversary of legalized abortion in America by passing legislation to ensure tax dollars aren’t used to end innocent life.

The issue of Executive Amnesty is now in the Senate and the courts after the House passed a strong bill to stop the President’s proposal and restore the U.S. Constitution’s checks and balances and half the states are taking the President to court.

The President, meanwhile, continues to vow vetoes over common sense legislation like a bill passed last week to require federal agencies choose the least costly rulemaking option possible, employ the best possible science and allow our input as Americans who will be affected before they impose new red tape.

Defying President’s veto threats, the House votes to restore the 40 hour work week, approve the long stalled Keystone XL pipeline and protect veterans from ObamaCare mandates. The Congressional Budget Office says the deficit is falling, but Congressman Brady says he won’t be satisfied until it’s gone and America is paying back the debt. And finally, the New York Times weighs in on a dangerous trend of working age adults not working.

As a new, unified Congress prepares to challenge the President’s veto promises and Iran policy, Americans are finally about to learn what ObamaCare could cost them at tax time.


Monday Morning Memo -- 2014

12-29-14-- In this week’s Monday Morning Memo, a new report shows how IRS employees are biased against conservatives. Vermont’s single payer experiment is being called an “unmitigated failure”. Even after automatically reenrolling millions, there are only 6.4 million Obamacare sign-ups. Billions of your tax dollars were misspent in the food stamp program in 2014. New Obama EPA red tape has 43 times as many words as The Bible – and there is a new, massive coal ash regulation that is going to cost American families. Finally, the Congressman shares his New Year’s resolution.

12-15-14 -- In  this week’s Monday Morning Memo, Congressman Brady shares the conservative priorities in the new spending bill, shares his thoughts on the Senate’s ‘blame Bush’ interrogation report, fills us in on legislation to stop foreign workers from getting taxpayer subsidies for their health care and looks into reports on why Medicaid expansion doesn’t provide access to health care.

Finally, the Congressman lays out the Joint Economic Committee’s new Working Family Stress Index and how tax reform took a leap forward in this congress.

12-8-14 --Monday Morning Memo, the U.S House defies the President by reversing impending tax increases, making it clear the House does not support his unprecedented Executive Amnesty and reaffirming America’s commitment to our ally, Israel.

As America is still at war with terrorists, Congress also passed necessary military funding, including pay increases for our troops, measures to remove roadblocks to energy independence, a vital national security interest, and a change in policy that will allow victims of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre to finally receive their Purple Hearts.

Just a week after the Obama Administration promised to turn over roughly 2500 documents that may finally prove that the IRS targeting scandal went right up to the White House, they reversed course.

Americans with disabled children win in the U.S. House. Believe it or not, but the $18 Trillion Debt would be a lot worse if not for House Republicans. And finally the House says no to Nazis receiving Social Security.