Recent Press Releases

`Today I’m introducing this: a clean, one-page continuing resolution that keeps government funded through February 18th at current spending levels. Once the new Congress is sworn in, we’ll have a chance to pass a less expensive bill free of wasteful spending.’

`The vote today showed the broad bipartisan support for protecting families and small businesses from a job-killing tax hike and represents a clear shift in the debate over America’s path to economic recovery. Now it’s up to our colleagues in the House and we urge Democrat Leaders to resist playing political games and making partisan changes so that American taxpayers won’t be hit with a huge, job-killing tax hike on January 1st.’
`For the first time in the modern era, Congress hasn’t passed a single appropriations bill. And now, at the end of the session, they want to roll all those bills together, along with anything else they haven’t gotten over the past two years, and rush it past the American people just the way they jammed the health care bill through Congress last Christmas.’