Speaker's Blog

Here’s how we stop future ransom payments to Iran:

September 14, 2016

Call it whatever you’d like—leverage, a settlement, a coincidence, a quid pro quo—but the American people aren’t fooled. This was the textbook definition of ransom, plain and simple. Read More

This is why our troops haven’t gotten a pay raise yet

September 14, 2016

The administration’s political gamesmanship reveals a dangerous priority: it is willing to block military resources and a pay raise for our troops until the president gets more money for his bureaucratic pet projects. Read More

#BetterWay: “This Is An Opportunity Bill”

September 13, 2016

Authored by Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), this initiative will strengthen career and technical education programs, helping to connect students with good-paying jobs and careers. Read More

House will vote to prohibit the transfer of any Gitmo detainees

September 13, 2016

According to the Director of National Intelligence, nearly one-third of released detainees return to terrorism Read More

The Real Obama Liberal Legacy: Benghazi

September 10, 2016

As we mark the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack that took the lives of four brave Americans, we are reminded of the president’s failed foreign policy legacy. Read More

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