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JohnBoehner uploaded a new video
(3 days ago)
Last night, ABCs World News Tonight with Charles Gibson highlighted a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on misleading stimulus jobs cla...
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Last night, ABCs World News Tonight with Charles Gibson highlighted a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on misleading stimulus jobs claims. The GAO report found that More than 50,000 jobs, or one out of every 10 jobscame from projects that reported spending no money yet, according to ABC News.
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JohnBoehner uploaded a new video
(4 days ago)
Last night, ABC News World News TONIGHT with Charles Gibson reported on false claims of jobs saved or created by the stimulus in real congressional...
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Last night, ABC News World News TONIGHT with Charles Gibson reported on false claims of jobs saved or created by the stimulus in real congressional districts (as opposed to the phantom congressional districts that we found out about yesterday).
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JohnBoehner uploaded a new video
(5 days ago)
The American people have had it with business as usual in Congress. They are fed up with practices such as tucking special-interest provisions int...
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The American people have had it with business as usual in Congress. They are fed up with practices such as tucking special-interest provisions into bills behind closed doors, secretly changing bills without a vote, and passing bills no one has read. This has happened for far too long, but never before has the need for reform been more apparent than in the past year under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Democratic majority.
Americans are demanding change in the way Congress works. Recognizing this, I and other reform-minded congressional Republicans this week will put forth a new transparency initiative a series of common-sense congressional reforms aimed at bringing some much-needed openness and accountability to the House.
In just 10 months, with help from the Obama White House, Speaker Pelosis Congress has taken business-as-usual to a devastating new extreme. The American people have watched Congress rush through a massive stimulus spending bill no one read; a massive $410 billion omnibus spending bill loaded with thousands of un-scrutinized earmarks; and a new cap and trade national energy tax loaded with special-interest giveaways unveiled at 3:00 am on the morning before a vote.
Now the White House is pushing for a final year-end bill which will be written in secret by the majority behind closed doors to replace the current health care system with government-run care, and transform about one-sixth of our nations economy. The bill will be hammered out in a private, partisan House-Senate conference committee with no public access or scrutiny, in direct contradiction of President Obamas pledge that such talks would be televised on C-SPAN.
These are the actions of a Democratic majority that has forgotten its the American people who are really in charge. These are actions designed to shut the American people out while politicians go about the business of limiting their freedom. And in an era of 10.2 percent unemployment, mounting debt, seemingly endless bailouts, and rapidly expanding government, these abuses are the last straw for the American people, whove clearly had enough.
Republicans have had enough, too. The House GOP congressional transparency initiative includes common-sense changes such as read the bill reform that would require all bills to be posted online for a minimum of 72 hours before they are brought to a vote. We also believe:
•Members committee votes should be posted online within 48 hours so the American people can see how their representatives voted.
•Committees should be required to post the text of adopted bills online within 24 hours of adoption to end the practice of phantom amendments being added to bills secretly after they pass at the committee level.
•Major negotiations on sweeping bills that would dramatically expand the reach of the federal government such as the current government takeover of health care should be open to the public and subject to a full and honest debate when bills reach the floor.
•Cameras should be allowed in the secretive House Rules Committee, the panel that decides which bills and amendments come to a vote.
Our transparency initiative calls for immediate implementation of all of these reforms. Were calling on Speaker Pelosi to bring all of them to an immediate vote. If she wont do it, a Republican majority will. You can read more about the House GOP congressional transparency initiative online, at http://gopleader.gov/readthebill.
Did Republicans miss an opportunity to enact common-sense changes like these when we were in the majority? Yes — and we wont make the mistake again. With this initiative, were taking some common-sense steps to renew the drive for an open and accountable Congress. We recognize restoring the bonds of trust between the American people and their elected leaders starts with changing Congress itself. We hope Speaker Pelosi will join us, and allow these common-sense reforms to go forward.
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JohnBoehner uploaded a new video
(5 days ago)
Ten months after the President signed a $1 trillion stimulus spending bill that his aides claimed would keep unemployment below 8 percent, American...
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Ten months after the President signed a $1 trillion stimulus spending bill that his aides claimed would keep unemployment below 8 percent, Americans are still asking: where are the jobs? It turns out that some of jobs the Administration claimed were saved or created by the so-called stimulus were from Congressional districts that dont even exist.
ABC News has also uncovered even more stimulus spending in non-existent Congressional districts:
•In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending -- and 15 jobs created -- in yet more congressional districts that don't exist.
•In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent and 39 jobs created -- in nonexistent districts.
•In Connecticut's 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.
•The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.
•$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
•$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
•$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.
•$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico's 99th congressional district.
Rep. David Obey (D-WI), Chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, blasted the Administrations claims of jobs created or saved in a statement yesterday:
The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes. Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it. Weve got too many serious problems in this country to let that happen.
But the exaggerated jobs numbers arent the end of the stimulus troubles. As USA Today reported this morning, Stimulus aid has sparked an economic boom for some unwanted entrepreneurs — con men. The story goes on:
State and federal officials say they are fielding thousands of reports of scam artists, many operating from overseas, using the promise of money from the Obama administration's $787 billion economic recovery plan to entice people to hand over bank account numbers. The scams are so numerous, and the criminals hard to identify, that authorities say it's all but impossible to catch them.
It seems that stimulus money has gone everywhere except to helping create jobs for the 10.2 percent of Americans who are unemployed.
The stimulus hasnt created the jobs the President promised because it relies on big-government spending instead of helping small businesses, which create between 60-80 percent of jobs in our economy. House Republicans offered a plan to let small businesses and families keep more of what they earn, but Democrats ignored it, took a go-it-alone approach, and passed their trillion-dollar big government plan anyway. And yet after a trillion dollars of deficit financed spending, Democrats still cant answer the question: where are the jobs?
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JohnBoehner uploaded a new video
(1 week ago)
Appearing on MSNBC today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) declared: I am confident that the Stupak amendment will not be in the final version...
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Appearing on MSNBC today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) declared: I am confident that the Stupak amendment will not be in the final version of the bill — we will be working very hard to eliminate it.
The Stupak Amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) was adopted by a bipartisan majority (240-194-1) and would prohibit federal funding of abortions under the House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-CA) government takeover of health care. Leader Boehner and other House Republican Leaders commented at the time:
[T]he Stupak-Pitts Amendment's passage is the right thing to do. We believe you just dont play politics with life. When this bill is conferenced with the Senate, the pro-life majority in the House of Representatives must ensure that this important amendment is in the final legislation. If it does not, this same strong majority must defeat the bill.
Thats why during debate on Speaker Nancy Pelosis bill to impose a government takeover of health care, Leader Boehner challenged the three Democratic committee chairmen with jurisdiction over the bill to pledge that they will vote to keep a pro-life amendment in the bill during House-Senate conference negotiations. Disappointingly, all three Democratic chairmen refused to guarantee they support keeping the Stupak language in the final conference committee bill.
Leader Boehners suspicions about Democratic leaders were confirmed today not just by Rep. Wasserman Schultzs comments, but by a letter signed by 41 House Democrats threatening to vote against Speaker Pelosis government takeover of health care if it contains Rep. Stupaks pro-life amendment.
Will Democratic House Leaders, from Speaker Pelosi on down to the three Committee Chairmen with jurisdiction over health care - Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Charlie Rangel (D-NY), George Miller (D-CA) stand up for the pro-life amendment in conference committee, or will they cave to the pro-abortion Democrats?
Judging by their answers on Saturday, every American who supports the long standing federal policy of barring federal tax dollars from supporting abortion should be worried about what Democrats have in store.
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I, along with my church are praying for our leaders, and for the healing of our country, and for provision of jobs and finances to families, and for the security of our service men and women oversea. Let us pray for peace, and lets us be thankful for what we have, and continue to pray for those great things that are yet to come. Lend a helping hand. You'll feel better..... Remember to acknowledge God, for HE is in control in our situation.
Let this be the week for peace!
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LET'S SEE: If Al Qaeda killed ~3,000 people in one incident on 9/11 and the Republicans are fighting tooth and nail against healtchare so that 44,000 or so excess Americans will die needlessly EVERY YEAR, then WHO ARE THE WORSE TERRORISTS?
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Stay strong and God bless.