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• Guest Blogger: Dr. Eric Novack on Mandatory Insanity

  Posted July 16th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care with 7 comments

  The debate over health care reform has been a theoretical affair, full of abstractions that contradict one another. Amid all the ambiguity, one fact is unequivocal and unprecedented. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, every American will be compelled to purchase health insurance, or else – the “or else” being a fine collected by [...] More

• Guest Blogger Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA): Obama Must Conduct the KORUS

  Posted June 29th, 2010 at 2:00pm in American Leadership with 1 comments

  Responding to North Korea’s torpedoing of a South Korean warship in March, I blogged a series of recommendations – one being that we should ratify the long shelved Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS). It has many economic benefits, and would demonstrate “no retreat by the U.S. from Northeast Asia,” I argued. One skeptical [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) on Reining in Government Spending

  Posted June 11th, 2010 at 8:00am in Ongoing Priorities with 7 comments

  At a hearing in March I asked Secretary Tim Geithner whether the US was at risk for losing our AAA credit rating, as a Moody’s quarterly report had indicated.  He point blank responded that there is “not a chance” that this would happen to our country.  I wish I could share his confidence, but given [...] More

• Guest Blogger: David Holt on the Costs of a Drilling Moratorium

  Posted June 2nd, 2010 at 5:00pm in Energy and Environment with 6 comments

  In the wake of the moratorium on offshore drilling projects that President Obama announced late last month, The New Orleans Times-Picayune has attempted to measure the cost of so much disruption to one of Louisiana’s core industries. The result? A conservative estimate – assuming a shutdown of just six months – suggests the moratorium could cost [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Cliff May on Strengthening America

  Posted June 2nd, 2010 at 12:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  What can be done to advance American strength? The list is long and the mission is urgent. It starts with this: Strengthening America must become a priority. That is not the case at present as anyone who takes the trouble to read the Obama administration’s new 52-page National Security Strategy (NSS) will learn. True, the document [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Pete King (R-NY) on Al-Qaeda

  Posted May 26th, 2010 at 12:00pm in Protect America with 7 comments

  In some respects, the recent attempted Times Square car bombing and the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized citizen, point to a significant success in America’s Global War on Terror. In the aftermath of 9/11, our government quickly reformed the Intelligence Community and established the Department of Homeland Security, moves which have been successful in making [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL) On Investigating the John Adams Project

  Posted May 21st, 2010 at 2:00pm in Protect America, Rule of Law with 4 comments

  During this past Wednesday’s mark-up of the Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Act my fellow conservatives on the House Armed Services Committee stood strongly on the side of the American people, vociferously fighting for security, liberty, and freedom through our Defend America First platform.  One of the issues debated on Wednesday, which many of [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Will START Treaty Weaken U.S. Missile Defense? Senator Kerry Seems to Hope So

  Posted May 18th, 2010 at 3:30pm in Protect America with 13 comments

  At today’s Senate Foreign Relations hearing on the START Treaty (a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms pact) that President Obama is seeking Congressional approval for, I asked Senator Kerry a simple question. Should it be the goal of the U.S. to have a missile defense system that renders nuclear threats by other nations useless, including Russia? To [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

  Posted May 13th, 2010 at 7:33pm in Ongoing Priorities with 17 comments

  In the last week, the government-backed mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac asked the taxpayer for $19 billion to stay afloat.  Add that to the $127 billion in bailouts they have already received since September 2008, and we are now talking about a whopping $146 billion of your hard-earned tax dollars being used [...] More

• Guest Blogger Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA): You Sunk My Battleship

  Posted May 12th, 2010 at 9:10am in Protect America with 12 comments

  Will North Korea’s Kim Jong-il get away with murder?  That’s a question Koreans, and many in the region, are asking a month and a half after a South Korean naval vessel was sunk, killing 46. An investigation, assisted by U.S. naval intelligence, and other international partners, is still ongoing.  Yet it’s all but certain that the [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Sen. George LeMieux (R-FL) on Checking the Balance of Power at the Supreme Court

  Posted May 7th, 2010 at 1:00pm in Rule of Law with 3 comments

  This summer, the United States Senate will make one of the most solemn determinations within our constitutional system – whether to confirm a president’s nominee to a lifetime of service on the United States Supreme Court. When considering a nominee for the vacancy created by Justice John Paul Stevens’ retirement, the Senate must determine whether the [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Defending America Means Preparing for Current and Future Threats

  Posted May 5th, 2010 at 12:00pm in Protect America with 4 comments

  During his successful presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan introduced the American electorate and the broader international community to a new doctrine that would contribute greatly to defeating the Soviet Union.  His idea of achieving “peace through strength” still resonates in today’s world and President Obama should welcome it as cornerstone of his Administration’s [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) on Financial Regulatory Reform

  Posted April 29th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 4 comments

  As the Senate moves closer to another cloture vote on Senator Dodd’s legislation, we are again reminded of the several flaws found in the Dodd-Frank approach to financial regulatory reform. Beginning with the rescue of investment bank Bear Stearns in the spring of 2008, the Federal government has committed trillions of taxpayer dollars to institutions like [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) on the Value-Added Tax

  Posted April 28th, 2010 at 6:00pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 14 comments

  The presidential Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform convened Tuesday at the White House to address what leaders of both parties agree is one of the greatest threats to the country’s economic future: the rising national debt.  Recently President Obama and members of his economic team voiced their support for a European-style value-added tax, or [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) on Tax Day

  Posted April 15th, 2010 at 11:00am in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  April 15th is Tax Day, the day that our tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service. As we perform this annual ritual it is important to take a look at how much we are paying to the government and what it is being spent on. Our nation has been struggling to recover from [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Thomas Perrin on Florida’s Possible Medicaid Waiver

  Posted April 6th, 2010 at 1:00pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  In 2006, under former Governor Jeb Bush, Florida rolled out the most comprehensive Medicaid reform plan in the country. Studies from both The James Madison Institute and the University of Florida have shown these innovative reforms not only save money, but also improve the quality of care. On Wednesday, the Florida [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) on Obamacare’s Impact on Doctors

  Posted March 30th, 2010 at 1:43pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 11 comments

  As the health care reform debate began over a year ago, the American Medical Association, the top doctors group in the country, released a list of its top priorities for health reform. The AMA is a powerful association, and many have credited it with helping to kill HillaryCare, so the organization, of which I [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Utah House Speaker Dave Clark and Senate President Michael Waddoups on Federalism

  Posted March 11th, 2010 at 10:00am in First Principles, Ongoing Priorities with 4 comments

  Since our “modest proposal” essay was published in the Washington Post on Feb. 19, we have heard mostly support, but some criticism. The critics tend to question Utah’s ability to assume complete responsibility for education, transportation and Medicaid, and manage these important functions of government properly. We assert that not only can [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) on Strategic Communication

  Posted March 4th, 2010 at 1:00pm in American Leadership with 3 comments

  On September 11th, 2001, America changed.  Since then the United States has been at war with violent Islamic extremists who plot and plan against us every day.  We have sent American troops to Afghanistan and Iraq to defeat them in combat.  Our intelligence and special operations forces have fanned out across the globe to disrupt [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Free Trade

  Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 1:12pm in American Leadership with 10 comments

  For two decades, the word “trade” has been a dividing force in Congress. Its supporters, like me, see trade as a boon to our economy. As the free leader of the world, the U.S. is also one of the largest trading nations, supporting millions of American workers and millions of American jobs. Increased trade is good for [...] More