http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog Official Blog of the GOP Leader Press Office Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Administration famously claimed that Speaker Pelosi's $1 trillion "stimulus" would "save or create 4 million jobs" and keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent - but with the unemployment rate currently at 10.2 percent and 15.7 million Americans without work, it's clear that the "stimulus" isn't working.  The following ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=681 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 ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=680 In case you missed it on Saturday night, at the close of the debate on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) 2,032-page, $1.3 trillion government takeover of health care, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) rose to speak about the bill and its impact on future generations and the American Dream.  Saying the ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=679 On the House floor today during debate on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill to impose a government takeover of health care, Republican Leader John Boehner has challenged the three Democratic committee chairmen with jurisdiction over the bill to pledge that they will vote to keep a pro-life amendment authored by Rep. ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=678 In an exchange during debate over in Speaker Pelosi's government takeover of health care, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) asked Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY)  if he would guarantee abortion opponents that Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) amendment barring federal funding of abortion will not be jettisoned from ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=677 In an exchange this afternoon on the House Floor, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) asked Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) if he would guarantee abortion opponents that Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) amendment barring federal funding of abortion in Speaker Pelosi's government takeover of health care will ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=676 At a press conference this morning with House Republican Leaders, Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Ranking Republican Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) employed a colorful metaphor in his effort to describe the vast new government bureaucracy that will be established if Speaker Pelosi's $1.3 trillion government takeover of health care becomes law.  ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=675 Follow @GOPLeader on Twitter for updates. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff, which earlier this year created a chart mapping the bureaucratic complexity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's original health care proposal (H.R. 3200), has combined similar analysis by the House Republican Conference with the earlier chart.  The analysis ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=670 Appearing on CNBC's The Kudlow Report this evening, House Budget Committee Ranking Republican Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained how Speaker Pelosi's 2,032-page government takeover of health care will saddle small businesses with crushing mandates and punitive new taxes, increase rather than decrease health expenditures over time, and add at least a ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=669 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is proposing a 2,032-page government takeover of health care that will take power away from states, add to the burden of state budgets through a massive unfunded expansion of the Medicaid program, and add at least a $1.3 trillion burden on the American middle class ... http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=668