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August 31st, 2011
President Obama today announced that he is requesting a joint session of Congress to announce his “new” jobs plan for America. This planned speech is set for 8 PM on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 and conflicts with a...
August 5th, 2011
Today, I released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s July jobs report:Today’s jobs report once again reinforces how Washington Democrats’ policies continue to fail to create American jobs. With...
July 20th, 2011
NRCC - Business leaders last week met with officials at Obama’s EPA, urging them to reconsider their latest regulatory onslaught that the Manufacturers Alliance says will destroy 7.3 million jobs by 2020. But as usual, the...
July 13th, 2011
“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.” - George Washington, First President of the U.S.A.There is a restless...
July 10th, 2011
I released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s report that the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent in June:Today’s unemployment report once again underscores the Obama Administration’s failure...
June 30th, 2011
The following letter by me appeared in Sunday’s edition of the Dallas Morning News:Dear Editor,“High joblessness may be ‘normal,’” was the headline of a story in Monday’s Business section of the News.When it comes...
June 15th, 2011
Pajamas Media TV and Andrew Klavans "On the Culture" take a satirical look back at Obamas Summer of Recovery. Lets see how President Obama is doing in comparison with former President Bushs programs on the economy, security...
June 1st, 2011
It is no surprise that the majority of Texans say the top issues facing the United States today are the economy, federal spending and unemployment, according to a recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.House...
May 8th, 2011
I released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s report of 244,000 new jobs and a 9 percent unemployment rate in April:While House Republicans welcome any increase in employment for the American...
April 1st, 2011
Today, I issued the following statement regarding the Labor Department’s March jobs report indicating the national unemployment rate has dropped to 8.8 percent:Today’s jobs numbers are a positive sign that our economy is...
August 24th, 2011
National unemployment remains stubbornly high, with the latest figures for July showing 9.1 percent unemployment. Even Texas – which has done better than any other state in the nation in adding private sector jobs over the...
August 1st, 2011
America faces its most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. While the finance economy has improved somewhat since the bursting of the credit bubble in 2008, the labor market economy continues to languish...
July 14th, 2011
Employee misclassification raises its ugly head once again. This time in a Dallas area school district that is building a new Center for the Performing Arts using contractors who are not properly classifying their employees...
July 12th, 2011
NRCC - The last two summers have seen some bizarre promises out of the Obama administration: in 2009, that their stimulus spending spree would keep unemployment below 8 percent; in 2010, that summer would be the season of...
June 30th, 2011
NRCC - Pressed yesterday about the National Labor Relations Board’s actions to destroy jobs in South Carolina, President Obama “dodged” the issue, claiming that “it’s an independent agency” despite the fact that he has...
June 16th, 2011
NRCC - Tomorrow marks one year to the day Democrats announced their “summer of recovery,” promising at long last, Americans would see job creation and lasting economic relief from the recession.FLASHBACK TO A YEAR AGO: WHITE...
June 3rd, 2011
Today’s unemployment report underscores the significant work that remains to get the American people back to work. For over two years our nation’s unemployment rate has hovered around 9 percent while the Obama Administration...
May 24th, 2011
NRCC - Democrats aren’t backing away from their record of job-destroying policies forced on Americans during the Democrats’ two years of unchecked control of Washington. Instead, they’re embracing that record by denying and...
April 30th, 2011
U.S. multinational firms are shedding millions of American jobs while adding millions overseas. According to a recent Wall Street Journal story, newly released data from the U.S. Commerce Department showed that...
April 1st, 2011
Today, I released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s report that our nation gained 216,000 jobs and the unemployment rate drop to 8.8 percent in March:Although any sign of job creation is...
