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March 4th, 2011
The following statement is in response to the Department of Labor’s report of 192,000 new jobs and an 8.9 percent unemployment rate in February:Today’s jobs report is an encouraging sign for American families and businesses...
February 23rd, 2011
Today I met with small business owners from the 21st district to discuss how government impacts their ability to create jobs. Small businesses are the engine of job creation in this country, creating 65 percent of jobs in...
February 21st, 2011
First, both internationally and domestically, there is so much agitation in the world today, that we proceed with trepidation to political business as usual; events could at anytime render it relatively trivial. But in fact...
February 9th, 2011
The following came in from the National Republican Congressional Committee:As business leaders this week shine light on the job-destroying effects of the excessive regulatory spree undertaken by President Obama and...
December 10th, 2010
I joined Senators David Vitter (R-LA), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), and others in sending a letter to Senators Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) and Thad Cochran (R-MS), Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S.
December 5th, 2010
The recent deficit commission chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles recently concluded their work and while there is much to hate, there is as much to love.
December 1st, 2010
This past Thanksgiving, I spent time reacquainting myself with F.A. Hayek classic, “The Road to Serfdom” and his last book, “The Fatal Conceit” and it was like revisiting old friends. The central theme of his books was that...
October 31st, 2010
"Jobless America threatens to bring all of us down with it" is the headline of a recent story by Jeremy Warner in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. In the article, Warner notes that the U.S. unemployment rate...
October 9th, 2010
How do Democrat incumbents keep their jobs in a failing economy? By scheming ways to persuade their constituents that over taxation and losing your job is a good thing! Watch this spoof by Heritage Action.
September 30th, 2010
TexasGOPVote attended a Harry Reid, Sharron Angle Senate candidate forum in Las Vegas on September 23rd. The forum was moderated by Vegas PBS host, Mitch Fox. Each candidate had 30 minutes to answer the same 6 questions....
March 4th, 2011
Long-term trends in the labor market have been particularly brutal for men, but our Washington policymakers appear to be either unaware of such trends, or to have ignored them for the most part. Over the past decade, the...
February 22nd, 2011
On January 16, 2009, the Texas Workforce Commission hosted a forum entitled “Putting America Back to Work.” At that conference, a number of our speakers made the case for lessening our dependence on unstable sources of...
February 13th, 2011
Thank you Chairman Davis, Ranking Member Doggett and distinguished members of the subcommittee for allowing me to submit this written testimony.Texas has an important story to tell and because I believe our experience can...
December 10th, 2010
National unemployment in November rose to 9.8 percent. With national unemployment hovering in the 10 percent range, an increasing number of analysts, pundits and economists are asking whether these high rates of...
December 7th, 2010
The US House and Senate are expected to hold votes on the DREAM Act later this week, sometime between Wednesday, Dec. 8 and Friday, Dec. 10, but what’s the rush? I am all for having an open and honest debate on the merits...
December 3rd, 2010
Today’s unemployment figures are a sad reminder of Senate Democrats’ misplaced priorities. Over the last two years they have chosen to focus on anything other than job creation and the economy, and the agenda for the lame...
December 1st, 2010
The following is a letter signed by all 42 members of the Republican Conference that was delivered to Senator Harry Reid earlier today. The full letter is as follows:Dear Leader Reid,The nation’s unemployment level, stuck...
October 22nd, 2010
The following press release was sent in from Congressman Kevin Brady (TX-8):The twenty largest metropolitan areas in America have a million fewer workers on the job today than when the $814 billion federal stimulus program...
October 8th, 2010
I issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s September jobs report: This morning’s report reflects what the American people already know: the Administration’s jobs agenda is missing a key...
September 30th, 2010
Following the announcement by Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior Ken Salazar on offshore oil and gas operations today, I issued the below statement:The Obama Administration’s failure to lift the drilling moratorium...
