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Article of Interest: Pace of stimulus spending plummets
Aug 14, 2009
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By Stephen Dinan
Stimulus bill spending has slowed to a trickle, despite President Obama's June order to his Cabinet to speed it up. The average stimulus spending per week has dropped severely, to just $4.2 billion over the past month from $9.7 billion during the prior four months. The government...
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Hoekstra Letters to Department of Defense and Department of Justice on Leading Guantanamo Delegation
Aug 14, 2009
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Attached please find the letters sent to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder by U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra. Hoekstra requested that he be allowed to lead a delegation of state and local officials and press to visit Guantanamo Bay so that they can better understand the ...
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HOEKSTRA: 'Ready! Fire! Aim!' no way to govern
Aug 13, 2009
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Political candidates are notorious for promising voters the moon to get elected. But once in office, we expect our elected officials to stop campaigning and start doing the business of the people, governing. This is especially true for the leader of the Free World, who is responsible for a $3.6 tril...
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Hoekstra to Request Local and State Officials and Media be Granted Access to Guantanamo Bay
Aug 13, 2009
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U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, issued the following statement regarding federal government officials visiting the state prison in Standish, Michigan today to assess its ability to house Guantanamo detainees:
“In light of federal officials visiting Michigan to determine whether it is appropr...
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Article of Interest: The Truth About Health Insurance
Aug 12, 2009
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The White House is priming the defibrillator paddles to revive ObamaCare, and its new strategy is to talk about "health-insurance reform," rather than "health-care reform." The point is to make its proposals seem less radical than they are, while portraying private insurers as villains for supposedl...
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Health Care Fact: House Proposal Will Hurt Small Businesses
Aug 12, 2009
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The House Democratic health care proposal will undoubtedly hurt small businesses in America. Specifically, the bill imposes mandates, penalties and additional taxes on small businesses to help pay for government-run health care.
If employers do not provide health coverage, they will be taxed bas...
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Article of Interest: Soaring deficit may defy forecasts
Aug 10, 2009
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By Richard Wolf
WASHINGTON — Stagnant unemployment, shrinking tax revenue and a struggling economy threaten to quadruple the size of last year's federal budget deficit, raising more questions about the timing of costly proposals to overhaul health care.
As the White House and Congressional Bud...
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GITMO North?
Aug 5, 2009
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by Rep. Peter Hoekstra
Michigan Democrats recently unveiled their new economic development plan for Michigan: turning the state into a penal colony for federal prisoners, the detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay and even part of California’s inmate population.
In a rush to fulfill an i...
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Article of Interest: Gov't insurance would allow coverage for abortion
Aug 5, 2009
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Gov't insurance would allow coverage for abortion
By Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal polic...
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Cap-and-Trade's Costly Mandates May Put America's Family Farms in Final Jeopardy
Aug 5, 2009
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By Rep. Peter Hoekstra
The "cap-and-trade" national energy tax bill passed by the U.S. House and now making its way through the Senate would impose nearly impossible burdens on agriculture and likely deliver a final death blow to the family farm.
Many Americans rightly fear the devastating e...
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