Bob McCarty Writes

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-Mich.) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT [...]

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Raised an avid consumer of newspaper journalism, I went on to earn a journalism degree from Oklahoma State University and hold a variety of professional positions, most of which afforded me opportunities to work with and among professional journalists on a daily basis. So it goes without saying — and with my tongue planted [...]

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In “Pelosi Attacks AIG (above),” My Personal Litmus offers a graphic depiction of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s insane approach to governance and congressional oversight.

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Perhaps in response to House Republicans ripping the idea as proof that President Barack Obama’s first $787 billion stimulus effort didn’t work, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi today ruled out any immediate action on a second stimulus measure, according to reports by The New York Times, Reuters and others.
But don’t get comfortable just yet, [...]

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement regarding this morning’s Labor Department statistics showing that 651,000 American jobs were lost in the month of February, with the unemployment rate rising to 8.1 percent, the worst since December 1983.  As a public service, I’ve corrected the content of her statement to reflect reality.  Modifications to Speaker [...]

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