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TAX TAX TAX
Nov 5, 2009
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Madam Speaker, there are brand new ways to tax people in this Federal health care bill. According to the Americans for Tax Reform, these new health care taxes will affect everyone. There are at least $700 billion in taxes in this takeover. It taxes small businesses; it taxes i...
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GOVERNMENT OBESITY
Oct 26, 2009
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Madam Speaker, the first stimulus bill was 1,000 pages long and cost $1 trillion. We were, in essence, told, Pass this or America is doomed. It was railroaded through before anyone could even read the bill. Now we know why. It wasn't about creating jobs; it was about more government spending. Since ...
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SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY'S GETTING A TAX HIKE
Oct 23, 2009
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Mr. Speaker, the new reformed, revised, special edition version of the Senate health care bill written in the dark, secret caverns of the Capitol is a whopping 1,500 pages long. Americans for Tax Reform did a word search on the bill and they found some interesting words.
Rig...
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STIMULUS BILL FUNDS EXPENSIVE PR SIGNS
Oct 21, 2009
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Mr. Speaker, if there is one thing the Federal Government is really good at, it is wasting money, and thanks to the so-called stimulus bill, there are millions of citizen dollars floating around loose being blown by the wind of the waste-acrats.
The money is not being used t...
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WE, THE SUBJECTS
Sep 30, 2009
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Madam Speaker, the United States Constitution starts out with the words ``We the People.'' It's right there at the beginning, written large so folks don't miss it. It means that we are a self-governing people. It means that the Constitution is an agreement between ...
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GOVERNMENT GONE WILD
Sep 10, 2009
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Mr. Speaker, Congress is spending money we don't have on things we cannot afford. We spent billions on the so-called stimulus that hasn't worked. The government took over the car industry and gave money to the fat cats on Wall Street. Congress gave money, America's money, to t...
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Congressman Poe Secures Federal Funding for Liberty County
Jul 28, 2009
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Congressman Ted Poe announced today that he secured $1,996,000 for the for Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District’s Trinity River Project in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill for FY 2010.
The Trinity River Project will provide for barge access to support the current industrial r...
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WHERE ARE THE PROMISED JOBS?
Jul 21, 2009
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Mr. Speaker, the unemployment rate is in double digits around this country. Some States have the highest unemployment rate in history. The economy is bleeding jobs because the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was a jobs disaster bill.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, that's all we heard from ...
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SOCIAL SECURITY EXECS HAVE FUN AT THE BILTMORE HOTEL
Jul 15, 2009
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Mr. Speaker, Social Security Administration executives recently enjoyed a luxury retreat at the expense of the American taxpayer. They flew 700 of their managers to the picture perfect, swanky Arizona Biltmore Hotel for what they called ``organizational training.''
It cost t...
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TAXES ARE THE ROOT OF ALL FEDERAL MISCHIEF
Jul 14, 2009
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Madam Speaker, the taxacrats are at it again, cooking up new taxes to try to pay for the government takeover of health care. This time they want to raise taxes on small businesses. The so-called rich the taxacrats are targeting are America's entrepreneurs, the engine of the Am...
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