Cassidy: “As a physician who has treated uninsured patients at a public hospital for 20 years, I applaud the president’s goals. Unfortunately, as economists at the CBO and the CMS explain, his plan fails to achieve them.”
For the last 284 days Charlie Melancon has not had time to hold a town hall meeting to answer his constituent’s questions about his record of supporting Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House 3 times and supporting Barack Obama’s bailouts, stimulus and budget.
An issue quickly becoming a national concern is the current state of our levee systems.
Instead of a comprehensive national energy policy that would create jobs, this administration and the liberals running Congress are trying to ram through a ‘cap and trade’ national energy tax that would ship millions of jobs overseas and raise energy prices on American families. And these same people continue to threaten our energy security through attempts to put an end to critical technologies like fracturing.
Democrat Reps. Henry Waxman, of California, and Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, — the same team that brought you the job-killing, tax-hiking cap-and-trade legislation — appear to be trying the same tactics on natural gas production with recent committee action aimed toward giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unprecedented power to enact oppressive regulations on hydraulic fracturing.