(Wayne Allyn Root) – The Congressional “Super Committee” tasked with cutting the debt has failed. Good. Embrace the joy of failure. Sometimes failure works out for the best. Because in this case “failure” leads to the Holy Grail: $1.2 Trillion in forced spending cuts. That’s the best thing that could have ever come out of this unconstitutional “Super Committee.” Congress is now forced to accept automatic across the board cuts to spending- including defense spending. [...]
(Washington, DC) – Today [November 21], Congressman Joe Heck (NV-3) released the following statement following the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction’s announcement that a bipartisan agreement would not be offered before the committee’s deadline. “I am very disappointed that the committee was unable to accomplish its task and that last week’s balanced budget amendment vote failed. While I remained hopeful that both would be successful, I was prepared for a potential failure.” “That is why [...]
Phil Henry, a member of The Tea Party Debt Commission from White Pine, Nevada, will be speaking at the hearing tomorrow, November 17. The hearing will be broadcast on C-Span at 11:00 PST. – Ed. (Freedom Works) – Washington, DC- House and Senate members will join over 200 tea party leaders from across the country for the Tea Party Debt Commission joint hearing this Thursday, November 17th from 2-4pm ET in Senate Russell hearing room 325. [...]
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Earlier this year, FreedomWorks, a grassroots organizational group, began to recruit tea party leaders throughout the country. In late June, that effort paid off as tea party leaders met inWashington,D.C. to form the Tea Party Debt Commission. These grassroots leaders wanted to give Americans a platform through which to propose specific cuts in the federal budget and to put to rest the argument that tea party supporters weren’t serious about [...]
(Lori Piotrowski) – Yesterday evening, presidential contender Newt Gingrich hit the tele-waves to promote his response to the Super Committee—Lean Six Sigma (LSS). On a teleconference call to hundreds of devoted practitioners of LSS, Gingrich sounded the clarion call.
(Lori Piotrowski) – Reid doesn’t think much of Romney, who frequently leads the Republicans in the 2012 polls. On the other hand, he has high praise for Pawlenty, who just dropped out of the race. Bachmann? She doesn’t stand a chance. Would you have expected other opinions from Nevada’s leading Democrat? This morning’s Review-Journal article quoted Reid on a variety of topics, of which the presidential race was only one. He talked, too, about the [...]
(Citizen Outreach) – The meltdown of our economy has, supposedly, been “averted” but now Congress must agree on cuts unless we face another debt limit increase fiasco. This important task will be in the hands of 12 members of Congress, six Republican and six Democrats. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is responsible for naming three of these members. Please join us in urging Senator McConnell in doing the “right” action by appointing Senator Marco Rubio [...]