Opinion Editorials
January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
Every month I'm privileged to return to Michigan's 7th district and catch up with my constituents. Recently though, whether I was talking to a manufacturing plant owner or an apple farmer, a similar theme kept cropping up. People are worried...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
In the weeks and months ahead, our great country faces a series of significant challenges, the most immediate being the so-called fiscal cliff that significantly includes tax increases mandated by law...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
Last week, after an 18-month investigation, the Department of Justice's Inspector General (IG), Michael Horowitz, released his 471-page investigative report and findings on Operation Fast & Furious...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
As the country waits for the Supreme Court's final ruling on the 2010 healthcare law, my colleagues and I in the House have been working hard to repeal, defund and dismantle it...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
When President Obama took office on January 20, 2009, the unemployment rate sat at 7.8 percent...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
For about a month now, the American people and businesses of this country have been working for themselves. Because our government is addicted to spending...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
We've all had to dig a little deeper in our pockets when visiting the gas station lately. The national average is fast approaching $4 per gallon. A weak economy, coupled with higher gas prices...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
The federal student loan program was created to help students pay the high cost of tuition. But as college tuition continues to skyrocket, students who already face staggering amounts of debt must now deal with the added threat of the Stafford loan...
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
While some in Washington would like to downplay our nation's fiscal situation, few dispute this fact: Our country is more than $15.5 trillion in debt and counting.
While individuals on both sides of the political aisle agree something needs to be..
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January 25, 2013
Opinion Editorial
Friday marks the second anniversary of President Obama's health-care bill being signed into law. At the time the president claimed, "When I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform." He...
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