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Blunt: Democrats Push Largest Tax Hike to Tune of $683 Billion
Jun 5, 2008
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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after Democrats passed the fiscal year ’09 budget conference report containing the largest tax increase in American history – for the second year in a row:
“Today’s vote gives the clearest example yet of the direction e...
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Blunt Hails Republican Clean Troop Funding Bill
May 13, 2008
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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement on the clean supplemental troop funding bill House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) today introduced:
“House Republicans introduced a bill that puts our troops first - unlike the bill ‘the Commit...
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Lawyers, Lenders and La Raza
May 6, 2008
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Last month, my fellow House Republicans and I unveiled a series of housing principles to guide future legislation that supports homeownership, protects taxpayers, helps victims and lowers taxes on American families. And today, we announced those proposals. Our legislation will address the unst...
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Democrats in Disarray Over Must-Pass Supplemental
May 1, 2008
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Agreeing with House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) that short-circuiting the open committee process for political gain and smoke-filled rooms is no way to pass vital funding measures for our troops, Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) conceded today that Republicans had proper grounds to be disap...
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Why are House Democrats so Afraid of an Open Debate?
Apr 30, 2008
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In November 2006, soon-to-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that her “leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” Now, almost a year and a half after she issued that proclamation, today might be a good time to remind her of that promise to the American...
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Agenda? What's that?
Apr 15, 2008
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House Agenda Creeps Along
April 15, 2008
By Lauren W. Whittington
The above article left me scratching my head.
I'm not sure about House Democrats, but I think my constituents sent me to Washington to get things done. We shouldn't wait for an election or a new Congress to act. There...
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Blunt: Democrats Vote for $700 Billion Tax Hike
Apr 15, 2008
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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after Democrats defeated a vote that would have extended expiring tax relief measures, and saved the American people about $700 billion in tax increases contained in the Democratic budget:
"House Republicans gave Democrat...
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Blunt: Easiest Way to Simplify Tax Code is Simply Tax Less
Apr 15, 2008
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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after Democrats forced through the House the curiously titled “Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act” with enough opposition to sustain a Presidential Veto:
“While millions of Americans were making last minute edits ...
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House Majority Leader Concedes…
Apr 3, 2008
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House Majority Leader Concedes…
During today’s colloquy on the House floor I, the Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) conceded that the Iraq supplemental funding measure needs to be considered expeditiously due to constraints on our armed forces, and that the majority is considering larding up...
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Blunt: On PEPFAR, Majority Attempts to Spend in Five Years What CBO Says It Can’t in 10
Apr 2, 2008
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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after the House voted to authorize $50 billion for the president’s global AIDS initiative – even though the president himself only requested $30 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the program couldn’t ...
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