House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today applauding House passage of the No More Solyndras Act (H.R. 6213):
Tag: Fiscal Responsibility
Here’s a look at how President Obama has failed to lead on jobs and what Republicans are doing to pick up the slack:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement today in response to a statement by Moody's Investors Service regarding the national debt:
In a newly released video, the House Republican Conference shows how President Obama has failed to live up to his oft-repeated promise to address the nation’s skyrocketing debt and deficits.
As part of both the Plan for America’s Job Creators and the Pledge to America, House Republicans have been working to stop Washington from spending money we don’t have in order to boost economic confidence and make it easier for the private sector to create jobs. Here’s more:
Officially speaking, the White House still insists that the decision to provide a $535 million loan guarantee to financially-troubled Solyndra was “merit-based.” Really? Perhaps the White House should answer these questions:
At his weekly press briefing today, Speaker Boehner said White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew owed “the American people an explanation about why they squandered hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars” on Solyndra.
The Washington Post this morning reports that then-Office of Management & Budget (OMB) Director (and now White House Chief of Staff) Jack Lew had the opportunity to heed the warnings of his own career staff at OMB and shut down failing Solyndra to save taxpayers millions. He ignored those warnings.
Yesterday, Speaker Boehner took President Obama to task for recent reports that taxpayer-funded ‘stimulus’ dollars were outsourced to foreign firms and workers, saying “the president owes every American an explanation” as to why their money was shipped overseas while millions remain out of work here at home. Here are just a few examples of the Obama administration’s ‘stimulus’ outsourcing for which the American people – particularly the nearly 13 million unemployed - deserve answers:
When Solyndra failed, the Obama administration left American taxpayers holding the bag to the tune of $535 million – and that’s just one of several pet projects funded under the ‘stimulus’ bill’s Section 1705 loan program that have failed to create jobs and cost Americans millions.
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