Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) thanks our military and their families for their dedicated service and sacrifice, and keeps the victims of Hurricane Sandy in our thoughts and prayers this holiday season. The 'fiscal cliff' looms closer--triggering the largest tax increase in our nation's history. Republicans are ready to work with the President and Democrats for a balanced approach of instilling tax reform and significant spending cuts to prevent it from taking effect, and help grow our economy. Tax increases will only hurt small businesses and prevent them from hiring--devastating impacts on our economic recovery.

Delivering the Weekly Republican Address, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) highlights his call for bipartisan action on a plan to avert the fiscal cliff and help our economy grow and create jobs, which is critical to solving our debt. A former small business owner, Boehner notes that a Senate-passed proposal to go off part of the fiscal cliff by raising the top two tax rates would, according to independent accounting firm Ernst & Young, destroy more than 700,000 American jobs. "Instead of raising tax rates on the American people and accepting the damage it will do to our economy," Boehner says, "let's start to actually solve the problem" and make 2013 the "year to begin to solve our debt through tax reform and entitlement reform." Boehner also thanks America's veterans and their families for their service as the nation prepares to mark Veterans Day.

Thirty-eight jobs bills have passed the House and are now stuck in the Democrat-led Senate. House Republicans have shown leadership on this issue, and it is time for Democrats in the Senate and the White House to do the same.

President Obama has said repeatedly that he is for an "all of the above" approach to energy production, but his actions are limiting the use of coal and costing thousands of jobs across America. Let us know what you think about the president's war on coal using #WarOnCoal: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23waroncoal

In this week's address, Congressman Allen West, a Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, discusses the deadline for the sequester, and the White House's devastating inaction on what was originally their idea. The Republican-led House has proposed responsible replacements to the sequester's historically crippling across-the-board cuts to our nation's military. The recent vicious attacks on embassies in the Middle East underscore the need to preserve our military strength. The president and Senate Democrats must put aside partisan politics to work with us to preserve our military and replace the sequester.