WASHINGTON: Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis/Arlington, and 84 other Republicans today introduced H.J. Res. 77, a resolution of disapproval on the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. |
They said that under the endangerment finding – and the regulatory and legal red tape that flow from this expansion of government into our economic lives – the pace of U.S. economic growth will be stifled by the EPA and its controversial enforcement of environmental laws. American business owners and workers, they noted, want a clear and quick path to a robust, growing economy, not a thicket of new job-destroying regulations. Read more at joebarton.house.gov |
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Global warming has not met scientific criteria, and scientists need to find a theory that matches the facts, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.
“Science is verifiable, science is something that can be replicated,” Barton, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told CNSNews.com.
“This whole theory of global warming is just that: It’s a theory. It’s based on models. Models are based on variables, and conditions that the modelers that develop the models put into them. And the models don’t replicate what’s happened,” Barton said. “So (scientists) need to go back to square one, look at the empirical data, look at alternative theories, and see if they can find a theory that actually fits the facts.” Read more at www.cnsnews.com |
A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can’t stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote. What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill merely because they think it’s good for the rest of us, and because they fear their chance to build a European welfare state may never come again. |
The vehicle is “reconciliation,” a parliamentary process that fast-tracks budget measures and was created in 1974 as a deficit-reduction tool. Limited to 20 hours of debate, reconciliation bills need a mere 50 votes in the Senate, with the Vice President as tie-breaker, thus circumventing the filibuster. Both Democrats and Republicans have frequently used reconciliation on budget bills, so Democrats are now claiming that using it to pass ObamaCare is no big deal. Read more at online.wsj.com |
The President’s offer to include Republican ideas is nothing more than a political publicity stunt. There is still a fundamental difference between our desire for market-based solutions and their push for a government take over of health care. At least a half-dozen House Democrats who voted against the health-care bill say they are now undecided, and President Barack Obama says he is willing to embrace several Republican ideas to collect more votes. |
Democrats are gearing up for a vote on the overhaul as soon as late this month. They face an especially tough fight in the House, where the ranks of the undecided also include some lawmakers who voted yes before but say they no longer favor the Democratic bill. |
Republicans rejected Mr. Obama’s latest overture and repeated their call for the president to start over on health care. Read more at online.wsj.com |
Gov. Rick Perry won a decisive victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas GOP primary for governor Tuesday night, bringing a bruising fight between two of the state’s most popular Republicans to an anticlimactic conclusion. |
Perry said his win should send a message to Washington. |
“Quit spending all the money, stop trying to take over our lives and our businesses,” he said in a speech that seemed aimed as much as the Obama White House as his Democratic opponent Bill White. |
Hutchison acknowledged that it was natural to have some lingering hard feelings after a tough fought primary in the trenches, but asked all of her supporters to unite behind Perry. |
“That is what will be best for all of us and for Texas. Our party must come together,” she said at her election night watch party in Dallas. |
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