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17 Senators Voted to "Save the American Dream"
From Heritage Action for America -- (from 5/18/12)
Last night, the Senate voted on five different budgets, including Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) Budget (S.Con.Res.44), a plan based off of The Heritage Foundation’s “Saving the American Dream.”
The Heritage Foundation analyzed the budget dynamics:
“Compare the President’s proposal — and Reid’s total lack of a proposal — with the four plans offered by conservatives in Congress, chief among them being Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) budget, which mirrors the bold and thorough reforms The Heritage Foundation first proposed in its Saving the American Dream plan. That includes limiting the size of the federal government, reforming entitlement programs, and simplifying the federal tax code in an effort to restore our nation’s economic prosperity and ensure that future generations are not saddled with today’s debt.”
Although we cannot reverse decades of mismanagement overnight, yesterday’s vote creates a solid foundation. It is now clear that there are good ideas out there on how to fix our country; unfortunately, none of them come from our President Obama and his partisan allies in the Senate. The vote results are below, along with a list of the Republicans who voted correctly.
The Lee Budget: Rejected by a vote of 17-82
Heritage Action: YES
Republicans Voting Correctly:
Sen. John Barrasso (WY)
Sen. Dan Coats (IN)
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK)
Sen. Mike Crapo (ID)
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC)
Sen. Mike Enzi (WY)
Sen. Charles Grassley (IA)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (UT)
Sen. James Inhofe (OK)
Sen. Ron Johnson (WI)
Sen. Mike Lee (UT)
Sen. Jerry Moran (KS)
Sen. Rand Paul (KY)
Sen. James Risch (ID)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL)
Sen. John Thune (SD)
Sen. David Vitter (LA)
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Obama's Failed Policies Hurting College Graduates the Most
The anti-business and anti-growth policies of the Obama Administration have continually been proven to be a failed path for the current crisis our country faces.
And either by design or by President Obama's continued blundering, the future for college graduates entering the already depressed job market appears to be a life of being shackled by government backed student loans when contrasted against their predicted earnings.
While the average earnings of college educated individuals entering the workforce will leave them "Hoping for 'change' in their pocket." This November maybe their college educated smarts will shine through and they will "Hope for Change" in the White House!
From Economic Policy Institute --
During college graduation season, attention often turns toward the labor market prospects of the young men and women preparing to enter the workforce. We can get a sense of the earnings this new crop of graduates might expect by looking at the wages of young (age 21-24) college graduates. In 2011, young college graduates had an average hourly wage of $16.81 per hour, which translates into an annual income of roughly $35,000 for a full-time, full-year worker. Average hourly wages for young female graduates remain substantially less (13.9 percent) than those of young male graduates.
The wages of young college graduates have fared poorly during the Great Recession and its aftermath. Between 2007 and 2011, the wages of young college graduates dropped 4.6 percent (5.1 percent for men and 4.1 percent for women). As the figure shows, however, the wage growth of young graduates was weak even before the Great Recession began; they have fared poorly over the entire period of general wage stagnation that began during the business cycle of 2000–2007. Between 2000 and 2011, the wages of young college...
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Support HB 380: Bring Balance to Asbestos Cases
Currently in the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee is HB 380 which will reform and promote transparency in the legal process of work related asbestos claims.
HB 380 will, "enact sections 2307.951, 2307.952, 2307.953, and 2307.954 of the Revised Code to require claimants in asbestos tort actions to make certain disclosures pertaining to asbestos trust claims that have been submitted to asbestos trust entities for the purpose of compensating the claimant for asbestos exposure." (HB 380).
From Ohio.com
By Ralph King
Published: April 18, 2012
In earlier decades, some American workers were exposed to asbestos on the job. Many of them later suffered injury, illness and even death as a result of that exposure. Rightfully, large numbers of these people, many of whom are in Ohio, continue to seek compensation for their losses.
Because Ohio was a heavy manufacturing site in the past, our state has a high number of asbestos-related claims, and particularly so in Northeast Ohio.
The great majority of companies most responsible for asbestos injuries — primarily companies that mined or manufactured asbestos — have ceased operations, declared bankruptcy and established trusts to pay the current and future claims of asbestos-injured workers. These trusts are considered “personal injury settlement trusts.”
Since the first trust was approved in 1986 under federal bankruptcy law, 60 companies have created trusts controlling more than $36 billion to address their asbestos liabilities.
The asbestos trusts assume all of the bankrupt companies’ asbestos liabilities, which effectively removes those companies from the court system in Ohio and every other state where such activity exists.
The asbestos trusts are one way claimants can seek compensation for asbestos-related injury. A second...
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This is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! (WI)
The residents and patriots in Wisconsin have been subjected to a two year assault from the left who are disappointed with the results of the 2010 elections.
Doing what the big union bosses and the left does best, they've learned how to use the political process to abuse the political process. This pattern of political abuse will continue across the states if we do not rise to the challenge of meeting this dangerous political trend of the left head on.
The Tea Party Patriots are amassing Tea Party members from across the U.S. to meet this challenge in Wisconsin head on! To learn more on how you can help with phone calls from your own home, or if you are interested in going to Wisconsin to be part of the Tea Party Patriots ground team, please click here.
The below is from our Tea Party Patriots State Coordinator for Wisconsin, Michael Hintze.
From Bear Witness Central --
By Michael G. Hintze, State Coordinator Wisconsin Tea Party Patriots
For the second year in a row, the people of Wisconsin are being subjected to a series of recall elections that cost money for which the State and its local communities have better uses. More importantly, the recall elections distract Wisconsin’s politicians from doing the jobs to which they were elected, create uncertainty in the business community that hinders job creation and economic growth, and increase rather than smooth over the sense...
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Grassroots Tea Party's Derail Tea Party Express Establishment Candidate in Nebraska Senate Primary
A big congratulations to all the grassroots Tea Party groups in Nebraska for derailing the Tea Party Express establishment candidate, NE Attorney General Jon Bruning, and walking away with a big grassroots Tea Party victory!
As usual, and expecting nothing less, the Tea Party Express went into Nebraska and supported the establishment candidate - Bruning - in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate and worked against the efforts of the grassroots Tea Party groups who supported State Senator Deb Fischer.
State Senator Deb Fischer, who was also supported by Sarah Palin, will face off against former Democrat Senator Bob Kerry to replace the retiring Senator Ben Nelson.
From SF Gate -- (emphasis added)
An insurgent Republican lawmaker in Nebraska will square off against former Sen. Bob Kerrey this fall in the state's U.S. Senate race, as Democrats look to hold onto the Senate seat and control of one part of Capitol Hill.
In Tuesday's Republican primary, state Sen. Deb Fischer rode a wave of discontent with the GOP establishment to best Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, the preferred candidate of Washington, D.C.-based Republicans, and Treasurer Don Stenberg in a race that drew national attention from outside groups in its final, unpredictable weeks.
Fischer's victory marked also another win for the party's anti-establishment movement just a week after a Tea Party-supported Richard Mourdock beat Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in that state's GOP primary.
And they said the Tea Party was dead!
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How You Can Help Save Wisconsin!
The FINAL HOUR is fast approaching for the June 5th recall election in Wisconsin and EVERYTHING is at stake!
Grassroots activists in Wisconsin have worked tirelessly over the last several years to promote fiscal responsibility, but the opposition is waging a war to tear it down!
Tea Party Patriots are mounting a massive ground operation to end the Wisconsin recall once and for all, but we can't do it without you! With your help - we can take it to the left - and we can win!
From going to Wisconsin to door knock, making calls from your home, giving a financial contribution, or sharing our efforts on social media, YOU can have a huge impact!
For Patriots with the time to go and knock doors and help in Wisconsin, Tea Party Patriots will cover your room and board. For others, you can make calls from home, help with blogging and social media efforts. There is something everyone can do - are you ready to help save Wisconsin?
This recall election is about much more than any individual candidate. It is about protecting our representative democracy to ensure that the democratic process is allowed to work. If the opposition is successful in Wisconsin, they will replicate this abuse of recall laws in states across the country - AND you can be sure Ohio will be one of them!.
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Holder in Contempt over Fast & Furious?
From Tea Party Patriots --
 House leaders confirmed on May 3, 2012, they have drafted a contempt order against Holder for his refusal to produce to Congress documents requested in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. “We have a few other options (but) to a great extent we’ve been stonewalled by the Justice Department,” said Issa, R-CA.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is the executive department of the federal government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice. How is justice administered when the head of that department, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., is found in contempt of the laws it exists to enforce?
The resolution, if approved by the House, could force Holder to release thousands of pages of documents related to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Fast & Furious program. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has requested 80,000 documents and been provided with only 7,000 to date, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. ““We have issued a subpoena. We have bent over backward to be patient.”
Since last August Senator John Cornyn, R-TX, has been outspoken about his concern that the DOJ knew that guns were sold illegally to members of Mexican drug cartels which resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. “I don’t think we know all the facts because the DOJ has stonewalled. They simply need to come clean. If Holder is implicated, let’s hold him accountable,” Sen. Cornyn said. Cornyn was adamant that Holder be held accountable for his department’s actions and not be allowed to continue to block access to documents critical to the investigation into the mishandled gun-tracking program.
According to the House Oversight Committee,...
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The 2012 election cycle: What Can A Patriot Do?
Michelle Malkin’s column today explored voter fraud facts and fictions. And she points us to opportunities for an active citizenry to make a difference:
"… The solution is to get off the couch, support election integrity activists like [James] O’Keefe, and turn out in force on Election Day to eject Obama’s voter fraud coddlers. Like the old saying goes: If it ain’t close, they can’t cheat. * * *
"More election integrity activists you should support: Election Law Center, King Street Patriots and True the Vote. Words of wisdom [from True The Vote]:
"We at True the Vote believe that the best safeguard against any potential problems in our elections is an active, organized, educated citizenry who are willing to take personal responsibility, stand in whatever gaps in our electoral system exist, and work to improve them. Now is not the time for panic. Let’s get some answers, figure out what’s going on, then spread the word. ...
"Here’s how you can help:
"... Commit to get involved, to volunteer at the polls, to record the final vote tallies at the polls where you work, to track those tallies, make sure they are being accurately reported, and be prepared to take meaningful and swift action if breaches are found to exist. We won’t change the electoral process until we are willing to roll up our sleeves and take responsibility for it. Sustained responsibility."If you would like information about local True The Vote initiatives, or plan to sign up as a poll-watcher when voting begins, e-mail Cleveland Tea Party Patriots at clevelandteaparty@gmail.com 
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Tea Party tells Senator Dick Luger - "The Party's Over!"
A big congratulations to the all the Tea Party and Liberty groups in Indiana for handing Senator Dick Luger his walking papers. Great job Indiana Tea Party Patriots!
From Tea Party Patriots --
Today, the Tea Party Patriots, the largest tea party organization in the country, hailed the victory in the Indiana Senate primary race as State Treasurer Richard Mourdouck ousted establishment candidate Sen. Richard Lugar who had been in Congressional office for 36 years.
“Lugar’s defeat should wake up entrenched Washington,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. ”The tea party movement continues to be the most influential force this election year. Sen. Lugar betrayed the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets that must be addressed this year or the American people will choose new leaders as happened today and in 2010. This upset is no surprise to tax paying Americans in Indiana.”
We will do our best to make sure Senator Sherrod "Sluggo" Brown joins him in the unemployment line!
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"Ohio's quest for regional unity"
The Plain Dealer ran an editorial on May Day (May 1) with the innocuous title “Organizing NE Ohio's quest for regional unity: editorial.”
It sounds so mother-and-apple-pie. Who could be opposed to “better coordination” or “reducing the duplication of government services and figuring out how to connect transportation systems with one another”. The editorial reports that The Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium expects to issue its first report in June and then convene community meetings to discuss next steps. A “Sustainable Communities Consortium” likewise sounds appealing.
Its goals? “To create a vibrant and resilient Northeast Ohio that increases our quality of life; connects our communities; welcomes diversity; restores and protects our natural resources; and creates a competitive economic framework for the vitality of our region.” Sounds great.
Now compare this language to the buzz words compiled by Marianne G, co-cordinator for Ohio Tea Party Patriots, at her Mansfield Tea Party website (buzz words such as “sustainability”, “sustainable development,” “smart growth”, “ regionalism”, etc.). Marianne posted an Introduction to Agenda 21, a phrase you may or may not have heard about.
But the Plain Dealer, the Consortium, and an outfit called Greater Ohio are already pushing Agenda 21 under alternative nomenclatures – i.e., those buzz words. In addition to every other pressure we face in this election year, Agenda 21 should be at the top of our list. If we don’t defeat Agenda 21 at the local and state levels, the rest may not matter much. And the first step is for us to understand what Agenda 21 is, and what it looks like when dressed up in (or disguised as!) feel-good “sustainability” language.
Marianne has inaugurated a newsletter to start to educate patriots about Agenda 21, especially...
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Conservative Women Speak
Here's a short videe produced by Marianne Gasieki's (Mansfield Tea Party) son Anthony. It's a quick take on conservative women who know that the so-called "War on Women" is phony baloney. Pass it along.
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Stop the Job Killing Big Tobacco Bailout
Big Tobacco companies have inserted an amendment to the massive federal highway bill that is currently being debated in Congress. This amendment reclassifies all small Roll Your Own (RYO) cigarette retail shops as “cigarette manufacturers” for the sole purpose of driving them OUT of business, killing jobs across the country and limiting consumer choice. Beginning Tuesday, May 8, the House and Senate will begin meeting to discuss this bill in a conference committee.
 We’ve all played a good game of hide & seek, right? Cover your eyes, count to ten, run around and find your friends? It’s fun because you get to exercise just how clever you can be. If you can stay hidden, you’re clever. If you can find people, you’re clever. It’s a game that is SO much fun, some members of Congress are still playing!
Hidden in the Senate’s massive version of the 2012 transportation reauthorization act is a teeny weeny provision allowing Big Tobacco companies to SQUASH small businesses. You heard me. In between money for roads, bridges, airports, trains, and Amtrak is a monumental United States Government bailout for Big Tobacco.
TODAY’S MESSAGE: Enough hide and seek. Tell Congress REMOVE the #BigTobacco bailout from the highway bill. It’s a job killer. http://bit.ly/NewTax
If you’re a frequent reader of my blog, you already know this. But, we’re getting new readers every day so here it is again:
Big Tobacco has bought some lawmakers. These lawmakers have introduced legislation reclassifying small tobacco shops where you can roll your own smokes as “tobacco manufacturing” facilities. This throws small, roadside tobacco shops into the same tax and regulatory category as mammoth cigarette manufacturing facilities. Unfair, right? Well, the...
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President Obama & the Democrats Assault on College Students
In President Obama & the Democrats continued "War on Children" we see how his North Korean like ballistic missiles of fiscal and economic failure have crashed down on many youthful supporters of his 2008 ascent to Commander of Youthful Grief, (the office formerly known as Commander in Chief).
A report done by the Economic Policy Institute shows unemployment for young college graduates was 10.4% in 2010, and the underemployment rate was 19.8%. For young high school graduates, the statistics were even grimmer: unemployment was 32.7% in 2010, and the underemployment rate was 55.9%.
From the Economic Policy Institute --
Though the labor market is now headed in the right direction, the prospects for young high school and college graduates remain grim. This briefing paper examines the labor market that confronts young graduates who are not enrolled in additional schooling—specifically, high school graduates age 17–20 and college graduates age 21–24—and details the following findings:
- Unemployment and underemployment rates of young graduates have only modestly improved since their peak in 2010.
- For young high school graduates, the unemployment rate was 32.7 percent in 2010 and 31.1 percent over the last year (April 2011–March 2012), while the underemployment rate was 55.9 percent in 2010 and 54.0 percent over the last year.
- For young college graduates, the unemployment rate was 10.4 percent in 2010 and 9.4 percent over the last year, while the underemployment rate was 19.8 percent in 2010 and 19.1 percent over the last year.
- There is no evidence that young high school graduates have been able to “shelter in school” from the labor market effects of the Great Recession; college and university enrollment rates for both men and women have not meaningfully departed from their long-term trend since the start of...
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Americans Spend More $$$ on Taxes than Housing, Food & Clothing
Under the four years of failed leadership and "share the wealth" policies of President Obama, you will be spending more of your hard earned money on paying taxes to support others -- than you will on your own housing, clothing ad food expenses combined!
From The Tax Foundation --
In 2012, Americans will pay approximately $4.041 trillion in taxes, which is $152 billion, or 3.9%, more than they will spend on housing, food, and clothing combined, according to a new study from the Tax Foundation. In addition, an increasing proportion of government benefits now go to pay for those same basic expenses of low-income Americans.
Examining the trends of tax collections and expenditures on housing, food, and clothing for the past several decades, the study shows that an ever-increasing amount of taxpayer money has gone into government programs that subsidize or pay for essential household goods. Cash and voucher benefits now pay for over a third of basic household expenses, up from less than 1% in 1929 and less than 20% in the early 1970s.
"Transfer payments, or government social benefits, have grown to represent a substantial portion of money spent on living expenses, encompassing housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and transportation," said Tax Foundation Adjunct Scholar Kevin Duncan. "This means that the government is picking up an increasing portion of the tab for these essential goods."
From the creation of Medicare in 1965 through 2010, transfer payments rose from 11.39% to 34.79% of living expenditures. While some money spent on transfer programs is spent on other items besides healthcare, food, clothing, transportation, and housing, the strong prevalence of in-kind benefits, or government transfer payments for a specific item or service, keeps this as a small fraction of overall expenditures.
Between...
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Senator Sherrod Brown & Senator Dick Durbin to Host Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on "Voting & Civil Rights" in Cleveland
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), two of Senator Harry Reid's best buddies, will be hosting an official hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee this coming Monday (5/7/12) on Voting Rights in Ohio - specifically the supposed negative effects of HB 194.
SB 194, which is subject to a repeal effort in the 2012 General Election, reduces the amount of voting days registered voters can cast a ballot prior to election day, puts the responsibility of voting in the proper location on said registered voter and would require registered voters to submit a Vote by Mail application if they wish to vote absentee.
From Hispanic Ohio -- (Emphasis added)
United States Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) will hold an official hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights in Cleveland on Monday examining the impact of Ohio’s new voting law, H.B. 194, which shortens early voting and eliminates the requirement that poll workers direct voters to the proper precinct. U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Warrensville) will provide testimony; additional witnesses will be announced at a later date.
Ohio’s new law reduces the number of early voting days from 35 to 17, and eliminates voting on the weekend before an election and prohibits county boards of elections from mailing unsolicited absentee ballots.
H.B. 194 will be subject to a ballot repeal measure in November.
The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. at the Carl B. Stokes federal courthouse, 801 W. Superior Avenue, all are encouraged to attend.
Where HB 194 and other election law related bills passed on Ohio this year will instill some integrity back into the election process and close loopholes that encourage voter fraud, the Democrats, no...
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A Tea Party Patriots (OH) Salute to Ohio Law Enforcement
Date: 5/4/12
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ralph King
A Salute to Ohio Law Enforcement: FBI deserves big Thumbs Up
Cleveland, Ohio - The Federal Bureau of Investigation earned a huge “job well done” from all Ohioans for the precise and efficient strike against a domestic terrorists group who allegedly attempted to destroy a bridge near Cleveland.
Ohio tea partiers are encouraging all citizens to praise the FBI and local law enforcement for the outstanding job they do every day. Tea Party Patriot State Co-Coordinator Ralph King said, “we have just witnessed excellence in achievement from the finest law enforcement people in the world.”
Many of us in the Cleveland area were shocked to discover on April 30th, 2012, on a typical Monday evening, the FBI arrested five men involved in a conspiracy to blow up a bridge that may have injured and killed people and would have had a destructive impact on travel and interstate commerce and therefore our struggling economy. "It's instances of violence such as this that continue to set tea party members and supporters apart as peaceful, respectful and reasonable citizens protesting an excessive and over reaching government," said Marianne Gasiecki, State Co-Coodinator for the Tea Party Patriots.
All too often, honorable institutions like the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been wrongly criticized, often for political purposes. It is time for an honest look at a great law enforcement body with important accomplishments during some of the most trying times of this great nation. For more than a hundred years the FBI has served tirelessly to fill the gaps between local laws, dealing mostly with criminal activity across State lines.
The FBI and local law enforcement personnel...
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Tea Party Patriot values vs Occupy
From National Review Online cartoons of the day (it’s from last November, but is still au courant):
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Support SB 323: Protect Ohio Workers Compensation Benefits
ACTION ALERT On Tuesday May 1, 2012 at 4:00 P.M. in the South Hearing Room 231, The Insurance, Commerce, and Labor Committee will hear proponent testimony on Senate Bill 323. Senate Bill 323, sponsored by Senator Bill Seitz, will amend sections 2743.02, 2744.02, 4123.01, and 4123.511 and to enact sections 2307.82 and 4123.513 of the Revised Code to prohibit illegal and unauthorized aliens from receiving compensation and certain benefits under Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law.If you are unable to attend this hearing you can email your testimony/letter for S.B. 323 to Senator Seitz at SD8@senate.state.oh.us or Senator Bacon at SD3@senate.state.oh.us. Subject Line - SB 323 Testimony/Letter. Proponent testimony can be submitted until the bill goes up for a final vote.By law, illegal immigrants are not permitted to work in Ohio. Employers choosing to ignore these laws by hiring illegal immigrants, should also be held responsible for incurring costs related to any injury while the illegal alien was under ther employ.SB 323 will protect the citizens and law-abiding employers in Ohio from being further financially victimized & burdened by those willfully ignoring the laws of our state. SB 323 will assure that only individuals legally employed in Ohio will be eligible for Workers Compensation Benefits.Please contact the below members of the Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee and urge them to support SB 323. Insurance, Commerce & Labor CommitteeChairmanSenator Kevin Bacon (R)Phone: (614) 466-8064Email: SD03@senate.state.oh.us Vice-ChairSenator Kieth Faber (R)Phone: (614) 466-7584Email: SD12@senate.state.oh.us Republican MembersSenator Bill BeaglePhone: (614) 466-6247Email: SD05@senate.state.oh.us Senator Cliff HitePhone: (614) 466-8150Email:
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3 Yrs & Counting: President Obama & Senate Democrats STILL Failing American Public
April 29, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stephen Miller,
By The Numbers: Three Full Years Since Senate Democrats Last Adopted A Budget “This Sunday, April 29, we will have gone 3 full years since the last time the Senate Democrats have brought a budget to the floor of the Senate… They are unable to unite behind a financial vision for this country that they are willing to go to the American people and advocate for and publicly defend.” – Ranking Member Sessions, floor speech, April 26, 2012
1096 –——————– Days since the Senate majority last passed a budget $10.4 trillion ———— Total federal spending since a budget was last adopted $4.5 trillion ———––– New gross debt accumulated over that time $15,000 —————–– Additional debt per person over that time $39,000 —————–– Additional debt per family over that time $626 billion ––———– Net interest payments on the debt since a budget was last adopted
1 ————————–– Budget mark-ups scheduled and then suddenly cancelled at the last minute by the Senate majority this year 0 ————————–– Number of Democrat Senators who voted for any budget in the last two years
0 ————————–– Number of votes in the House and Senate in support of President Obama’s budgets this year and last 511 ———————–– Number of combined votes against 51 ––––——————– Number of votes needed to pass a budget in the Senate 0 ————————–– Number of Democrat budget plans brought to the Senate floor in 2010 0 ————————— Number brought to the floor in 2011 0 ————————–– Number brought to the floor in 2012 2 U.S.C. 631 ––—–—– Title and Section of the U.S. Code that requires a budget be passed Note: To view this document as a 1-page PDF, please click here. 
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An Open Letter to Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett: 2012 Elections
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett 211 South Fifth St Columbus, OH 43215
Dear Chairman Bennett,
In light of your recent comments in which you stated former Congressman Bob McEwen would be named as Spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party during the 2012 election cycle, accordingly, we feel the need to respond and share our concerns.
With what arguably may be the most important election many of us will ever face in our lifetime, the importance of acting soundly, smartly, and with integrity cannot be underestimated. Because Ohio is a key battleground state, decisions and actions in Ohio made during this election cycle WILL play prominently in the eventual outcome of the Presidential election
Considering his past role in the House Banking Scandal and past voting indiscretions, we believe the decision to name former Congressman and current ORP State Central Committeeman Bob McEwen as spokesman to be sorely lacking in political judgment and respectfully request this decision be rescinded or reconsidered.
While volunteers and Tea Party members across the state fan out in our GOTV efforts promoting our conservative values, voter integrity, and the need for integrity in our elected officials, the appointment of Congressman McEwen flies in the face of good judgment; an individual who can be attacked for having violated the public trust is a poor choice for a political party spokesman.
We know all too well how President Obama will do everything possible to deflect attention from his 4 years of...
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