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Excerpt: "With national unemployment above eight percent for three years and debt challenges so great they threaten to diminish our children's futures, America needed more than an election-year budget with the same debt, doubt, and job-destroying policies from President Obama."
Article: by Richard Rubin
Excerpt: “The international comparisons are very helpful because they frame the entire debate,” Representative Peter Roskam, an Illinois Republican who has introduced legislation to make the current rates permanent, said in an interview. “It’s a zero-sum game. Capital is fungible and capital is going to go where it’s treated best.” Roskam said he and other Republicans will continue using international comparisons as they seek to shape a broader overhaul of the tax code. “The world isn’t waiting,” he said. “We’re wise to be measured by the fact that other tax jurisdictions have gotten the joke.”
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Excerpt: "What I have found is that if you want to be an effective member of Congress you need to listen to your district and I get regular communications by e-mail and Facebook and Twitter and regular old fashioned letters. You name it, I hear from folks. And I want to try and give a feedback loop to talk about some of these issues that are top of mind to all of us."
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Excerpt: "Unemployment is still above 8 percent effectively three years after the "stimulus" passed. Yet even still, the Administration's putting their political agenda ahead of American jobs."
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Excerpt: "The CLASS Act was just he kind of fantasy budgetary gimmick only dreamed up in Washington. This cornerstone program of the Democrats healthcare overhaul -- supposedly a way to pay for Obamacare's outrageous cost -- is just one more broken promise that's saddled the American taxpayer with more debt."
Article: Daily Herald, by Kerry Lester
Excerpt: " The real focus continues to be on jobs and economic growth. The entire debate is on how do you do that, how you create an environment when you try to see 5 and 6 percent growth."
Article, by Adam Kredo
Excerpt: "The letter signals a sense of urgency from members on both sides of the aisle, as well as frustration that the Obama administration is not doing everything it can to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear capability."
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Excerpt: "With a belligerent Iranian regime marching towards nuclear capability, the time is now for President Obama to fully unleash the new sanctions at his disposal."
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Excerpt: "Rather than commonsense solutions, Americans heard a campaign speech of broad platitudes supporting the same policies that have made our economy worse."
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Excerpt: "I was disturbed to hear about Senator Kirk. Elizabeth and I have Mark and his family in our thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time."