Over the past 2 weeks I have heard about the job-killing effect the recently passed government health care takeover will have from concerned citizens across South Carolina. I've heard from small business owners, the primary providers of…

Repealing the government takeover of health care is the first step, with an immediate replacement for insurance reform. It is important that we offer our patient-centered plan, H.R. 3400, to cover preexisting conditions, to help small…

219 liberals on the other side of the aisle may have passed a government health care takeover, but the American people still have a voice to tell their lawmakers to repeal these job-killing mandates and finally focus on job creation…

The health care takeover vote last night was a battle in the ongoing war between supporters of limited government and the forces of big government. The fight will continue as we promote limited government and expanded freedom. I was very…

As we vote on health care takeover, I urge Members of both parties to pay attention to the counsel of the National Federation of Independent Business, NFIB, the Nation's leading small business association. "Small business has been…

Ronald Reagan once said the most terrifying words in the English language are, ``I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'' This is exactly what Washington liberals are trying to tell the American people. The scheme that the…

The preliminary cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office for the health care takeover is $940 billion. It is bizarre. Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are spinning this number. How many Americans today…

As backroom deals and threats continue to force a health care takeover vote, the costs from the Congressional Budget Office have just been released of nearly $1 trillion. State leaders across the country have recognized that this takeover…

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal highlights the process by which Democrats are trying to pass this government health care takeover. The process is just as bad as the provisions of the bill. Professor Michael McConnell, Director of the…

This week it was announced that the unemployment rate in my home State reached a tragic new high of 12.6 percent. Statewide, 172,400 people have lost their jobs since the end of 2007. In this crisis, the administration has irresponsibly…

The process that liberals are considering to take to pass the government health care takeover is almost as bad as the bill itself. The latest plan includes the House passing the Senate's version of the takeover bill, complete with the…

The House is considering today a dangerous resolution: the Afghanistan retreat. As a father of four sons in the military and as a former member of the 218th Brigade of the South Carolina National Guard, which served for a year in…

The President's recent budget proposal to Congress kills funding for Yucca Mountain. Without a safe and secure location like Yucca Mountain, nuclear energy development in America cannot progress. Newspaper editorials throughout South…

This morning, 79 students from Orangeburg Preparatory School in South Carolina's Second District are in the Capitol to learn about the legislative process and the history of the Nation's Capitol Building. Under the leadership of Head…

On Monday I will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Home Depot's Rapid Deployment Center. Located in the midlands of South Carolina, this Rapid Deployment Center will not only create new jobs for South Carolinians, but it will…

A government takeover of health care was rushed to happen last July, but during overflowing town hall meetings and then in Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey, the American people made it perfectly clear that a Big Government takeover…

Yesterday, the President missed an important opportunity to restart the national debate on health care reform. Americans who tuned into this health care summit were disappointed that they were left with the same Big Government health care…

Last week marked the first year of the trillion dollar spending bill claimed to produce jobs, but The Island Packet at Hilton Head Island reports the fact that more than 4 million jobs have been lost. With 7.5 million jobs lost since…

Unemployment is still at double digits across the country; and in my home State of South Carolina, it is at a record high of 12.6 percent. Families are hurting, loosing jobs. With this dismal backdrop, why would the administration propose…

In his State of the Union address last week, the President stepped up his rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. But just yesterday the President presented a budget reminiscent of last year's that spends too much, taxes too much, and…

It is a good question, Mr. Lamborn, and we are talking about that among ourselves as veterans service organizations.

It would be useful, if Congress could articulate its wishes that, in fact, the VA must be specific, not generic, in its notices to veterans.

Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office announced that the cost of the President's spending plan has jumped another $75 billion. Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times reported that ``the country faces giant budget deficits…

Where are the jobs? This is the question I continue to ask the liberal majority, since they persist pushing legislation killing jobs. Families are hurting, particularly in South Carolina, where the unemployment rate recently jumped to a…

1 year ago today, the President was sworn into office, giving Democrats full control of Congress and the White House. After promising the American people a misnamed stimulus plan to keep unemployment under 8 percent, we see 10 percent…