U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) Tuesday, March 13, joined a dozen other senators in offering an amendment to the Continuing Resolution legislation in the Senate to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
“ObamaCare is and never was the shining star that President Obama and Democrats sold it to the American public as when they forced it through Congress,” said Inhofe.
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) today, March 13, commented on the 587-page Continuing Resolution before the Senate this week that spends over $1 trillion in federal tax dollars.
Senator John McCain released the following statement:
“As budget sequestration continues to level strain and uncertainty on the men and women of our nation’s armed forces, and as we draw closer to the ‘devastating’ effects on our military readiness as foreseen by our former Secretary of Defense, Members of Congress have an even more profound responsibility to account for every taxpayer dollar. Every dollar we waste through pork barrel spending today is a dollar not spent to support our troops and preserve our nation’s security.
A leaked email from an Agriculture Department field officer adds fuel to claims President Obama’s political strategy is to make the billions in recent federal budget cuts as painful as possible to win the public opinion battle against Republicans.
The email, circulated around Capitol Hill, was sent Monday by Charles Brown, a director at the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C. He appears to tell his regional team about a response to his recent question on the amount of latitude he has in making cuts.
On Monday, March 4th 2013 Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) delivered the following speech on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.
“Mr. Speaker, I come before you today not as a Republican or a Democrat but an American committed to the U.S. Constitution. I regularly hear from constituents – regardless of party affiliation – who are fed up with the partisan fighting. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America, not our political parties.
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog group, Yukiya Amano, said today that he was “unable to report any progress” in the organization’s talks with Iran over its atomic program.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has been trying for more than a year to persuade Iran to cooperate with a long-stalled
agency investigation into suspected atom bomb research by the Islamic state, which denies any such activity.