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Below is a press release that Mike and Rep. Gene Green (TX-D) sent out today announcing the introduction of the Local Radio Freedom Act. Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Conaway (R-TX) and Gene Green (D-TX) introduced the bipartisan Local Radio Freedom Act. The Local Radio Freedom Act declares Congress’ support of free local radio and opposes [...]
Today, Congress will vote to extend the moratorium on taxing the internet. Today’s vote will extend the moratorium until 2014. The Internet Tax Freedom Act was first enacted in 1998 and placed a tax moratorium on states and local governments from imposing taxes on Internet access or e-commerce. Only 45% of households have purchased broadband [...]
Mike discusses the problems with the Democratic SCHIP bill and recently proposed Democrat tax changes.
Just after midnight on January 1, 1946, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was born. Last week, Ms. Casey-Kirschling became the first Baby Boomer to apply for Social Security benefits, set to take effect January 1, 2008 on her 62nd birthday. In the coming years, some 80 million Baby Boomers (everyone who was born from 1946 to 1964) will [...]
We all make mistakes and say things we later regret. Individuals of deep character and strong self image generally apologize quickly for the errors they make. Representative Pete Stark’s comments on the House floor yesterday regarding the President being amused by the deaths of men and women in uniform in Iraq were outrageous and inexcusable [...]
Mike discusses the unfinished business of the year in this week’s podcast.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives voted to sustain the Presidential veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). I am pleased that the President’s veto was sustained by the House. Congress has wasted valuable time caught up in political games just to prove that this legislation is fatally flawed and must [...]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is once again attempting to undermine U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East by attempting to pass a House Resolution that would condemn Turkey for the Armenian genocide of 1915. H. Res. 106, which has passed through the House Foreign Affairs committee, has the potential to jeopardize our alliance [...]
Through your calls, mail, and first-hand in townhall meetings in Texas, Mike hears from you overwhelmingly about your concerns with health care costs. Based on data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), 47 million people in the United States had no health insurance in 2006, many of whom are young adults. Alarmingly, Texas [...]
UPDATE: Click below to listen to Mike’s Podcast on the Architect of the Capitol’s decision to remove ‘God’ from U.S. Capitol Flag Certificates. Yesterday, Mike submitted a blog entry to the blog of the Capitol Hill newspaper “The Hill” regarding the religious censorship on flag certificates by the Architect of the Capitol. You may read [...]
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