Each year, Women & Children’s Hospital in Buffalo, New York, delivers 10 to 15 Canadian babies.  One of those newborns that the Canadian government-run health care system had no room to help, was Ava Isabella Stinson, pictured above.  When Ava was born premature (weighing only 2 pounds and 4 ounces), the “lack of any empty beds in a neonatal unit” forced her parents to seek… Read more

The Obama Administration famously predicted its so-called stimulus plan would “save or create 3.5 million jobs.”  However, the unemployment rate in June reached 9.5%, well above the 8% level the Administration projected if stimulus passed.  This means 2.5 million more Americans unemployed than the President promised. While the President… Read more

According to the National Retail Federation, which represents an industry with more than 24 million employees – about one in five American workers – the House Democrats’ health care bill poses a serious threat to employer sponsored insurance and job creation.  While voicing continued support for health care reform, the NRF detailed its concern about the House Democrats’… Read more

  According to a Quinnipiac University poll released July 1, Americans by a margin of 2:1 said a government takeover of health care would be a “bad thing.”  The results are not surprising given what has happened when foreign governments took over their countries' health care systems.  A brief scan of news headlines show the danger middle-class Americans face if the Democrats enact their… Read more

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's energy bill is intended to make the planet greener, but it will leave Ohioans and other Midwesterners seeing red. The Waxman-Markey bill, also known as Cap and Trade, should be known as Cap and Tax. In an answer to the liberal left's demands, Pelosi and Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman have tied climate change legislation to energy reform mandates that… Read more

Maine, Hawaii, and Massachusetts have attempted to reform their state health insurance regulations with troubling results.  Democrats in Congress are now seeking to expand these ideas nationwide.  The problem is that these “reforms” resulted in lost jobs, higher health care costs, and reduced access to care at the state-level.  Here are the results: Hawaii: In 1973, Hawaii enacted… Read more

The Obama Administration famously predicted its so-called stimulus plan would “save or create 3.5 million jobs.”  However, yesterday the President admitted that, “we haven’t always gotten the numbers right.”  An understatement?  You decide: two million jobs have been destroyed between February and June 2009.  The unemployment rate reached 9.5% in June, well above the 8% level the… Read more

Washington DC -- Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) commented on today's Senate Finance Hearing on Climate Change Legislation: International Trade Considerations: Congressman Dave Camp stated, “The Speaker rammed through the House a national energy tax bill that contains hastily crafted tariffs that will harm… Read more

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement on this morning’s White House announcement with hospital industry executives: “This is a great deal for hospitals, not American taxpayers.  After all, why should hospitals care whether they get their taxpayer subsidies through Medicare or some other taxpayer-funded, government-run… Read more

Trade Subcommittee Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) will offer an amendment today to H.R. 2997, the Agriculture Appropriations bill, to move funds to allow USDA economists to study the potential benefits pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea could hold for American farmers and ranchers.  In addition, the study would focus on the negative impact of not… Read more