From Robert Hurt’s statement defending his support of the “Balanced” Budget Amendment and its ride ons: “Today’s vote was another action taken by the House to get our fiscal house in order to help grow the economy and create jobs for 5th District Virginians… Washington has a spending problem. And while the Administration and Congressional Democrats continue to support the current spending status quo, the House will make the tough but necessary choices to reduce our debt and deficits, return certainty to the marketplace so that our job creators will have the confidence necessary to hire and expand, and preserve [...]
Robert Hurt votes to kill 700,000 jobs, claims it was to “help grow the economy and create jobs”
Robert Hurt votes to kill 700,000 jobs, claims it was to “help grow the economy and create jobs”
Around the Web on July 18
Around the Web on July 18
The futility of cut, cap and balance in one graphic Published in the Washington Post a great graphic from the Center for American Progress on the absolute irrelevance of House Republcans’ “cut, cap and balance” so-called “plan.” Yale scientists discover the last living dinosaur Pretty cool discovery from Yale, finding, in Montana, the youngest dinosaur fossils found so far. The find apparently lends credence to the idea that dinosaur were thriving until a meteor hit earth 65 million years ago causing their extinction. Christopher J. Dumler Has Strong Fundraising Quarter My candidate, Christopher J. Dumler in Scottsville, Virginia, had an [...]