RSC Republican Study Committee

• Waxman-Markey Deserves to Die Jul 27, 2009  - The fresh news about Washington--the White House and Congress--is that things are not going very well. A new president in full command of public-policy matters is having problems, from health care to taxes to massive federal spending and now to the Waxman-Markey bill, one of the oddest and most... More

• Davis Op-ed: Americans Deserve Better than National Energy Tax Jul 2, 2009  - On June 26th, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a controversial climate change bill that would impose a national energy tax on everyone from families and farmers to the elderly and small businesses, both in Kentucky and across the nation. H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and... More

• Texas GOP Members Challenge National Energy Tax Policy at Texas Energy Summit in Houston Jul 1, 2009  - Four Republican Texas Members of Congress today jointly hosted a Texas Energy Summit in Houston to discuss with leading energy experts what the “Cap-and-Trade” National Energy Tax will mean for Texas jobs and Texas families. The “Cap-and-Trade” National Energy Tax will create an artificial... More

• Democrats Slam Americans with National Energy Tax Jun 26, 2009  - Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives narrowly passed the 1,200+ page Waxman-Markey climate bill, one that surely no member of Congress could have fully read in the short time it was available. This National Energy... More

• The Cap and Tax Fiction Jun 25, 2009  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done. Despite House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry... More

• Bill Gives Billions to Save Trees in Other Nations Jun 25, 2009  - If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. - at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law. As part of the far-reaching climate bill, the House is set to vote Friday on a plan to pay companies billions of dollars not to... More

• Broun Op-ed: 'Cap-and-trade' Bill Will Cripple Economy Jun 25, 2009  - Summer travel season has officially begun, and liberals have scheduled a vote today in the U.S. House of Representatives on a national energy tax that will implement $646 billion in new taxes on the American people. Although my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refer to it as cap-and-trade... More

• Flashback: How did passing a thousand page bill without reading it work out last time? Jun 25, 2009  - With Democrats preparing to bring forth a 1,200 page bill that surely no member of Congress will be able to fully digest, it may be helpful to look back at what happened last time this happened. In February, when Democrats rushed through a 1,073 page “stimulus” bill without an opportunity to fully... More

• With National Energy Tax, Pelosi and Obama Forget the First Rule of Holes Jun 23, 2009  - According to reports, the Democrats intend to move forward with their plan to impose a National Energy Tax. And despite their unfounded claims of 150,000 jobs already “saved or created” increasing to 600,000 by the end of the summer, job losses continue to mount. According to The Washington... More

• Pence Op-ed: House Republicans Introduce Alternative to Speaker Pelosi’s National Energy Tax Jun 10, 2009  - Democrats’ national energy tax wages economic war on America’s families, businesses and family farms and they deserve better. Today House Republicans introduced the American Energy Act, an alternative to Speaker Pelosi’s National Energy Tax. As Chairman of the American Energy Solutions Group, I... More

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