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Sir Paul

2010-06-07T02:03:06Z

Sir Paul...where do I begin...what a classless and tasteless comment. A cheap shot that takes away from the moment of honor. You think he would remember that he is a role model....but his boorish behavior tells our youth: receive an honor and it's okay to bash someone who is not present . No facts...just political jeering...pandering to the current White House. How sad and disappointing his behavior was.

Conservative Strength

2009-09-07T20:11:00Z

Conservative Strength
Do we have one voice...or will we continue to have many leaders up until the mid-term elections?

The nation as a whole has re-learned that elections have consequences. We need to stay on top of the health care debate and cap and trade...we cannot give an inch...no in the name of bipartisanship. Give the Liberals an opening and it indeed will be a very slippery slope. We must remain steadfast and continue to examine legislation and the so-called "czars" (man, I hate that term!...it offends my sensibilities) It is ironic how the Obama administration changes the names of issues and operations to try to make it either politically correct or palatable to the public. (Overseas Contingency Operation vs. War on Terror, health care reform vs. health insurance reform) Then they choose the name "czar"...go figure. Then they hire folks who have not paid their taxes and forgive them...if this had been on the other side of the aisle...the press would still be beating this drum.

Health Care Reform Investigation by ABC 20/20

2009-09-07T20:09:00Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdx_2cuPgQQ

Outrage...you bet!

2009-09-07T20:07:00Z

This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in response to the Wall Street Journal article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July 31, 2008 . As of September '09 this is still true today. The only chance to turn things around is to stay active.
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" Really? I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening for who am I?

I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement..
I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change.

Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we could not afford The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone company , or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish." WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States . If Muslims want to live and work here, they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country.

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a Bag tax on grocery bags inCalifornia; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the lunacy stop?Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California "

There are a lot more out there, including myself, who think just like Alisa Wilson. The only difference is that she put her thoughts in an email that will reach thousands. I would like to keep this going in the hope that, eventually, WE will again become the Majority and help to return our nation to the values it was founded upon. How about YOU ?????

Michigan Congressman statement on Health care

2009-09-07T20:03:00Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc&feature=player_embedded

CIA Counterterrorism Expert: Obama and Holder 'At War' with Agency

2009-09-07T20:01:00Z

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_holder_war_with_cia/2009/08/31/254698.html

Why are we trying to remake the healthcare system for the minority?

2009-09-07T19:24:00Z

I just don't get it. Why does Congress...i.e. Nancy Pelosi think we must have this public option? She seems to want to remake the system for the few without health care and make it mandatory. Since when is government "Big Brother"? Next they want to tell us what to eat, how much exercise, what our thermostat must be at, what kind of car, how long to live, what drugs allowed for our age...and on and on...what business is it of theirs? If we can afford to keep out thermostat at a certain setting...leave us alone. Stop trying to be the thought police or the food police or inserting a government bureaucrat into our health care decisions.

Here is something written by author and playwright Walter A. Meares:

The Course Ahead

The way ahead is fraught with danger to the Republic. We are very
much at risk of being asked to vote ourselves into oblivion so we can
embrace a perfect society envisioned by those who will not yet define
it or subject it to a fair and open evaluation by the people - the voters,
those who must give their consent. Remember our nation is founded
on the premise that governments conceived by the people derive their
just powers from the consent of the governed.

The Obama administration seems to want what Thomas Sowell calls : "economic justice".
From a Daily News article: "What does "economic justice" mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?"

Newt Gingrich Article about a very slippery slope....

2009-08-12T20:22:00Z

August 12, 2009 | Vol. 4, No. 32

Trust the Government

by Newt Gingrich

How much is one additional year of your life worth?

Or one more year of life for your father or your wife? For your child?

In Great Britain, the government has settled on a number: $45,000.

That's how much a government commission with the Orwellian acronym NICE has decided British government-run health care will pay for one additional year of life for a British subject.

Think it could never happen here? Then you need to pay closer attention to what Washington is planning for your health care.

British Government Bureaucrats Literally Decide if Your Life is Worth Living

The British single-payer bureaucrats arrived at the price of an additional year of life in the same way they decide how much health care all British people will get, through a formula called "quality-adjusted life years."

That means that if you're sick in Great Britain, government bureaucrats literally decide if your life is worth living and, if so, how much longer and at what cost.

If it's more than $45,000, you're out of luck.

A Well-Connected White House Advocate for Allocating Health Care
Based on Perceived Societal Worth

In the highest levels of the Obama Administration there is a theory of how to ration health care that is troublingly reminiscent of the British system of "quality-adjusted life years."

Dr. Ezekial Emanuel is a key health care advisor to President Obama and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Earlier this year, Dr. Emanuel wrote an article that advocated what he called "the complete lives system" as a method for rationing health care. You can read it here.

The system advocated by Dr. Emanuel would allocate health care based on the government's perception of the societal worth of the patients. Accordingly, the very young and the very old would receive less care since the former have received less societal investment and the latter have less left to contribute.

"Forstall[ing] the Concern that Disproportionate Amounts of Resources
Will be Directed to Young People with Poor Prognosis"

"The Complete Lives System" would also consider the prognosis of the individual.

Quoting Dr. Emanuel: "A young person with a poor prognosis has had few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern that disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognosis."

When fully implemented, Dr. Emanuel's system, in his words, "produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."

"Chances that are attenuated" is a nice way of saying the young and the old are considered less worthy of health care and, under this system, will get less.

Once Government Becomes the Provider of Health Care,
Personal Decisions Become Public Decisions

The point is not that a health care rationing system like the one favored by Dr. Emmanuel will be implemented in the United States tomorrow.

The point is that, as in the British system, once government becomes the single payer or even the main payer of health care, what were once intensely personal decisions become public decisions. And as costs rise, government will look for ways to contain them.

The inevitable result of this pressure to control costs will be rationing, whether it occurs during this administration or the next. At some point, the government will be forced to deny care to those who don't meet the latest "quality-adjusted life years" cost-benefit analysis.

So the decision on what treatment to pursue that once would have been made by you and your doctor is now made for you by a bureaucrat using a formula - a formula to literally determine if your life is worth saving.

The Camel's Nose Under the Tent of Health Care Rationing

Societies don't arrive at this point overnight.

British health care was nationalized soon after World War II, but NICE, the health care rationing agency, wasn't created until the late 1990s as a way to control costs.

Today NICE routinely denies Britons life-prolonging drugs that are deemed not "cost effective" - drugs that are widely prescribed in America to treat cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other serious conditions.

The result, studies show, is that Great Britain's cancer survival rates are among the worst in Europe and lag behind the United States.

In America, Rationing Begins with Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)

In our country, the road to dehumanizing, bureaucratic health care rationing begins with something called comparative effectiveness research (CER). It sounds completely innocent. In practice, CER means comparing different treatments for diseases to see which works best. And what doctor or patient would object to that, right?

The problem is that, in the context of a government-run health care system, comparative effectiveness research becomes a way to find a cheaper, one-size-fits-all approach to medicine that will limit health care choices for patients.

But don't just take my word for it. Congressional Democrats included $1.1 billion in the Stimulus Bill for CER. Report language explaining the bill noted that the treatments found to be "more expensive" as result of the research "will no longer be prescribed" and that "guidelines" should be developed to manage doctors.

Congressional Democrats also killed several amendments to the current health care bill that would have prevented CER from being used to ration care. (To learn more about the common-sense amendments to the bill that have been blocked, click here).

The Government Has Determined You Must Take the Blue Pill

President Obama innocuously described the intended result of comparative effectiveness research like this: "If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?"

Listen to what the President is saying here. He's saying that the government is capable of determining which pill works best for you and should therefore only pay for that pill.

But this one-size-fits-all approach goes against everything modern medicine is learning about the genetics of the human body. Different individuals and members of different ethnic and age groups respond differently to treatments. More and more, treatment of diseases like cancer is highly individualized and based on a genetic analysis of both the patient and her disease. Science is leading us in one direction and the administration and the Congress are taking us in the other.

What if you get sick and your doctor says you need the red pill, but the government has determined that the blue pill is what works best for its budget? In a single payer health world, what do you do then?

Creating a Commission to do the Dirty Work

Government bureaucrats limiting health care choices is terribly unpopular of course, which is why politicians use terms like "comparative effectiveness research" instead of "rationing."

Another method Washington uses to avoid complicity in health care rationing is the creation of government boards or commissions - like Britain's NICE - to do the job for them.

President Obama has expressed his support for using the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a commission created to advise Congress on Medicare, to achieve cost savings under health care reform.

Because the commission's decisions could only be over-ridden by a joint resolution of Congress, it would be virtually unaccountable to the people - and nervous members of Congress could blame the commission for unpopular decisions.

Combine this kind of a commission with the "complete lives system" advocated by White House health care advisor Dr. Ezekial Emanuel and you end up with a government rationing board literally determining which Americans should live and which should die.

Just Trust the Government

Supporters of government-run health care dismiss these worries as alarmist. They argue that because their big government health care bill doesn't overtly call for rationing, it is somehow illegitimate to talk about this danger.

But it is always legitimate to consider the long-term consequences of a government program. By refusing to have an honest debate of this issue - to explore honestly the consequences of the "painful choices" that all supporters of government health care say must be made - their argument boils down to nothing more than this:

Trust the government.

Trust the politicians who are passing 1000-page bills they haven't read.

Trust the leaders who are demonizing the citizens seeking to express their disagreement by calling them "un-American."

Trust the advisors who advocate sacrificing the weak and the old and then hide in the shadows.

Trust the government to know what's best for the most intimate, most personal part of you and your family's life: your health.

Go ask a British citizen if it's worth it.

To just shut up and trust the government.

Your friend,

Newt Gingrich

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Of course, just because the big government health bill in Congress should be defeated doesn't mean that America's health system isn't in urgent need of reform. For more information about the work we're doing in health and healthcare, please visit the Center for Health Transformation.
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Why is it so hard for the Liberals and Progressive Democrats to "sell" their plan?

2009-08-11T23:30:00Z

If you have a great product and want to sell it...then all you need is superior product knowledge and a little faith in the product as well as yourself...

To me, it seems that the Liberal Left has none of the above. They do not have a great product (evidenced by the fact that they voted down John Shadegg's amendment to mandate it for all Federal employees and the Congress). They do not have faith in it...as evidenced by the fact that they keep changing the discussion to swastikas, Nazis, right wing wackos, domestic terrorists, astro turf, tea bag movement, racists, etc. They blame the right for attending town halls and asking substantive questions. They blame the insurance companies. Why do we need a villain? They run from discussing the substance of what is in the bill...printed on the 1,000 plus pages. One must ask oneself why?

When confronted by constituents, it seems some politicians want to avoid answering specific questions or "fudge" their answers to CYA. The public would have a lot more confidence in the administration if the Senators and Representatives would come out and answer by documenting pages of the given bill. After all it is their job to read and explain said bill to us their "employer". (This is what John Shadegg did.)

ObamaCare Rushing to the Finish Line

2009-08-11T23:28:00Z

David Axelrod tells me to have a Reality Check...Perhaps He Needs it More Than I Do

2009-08-10T14:59:00Z

I sent an email to the White House and received a generic email by David Axelrod about having a "reality check" on OBAMA HEALTHSCARE!

This is my reply:

It's time for a reality check

Dear David,

The Administration NEEDS a reality check...the American people do not want your type of Healthcare reform. I attended a very civil town hall held by John Shadegg. People expressed their concerns about this bill. Out of 250 plus people, only a handful were supportive of this bill. Funny but the local paper neglected to cover the meeting, they only printed a protest that happened at some other Representative's office.

We support the Shadegg HealthChoice bill. Get real, you cannot sell the American citizenry a "pig in a poke" or Waxman's bill. You cannot cram this program down our throats...well maybe you can...but I think that if it was so good, you would have an easier time selling it. READ THE BILL. If it is not good enough for all you government bureaucrats and your families...what makes it good enough for my family? We need HealthChoice. Why did Congress vote down an Amendment (by John Shadegg)that would have required all elected officials, and Federal employees to be on this plan?

I will continue to spread the TRUTH...as I am reading the bill. I will continue to fight against any government takeover of Healthcare. Government has NO BUSINESS COMING IN BETWEEN ME AND MY DOCTOR AND OUR MEDICAL DECISIONS...PERIOD! You may be able to pick winners and losers in industry through the awarding of bailout cash, but you do NOT have any right to determine my medical care or treatments....that is a private decision, i.e. between patient and physician!

I agree some aspects of healthcare need a fix...start with TORT reform. Try cutting the fraud out of Medicare and Medicaid...two ill run government programs.

We will just have to agree to disagree on this issue.

Thank you for your time.

Julie Frybarger

ObamaCare ObamaScare: HealthCare or HealthScare? You decide!

2009-08-09T23:27:00Z

Townhall Meeting with John Shadegg Saturday August 8,2009

2009-08-08T22:52:00Z

I attended a Town hall meeting held by Arizona Congressman John Shadegg. It was held in the cafeteria of a Arcadia Neighborhood Learning Center.
The hall could hold 200, but was overflowing. There were people sitting on the floor, standing in the open aisles, as well as outside. Some carried very creative and succinct signs.
It was scheduled to run from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Congressman Shadegg went on answering questions until approximately 1:40 p.m.

Congressman Shadegg set the tone for the forum at the outset. It was to be a civil discourse, both from those who agreed with him as well as those who may not. He asked the crowd to be polite to both sides. Support for the Congressman was overwhelming. I arrived an hour early and the place was briskly filling up with people.

Questions ranged from what is in the bill to tort reform and healthcare choice. People asked questions about the cost (they have Medicare and know the monthly cost)...but no one in Congress knows the answer to this one. Many people were adamantly opposed to the government takeover of the Health Care industry. They cannot run the Post Office, Amtrak, Medicare, or Medicaid efficiently, so why should we believe or trust that they could run "Obamacare". There is a myth that you can keep your current coverage...well yes, sort of...for a day, week, up to five years maybe; however, your insurance company cannot modify your plan (other than to add family members), if it does, the plan is void and then you are forced to join the government plan. This is freedom of choice?

John Shadegg's bill offers HEALTHCARE CHOICE. It attempts to fix some areas, but not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Under his plan you can shop health insurance companies like you shop for auto insurance, so you can get the plan that works best for your family. This way families are not forced to take their employer's plan. Another interesting fact is that employer offered plans get a tax break. How about giving the tax break to the people? Shadegg's plan would help those who have pre-existing conditions, for whom coverage is currently denied or exorbitantly expensive. I liked his approach. It is a common sense reform. It attacks areas that do need improvement.

We have the BEST healthcare system in the world. People flock to the USA for treatments...who leaves? Several doctors spoke up advising against this plan. One worked in the VA hospitals. The gist of his statement was: Go spend one whole day at a VA hospital, I guarantee you will not want government running your healthcare. That fact in itself is a travesty of justice...too many veterans have often paid dearly to preserve our freedom, and our government cannot offer them a decent and efficient healthcare system?

Other people brought up the economics of this program: it will create wait lists to have everyone on one program, and a possible shortage of doctors. How many people will pursue medical school it the government is going to control their compensation? Doctors have years of schooling: medical school, residency, and more school for specialties...it is very expensive, not to forget setting up an office...what incentive is there for aspiring medical professionals within a government healthcare plan? Perhaps it should be called a HealthScare plan?

People are concerned about rationing of care for the elderly. Some mentioned that they had paid into the system, and now they will not receive the care promised. Who determines someone's "quality of life"? For example: drugs, there may be several pills to treat high blood pressure. All have some sort of side effect. What if as the patient you tried the least expensive pill and it had a side effect that caused you to cough all day and all night? So you try a different drug (more expensive), and the coughing is eliminated. Obviously, you opt to take the second drug. Now will some bureaucrat come forward and say : " You are old, this is how life is, get the cheaper pill and just deal with the cough!" Have we become a "throwaway" society to those whom we have entrusted with the power to run our country?

I for one do not want a government bureaucrat coming in between me and my physician and our medial decisions. Nor do I want my medical records in Washington D.C.

Many were concerned with the constitutionality of the flag@whitehouse.gov program, as well as the constitutionality of a government takeover of the healthcare system. We do not want more government intrusion into our private lives.

The day after this event I looked in our local paper for coverage. There was none. They had a photo of one protester at Congressman Harry Reid's office, but that was it. Why did the media ignore this event? Healthcare and jobs are two of the most important issues going on in our country today. The local paper swept it under the rug. Interestingly, they did run an article about an Iowa town hall.

This was an informed grassroots group of individuals.

If you are against Obamacare then be sure to talk to your friends and any others you come in contact with daily.
Write Senators as well as Representatives. There is a small chance we can stop it in the Senate.

Obama Universal Single Payer Healthcare: Politics as usual

2009-08-06T04:24:00Z

"Last Friday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee met to markup the Majority’s health care bill. Democrats sent a clear message to Americans everywhere, when they voted against an amendment that would have included Congress and all federal employees in the government-run health care they are imposing on you and your family. In fact, Democrats later voted against allowing the American people the same private health care options available to Members of Congress. This is a perfect example of the doubletalk we are witnessing everyday from the Nancy Pelosi Democrats." Per John Shadegg

Obama Healthcare Must be Defeated

2009-07-31T19:17:00Z

Open Letter to Congress:

So called Healthcare Reform is an intrusion into our personal freedoms and liberties.

We are against this Government Healthcare Reform bill. We do not want government coming in between us and our physicians. How dare this administration try to have some Washington bureaucrat tell our doctor what is the appropriate test and form of treatment. Medical issues are personal and private matters…i.e. NONE of the government’s business!

We want less government intrusion in our lives. The USA has the BEST healthcare in the world. People come here for help…no one leaves the USA for care (unless it is experimental procedures or drugs).

What we need is TORT reform to bring down costs.

The government has proven over and over that it cannot run programs as effectively as the private sector. Look at Medicare, Medicaid, Cash for Clunkers, Amtrak, or the Postal Service. How about trying to eliminate waste and fraud in these programs for 2 years?

We reject the “nanny-state” idea of universal healthcare. Encourage insurance companies via tax breaks to offer more options of affordable coverage. But no government mandates of fines. This is about personal freedom and choice.

Isn't it curious that no legislators are willing to sign up for the Obama plan for their own families.   It is also worth noting the number of people who vote without READING the bill.

The President is prevaricating in his “bully pulpit” appearances. He says we can keep our existing plan…the bill says that is for about 5 years before we must change…or be fined. He talks of keeping costs down...at the sacrifice of quality of life for the patient?

If you take medication, you know there are side effects. Sometimes you must try two or three different medications to find the one that gives you the least objectionable side effects. If it happens to be a more expensive drug, will a government bureaucrat tell us, "Sorry, you get the cheaper pill...deal with it."? Will the government bureaucrat also decide which doctors are performingproperly? Will political persuasion enter in to their decisions? Whydoes the Obama administration want to limit liberty?   This is freedom?! The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves!

How can some Congressmen lecture us on being responsible with regard to healthcare, when they are irresponsible in thier jobs by not doing their work (reading a bill, giving themselves exemptions to legislation, or listening to the majority of people in this country) Congress is elected by us, the people, not by the special interests. It may take some time, but we the people will make changes to our representation.

Be forewarned Congress...you and your colleagues may be looking more earnestly at the unemployment numbers, as you may be joining their ranks in the not too distant future.

I think Job creation is a more important issue for Washington to concentrate on.

Wake up and stand up America for what is right and for FREEDOM!

Call the Blue Dog Democrats:

BLUE DOG Democrats CAN KILL OBAMA HEALTH CARE REFORM
There are EIGHT "Blue Dog Democrats" who sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee. If these eight Democrats do not support the legislation, passage would likely not succeed. It is CRITICAL to contact them TODAY and make your voice heard.
John Barrow (GA-12) p: (202) 225-2823, f: (202) 225-3377, email.
Bart Gordon (TN-06) p: (202) 225-4231, f: (202) 225-6887, email.
Baron Hill (IN-09) p: (202) 225-5315, f: (202) 226-6866, email.
Jane Harman (CA-36) p: (202) 225-8220, f: (202) 226-7290, email.
Jim Matheson (UT-02) p: (202) 225-3011, f: (202) 225-5638, email.
Charlie Melancon (LA-03) p: (202) 225-4031, f: (202) 226-3944, email.
Mike Ross (AR-04) p: (202) 225-3772, f: (202) 225-1314, email.
Zack Space (OH-18) p: (202) 225-6265, f: (202) 225-3394,

Buy American whenever possible!

2009-03-22T20:42:00Z

It is more important than ever to "buy American". Look at what you select at the grocery store.

Two recent finds:

Everyday Living Fabric Softener sheets were made in the USA and on sale! Other brands were made in Canada.
Kleenex with lotion is made in the USA.

If we all make the effort..no matter how small...we can impact this recession. One person can make a difference.