Politics

Congressman helps answer your questions

Posted on July 22, 2008
Congressman Boozman was in Ozark on Monday to meet with constituents to see how he can help with problems they have with the federal government.   About 30 people came to the Ozark Chamber of Commerce building during the Mobile Office event. The congressman and his staff helped answer questions about the new VA satellite campus, grant [...

Boozman Committed To Opening Up Additional Land for Domestic Energy Exploration

Posted on July 17, 2008
Congressman Boozman reaffirmed his commitment to help Arkansans suffering from the high cost of fuel, by voting against H.R. 6515.   The approach to expanding America?s energy supply needs to include opening up new land for exploration. H.R. 6515 doesn?t allow us to utilize areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), an area the U...

Boozman Votes to Override Medicare Veto

Posted on July 16, 2008
Congressman Boozman voted to give Arkansans on Medicare continued coverage, voting for H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act. President Bush’s veto on the bill was overridden by the House of Representatives by a vote of 383 to 41 on Tuesday...

Energy Fact of the Day

Posted on July 10, 2008
Coal is America?s largest domestic energy resource ? enough to last 250 years at current rates of use. Source: Department of Energy 

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Local Immigration Laws Survive Court Challenges

Posted on February 11, 2008
Interesting story in the New York Times on how lower courts have affirmed state and local immigration laws which have met opposition by illegal immigrant organizations. And, in an even more sweeping ruling in December, a judge in Oklahoma, James H. Payne, threw out a lawsuit against a state statute enacted last year requiring state contractors [...

Pelosi swings and misses, yet again

Posted on February 11, 2008
?There haven’t been gains, Wolf,? the speaker replied. ?The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure. Those were the words from Speaker Nancy Pelosi while speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday...

Protect America Alert

Posted on February 07, 2008

The New Green Gourmet Direction

Posted on January 15, 2008
The limp corn-based straw and the recycled coffee cup: a legacy of the “New Direction” from Speaker Pelosi. Notice how you need two cups to not burn your hand, and how the straw doesn’t hold up to the heat. The response from the powers-that-be: ?We have had a few people observe that [straw] phenomenon and we had to [...

Detour to a ?new direction??

Posted on January 15, 2008
From The Washington Times:

Gold Mouse Award Winner

Posted on January 14, 2008
Rep. John Boozman was honored Monday with the 2007 Gold Mouse Award for having one of the top Internet sites in Congress. Click here for the press release. This is the second Gold Mouse Award for Rep. Boozman - the first coming in 2003. Congratulations to all the winners! 2007 Gold Mouse Award Winners House Members Rep...

A New Direction: Impotence

Posted on January 14, 2008
From the Washington Times comes an article which predicts an impotent 2nd session of the 110th Congress. Included in the dire analysis is the liberal Brookings Institution: “The stars are in configuration for this to be the least productive [legislative session] during an eighth year of a [presidential] administration,” said Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution, [...

King o? Pork

Posted on January 14, 2008
An editorial from this morning’s New York Times on porcine spending of taxpayer money which results in deepening campaign coffers. The new earmark disclosure rules put into effect by Congress confirm the pre-eminence of Representative John Murtha at procuring eye-popping chunks of pork for contractors he helped put in business in Johnstown, Pa...

An Iraqi ?Fairy Tale?

Posted on January 14, 2008
From Bill Kristol in The New York Times on how a certain candidate for the presidency who had to suspend disbelief to believe General David Petraeus is claiming some success for the improving situation in Iraq: Yesterday, on ?Meet the Press,? Hillary Clinton claimed that the Iraqis are changing their ways in part because of [...

AMT Tax Patch

Posted on December 19, 2007
Passes. 23 million Americans saved from a tax they have never had to pay before. 352-64.

Honoring Coach Broyles

Posted on December 19, 2007
Rep. John Boozman joined with the Arkansas House delegation in honoring University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles.

Rock Bottom

Posted on December 17, 2007
From the Washington Times: an editorial decrying the denigration of the political process. The chief concern: how Republicans “like” the war. It finishes strongly: “Notices also went out to all Army command facilities in the United States and abroad with civilian employees and contractors, and to U...

Want to soak the rich? Lower those rates.

Posted on December 17, 2007
Some interesting reading from this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Turns out the rich have been paying an even larger “fair share” than ever, and it is thanks to the Republican in the White House. Here is the full text: Taxes and Income The Wall Street Journal December 17, 2007; Page A20 Every Democrat running for President wants to raise taxes [...

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