The New Congress and You

In January 2011 the midterm election changes come in to play, and here's some information you might like to have to keep your eye on how it looks to shape up, and how it may alter legislation.

Another consideration is the Mitch McConnell flip-flop on war funding and election results.

Washington Matters -John Boehner's Private Rolodex from Kiplinger's

Who's Funding Boehner

McConnell

Maxine on Health Care

Let me get this straight . . . ..

We're going to be given a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't,

Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents to administer the plan, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any “benefits” take effect, by a government which has almost bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.

What could possibly go wrong?



and at the same time

The chairmen of Obama’s bipartisan commission on reducing the national debt outlined a politically provocative and economically ambitious package of spending cuts and tax increases on Wednesday, igniting a debate that is likely to grip the country for years. 

The Chairmen: New House Leaders Have Familiar Ties to Business, Revolving Door