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April 09, 2008
April 9, 2008House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today as Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker testified before the House on the continued progress of our troops in Iraq, and the imperative of returning them home safe, secure, and successful. Full release
U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao made the following statement regarding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's move on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: "The speaker's threatened actions will serve only to harm American workers by costing them good-paying jobs." Full release
Today, American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) Co-chairs Dr. Robert Shapiro and Ambassador Nancy Soderberg sent a letter to Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon requesting he discuss the global impact of Argentina's repudiated debt to U.S. bondholders, Argentina's close ties with dictator, Hugo Chavez, and the threat this relationship poses to U.S. security. Full release
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel held a news conference immediately following their Democratic Caucus meeting this morning. Full release
Only sixty days before voters choose the next President, FRC Action, the legislative action arm of Family Research Council, will host the third annual Values Voter Summit 2008 along with co-sponsors Focus on the Family Action, American Values and the Alliance Defense Fund. Last year's event drew over four hundred members of the media from every major media outlet in America and almost 2,600 activists from 49 states and foreign nations. Full release
The gaps between the incomes of the rich and the poor, and the rich and the middle class, have grown more in Mississippi since the late 1990s than in any other state, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, two Washington, DC-based think tanks. Only two states have a larger gap between rich and poor families, and only one state has a larger gap between rich and middle-class families. Full release.
This year is the third consecutive year that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has declared April, Financial Literacy Month. Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) and CPA members of the House, Reps. John Maher, Gordon Denlinger and Mike Peifer, sponsored the resolution to convey the importance of effectively managing finances, especially sticking to budgets, understanding the consequences of debt, and recognizing the benefits of opening savings accounts. Full release
Despite the fact that John McCain has made the same mistake FIVE times in five months, his campaign continues to claim that John McCain misspoke when he confused Sunni and Shiite extremists in Iraq. After McCain referred to al-Qaeda in Iraq as a Shia group during yesterday's Senate hearing with General Petraeus, McCain's campaign said the senator "stumbled on his words and corrected them immediately." Full release
The following editorial is from USA Today and is being issued by the Republican National Committee: [D]emocratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have each had what might best be called "trade moments." Obama was embarrassed after an aide told the Canadian government that Obama wasn't really serious about renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. And Clinton pushed aside her top strategist, Mark Penn, whose day job ... led him to promote a trade pact with Colombia that the candidate opposes. Full release
Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor tonight to urge the passage of her resolution in support of Tibet, H.R. 1077. Below are the Speaker's remarks, as prepared: "Thank you Chairman Howard Berman and Ranking Member Ileana Ros Lehtinen for your bipartisan support in bringing this resolution to the floor this evening. "This resolution on the situation in Tibet calls on the Chinese government to end the crackdown in Tibet, enter into a substantive dialogue directly with the Dalai Lama, allow independent monitors, journalists and medical personnel into Tibet, and release all Tibetans who were arrested for non-violently expressing their political views." Full release