From the Nevada Policy Research Institute On January 26, 2012, President Obama visited a Las Vegas UPS plant. Stimulus subsidy for said UPS plant to purchase natural-gas-powered trucks: 5.6 million dollars. Stimulus subsidy for North Las Vegas green energy plant that laid off 200 workers yesterday: 5.9 million dollars. Using taxpayer dollars to leave an [...]
Congressman Joe Heck comments on President Obama’s State of the Union address “I hope President Obama will work with us to create private sector jobs, but after three years it’s time to evaluate his results. With Nevada’s unemployment rate at 12.6%, the fact is his policies haven’t helped Nevadans get back to work. We need [...]
1000 days, that’s a long time – no matter how you count it. But if your counting…Using simple math that’s: 1000 days 142.8571 weeks 35.71429 months 2.97619 years What’s the occasion? Oh, nothing important really – it’s just the amount of time that has passed since Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats have passed a [...]
Posted on Facebook by Senator Dean Heller on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 1:14pm According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, President Obama will be in Las Vegas on Wednesday and Thursday to further his campaign — spreading his message of higher taxes, more government spending, and even more burdensome regulations. With far too many in our state struggling [...]
While speaking at Disney World today, President Obama expressed his support for bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Joe Heck (NV-3) to help attract more international business travelers and tourists to America. The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act (H.R. 3039) was introduced September, 2011 and currently has 35 cosponsors including 12 Democrats. [...]
Did you ever think you would agree with Rachel Maddow? Me neither, but by blocking the creation of 20,000 new American jobs, President Obama has finally united the country. With bipartisan support, construction of the Keystone Pipeline should be a no brainer. Yet, it took an act of Congress to force the President to make [...]
Chairman Amy Tarkanian Nevada State GOP Chairman Las Vegas, NV – State GOP Chairman Tarkanian released the following statement after it was reported that President Barack Obama will block Keystone XL energy pipeline and the thousands of American jobs that will come along with it: “President Obama tries to act like he is working hard [...]
In just a few days, the U.S. Senate will once again debate and vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment. After years of reckless spending—from the Wall Street bailout to the failed stimulus—and record deficits, we need put a halt to the runaway growth of government that weighs down our economy. I support passing a Balanced [...]
By Gautham Nagesh – 11/16/11 06:52 PM ET The Hill THE LEDE: Any hope supporters had of the House quickly passing the Stop Online Piracy Act might have been quashed on Wednesday, when a one-sided hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee sparked a massive backlash online. The legislation would empower the government [...]
A Blueprint for Protecting U.S. Secrets 11/04/11 Espionage may seem like a throwback to earlier days of world wars and cold wars, but the threat is real and as serious as ever. We see it—and work hard to counter it—all the time. It’s not just the more traditional spies passing U.S. secrets to foreign governments, [...]
