Republican Leaders to President: Start Over
Posted by: Pitts Press Office (02-09-2010, 01:01 PM)

Republican Leader Boehner and Whip Cantor wrote the President yesterday asking him to start over if he wants to have a truly bipartisan healthcare reform bill. The President has invited the GOP to attend a televised meeting to discuss healthcare reform, but he has still not rejected the House and Senate bills which included no bipartisan input. The first step in building bipartisan support is rejecting efforts that were so clearly partisan and contained numerous special deals like the Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback. Read the letter here.

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Lancaster Newspapers Corrects the Record
Posted by: Rep. Joe Pitts (02-04-2010, 10:40 AM)

Today's Lancaster Intelligencer Journal New Era corrected the record on a letter to the editor that maintained that I voted against unemployment benefits. See the correction below:

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$2 Trillion Tax Hike Coming
Posted by: Pitts Press Office (02-02-2010, 09:50 AM)

The President's budget released yesterday calls for a $2 trillion hike in taxes on businesses and individuals in the next decade. Even with this massive hike, the Obama budget still predicts substantial deficits that would lead to a doubling of the national debt. This year alone, the national debt will increase by $1.56 trillion. See today's Wall Street Journal editorial for a full list of the various tax hikes.

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Spending Freeze Already Rejected
Posted by: Pitts Press Office (01-28-2010, 02:31 PM)

This morning the Senate rejected a bipartisan bill that would have capped discretionary spending at 1 percent growth for non-defense programs. This comes less than 24 hours after President Obama called for zero percent growth for these programs. You can see the breakdown of the nearly party line vote here.

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Rep. Buchanan Launches Effort to Televise Negotiations
Posted by: Pitts Press Office (01-13-2010, 09:23 AM)

Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) has introduced a bill to require that House and Senate leaders televise negotiations over a final healthcare bill and is now seeking signatures on a petition to force a House vote on the bill. Rep. Pitts is a cosponsor of the measure, H.Res. 847, and, should the petition recieve the signatures of the majority of Representatives, Speaker Pelosi will be forced to bring it to a vote. Negotiations are going on right now so Members will have to act quickly to ensure that the public can know what is going on behind closed doors.

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