I released the following statement on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Director Andy Slavitt’s response to a letter from the Ways and Means members requesting more information on the agency’s contingency plan ahead of the implementation of the 10th revision of the International Classification Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-10), a coding system used by doctors and health-care providers. Read more about CMS Looks to Avoid Healthcare.gov Rollout Problems with ICD-10
The President "avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities." Those were the words of Leon Panetta, President Obama's former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, in 2011. Read more about Does the US Have a Plan to Defeat ISIS?
Now, a Nobel prize winning scientist has called the position taken by the Pope, as endorsed by Barack Obama, "dead wrong". I will not further paraphrase or otherwise highlight the article, as I feel it speaks for itself.
Is Greece our future? No matter how you spin it, the failure of Greece is a failure of leftist economics where Greeks ran out of someone else’s money. The flight from reality was present in their last vote, but it is also a failure of the European Union since the EU has become a super administrative state, and the flight of reality goes as high as Brussels. Read more about Is Greece Our Future?
It's been a little over a week since the Supreme Court granted a ruling making gay marriage the law of the land nationwide. The overused joke is that Facebook feeds have begun to look like a war between the Confederacy and Skittles as either the Confederate (Virginia Battle Flag) Flag or the rainbow flag seem to be a part of every post. Read more about We Will Never Lead by Demanding the World do Something We Will Not
In response to continued obstruction of congressional requests, I along with Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas), offered an amendment to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. The amendment was offered to a Department of Interior appropriations bill (H.R. Read more about Congressman Smith Amendment Combats EPA Obstruction with Budget Cuts
I hope you had a great Fourth of July surrounded by family and friends. The month of July will be a busy one in the House of Representatives. We are expected to tackle some very important issues as we continue to move forward our policy agenda to make America stronger. Right now, our national debt is over $18 trillion and growing. This means a debt burden of roughly $57,000 per American citizen. We can do better. Read more about The July Agenda