Congressman MIKE POMPEO, R-Kansas
Posted on 02/27/2013 2:17:00 PM PST by KeyLargo
Congressman Takes No [Bleep] From Obama
Quin Hillyer
Sophomore U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, graduated first in his class at West Point, graduated from Harvard Law School, had a hugely successful career in the aerospace industry, and also has a think-tank background. He may be a seriously rising star. Anyway, he put out a self-explanatory press release that is a beauty to behold.
Today, White House Spokesman Jay Carney asked during a press briefing what Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, would say to defense workers facing furlough because of the President’s sequester plan. The following is his statement:
“Mr. Carney doesn’t understand that not every public official is willing to play games with lives of hard-working Americans for political gain like his boss, President Obama. I said that the sequester is a home run not because it is good politics, but because it begins to put America back on the right fiscal track.
“I would welcome the opportunity to tell the 90,000 furloughed workers, the ones President Obama is choosing to let go of, that they need to know several things:
“First, the sequester does not have to mean furloughs. The President is choosing to make this minor reduction in spending painful—by furloughing people—in order to pursue his twin goals of raising taxes and increasing the size of the federal government. The President wasted $1 trillion dollars of stimulus money that did nothing to grow our economy and create jobs. Now, he is needlessly using a decrease in federal spending amounting to less than a few percent to harm even more American workers and their families.
“Second, there are fewer Americans working in America today than when the President took office. I find it bizarre that Mr. Carney would ask me about talking to furloughed workers.
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Congressman MIKE POMPEO, R-Kansas
Right on, Congressman!
My congressman from TX-22 sits in the back of the class with is head down trying not to be noticed.
“Mike Pompeo was elected to the 112th Congress on November 2, 2010—having neither run for nor held elected office before. Mike has a deep commitment to limited government, freedom, individual responsibility, and rewarding earned success. He serves on the Energy and Commerce committee, the oldest committee in the House, which has jurisdiction over nearly half of all legislative subjects, including federal law relating to health care, telecommunications, energy, manufacturing and trade.”
Bio at: http://pompeo.house.gov/biography/
pompeo.house.gov
Mike Pompeo
Contact: J.P. Freire 202-557-9144
Washington, Feb 12 -
Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, responded to the President’s State of the Union with the following statement:
“The president thinks he knows what CEOs want. I was a manufacturing CEO twice: once in aviation, an industry which he has relentlessly attacked, and once in energy, an industry he has also relentlessly attacked. And I have news for him: He has no idea what CEOs want.
“He wants to cut ‘special loopholes’ that are neither ‘special’ nor ‘loopholes’ – they’re the same boring depreciation schedules all small businesses use. He calls for modern pipelines to withstand a storm and promises to speed up permitting issues, but refuses to approve the long-awaited Keystone XL pipeline which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs. He wants to increase ribbon cuttings at special government-designated manufacturing hubs while he’s increasing taxes, costs, and red tape on manufacturers who already exist. And he wants to increase medical innovation at a time when Obamacare levies a huge tax on medical devices.
“He just doesn’t get it. The government doesn’t drive the creation of successful manufacturing. All the government has to do is get out of the way and American businesses will take care of the rest.
“I’m disappointed that the President didn’t use this opportunity to truly address the state of our union and specifically, our finances. We’re $16 trillion in debt, and no amount of taxation will get us out of that hole, and no amount of government-sponsored growth will help our economy. The Congressional Budget Office has made it clear: We need structural entitlement reform and cuts to discretionary spending. The President didn’t provide clarity on either.”
http://pompeo.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=319801
Great stuff but he should have asked the kenyan to speak to our kids and explain why he has dumped historic levels of debt on them.
VIDEO
Uploaded on Feb 11, 2012
Rep. Mike Pompeo discusses energy policy, EPA regulation, and the Obama administration at CPAC 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PajgOZhVaA
The showdowns are just theatrics. If anybody was serious about America’s continued existence they would impeach Obama as a foreign enemy combatant and Joe Biden as an enabler of known treason. They won’t. They’ve been threatened. Soros allows a little bit of bravado among the hostages, just so the rest of us will think it’s still America. It’s not.
I’ll believe this guy is outside the WWE-type theatrics when he challenges Obama’s Constitutional ability to “act as President” without any legally-determined birth facts. Until then, it’s just theatrics. And I’m getting sick of theatrics. Playing fiddle while America burns is not my idea of entertainment OR legitimate governance.
We should use more kids in infomercials about the US debt. Is is their problem we are laying on them.
What a difference from The Hammer, right?
I voted for Barbara Carlson last year in the primary.
Well there’s always 2014, maybe............
At least yours is hetero and knows what to do when she see’s Lil’ Willie’s Willie. Mine’s a les.
You both make us proud of our KS Representation in DC.
White House Spokesman Jay Carney asked during a press briefing what Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, would say to defense workers facing furlough because of the President’s sequester plan. The following is his statement:
“Mr. Carney doesn’t understand that not every public official is willing to play games with lives of hard-working Americans for political gain like his boss, President Obama. I said that the sequester is a home run not because it is good politics, but because it begins to put America back on the right fiscal track. “I would welcome the opportunity to tell the 90,000 furloughed workers, the ones President Obama is choosing to let go of, that they need to know several things:
“First, the sequester does not have to mean furloughs. The President is choosing to make this minor reduction in spending painful -- by furloughing people -- in order to pursue his twin goals of raising taxes and increasing the size of the federal government. The President wasted $1 trillion dollars of stimulus money that did nothing to grow our economy and create jobs. Now, he is needlessly using a decrease in federal spending amounting to less than a few percent to harm even more American workers and their families.
“Second, there are fewer Americans working in America today than when the President took office. I find it bizarre that Mr. Carney would ask me about talking to furloughed workers
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