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Joe Pitts The November 2010 elections gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives, but kept the Democrats in control of the Senate. This hasn’t made for a peaceful year in Washington, D.C. The simple fact is that the two parties have very different beliefs about the role of the federal government in American life. The size of government, how much the government taxes, and how much the government spends are critical issues on Capitol Hill. A Balanced Plan for a Balanced Budget Jon Kyl Washington has a spending problem. A big one. Indeed, the federal government now borrows more than 40 cents of every dollar it spends, and our $15 trillion debt -- now larger than our entire economy -- only continues to grow. Our fiscal position is clearly unsustainable; unless we do something about it, the rising tide of debt will overwhelm our economy, destroy jobs, and ruin the American dream for future generations. One Year on the Health Subcommittee Joe Pitts Last year at this time, my colleagues appointed me to lead the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. After years of hard work in the House, it is an honor to be able to lead a subcommittee that is doing important work improving health care for all Americans. The federal government’s involvement in health care was already significant before last year’s new health care law, the Affordable Care Act. No Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Children! Ron Paul Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter's doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That's when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not receiving her prescribed medication, they decided the child should be taken away from her mother's custody on grounds of medical neglect. Will U.S. Move On Global Gay Rights Hurt, Or Help? Is the United States upholding human rights, or meddling in other people's business? That may be the question in many countries following a coordinated call by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for governments around the world to do more to protect gay rights. Clinton to High-Tech Firms: Don’t Aid Web Repression U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday urged software companies and high-tech firms not to sell technology that would help repressive governments restrict Internet freedom. Delivering a keynote address in the Netherlands at a 23-nation Dutch-sponsored conference at the Hague, convened to launch a coalition of countries that work with companies and civil society groups to advance Internet freedom, she also warned against the imposition of national barriers to the Internet. Keystone, Our Missed Opportunity Jon Kyl Earlier this year, President Obama delivered a speech at Georgetown University where he bemoaned our continued reliance on oil imported from the Middle East and unsavory regimes. "Politicians of every stripe have promised energy independence, but that promise has so far gone unmet," he said. Building a 21st-Century Economy Jon Kyl In the late 1950s, after the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik, many intellectuals were predicting a future of American decline and Soviet ascendancy. A few decades later, in the 1980s, it was once again fashionable to speak of U.S. decline and the coming emergence of a new global superpower. This time, the new superpower was going to be Japan. Why Greece Matters Jon Kyl There was a time when we associated debt crises with banana republics and failed states, when the IMF was a lender that Western countries supported to help others -- not themselves. Times have certainly changed. As we look across the Atlantic to Greece, things only seem to keep getting worse. Bailout upon bailout, crisis after crisis, rioting in the streets -- it has been a bewildering drama.
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