Why?

*  Why do we hear very little from Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi?  Tiberi (OH-12) has remained in the background on some public issues, but appears to have taken a turn to the right on other legislation.  Even though Tiberi has been recognized by the Farm Bureau, I wonder if they've taken a good look at the new 2012 Paul Ryan proposed budget plan that strips farm subsidies from the budget.  Tiberi supports the new version of the Paul Ryan plan, even though it will create hardships for farmers.

How effective of a member of the House of Representatives has Pat Tiberi been for his constituents?  There are lots of complaints.  Many in Delaware County feel they've been neglected by Tiberi.  The level of poverty in other parts of Tiberi's district make you wonder if he has even visited the poorest neighborhoods within his district.

When you examine some of the Pat Tiberi sponsored legislation, you wonder if his work in Congress is geared toward helping constituents or someone else.

Govtrack has information about a bill sponsored by Rep. Pat Tiberi in 2003 that was titled, HR 2065: To amend the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938 to Exempt Licensed Funeral Directors and Licensed Embalmers from the Minimum Wage and Overtime Compensation Requirements of that Act.

Gee.  Why would Pat Tiberi sponsor a bill like this???????  You don't think that it could have benefited a relative that owns a funeral home, like Maeder Quint Tiberi Funeral Home?  Luckily, this legislation sponsored by Pat Tiberi never became law.  The truth of the matter is that Pat Tiberi was sent to congress to work for all of his constituents, not just his relatives.

Tiberi supports robbing the poor?

*  Once again, Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi is trying to protect the wealthy.  In a move that could only be categorized as going backwards, Tiberi and his GOPers decided that instead of creating new legislation to assist hardworking average Americans, they'd see how they can help the rich get more money.

Bloomberg:

The U.S. House’s top tax writer said he will start examining the merits of dozens of expired tax breaks.....

...“Far too many provisions in the tax code are temporary, making it hard for employers to plan, invest and create new jobs for American families,” Camp, a Michigan Republican, said in a joint statement with Representative Pat Tiberi, an Ohio Republican and chairman of a Ways and Means subcommittee. “We look forward to hearing from interested parties about the merits of these tax policies.” 

Republicans are always complaining about the country's debt, but they haven't figured out (or they're just ignoring the fact) that they must get more revenue to wipe out the debt. 

Pat Tiberi is on record supporting Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget (see link). The Paul Ryan budget is a plan to deprive you of your Medicare by giving you coupons to buy your own insurance.  What they haven't told you is that the value of those "coupons" decreases every year until it just magically disappears.

The Paul Ryan budget which is supported by Tiberi, does nothing to solve financial problems for the country.  The conservative U.S. News and World Report has this:

....Analysis by my colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows how seriously the Ryan budget violates the Bowles-Simpson principle of protecting low-income households:

The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document—one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse—on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation's history).

On the tax side, meanwhile, the Ryan budget violates the principle that everything should be on the table; it relies exclusively on spending cuts to achieve its deficit targets. Indeed, it proposes new tax cuts that would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade (beyond the cost of implementing Chairman Ryan's call to make all of the Bush tax cuts permanent), according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. At the same time, he does not provide any details of how he would scale back the tax credits, deductions, and other preferences, known collectively as "tax expenditures" that the plan says it would use to finance those tax cuts.....
Pat Tiberi supports this legislation that has been described as "...Robin Hood in reverse..."?
Shame. Robbing the poor does not sound like a good goal.