Republicans Cut Women's Health Screenings

* Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12) is the Chair of a House Ways and Means Committee.  Tiberi, who has successfully worked in the shadow of other Republicans (like John Kasich) stays out of sight, has been hearing testimony this week on tax breaks.  Unfortunately, Tiberi seems to be embracing extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

WallStreetJournal:

....Rep. Pat Tiberi (R, Ohio), the chairman of a House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee, told reporters on Thursday that the goal remains to come up with a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code that lowers rates while bringing more parts of the tax base back into the system. But "in the interim, that may mean that some of these extenders have to be extended," Tiberi told reporters. "It may mean that the 01-03 have to be extended." 

....One hitch: Mr. Tiberi said that Congress must find a way to pay for extending any of the tax breaks. That means either spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere--options that tend to run into opposition.....

Tiberi, Boehner, Cantor, and other GOPers have already indicated how they'd get the things they want. Just this week, the Republican-dominated House pushed to keep college loan interest rates low by removing preventive care for women from the Obama health care bill. The Republicans are telling you that you will get your student loan, but your mother won't be able to get her yearly cancer screenings. (Yet Republicans say there is no "war on women.")

Here is the vote (The "ayes" voted to extend lower interest rates for college loans, but take away your mother's cancer screenings.) from Friday, April 27, 2012, for
H R 4628 from the clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll195.xml:

Ayes:

Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus BarlettaBarrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray BilirakisBishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Boehner Bonner Bono MackBoren Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Campbell Cantor Capito Carter Chabot Chaffetz Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart DoldDonnelly (IN) Dreier Duffy Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA)

Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera BeutlerHigginsHochul Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL)Kissell Kline Lance Landry Lankford Latham LaTourette Latta Lewis (CA)Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo MarchantMatheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McCotterMcIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Myrick Noem Nugent Nunnelee OlsonOwens

Palazzo Paulsen Pearce PencePeterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton WaldenWalz (MN) Webster West Whitfield Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

If you read the list, you'll notice that Pat Tiberi (OH-12), Steve Chabot (OH-1),
Jean Schmidt (OH-2), Mike Turner (OH-3), Jim Jordan (OH-4), Bob Latta (OH-5),
Bill Johnson (OH-6), Steve Austria (OH-7), Steve LaTourette (OH-14),
Steve Stivers (OH-15), Jim Renacci (OH-16), Bob Gibbs (OH-18).

If you'd like to contact these Ohio Republicans, I've provided contact info from the
House Directory and the individual campaign/Ohio office numbers:

     Official House of Rep #'s   ---------------------   campaign or Ohio contact:

1

Chabot, Steve

R

2351 RHOB

202-225-2216    (campaign tel: (513) 662-8000)

2 Schmidt, Jean R 2464 RHOB 202-225-3164   (Ohio office tel. (513) 791-0381) 3 Turner, Michael R 2454 RHOB 202-225-6465 (campaign tel: (937) 222-7749) 4 Jordan, Jim R 1524 LHOB 202-225-2676  (campaign tel: (937) 509-0372) 5 Latta, Robert E. R 1323 LHOB 202-225-6405  (campaign tel: (419) 352-1956) 6 Johnson, Bill R 317 CHOB 202-225-5705  (Ohio office tel: (740) 376-0868) 7 Austria, Steve R 439 CHOB 202-225-4324  (campaign tel: (937) 717-4723) 12 Tiberi, Pat R 106 CHOB 202-225-5355   (campaign tel: (614) 895-0900) 14 LaTourette, Steven C. R 2371 RHOB 202-225-5731 (Ohio office tel: (330) 425-9291) 15 Stivers, Steve R 1007 LHOB 202-225-2015 (campaign tel: (614) 358-0800) 16 Renacci, Jim R 130 CHOB 202-225-3876  (campaign tel: (330) 336-3001) 18 Gibbs, Bob R 329 CHOB 202-225-6265  ( campaign tel: (330) 353-9565)   If you cannot reach your member of Congress through their congressional office, you might get a better connection through their campaign website.

Romney wasn't concerned in 2007

* I saw this over at Daily Kos:

....Mitt Romney saying in April 2007 that it was not worth going after Osama Bin Laden:

It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

Hmmmmmm. 
Here is the original 2007 story from TalkingPointsMemo:

Yesterday we flagged an Associated Press story quoting Mitt Romney saying the following about Osama Bin Laden: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."

....Indeed, the only condemnation we can find of Romney's remark comes in a single post on the National Review's group blog, The Corner. Byron York writes: "Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again."

A page capture of TPM Cafe (http://tinyurl.com/cor8ukd) shows this-

Quote Of The Day

By Eric Kleefeld | bio

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Associated Press, saying that the country's safety would not benefit significantly from catching Osama Bin Laden. This quote was buried in the AP article. One wonders what the reaction would be if a Democrat said this.

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Apr 26, 2007 -- 05:20 PM EST

Here is the original Associated Press story from an interview and published in SFGate.com and captured by web.archive.org :


....In the interview, Romney also:

_Said the country would be safer by only "a small percentage" and would see "a very insignificant increase in safety" if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person," Romney said. Instead, he said he supports a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement.

_Said "the jury's still out" on whether Iraqis, with U.S. help, will successfully rebuild their nation, and establish the rule of law and a permanent government. He ridiculed Democratic efforts to set a public date for withdrawal. "There's certainly nothing wrong with having milestones that we hope to achieve and having the military evaluating whether we're making progress or not, but to set a public deadline for departure makes no military sense at all."

For months, Romney has faced criticism for changing his positions on abortion and gay rights, and equivocating on a series of other policy issues, including immigration and gun control. He has cast himself as the conservative choice for voters, a contrast to the moderate views he voiced in an unsuccessful 1994 Senate race and a victorious 2002 governor's race in liberal-leaning Massachusetts.....

Of Romney's 5 sons, not one of them served in the military, but in this interview he is willing for your sons and your daughters to be in wars forever.

I wonder what other Romney quotes will be found.

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.

Why is Pat Tiberi stepping on your rights to birth control?

Looking back on the work of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, we can see that they have done nothing to improve your lives.  As an example, I give you Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12). 

Pat Tiberi voted for the Paul Ryan budget plan (see Roll Call Vote 277, 4/15/11), which would end Social Security and Medicare, and hand out vouchers to the elderly who would then need to go and shop for health insurance.  According to the LA Times, the elderly would end up putting more of their own money out for insurance under the Paul Ryan plan than if we just continued with our current programs.

Tiberi sponsored only 8 bills in this current Congress, and not one of them has been signed into law.  Are they too radical?

In an article posted at FoxNews, Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi takes the side of the clergy over the rights of women to have birth control.  I'm offended that Pat Tiberi thinks he speaks for women.  If 99% of American women have used birth control at a time in their lives, and 98% of Catholic women have used birth control, why is Pat Tiberi stepping on our rights to choose our method of birth control.  Why is Pat Tiberi involved in the Republican Party's war against women?????
 

Tiberi = Kasich

Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi has gained leadership positions in the Republican-controlled House despite the fact that he isn't really a leader.  Tiberi has always been a follower and takes his orders from John Boehner. Under Boehner and the support of the Tea Partiers, Tiberi has become more conservative in his views. Pat Tiberi's first mentor was..... John Kasich.  Tiberi worked for Kasich.

If you visit Rep. Tiberi's congressional website, you'll see this on his front page:

 

GOP Jobs Plan

Get the lastest news on the GOP plan to restore America's promise

Great spelling!

It doesn't matter how you say it, the GOP plan is a bunch of recycled, same old, tax cuts for the rich propaganda that the Republicans continue to resurrect because they haven't had a new idea in decades.  Here are a few of the key words from the "Republican Jobs Plan" from the What Our Plan Does page:

Reduce Regulations	Tax Code Reform	Free Trade	Patent Reform
Visas for the Highly Skilled	FDA Product Approval	Energy Production	Reducing the Debt

You must be saying to yourself, "I've heard all those words before from the Republicans." Frankly, I think the Republicans just change the title page of their plans, but they keep using the same old content.  They can wrap it in anything they want, but the Republican plan still stinks.

In summary, the Republicans are presenting the same old crap in their "jobs" plan:  cut regulations, give jobs away to highly trained foreigners, lower taxes for all the job creators/corporate big shots/millionaires, follow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget and let the elderly deal with coupons and vouchers to get health care, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc.

According to a search for legislation that was sponsored by Pat Tiberi, there were only eight bills sponsored by him in 2011, and none of them have become law. Tiberi's sponsored bills listed at  Thomas:

1. H.R.749 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F....
2. H.R.1031 : American Shipping Reinvestment Act of 2011...
3. H.R.1533 : Short Sea Shipping Act of 2011...
4. H.R.1955 : Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2011....
5. H.R.2051 : Veterans Missing in America Act of 2011....
6. H.R.2780 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the domestic production activities deduction....
7. H.R.3123 : American Job Creation and Investment Act of 2011...
8. H.R.3661 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent and.....

If you look over the legislation sponsored by Tiberi you'll notice that there is not one bill to help the farmers in his district.  They certainly won't be helped by those 2 bills for shipping.

A website called the Tent of Abraham, provides the perfect analysis of Pat Tiberi's agenda in Congress:

I just sent the following message to Pat Tiberi, my Republican congressman: FYI, I just saw your interview on NBC4 and I want you to know, I don’t buy what you said. You are part of intransigent, intolerant, reactionary coalition of Republicans that is more committed to make Barack Obama look bad than in serving the interests of the American people. Your own Republican colleagues in the Senate signed on to the payroll tax extension but you pig-heads in the House thought this might be another opportunity to give the President a black eye.This one citizen in your district Pat Tiberi who is PASSIONATELY committed to defeating you in the next election. You are a Republican first and an American second.....

Bravo!!!!

Mitt Romney vs. Mitt Romney?

I saw this over at DailyKos. This particular campaign by the DNC is running in Ohio:

Mitt v Mitt is a straight forward website that shows you the two sides of Mitt Romney.  He has been for and against every issue -----
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