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Oversight Committee Releases Report on Obama Green Jobs Program Failures

Shows impacts on U.S. jobs, affordable energy (WASHINGTON) – Facing the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, President Obama has responded with a green jobs agenda as a major component of his recovery strategy. Combined with restrictions on domestic energy production, the net effect has been jobs lost and a failure to even approach his promised goal of creating five million jobs within ten years. That is the conclusion of a new report released today ...

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How President Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs

Facing the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, President Obama confronted the crisis by promoting “green jobs” as a major component of his recovery strategy. He promised that these programs would create five million jobs within ten years. He cited the efforts of other nations as the rationale to try and subsidize our way to energy independence. Yet, the other nations who tried this experiment have struggled and after nearly three years and billions of spent taxpayer dollars ...

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Issa on President’s Proposed Bailout for Postal Service: “Not what taxpayers or the Postal Service needs”

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to a proposal outlined by President Obama on the United States Postal Service, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees the Postal Service, issued the following statement: “The President’s proposal is not what taxpayers or the Postal Service needs.  The President’s plan to achieve savings for the Postal Service does so by sticking taxpayers with the tab. Rather than ...

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Obama Regulations Putting Family Ranchers at Risk

Cattle Rancher Robbie LeValley on Uncertainty, Unintended Consequences of Proposed USDA Regulations WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released "Voices of Recovery: Robbie's Story," in which 4th generation Colorado rancher Robbie LeValley underscores the job-killing uncertainty family ranchers face under the Obama Administration's 

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New Oversight Committee Report: How the Administrative State has broken President Obama’s Promise of Regulatory Reform

Report documents a flawed, broken process manipulated and exploited in ways that benefit Obama allies (WASHINGTON) – President Obama recently halted the implementation of a controversial job-killing regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying he recognized the "importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty" in the economy. While the President has spoken about, and even launched an effort to evaluate regulations that ...

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Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama’s Promise of Regulatory Reform

In the wake of stagnant job creation, an unacceptably high unemployment rate and growing concern that our country is marching towards another recession, the House Committee on Oversight and Government is continuing its examination of regulations that are acting as impediments to job creation. Late last year, the Committee began the most expansive look in more than a decade at the impact that regulations were having on businesses – large and small – the result was input from more than 1,300 ...

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The Obama Administration Can Work with Oversight Committee to Help Create Jobs and Grow Economy

Oversight Hearings to Examine Compliance Costs, Regulatory Process, and Crowdfunding Proposals from President Obama and Congress (WASHINGTON)— President Obama and his Administration can immediately take action to create jobs and grow the economy by working with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders to address regulatory reform and a broken rulemaking process that creates market uncertainty—a disincentive to entrepreneurs and new investment. Next week, ...

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Issa Statement on President Obama’s Joint Session Address

WASHINGTON, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement tonight regarding President Obama's joint session address: "Tonight, I had hoped that President Obama would offer a new approach to creating jobs and sparking economic growth that showed he had learned from past missteps. What I heard, however, sounded more like a second stimulus than a new approach. "Listening to job creators around the country, ...

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Will President Obama’s “Son of Stimulus” Produce Same Results as Its Predecessor?

Oversight Chairman Issa Issues Report Outlining Stimulus Consequences, Lessons Learned (WASHINGTON) Is President Obama Doubling Down on Failure? A new analysis released today by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) documents how the stimulus failed—and even pushed the country deeper into recession—and at what cost. The report said the American people should bear in mind this record as President Obama presents his next economic ...