Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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A Deserving Saint
Posted on May 2, 2011
The highlight of my career as a Congressional staffer was when I accompanied Speaker Hastert to the Vatican as he awarded Pope John Paul II the Congressional Gold Medal. The...
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Medicare Commission
Posted on April 20, 2011
I love that commercial where a bunch of small business executives are sitting around the table trying to find budget cuts, when the CEO says, “we aren’t leaving until we...
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A Long Way From Fort Sumter
Posted on April 14, 2011
Earlier this week marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history. A century and a half ago, rebel forces...
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Debt Ceiling
Posted on April 12, 2011
It was Alexander Hamilton who first took on public debt as a political issue. Hamilton understood that if the federal government assumed the debts of the states, it would not...
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Shutdown Politics
Posted on April 8, 2011
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang...
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