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With the Legislative session now over, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you details on a reform that simplifies government by helping better fund education withNO new taxes, and NO new General Fund spending.

BACKGROUND

Through an Act …

Washington, D.C. – Today, as wildfires burn in Arizona, Congressman Paul Gosar D.D.S. (R-AZ) filed the “Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2012” (H.R.5744), legislation intended to remove bureaucratic red tape that slows or restricts forest health projects. This bill was filed with the support of …

(Update: Lott has an updated version of his piece at National Review.)

Actually, that headline gives the president too much credit. As anyone who has had a high fever can tell you, one cannot exactly guarantee  the rationality of every passing thought in such …

I’m sure I’m not the only person who periodically finds himself wondering if it’s all just a dream or if he’s found himself starring in one of the more bizarre episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone.”

For instance, Bret Baier reported that Joe Biden recently had the …

Today, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released the following column discussing the House-passed Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act:

“Because of Washington’s failure last year to sufficiently reduce the deficit, current federal law requires that hundreds of billions of dollars in indiscriminate cuts be made to the …

Because Barack Obama repeats himself so often, I’m never sure when I see him on TV insisting that his energy policy involves “all-of-the-above” whether I’m watching one of his 2008 campaign speeches or one that he delivered yesterday afternoon.  Either way, I know he’s lying.

The …

Speaker of the House Andy Tobin (R-District 1)

Republicans passed a budget this week and, as usual, we did so without the help of Democrats. Despite the fact that we made no cuts in essential services while providing $150 million for statewide K-12 education funding, $21 …

SB 1083, a bill that seeks to create a volunteer force to assist the Border Patrol, has had its share of controversy.The idea has been very popular with some constituents and angered others. It has been worked and reworked by Senator Sylvia Allen in an …

By Nick Dranias

The City of Tombstone, Arizona is no longer the only one fighting the federal government for water rights. The latest move by the Federal Bureau of Land Management appears to herald a bigger and much more comprehensive effort to seize water and access …

Yesterday, we speculated, briefly and cautiously, that maybe, just maybe, the Supreme Court was finally, truly reacting to federal government overreach with their responses on the SB 1070 case.

That word—overreach—is a powerful one. It means that the overreacher went too far, and that backlash is …