Speculation earlier this month that Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA-5) could be on the short list of possible Republican vice presidential candidates seems more prescient, following a Sunday mention on Fox News and a high position in revised VP rankings posted Saturday on a popular election blog McMorris Rodgers—the highest ranking Republican woman in Congress—turned up at #6 in
The FY2013 budget proposed by Pres. Barack Obama will increase the average U.S. household share of the federal debt to almost $200,000 by the year 2022, an amount likely to surpass the average household’s net worth over time, according to economic survey data and new projections released today by Senate Budget Committee Republicans. Based on the numbers in Obama’s new
As former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney continues to push forward toward a possible win of the Republican presidential nomination – riding on concurrent double-digit victories in this week’s Florida primary and Nevada caucuses—all politicians not named Romney are preparing for “the question.” The query from the political beat reporters has many variations, but goes something like this: “If asked, would
On Tuesday evening, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA-5) issued a direct response to Pres. Barack Obama’s 2012 State of Union address, restating her commitment to working with the White House and others in Congress but questioning whether Obama’s proposals constituted little more than an effort to recycle ideas that have already produced a record of failure for his administration.
In the opinion of a conservative political blog, Washington can add a new name to our list of women elected to public office who have parlayed political appeal into considerable influence. Noteworthy political blog Right Wing News recently ranked Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5) as the 5th most influential conservative women in the U.S., behind former Gov. Sarah Palin, conservative
GOPLabs, a team that is swiftly gaining a reputation as Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ “think-and-do” tank in the Capitol, has generated an assessment of Pres. Barack Obama’s progress on job creation. Though Obama continues to beg for extra chances as he leans into a heavy schedule of political campaigning in advance of next year’s election, the facts about poor
On Thursday, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) announced a barnstorming schedule of public events to close out the August recess, a full slate of five events in five days culminating with her annual town hall on the last day of the month in Spokane. McMorris Rodgers will use these events to meet and talk with constituents before heading back to
The 1960s had their love-ins and sit-ins and the new millennium will now have its first soup-in. On Thursday, the group Working Washington will be performing their own brand of culinary street theater, staging what they call a “Depression-era unemployment line, with free soup for the unemployed” in the vicinity of Congressman Dave Reichert’s district office on Mercer Island. The
By a vote of 269-161 Monday, the House passed the Budget Control Act in an effort to avert the impending federal cash flow crisis. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate where debate has already begun in advance of a noon Tuesday vote requiring 60 votes for passage and to move the measure to the President’s desk for an
Dr. Milton Friedman was one of the greatest champions of freedom in my lifetime and one of the greatest economists of all time. On this day – what would have been his 99th birthday – we are inspired to preserve his memory and the wisdom of his free market philosophy. Dr. Friedman’s philosophy can be summed up with his simple
