That’s why I am proud to be joining Representative Marsha Blackburn as a co-sponsor of The CHOP Act (HR 4295), a bill that will merge the Department of Energy and the EPA into one department, saving an estimated $5.3 Billion by eliminating duplicative programs.

By simply merging these two departments, we are able to cut waste, streamline the Energy and Environmental agencies, and promote government efficiency.

I know you sent me to Washington to fight against the ever-growing bureaucracy and red tape. This bill, and many of the others I have sponsored, co-sponsored, and voted for over the last year and a half seek to do just that - stop the expansion of big government.

Now I need your help to continue the fight. Will you join my efforts to streamline government and make it more accountable and more efficient?

Tomorrow marks the end of a very important fundraising quarter for the campaign and I need your support right now to show liberals in Washington and here in North Carolina that we are serious about stopping big government and cutting red tape.

Will you donate $100, $50, $25, or whatever you can afford right now? Let’s end this quarter strong and show the tax and spend liberals that we are serious about cutting government waste.

Rather than approve a full year extension of the payroll tax cut – a plan I support – President Obama and House Democrats are demanding a short, two month extension.

It is painfully obvious that the President has never run a business. If he had any private sector experience, he would know that America’s businesses aren’t run on short term political ruses. But that’s exactly what President Obama is trying to give them in the form of a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.

At this time of year and in this economic climate, we need to be providing certainty to American workers and our job creators. These two month extensions are just kicking the can down the road and they have to stop now.

That’s why I’m supporting a full year extension of the payroll tax cuts – so our businesses and workers will have the certainty they need to plan for another year.

And what is the response from Washington liberals to my support of pro-jobs tax cuts?

They are unleashing James Carville and DCCC Chairman Israel to attack me because they don’t have the courage themselves to support a full year extension. We have said it all along – these Washington Liberals will do or say anything to try to defeat me and return the Speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi.

Will you donate right now to help me fight back against Washington Liberals? My campaign needs to raise $25,000 by the end of this quarter in order to answer their relentless attacks and show Americans that I’m not afraid of making tough decisions. 

President Obama and House Democrats would rather play politics than pass meaningful measures that will help our small businesses and actually create jobs.

America doesn’t need leaders who will only make decisions two months at a time. Will you donate to my campaign right now and help me fight back against their attacks?

As always, thank you for your support!

Lately the President seems more interested in appeasing his left-wing donors than promoting economic recovery. Let’s review.

First, the president cow-towed to the left-wing base of the Democratic Party by blocking access to permits to drill off the Gulf Coast.

Then, the Obama Administration’s National Labor Relations Board blocked Boeing from creating thousands of new jobs in Charleston because his union friends don’t live there and South Carolinians value the right to work.

Now President Obama is bowing to those environmentalists again by blocking development of the Keystone Pipeline. This project would bring over a million barrels of friendly oil from Canada to our country everyday and employ thousands of Americans in the process. The President’s own administration has reported that the Keystone Pipeline does not pose a significant environmental threat. But President Obama is putting off the decision until 2013 – after he gets those important campaign checks from his donors.

President Obama cannot have it both ways. He cannot decry the shrinking middle class and then turn around and block the very jobs that would employ middle class Americans and reinvigorate the national economy.

Because he is choosing to vote “present” on the Keystone Pipeline, over 200 steelworkers who were working on the Keystone Pipeline project will now be laid off the week before Christmas.

That’s 200 jobs lost because the President is choosing extreme environmentalists over the middle class he claims to support. President Obama needs to understand that there are consequences to his actions. When he blocks economic development in favor of his left-wing friends, Americans lose jobs.

This is not leadership. The President cannot continue to advocate for new jobs and economic recovery while blocking private sector initiatives that will actually get Americans back to work and promote an economic recovery.

I need your help to tell the President and Washington Liberals that they are wrong once again.  We have a winning fight but it is going to be difficult when we are battling the President, Harry Reid, AND the liberal media.  Help me raise the money I need to get out my message of strong conservatism as the way to restore America.  Every dollar I raise will go toward proving my ability to fight through another difficult election.

You and I know that one of the worst things we can do for our businesses is to create an environment of economic and regulatory uncertainty. But that’s exactly what President Obama has done – at an estimated cost of $93.2 Billion dollars for businesses to comply.

How can we ask business owners to grow their businesses when all Washington is growing is a mountain of red tape?

Until we cure Washington’s addiction to spending, taxing, and regulating, many of our businesses won’t be confident enough in our economy to begin the road to recovery. Businesses that can’t be sure what their tax burden will be from year to year, how Obamacare will affect their bottom line, or which dust particle the EPA will choose to regulate next, are less likely to hire and less likely to invest in our communities.

That’s why removing that economic uncertainty and cutting through all the red tape is so important. And I’m proud to say that we took an important step in that direction this week in the House by passing two important job-creation bills: the REINS Act and the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act.

The REINS Act aims to rein in excessive regulations by requiring Congressional approval of any new regulation that would have an economic impact of $100 million or more. For reference, this year the Obama Administration has proposed over 200 new regulations that would require congressional approval under this bill, meaning they would have an economic impact of over $100 million. By bringing those regulations up for debate on the floors of the House and the Senate, we will be able to inject common sense and good business practice back into the regulatory process and hopefully stop harmful regulations in their tracks.

The REINS Act is the 26th pro-jobs bill the House has sent to the Senate this year. And the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act we passed yesterday became the 27th. This bill prevents the EPA from imposing more red tape and regulations – this time on dust – on farmers who are already feeling the pinch of the economic recession. Only in Washington could regulating dust on farmland seem like a good idea.

We can get businesses hiring and growing again, but not until we remove the maze of regulatory red tape they are currently fighting. The REINS Act and the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act will get government out of the way of businesses so they can do what they do best: grow our economy and employ our neighbors.

This bill will help rein in excessive regulations by requiring Congressional approval of any new regulation that would have an economic impact of $100 million or more. We can get businesses hiring and growing again, but not until we remove the regulatory burden they are currently fighting.

Our economy is at a standstill and unemployment is at its highest level in decades. Our children are graduating from high school and college without any jobs and moving back home for a new life of unemployment purgatory. The statistics speak for themselves. As of last month, just 74 percent of Americans ages 25 to 34 were working, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report also shows that 14.2 percent of young adults are living with their parents, up from 11.8 percent in 2007.

The back end of this jobs cycle is having the same impact. Last week it was reported that 25 percent of Americans do not think they will be able to retire until age 80. Older workers have seen their retirement savings and investments dried up as a result of the great recession and are staying put in their jobs for fear of insolvency. The jobs that do exist are being held hostage by fear, risk and submission.

Parents are beginning to look at their children and wonder if the American Dream is dying. With deadlines for thousands of dollars in student loan debt creeping up, their children are moving back home, desperate for a job – any job. This is not the America I have always known. We can and must do better.

Read the entire op-ed here.

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Campbell Law School Host U. S. Representative

Boeing, an American company, decided to expand its operations from Washington to South Carolina. South Carolina, like North Carolina, is a right to work state where employees don’t have to unionize to earn a living. President Obama’s friends weren’t happy that Boeing was moving to the non-union South and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint with Boeing, demanding that Boeing move the jobs elsewhere – after they had already build their plant.

This is not the American tradition. America was founded to promote liberty and give citizens the freedom to determine their own destiny, not punish job creators and pick winners and losers.

That’s why I voted last week for the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, a bill that will protect America’s job creators from an overreaching federal government and eliminate the punitive remedy that the NLRB is currently seeking against Boeing in South Carolina.

North Carolina has a long and proud tradition as a state where workers are free to work without the pressure of unionizing. I voted for the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act to help preserve our right to work tradition here in the South and protect North Carolina companies from the same kind of overreaching government power that has affected our neighbors in South Carolina.

Last night the House passed this conservative proposal with a vote of 234-190.  It is now up to our friends in the Senate to pass the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act.

Below is an explanation of each part of the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act to help you understand this important proposal so you can explain it to your family and friends.

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savings for fiscal year 2012 and another $5.8 trillion in spending for the next decade. These cuts are made without changes to Social Security and Medicare.

The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act mandates that government spending stay below 20% of GDP. The act mandates that if the 20% threshold is breached, automatic spending cuts would be triggered. The Cap in Cut, Cap, Balance ensures that Washington can no longer spend beyond its means and mortgage the future of our children.

Did you know 49 states have some type of Balanced Budget Amendment? Before the President is granted his debt limit increase, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act would require that a Balanced Budget Amendment has passed both houses of Congress and gone to the states for ratification.

The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act makes the serious cuts needed to our budget and places enforceable caps on our future spending. With a 14.3 trillion dollar debt, there is no more time for smoke and mirrors legislation full of accounting gimmicks and stalling.

The June unemployment report – 9.2% – confirmed what we already knew. President Obama’s policies are bad for business.

In fact, since the President’s failed stimulus passed in February of 2009, the economy has shed 1.8 million jobs. And, to make matters worse, the White House reported last week that the stimulus program cost $278,000 per job created or saved!

This is not sound economic policy. This is not a jobs plan.

And unfortunately, the President’s lack of leadership on jobs and the economy is hitting us hard here in North Carolina. WRAL reported this week that true unemployment in North Carolina is likely around 17.5%, which is the 9th highest in the U.S.

I believe that until we change course in Washington we cannot get back on a path to creating a business-friendly economy.

While the President and Democrats continue to try to spend, spend, spend, we are working hard in the House to remove the uncertainties that high taxes, high national debt, and ever-increasing regulations place on our small businesses.

And we belive that removing those uncertainties and restraints on your business starts with listening to you. Visit Americanjobcreators.com and take a moment to tell us what’s holding your business back. Is it too much paperwork, uncertainty over Obamacare and taxes, too many restrictive regulations?

My friends in the House and I know that to create jobs, government must get out of the way and allow our nation’s small businesses to do what they do best: innovate and grow the economy. Go to Americanjobcreators.com and tell us how we can get government out of your way. Then consider sharing your story on my Facebook Page.