A day after winning reelection, Peter Roskam pushes for economic growth.
Rep. Peter Roskam isn't wasting any time celebrating his reelection to a third term in Congress or the fact that the U.S. House will be controlled by Republicans. Hours after Roskam defeated Democratic challenger Ben Lowe, he was hard at work talking with members of the House Ways and Means Committee discussing efforts to kick-start job growth in the United States. He said Congress needs to lay out a strategy to signal to the marketplace that change is coming that will allow businesses to flourish and expand in the near future. "We need to make sure that Washington, D.C. is putting forth policy that is putting forth certainty and clarity for business owners," Roskam said in a Wednesday morning telephone interview. Roskam said he is excited…
Incumbent congressman is spending the final hours before the polls open to campaign for his re-election and the election of other Republican congressional candidates.
U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-6th) is predicting not only a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but a revolution in governmental policy after voters cast their ballots Tuesday. Most of the polls indicate that Roskam's prediction is a safe bet. A Rasmussen Reports poll shows Republicans hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on a generic ballot. Policy change will be hard to make reality, but Roskam said the voters are clamoring for it. The first thing the Republican-controlled Congress will do is pass a sensible budget, Roskam said. He said the voters want a Congress that will spend the public's money wisely and not run up massive debts. Roskam said the Republicans will pass budgets that will "trim the sails and get the …
Julie Farrell
8:23 am on Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Matthew's right....both sides have become so incredibly set in garnering more votes that they forget what they're supposed to stand for. They've become complete polar opposites and are just pig-headed enough to not be willing to compromise anything (possibly for fear of losing more votes). The general concensus is that the majority of American views are actually closer to the middle, rather than … more ›