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“Confirming someone to our nation’s highest court should be done with the utmost scrutiny. Elena Kagan deserves a fair hearing that will fully explore her record, including her lack of experience both as a judge and as a practicing attorney and her troubling decision to ban military recruiters from Harvard Law School when she was Dean. If she is confirmed by the Senate it is my hope that she bases her decisions strictly on the Constitution and does not legislate from the bench based on her personal political beliefs.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) today introduced a bill that will establish strong, centralized oversight to protect our nation’s critical information infrastructure and design a comprehensive policy for operating in cyberspace.
“The citizens of Puerto Rico already possess the ability to express their territory’s political status and no action from the United States Congress is needed. While I favor Puerto Rico reaching a conclusion of its territorial status that has been clouded for over 100 years, it has become clear that this legislation could become the first step in the long process of achieving statehood and therefore I voted against it.”
I applaud Citizens Against Government Waste for shining a bright light on this egregious abuse of spending taxpayer money by members on both sides of the aisle. I urge every American to read their report. Two years ago I took a stand against this broken and corrupt process by refusing to request earmarks until the system is 100% transparent as to the sponsor and recipient and until each earmark is subject to an up or down vote on the House floor. I am proud that my House Republican colleagues recently joined my stand for reform.