Disgusted, The Wall Street Journal editors write today, “The 111th Congress began with an $814 billion stimulus that blew out the federal balance sheet, so we suppose it’s only fitting that the Members want to exit by passing a 1,924-page, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill. The worst Congress in modern history is true to its [...]

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This fall, we are likely to hear a lot of rhetoric about the tax provisions which expire on December 31st. Many on the left suggest President Obama would be giving you a tax cut by extending current law. That may be the way the media and “inside the beltway” crowd want to spin it, but [...]

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Former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves has been hired to defend former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in a disciplinary hearing before the Kansas Supreme Court. In an earlier case, Graves’ firm successfully defended then Johnson County District Attorney Kline, from an attempt by Planned Parenthood and the Kansas Attorney General to make him turn over [...]

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Question-and-answer session conducted by Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) at the House Small Business Committee hearing: “The Looming Challenge for Small Medical Practices: The Projected Physician Shortage and How Health Care Reforms Can Address the Problem.” Hat tip:SmallBizRepublicans

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Today the NRDC Action Fund announced that they were targeting Congressman Graves and Luetkemeyer with attack ads for opposing Cap & Trade, which would radically increase utility rates in Missouri, push more of our manufacturing base out of Missouri and impose higher taxes on citizens. At the same time, the radical environmental group launched ads [...]

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