FreedomTalks

If you are a FreedomWorks member from Missouri, I have a special project for you to do on our Choose Your Cable Campaign.
Please email me at bsteinhauser@freedomworks.org or call me at 202-942-7612.
We are looking for some articulate folks to make their voices heard on our Cable Choice campaign!

FreedomWorks would like to thank the following state senators for standing up to out-of-control government spending. These senators are all co-sponsors of senator Jim Bryson’s proposal for a TABOR-like constitutional amendment.
Sen. Person, Jr.
Sen. Black
Sen. Finney
Sen. Woodson
Sen. Southerland
Sen. Ketron
Sen. Tracy
Sen. McLeary
Sen. McNally
Sen. Norris
Sen. Beavers
Sen. Ramsey
Sen. Burchett
Sen. Williams
Sen. Miller

‘I’m spending and I can’t let up’
By Mark Nichols and Brandon Dutcher
This article was originally carried by The Daily Oklahoman on 3/18/2006 and can be found online at: http://newsok.com/article/1789636/
Is it just us, or is anyone else troubled by Gov. Brad Henry’s proposal to spend $7.15 billion next year?
At a time when Oklahoma’s population-growth-plus-inflation […]

The federal government continues to grow at a runaway pace, and the Senate voted this week to increase the national debt limit yet again. Trillions more in debt to China as Congress mortgages our future for more ridiculous local earmarks. With the exception of a few bold conservatives in the House and Senate, […]

USA Today’s headline story yesterday details the depressing state of affairs in Washington. “Federal Aid Programs Expand at Record Rate” notes:
A USA Today analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005. The nation’s population grew 5% during that time. It was the […]

Despite trillions in spending, the federal government continues to fail at much of its core mission. CQ Homeland Security reports on the Department of Homeland Security’s insecure computer networks:
the federal agency charged with guarding the nation’s cyber infrastructure has again received a failing grade for monitoring its own computer systems. DHS received an “F” on […]

This past Monday(March 13), S.R. 1091 was introduced in the Georgia State Senate. S.R. 1091 would study the feasibility of TABOR (Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights) style spending and taxation limits for Georgia. The Legislature must pass any such legislation as Georgia does not have a ballot initiative provision like some other states.
The […]

Republican Sens. Burns, Chafee, Collins, Domenici, Lugar, Smith, Snowe, and Talent, as well as every Democrat Senator, voted last night to continue the raid on the Social Security tax surplus. Be sure to call them and let them know that was a bad vote!
So the Senate is now officially on the record on Social Security […]

Washington, D.C. - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, this week proposed meaningful earmark reform at a hearing in the U.S. Senate.
His legislation, H.R. 4964, would “require that all earmarks be included in the actual text of spending or authorization bills, rather than the committee […]

INVITATION
Former Majority Leader Dick Armey is coming to Sarasota!
You are invited to attend a light lunch in appreciation of the great work the activists have done in the past year advancing the FREEDOMWORKS agenda. Leader Armey would like to discuss the current agenda and our plans for the next year in our effort to promote-’Lower […]