WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the 102nd anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-08) today briefly spoke from his Capitol Hill office about one of his first memories of Ronald Reagan and about the values Republicans can still learn from Reagan's leadership. Franks also introduced a "Reagan resolution" (H.Res. 56) celebrating the life of Ronald Reagan and chronicling some of the many significant milestones and achievements in his life, including his strengthening of American national defense, his work in developing our current national ballistic missile defense system, his bold reassertion of American freedom and exceptionalism, and his considerable role in the defeat of Soviet communist totalitarianism
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Trent Franks Statement on Benghazi Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Washington, D.C. — Congressman Franks (R-AZ) issued the following statement in response to yesterday afternoon's hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA). The hearing investigated the security failures leading up to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, which resulted in the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
"I commend Chairman Issa and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Members for having the courage to carry out yesterday's hearing. The questions that were addressed are critical to safeguarding America's national security and particularly the lives of our foreign service officers and forward deployed military personnel. Our commitment to honor the lives of those who were lost must include a determination to leave no stone unturned when it comes to understanding where our State Department's security measures failed and ensuring that such failures never happen again.
"Additionally, the Obama Administration's shameful and politically-charged attempt to portray the Benghazi attacks as almost-justified reaction to an ugly YouTube video, is a disgrace beyond words that crystallizes the failure of its entire national security policy. The fact that numerous requests for additional security on the ground at the U.S. Embassy in Libya were repeatedly denied, highlights a practice of making dangerous, politically-motivated national security decisions that have become a common practice within the Obama Administration.
"The safety of American citizens and the security of the United States of America must never be subjugated or held hostage by a political agenda. The Benghazi hearing was an important step toward uncovering the growing scandal surrounding this horrific attack, of being honest about the nature of the enemy we face, and reasserting our commitment to protecting both the freedoms of Americans here and those heroic individuals who serve us abroad."
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"I commend Chairman Issa and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Members for having the courage to carry out yesterday's hearing. The questions that were addressed are critical to safeguarding America's national security and particularly the lives of our foreign service officers and forward deployed military personnel. Our commitment to honor the lives of those who were lost must include a determination to leave no stone unturned when it comes to understanding where our State Department's security measures failed and ensuring that such failures never happen again.
"Additionally, the Obama Administration's shameful and politically-charged attempt to portray the Benghazi attacks as almost-justified reaction to an ugly YouTube video, is a disgrace beyond words that crystallizes the failure of its entire national security policy. The fact that numerous requests for additional security on the ground at the U.S. Embassy in Libya were repeatedly denied, highlights a practice of making dangerous, politically-motivated national security decisions that have become a common practice within the Obama Administration.
"The safety of American citizens and the security of the United States of America must never be subjugated or held hostage by a political agenda. The Benghazi hearing was an important step toward uncovering the growing scandal surrounding this horrific attack, of being honest about the nature of the enemy we face, and reasserting our commitment to protecting both the freedoms of Americans here and those heroic individuals who serve us abroad."
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
AZGOP Statement on Outcome of CD-8 Election
Democrats’ Emotional Appeal Determines CD-8 Election Outcome: www.azgop.org/article/democrats-emotional-appeal-d...tcome
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Friday, June 8, 2012
It's time to put a stop to the Barber Obama Team!: Ron Barber supports the Obama Cap & Trade Bill which would cost Arizona families almost $1000 in added energy costs and destroy 40,000 jobs!
#jessekelly #ronbarber #rubberron #az08 #cd8 #azgop
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#jessekelly #ronbarber #rubberron #az08 #cd8 #azgop
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Victory in Wisconsin! => Victory in Arizona!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Rubber Stamp Ron Barber!
More failed Obama policies that hurt Arizona.
#obama #rnc #ronbarber #az08
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
ICYMI GOP contender for Giffords seat knocks Dem on energy costs
Republican Jesse Kelly unveiled a new television ad claiming that Democrat Ron Barber's support for cap-and-trade could lead to job losses and higher energy costs.
@VoteJesseKelly
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Time to Stop Nancy Now!
Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are trying to buy a congressional seat in Southern Arizona’s Special Election — putting Nancy one step closer to being Speaker of the House again.
Their chosen candidate, Ron Barber, would be a rubber stamp on their failed policies. Now, a Democratic Super PAC is launching $340,000 in negative attacks.
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Their chosen candidate, Ron Barber, would be a rubber stamp on their failed policies. Now, a Democratic Super PAC is launching $340,000 in negative attacks.
StopNancyNow.com
#AZ08
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
ICYMI Ron Barber won't debate Jesse Kelly, high school says
From today's Arizona Republic: www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/161436
Voters in southern Arizona may get to see only one debate in the special election to fill former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' seat in Congress, and Republicans blame Ron Barber for that.
KUAT-TV, Channel 6, will broadcast a debate between Democrat Barber (top), Republican Jesse Kelly (bottom) and Green Party candidate Charlie Manolakis from 6-7 p.m. May 16.
But a second debate, planned for May 14 by Tucson high school students, was canceled last week after the Barber campaign backed out, said Arlo Ogden, Vail Academy and High School government teacher. The Barber campaign counters that it is attending lots of events in the district that will reach "as many people as possible."
The election in Congressional District 8 is June 12. Giffords stepped down earlier this year to focus on injuries suffered during a 2011 mass shooting.
Ogden said his students in far east Tucson began organizing congressional debates two years ago, drawing several hundred attendees and online viewers to each of two Republican primary debates in 2010 and in April, for the primary in the special election. During the first event, conservative radio host John Justice moderated; during the second, a senior in the class did so.
For the debate this month, Ogden said, Kelly and Manolakis agreed to participate, but the Barber campaign asked for "trusted, independent" moderators to be secured before making a commitment.
"I was not real enthused about the verbage. ... Those are my students they're talking about, and they're questioning their integrity," Ogden said, adding he would not have used a moderator with a political bent, like Justice, for a general-election debate.
Ogden said he found two local news reporters to field questions, in addition to lining up security, media coverage and a sign-language interpreter.
"We got everything, I thought, hammered out," Ogden said. But he soon received a call from the Barber campaign declining the invitation.
"These kids were going to do this the Monday night before their finals," he said. "My students have never received anything less than superior reviews (of the debates). When we got that phone call, it was kind of disappointing."
Jessica Schultz, a Barber campaign spokeswoman, said the KUAT debate is the only one being conducted by an independent news organization and that its reach will be much larger, since it will be broadcast throughout the district.
"We just want to make sure we're talking to as many people as possible," she said. "The (Vail Academy) room is much smaller, and it's a very small part of the district, relative to the number of people that will be reached by the televised debate."
With early ballots going out in less than two weeks, candidates have little time remaining to reach the district's voters.
Schultz said the campaign did not "promise to do something and then back out."
She noted Barber and Kelly are participating in a number of forums, in which they speak separately, throughout the district, including the Tucson-area National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Marana Chamber of Commerce and a veteran's group in Sierra Vista.
But John Ellinwood, spokesman for Kelly's campaign, said "we're disappointed in his reluctance to debate the issues in front of the people of the district of southern Arizona."
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Voters in southern Arizona may get to see only one debate in the special election to fill former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' seat in Congress, and Republicans blame Ron Barber for that.
KUAT-TV, Channel 6, will broadcast a debate between Democrat Barber (top), Republican Jesse Kelly (bottom) and Green Party candidate Charlie Manolakis from 6-7 p.m. May 16.
But a second debate, planned for May 14 by Tucson high school students, was canceled last week after the Barber campaign backed out, said Arlo Ogden, Vail Academy and High School government teacher. The Barber campaign counters that it is attending lots of events in the district that will reach "as many people as possible."
The election in Congressional District 8 is June 12. Giffords stepped down earlier this year to focus on injuries suffered during a 2011 mass shooting.
Ogden said his students in far east Tucson began organizing congressional debates two years ago, drawing several hundred attendees and online viewers to each of two Republican primary debates in 2010 and in April, for the primary in the special election. During the first event, conservative radio host John Justice moderated; during the second, a senior in the class did so.
For the debate this month, Ogden said, Kelly and Manolakis agreed to participate, but the Barber campaign asked for "trusted, independent" moderators to be secured before making a commitment.
"I was not real enthused about the verbage. ... Those are my students they're talking about, and they're questioning their integrity," Ogden said, adding he would not have used a moderator with a political bent, like Justice, for a general-election debate.
Ogden said he found two local news reporters to field questions, in addition to lining up security, media coverage and a sign-language interpreter.
"We got everything, I thought, hammered out," Ogden said. But he soon received a call from the Barber campaign declining the invitation.
"These kids were going to do this the Monday night before their finals," he said. "My students have never received anything less than superior reviews (of the debates). When we got that phone call, it was kind of disappointing."
Jessica Schultz, a Barber campaign spokeswoman, said the KUAT debate is the only one being conducted by an independent news organization and that its reach will be much larger, since it will be broadcast throughout the district.
"We just want to make sure we're talking to as many people as possible," she said. "The (Vail Academy) room is much smaller, and it's a very small part of the district, relative to the number of people that will be reached by the televised debate."
With early ballots going out in less than two weeks, candidates have little time remaining to reach the district's voters.
Schultz said the campaign did not "promise to do something and then back out."
She noted Barber and Kelly are participating in a number of forums, in which they speak separately, throughout the district, including the Tucson-area National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Marana Chamber of Commerce and a veteran's group in Sierra Vista.
But John Ellinwood, spokesman for Kelly's campaign, said "we're disappointed in his reluctance to debate the issues in front of the people of the district of southern Arizona."
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Dem Spending Spree Will Bring"Massive” Economic Losses & Fewer Jobs How Would Ron Barber Change It?: New Study Shows the Democrats’ Failed Fiscal Policies Could Lead to Decades of Stunted Economic Growth
WASHINGTON --- Even after Ron Barber's Washington Democrat allies spent over $800 billion on their failed stimulus spending spree, the economy continues to struggle with stagnant growth. Now new reports show that the unprecedented annual trillion dollar deficits President Obama and Washington Democrats have presided over will likely result in decades of poor economic growth. Since Barber wishes to join them, how would he help avoid this outcome given the Democrats’ horrible record on fiscal responsibility?
"After presiding over the most rapid debt increase in American history with their failed stimulus spending spree, President Obama and his Washington allies are leaving families and small businesses in Arizona with the consequences,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."If Ron Barber joins Washington Democrats to continue their endless spending and borrowing, it will only hurt economic growth even further and put America on the path to decline.”
A new economist study shows that historically, countries with large debt loads see"massive” economic consequences:
"The U.S. and other developed economies with high public debt potentially face ‘massive’ losses of output lasting more than a decade, even if their interest rates remain low, according to new research by economists Carmen and Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
"In a paper published today on the National Bureau of Economic Research's website, they found that countries with debts exceeding 90 percent of the economy historically have experienced subpar economic growth for more than 20 years. That has left output at the end of the period a quarter below where it would have been otherwise.” (Rich Miller,"Reinharts, Rogoff See ‘Massive’ Output Losses From High Debt,” Bloomberg, 5/1/12)
The United States unfortunately falls squarely in this category:
"Gross federal U.S. debt has exceeded 90 percent of GDP for the last two years and is projected to remain above that level at least through 2017, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.” (Rich Miller,"Reinharts, Rogoff See ‘Massive’ Output Losses From High Debt,” Bloomberg, 5/1/12)
President Obama has the dubious honor of presiding over"the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.” (Mark Knoller,"National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama,” CBS News’ Political Hotsheet Blog, 8/22/11)
#RonBarber #JesseKelly #AZ08
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WASHINGTON --- Even after Ron Barber's Washington Democrat allies spent over $800 billion on their failed stimulus spending spree, the economy continues to struggle with stagnant growth. Now new reports show that the unprecedented annual trillion dollar deficits President Obama and Washington Democrats have presided over will likely result in decades of poor economic growth. Since Barber wishes to join them, how would he help avoid this outcome given the Democrats’ horrible record on fiscal responsibility?
"After presiding over the most rapid debt increase in American history with their failed stimulus spending spree, President Obama and his Washington allies are leaving families and small businesses in Arizona with the consequences,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."If Ron Barber joins Washington Democrats to continue their endless spending and borrowing, it will only hurt economic growth even further and put America on the path to decline.”
A new economist study shows that historically, countries with large debt loads see"massive” economic consequences:
"The U.S. and other developed economies with high public debt potentially face ‘massive’ losses of output lasting more than a decade, even if their interest rates remain low, according to new research by economists Carmen and Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
"In a paper published today on the National Bureau of Economic Research's website, they found that countries with debts exceeding 90 percent of the economy historically have experienced subpar economic growth for more than 20 years. That has left output at the end of the period a quarter below where it would have been otherwise.” (Rich Miller,"Reinharts, Rogoff See ‘Massive’ Output Losses From High Debt,” Bloomberg, 5/1/12)
The United States unfortunately falls squarely in this category:
"Gross federal U.S. debt has exceeded 90 percent of GDP for the last two years and is projected to remain above that level at least through 2017, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.” (Rich Miller,"Reinharts, Rogoff See ‘Massive’ Output Losses From High Debt,” Bloomberg, 5/1/12)
President Obama has the dubious honor of presiding over"the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.” (Mark Knoller,"National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama,” CBS News’ Political Hotsheet Blog, 8/22/11)
#RonBarber #JesseKelly #AZ08
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