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Posts Tagged ‘economic recession’

• In Their Own Words: Spending Our Way Out of the Recession

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 1:30pm in Ongoing Priorities with 4 comments

  House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) was quoted in The Hill earlier this week discussing the country's economic outlook. Despite the President's recent efforts to talk about savings, Rep. Clyburn took a different tack, saying that "wouldn't help alleviate the recession." He added, "We're not going to save our way out of this recession. We've got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that." More

• Guest Blogger: Wally Herger (R-CA) on Maintaining U.S. Competitiveness

  Posted October 30th, 2009 at 8:40am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 6 comments

  Three years ago the U.S. finished negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia that would have given American businesses reciprocal access to the Colombian market that Colombian companies have been receiving for years. Two years later, in an unprecedented move, Speaker Pelosi denied the FTA an up or down vote in the House, stripping [...] More