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Podcast: Obama’s Budget

Posted on March 30, 2009
Mike discusses the House version of Obama’s Budget.

The Hill Blog: Securing America’s Bridge Infrastructure

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Hill Blog By Rep. Mike Conaway During the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, the I-35 highway bridge that spanned the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota experienced a catastrophic failure and crumpled into the river beneath it, killing 13 people and injuring 100 more...

Podcast: AIG Bonuses

Posted on March 19, 2009
Mike discusses the AIG bonuses and use of TARP funds.

Real Clear Markets: Card Check Workers Can Only Check In

Posted on March 17, 2009
Real Clear Markets By Diana Furchtgott-Roth Stock markets are near their lowest levels in years, the federal budget deficit has shot to an all-time high, consumer confidence is at a record low, the unemployment rate has been rising and hit 8.1% in February, and over four million jobs have disappeared in the past year...

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The Conaway Chronicle: Volume 4, Issue 3

Posted on March 16, 2009
Thank you for reading The Conaway Chronicle, a weekly review of my activities in Congress. This newsletter is to let you know what?s going on in Washington and what important issues are being debated in Congress. Click here to sign up for this newsletter...

Mike on the Floor Discussing the President’s Budget

Posted on March 09, 2009

Podcast: Foreclosure Legislation

Posted on March 05, 2009

Obama’s Inflated Budget

Posted on March 04, 2009

Inside with an Intern

Posted on March 02, 2009

Podcast: 2009 Spending and Mortgage legislation

Posted on February 26, 2009
Mike discusses the 2009 omnibus spending legislation and the housing legislation on the floor this week.

The President’s Unassailable Logic

Posted on February 25, 2009
Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard University, has a blog post about how President Obama will measure the success of his stimulus plan. The President says that the ?bottom-line, number one? measure of success is ?creating or saving 4 million jobs...

Military Academy Application and Nomination Process

Posted on February 19, 2009
Each year hundreds of the best and brightest young men and women write my office to apply for appointment to a service academy. There are five Service Academies: The United States Air Force Academy, Naval, Military, Merchant Marine, and Coast Guard Academies...

Podcast: Democrats Stimulus Spending

Posted on February 13, 2009
Mike discusses his opposition to the Democrats Stimulus Bill.

How are we going to pay for the massive stimulus bill?

Posted on February 12, 2009
Mike talks on the House Floor about the cost of the stimulus bill on future generations.

Mike discusses the Stimulus in Fredericksburg, TX

Posted on February 10, 2009

WSJ Op-Ed- How Government Created the Finanical Crisis

Posted on February 09, 2009
By John B. Taylor Wall Street Journal Many are calling for a 9/11-type commission to investigate the financial crisis. Any such investigation should not rule out government itself as a major culprit. My research shows that government actions and interventions — not any inherent failure or instability of the private economy — caused, prolonged and dramatically worsened [...

Podcast: DTV Transition and SCHIP

Posted on February 04, 2009
Mike discusses this week’s legislative agenda and his votes in opposition to the DTV Transition extension.

A Lesson from the Great Depression

Posted on February 02, 2009
Amity Shlaes, author of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” discusses the lessons we can draw from FDR?s failure to ?fix? the economy. Tellingly, she quotes then Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, who testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means towards the end of the 1930s and said: ?We [...

Podcast: Stimulus vote in the House

Posted on January 29, 2009
Mike discusses the Democratic economic spending bill and the Republican alternative.

Economic Stimulus: A burden on future generations

Posted on January 28, 2009
Ronald Reagan once said: ?Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.? How can I, in good faith, leave the next generation with this giant mess to clean up...

Participate in a Tele-Town Hall Tonight

Posted on January 26, 2009
Mike will host a live telephone-town hall in the district tonight. The topic of conversation will be the economic stimulus and rural communities. The call begins at 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time and lasts one hour. If you’d like to participate please call 1 (877) 229-8493 anytime between 6:30 and 7:30.

Podcast: Inauguration and TARP Funds

Posted on January 22, 2009
Mike discusses the Inauguration of Barack Obama and his vote against releasing additional funding for the financial bailout.

Video Podcast: Mike’s view of the Inauguration

Posted on January 21, 2009

Podcast: Inauguration

Posted on January 16, 2009
Mike discusses his vote against expansion of SCHIP and the Democrat economic stimulus package. He also speaks about his new committee assignments including the Ethics and Standard Committee and his new role on the Republican Whip Team.

Mike in the Middle East

Posted on January 12, 2009
Watch Mike’s video of his Christmas trip to the Middle East.

Bush will head to Midland after presidency for welcome-home event

Posted on January 09, 2009
Dallas Morning News - 1/8/09 - George W. Bush will make his first stop in Texas as ex-president in his boyhood home of Midland, where a welcome-home rally is planned in the town square that served as his send-off to the White House. Eight years ago, in January 2001, Bush, then the president-elect, attended a [...

Podcast: 111th Congress Begins

Posted on January 09, 2009
Mike discusses the opening of the 111th Congressional session and his goals and outlook for the year.

Troops send holiday greetings home

Posted on January 05, 2009
Over the break, Mike took a Congressional delegation trip to Iraq where he had the opportunity to visit with troops from all over Texas. With video camera in tow, he got some great footage of soldiers fighting in Baghdad who wanted to send holiday greetings home to their friends and family...

WSJ Column: Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death

Posted on December 16, 2008
Wall Street Journal By DON BOUDREAUX The spectacle of corporate magnates from Detroit pleading to be on Uncle Sam’s dole is a sordid one. So why aren’t more Americans appalled? One reason is widespread misunderstanding — much of it sowed by these auto makers — about the size of their firms...