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The Message of Dollar Disdain

Posted on October 14, 2009
Wall Street Journal October 14, 2009 By JUDY SHELTON Unprecedented spending, unending fiscal deficits, unconscionable accumulations of government debt: These are the trends that are shaping America’s financial future. And since loose monetary policy and a weak U...

Podcast: Mike’s meeting with Secretary Sebelius

Posted on October 08, 2009
Mike discusses his meeting with Secretary Sebelius and the questions he received on facebook.

Podcast: Spending and Government Growth

Posted on October 01, 2009
Mike discusses his vote against spending legislation that increases the size of government and increases levels of spending.

WSJ: Making things worse in Healthcare

Posted on September 28, 2009
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Professor John Cogan of Stanford, Dean Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School, and Professor Daniel Kessler also of Stanford, lay out in clear and compelling language what is wrong with the Democrat?s healthcare plans...

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Podcast: Czars and Terrorist Plots

Posted on September 25, 2009
Mike discusses the legislative issues this week including funding the federal government through October, his work in opposing Obama’s Czars and the uncovered terrorist plots.

WSJ: Live by the Sword…

Posted on September 23, 2009
Texans say a climate-change bill in Congress would take too big a toll on their state By ÁNGEL GONZáLEZ WSJ A bill in Congress to curb global warming has a lot of Texans boiling. The Journal Report The bill proposes to make some companies pay for the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases they emit, gases that scientists believe are [...

Podcast: Student Loan Takeover

Posted on September 18, 2009
Mike discusses the vote this week to takeover the student loan industry.

Happy Consitution Day

Posted on September 17, 2009
On this day, 222 years ago, the 55 delegates to the Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia to hold their final meeting, of which 39 signed a document that would change the course of history. Our Founding Fathers created a monumental plan to govern a sprawling young country dedicated to the idea that citizens were sovereign [...

Obama administration: Cap and trade could cost families $1,761 a year

Posted on September 16, 2009
by Declan McCullagh, CNET News The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U...

The Real Question for Healtchare Reform: What is the cost?

Posted on September 14, 2009
In the wake of President Obama?s speech to Congress last week, Scott Harrington, a Professor of health care management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a thought provoking article in the Wall Street Journal. In it, he takes the President to task for misrepresenting the facts in several of the [...

Podcast: Healthcare Reform

Posted on September 10, 2009
Mike discusses healthcare reform following President Obama’s address to Congress.

Mike discussing the President’s speech

Posted on September 10, 2009

A Letter from the Eagle Forum on Cap and Trade

Posted on September 08, 2009
Dear Representative Conaway: On behalf of Eagle Forum members nationwide, I thank you for listening to the voices of the American people and for voting against the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454). The longer the House debated this bill and the longer the liberal Leadership attempted to [...

Town Halls This Week

Posted on August 31, 2009
This week Mike will hold several open and public town hall forums to allow constituents to ask questions about health care legislation. Tonight, he will host a tele-town hall that you can attend without leaving your home. If you’d like to join the tele-town hall tonight ( Monday, August 31st) you can [...

Inside with an Intern

Posted on August 14, 2009
When first arriving up in DC, I didn?t really know what to expect. I?d heard from a number of past Washington interns what I would generally be doing during my next month and a half, but I didn?t realize the number of experiences I would get to enjoy...

Town-Halls This Week

Posted on August 10, 2009
Mike will be hosting three town-halls in the district this week. We hope you are able to attend. More events will be held later this month. Contact one of the congressional offices for more information. Monday, August 10: 3:30-5:00 pm: Meet with hospital staff, faculty, physicians, and patients at Midland Memorial Hospital Tuesday, [...

Inside with an Intern

Posted on August 04, 2009
Hello my name is Whitney Knabel and I am a senior Political Science major at Howard Payne University. This past spring semester I had the great opportunity to intern with Congressman Conaway in the Brownwood Regional Office under the leadership of Mandy Locker...

Inside with an Intern

Posted on August 04, 2009
I can?t believe two months have already passed. This Friday will be my last day as an intern in the office of Congressman Mike Conaway. When I began this internship at the end of May, after all my finals at the University of Texas had wrapped up, I headed straight for ?the hill?...

Tele-Town Hall Tonight

Posted on August 03, 2009
This month Mike is traveling around the 36 counties in West and Central Texas speaking to doctors, nurses and healthcare officials about health reform. Above is a picture of Mike at Cogdell hospital this morning. Tonight, you can join Congressman Conaway in a live Tele-town hall tonight (Monday August 3) starting at 6:00 p...

Podcast: Healthcare and Cash for Clunkers

Posted on July 31, 2009
Mike discusses the last week of legislative business before the August work district work period.

Taking the Time to Get it Right

Posted on July 31, 2009
Debate concerning what kind of health care reform our country needs and how our country will pay for it is dominating not only Washington, but the everyday lives of most Americans. Today, the Democrat health care bill is being considered in the final committee of jurisdiction, the Energy and Commerce Committee...

Tele-Town Hall Tonight

Posted on July 28, 2009
Join Congressman Conaway in a live tele-town hall tonight (Monday July 13) starting at 6:20 p.m. Central time. To join the call please call 877.229.8493 and dial 13347 anytime between 6:20 and 7:20.

Podcast: Appropriations and Health Care

Posted on July 24, 2009
Mike discusses this week’s appropriations agenda and the current state of health care reform.

Where are the Jobs?

Posted on July 23, 2009

MIKE CONAWAY Op-Ed: ‘Cap-and-tax’ legislation would be bad for America

Posted on July 22, 2009
MIKE CONAWAY: ‘Cap-and-tax’ legislation would be bad for America by Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas San Angelo Standard-Times July 17, 2009 There is an old western movie titled ?Bad Day at Black Rock? about a dying town that is hostile, corrupt and fraudulent...

New Federal Bureaucracies Created in Democrat Health ?Reform?

Posted on July 21, 2009
The House Republican Conference has compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3200, ?America?s Affordable Health Choices Act:? 1. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 123, p. 30) 2. Health Choices Administration (Section 141, p...

Podcast: Healthcare

Posted on July 17, 2009
Mike discusses the Democrats proposal to reform healthcare.

Responsible Healthcare Reform Pledge

Posted on July 17, 2009
Congressman Conaway supports this pledge to not vote in favor of health care reform legislation that he has not personally read and has not been available to the public for 72 hours.

Washington Post: CBO Chief Criticizes Democrats’ Health Proposals

Posted on July 16, 2009
Director Says Proposed Changes Would Weaken Economy By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would worsen an already bleak budget outlook, increasing deficit projections and driving the nation more deeply into debt, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this [...

REBOUND Act

Posted on July 15, 2009
Today, Mike cosponsored the Reducing Barack Obama’s Unsustainable Deficit (REBOUND) Act of 2009 (H.R. 3140). The language of the bill is short and sweet: * It will repeal the spending portion of the President?s ?stimulus? package, saving taxpayers $460 billion * It leaves intact the package?s tax relief and unemployment benefits * It will prohibit the Treasury Secretary [...

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