Senator Jim Talent


Headline says it all

September 9th, 2010

An article today claims: Obama has added more to the debt than Washington to Reagan, COMBINED. What agenda is advanced by bankrupting the country?

The President’s “jobs” plan misses the mark

September 7th, 2010

The President has announced his new “jobs” package, the centerpiece of which is a small commitment to infrastructure spending.  I say a “small” commitment, because by most estimates the transportation infrastructure deficit in this country is in the trillions of dollars, and the President has proposed a $50 billion package of spending.  So this new [...]

Reality sets in

August 30th, 2010

Climate change advocacy groups seem to be in denial of reality.

The “cap and trade” bill  was designed to raise the cost those forms of energy on which America depends:  coal and oil.  That was the point of the legislation:  to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by raising the cost of traditional fuels so high that the economy [...]