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Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) today released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April report showing 290,000 added jobs but an increased unemployment rate of 9.9%: “During these tough economic times, receiving news about added jobs is most welcome. However, what I don’t want is for us to get wound up over what could be a mirage. I am... Read More
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) received the American Conservative Union Ratings Award for 2009. The American Conservative Union, ACU, the nation’s largest and most powerful grassroots conservative organization today held ceremonies on Capitol Hill to present awards to those Members of the United States Senate and the U.S. House who earned high ratings on ACU’s annual ratings of Congress for... Read More
Working the Wendy’s drive up window…check. Laying bricks…yep. Making beds at a hotel….ditto. Changing oil….been there, done that. Joe Wilson loves rolling up his sleeves and getting down to business. During the month of May, Joe wants you to check out www.takejoetowork.com. Submit your ideas on what workplace in the Second District Joe should visit. During the Joe Means Jobs tour, Joe will talk about cutting... Read More
Joe appeared on the FOX Business Channel’s Happy Hour show to talk about his bi-partisan effort to allow US citizens living outside the US to have easier access to have bank accounts in the US. Joe is calling for a hearing on the issue to allow up to 6.2 million US citizens living abroad to be able to maintain an account in the... Read More
COURTESY: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Obama’s Jerusalem Stonewall By Mortimer Zuckerman 28 April 2010 Thanks to a deadlock engineered by the U.S. government, the Middle East peace process is stalled. President Obama began this stalemate last year when he called for a settlement freeze, and he escalates it now with a major change of American policy regarding Jerusalem. The president seeks to... Read More
This is such a great editorial from the Investors Business Daily (www.investors.com) the story tells it all. Don’t Try This Again Investors Business Daily Editorial Jobs, the real jobs that will move us ahead, are generated through economy-fueling private investment. Those investment dollars cannot be loosed if the government is taking them out of the capital markets through taxes — including those taxes needed to... Read More
Joe Wilson was a big hit at the annual SCGOP’s Silver Elephant dinner in Columbia Saturday night. Here’s what Charleston Post & Courier reporter Yvonne Wenger put on her Twitter page that night…. U.S. Wilson gets the biggest applause of the night – by far #scpol 5:09 PM Apr 24th via web Joe Wilson also made The... Read More
Congressman Joe Wilson and colleagues have been reviewing the White House’s budget request for the military spending for next year. Wilson is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Wilson says he was pleased that the Defense Department did not propose raising fees on TRICARE, the military health insurance plan. The fees are not to be raised. That’s... Read More
U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, today released the following opening statement for the subcommittee’s hearing on the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for the Defense Health Plan: “Thank you, Chairwoman Davis. Today the Subcommittee meets to hear testimony on the Defense Health Program for Fiscal Year 2011. Although we routinely have... Read More
As you wrap up the painful process of finalizing your taxes today, you don’t need me to remind you that the federal government already takes too much of your hard-earned money. I regret to be the bearer of bad news, but if we continue on the “tax and spend” path that Washington liberals have you on, future tax days are only going... Read More