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Continues To Oppose Bipartisan, Common-Sense Measures In what has become a disturbing pattern, this week Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy voted against three bipartisan jobs bills in three days. All three of these bills received broad bipartisan support, because they will help protect Connecticut businesses from more government overreach and job killing regulations.  They represent the 23rd, 24th and 25th bipartisan jobs bills passed by the House, and largely opposed by Murphy, now awaiting a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate. REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2011 (H.R. 3010):  Bipartisan legislation that “requires agencies to assess the costs and benefits” of new regulations on small businesses. Passed the House by a vote of 253-167 – Murphy Voted Nay REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2011 (H.R. 527):  Closes loopholes used by federal agencies that allow them to impose costly, job-crushing regulations. Passed the House by a vote of 263-159 – Murphy…

Democrats Sought $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In response to this evening’s announcement by the deficit reduction Super Committee that they were unable to reach any bipartisan agreement , the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the failure of leadership by Washington Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful government spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Connecticut. “After years of reckless government spending, unemployment mired at 9 percent and a $15 trillion debt that grows daily, the negotiations of the last few weeks have been a remarkable commentary on the misplaced priorities of Congressman Chris Murphy and his fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Congressman Murphy and his fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they did…

Instead, Wants To Continue With Reckless, Historic Spending Spree Just one day after the national debt hit a record-high $15 trillion, liberal Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT) voted against balancing our federal budget, instead preferring to continue rubber-stamping President Barack Obama’s reckless spending spree in what CBS News reports is “the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.” Notably, today’s $15 trillion national debt represents more than $48,000 in debt for every American man, woman and child — a 74 percent increase since Murphy first came to Washington in January 2007 with our national debt at $8.6 trillion. “While families and businesses in Connecticut make hard choices to live within their means, Chris Murphy apparently thinks Washington should continue its reckless deficit spending spree and keep racking up debt at a record pace with no accountability,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond today.  “Murphy’s liberal…

Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Murphy’s Reckless Spending Agenda When liberal Congressman Chris Murphy first came to Washington in January 2007, the federal debt stood at $8.6 trillion – a figure which took over 200 years for our country to reach.  Yet, just five years later, and particularly over the last three years as Murphy has rubber-stamped every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now hit the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 74 percent increase, and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child. To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark yesterday, and to highlight the massive spending by Congressman Murphy and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “Each and every Connecticut family and business has to make tough choices and…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) massive health care overhaul is to middle-class families in Connecticut, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to slam families with higher insurance costs: A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Notably, Murphy’s Democrat primary opponents…

Obama’s Top Economists Reveal Hefty Price Tag For Failed Stimulus Debacle Since liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) helped ram his party’s $787 billion stimulus into law, America has lost nearly 1.9 million jobs and our national debt has skyrocketed to a record-high $14.3 trillion.  Now, President Obama’s own top economists estimate that the stimulus debacle cost taxpayers an average $278,000 per job. As the Weekly Standard notes: The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or…

As he attempts to distract voters from his decision to cut Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund the expansion of government into other areas of the health care market, liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and his Washington Democrat allies have been busy trying to scare Connecticut seniors and demagogue the crucial issue of Medicare. Not to be outdone, his Democrat primary opponent Susan Bysiewicz (D-CT) is echoing those talking points, also demanding that Medicare be left on its current unsustainable path as she continues to drag Murphy further to the left of mainstream Connecticut voters. But in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the 2011 Medicare Trustees Report yesterday, the two public trustees of Medicare, Dr. Charles P. Blahous and Dr. Robert Reischauer, admitted that Murphy and Bysiewicz’s plan would “end Medicare as we know it,” “bankrupt” the program and lead to benefit cuts for seniors….

With our national debt at $14.3 trillion, and amid calls by U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and his Democrat primary opponent Susan Bysiewicz (D-CT) for a $2 trillion debt ceiling increase without any substantive spending reforms, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a deeply troubling report on our country’s fiscal future. In its latest update of The Long-Term Budget Outlook, the CBO provides an overview of the looming debt crisis and projects that by the end of this year, the federal debt will reach roughly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—the highest percentage since shortly after World War II. “Years of borrowed spending and bigger government have brought our country to the most predictable economic crisis in American history – but both Chris Murphy and Susan Bysiewicz think it’s a good idea to just increase our credit card limit by another $2 trillion without spending reforms,” National Republican…