Berkley Decided Twice To Fund The Arts Instead Of Wildfire Prevention Last week, a wildfire in Northern Nevada wiped out homes and injured Nevadans and today Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley’s decided that she would bring her campaign north to meet with these victims. What’s remarkable about today’s visit, however, isn’t that she touted it under her Senate campaign letterhead, but that Berkley voted not once, but TWICE against legislation that would transfer over $30 million from the National Endowment of Arts to the United States Forest Service to help reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires. “As Congresswoman Shelley Berkley takes her campaign for Senate north and meets with the victims of the Caughlin Wildfire, we hope they’ll remember that on two different occasions she voted to fund the National Endowment of Arts over providing additional funds for wildfire prevention,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox. “Whether…
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Deficit Super Committee Dies Amid Berkley & Reid’s Addiction To Higher Taxes & More Spending
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 Senate Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful Washington spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Nevada. “After years of reckless government spending, Nevada’s unemployment mired at 13 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 Shelley Berkley and her fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Congresswoman Berkley, Senator Reid and their fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they…
As Nat’l Debt Hits Record $15 Trillion, Liberal Berkley Says No To Balancing Federal Budget
Instead, Wants To Continue With Reckless, Historic Spending Spree Just one day after the national debt hit a record-high $15 trillion, liberal Congresswoman Shelley Berkley 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 debt represents more than $48,000 in debt for every American man, woman and child — a 168 percent increase since Berkley first came to Washington in January 1999 with our national debt at $5.6 trillion. “While families and businesses in Nevada make hard choices and live within their means, Shelley Berkley thinks Washington should continue its reckless spending spree and keep racking up debt at a record pace with no accountability,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox today. “Berkley’s reckless, liberal fiscal agenda isn’t…
NRSC Statement On Shelley Berkley’s Latest Fiscal Legacy – A $15 Trillion Debt
Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Berkley’s Reckless Spending Agenda WASHINGTON — When Shelley Berkley first came to Washington in January 1999, the federal debt stood at $5.6 trillion. Yet, 12 years later, and particularly over the last three years, as Shelley Berkley 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 168 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 today and to highlight the massive spending by Congresswoman Berkley 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” “As she prepares to face Nevada voters next year, Shelley Berkley will have to explain why she’s rubberstamped President Obama’s reckless spending agenda, including his failed…
FACT CHECK: Big Labor Misleads Nevadans On Medicare
Berkley Is The Only Candidate Who Has Voted To Slash Medicare By $500 Billion WASHINGTON — Yesterday, Big Labor released a misleading attack ad that grossly distorted Dean Heller’s record, because they want to distract Nevadans from the reality that Congresswoman Shelley Berkley – at the request of Nancy Pelosi – is the only candidate in the U.S. Senate race who has voted to ram $500 billion worth of Medicare cuts into law. It’s clear that even Berkley’s big labor allies in Washington are worried about her record and are prepared to say or do anything to distract attention from it. As both the Washington Post and the New York Times reported on the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s findings – the Democrats’ government-run healthcare bill that Berkley voted into law last year slashed $500 billion from seniors who depend on Medicare. · WASHINGTON POST: The Health Care Bill Cut Medicare…
As Supreme Court Prepares To Weigh In, Nevadans Reminded Of Berkley’s Support For Health Care Mandate
Top Court To Examine Obama-Reid-Berkley ‘Individual Mandate’ As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul, Nevada voters are reminded that liberal U.S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley not only voted for ObamaCare, including its onerous “individual mandate,” but supported an even more extreme version of government-run health care. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul – a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term. The decision to hear arguments in the spring allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. This sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices announced they will hear more than five hours of arguments, an…
Actions Speak Louder Than Words … Shelley Berkley Claims Job Creation Is Her Top Priority, But She’s Voted Against 13 Bipartisan Jobs Bills
Earlier this week, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley wrote an op-ed for the Las Vegas Review-Journal where she chastised folks in Washington for failing to focus on legislation that would create jobs in Nevada. Berkley said that Washington should be focused on legislation that will put people back to work every waking hour. “Unfortunately, far too many in Washington just don’t have their priorities straight. With the highest unemployment rate in the nation, one would expect Nevada’s representatives in our nation’s capital to be spending every waking hour focused like a laser on getting people back to work. Instead of a “jobs agenda,” however, far too many in Washington seem to have an “anything but jobs agenda,” spending precious time on issues that not only won’t help our unemployment situation, but actually would harm Nevada’s middle-class families.” (Shelley Berkley, GOP wants to hurt seniors while massaging Big Oil, China, Las Vegas Review-Journal,…
With Former President Clinton Set To Visit Las Vegas For Shelley Berkley, When Will She Campaign With President Obama?
Earlier today, embattled Congresswoman Shelley Berkley announced that former President Bill Clinton is coming to Las Vegas to campaign for her. Notably, it does not appear they will be holding any campaign events in northern Nevada. But this is also an interesting development given that just days ago Berkley skipped town on President Obama when he campaigned in Nevada, and she has yet to publicly endorse him. As the Associated Press reports: “Former President Bill Clinton is bringing his political star power to Las Vegas to campaign for Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley. Clinton is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for Berkley on Jan. 7 in Las Vegas.” (Cristina Silva, Former President Bill Clinton headed to Las Vegas to campaign for Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley, Associated Press, 11/07/11) “It’s certainly telling that just days after refusing to appear with President Obama, the Berkley campaign is touting an upcoming appearance with…
Nevadan Job Creators To Shelley Berkley: Democrats’ Burdensome Regulations Are Killing Jobs In The Silver State
Will Berkley Listen To These Nevada Job Creators Or Continue To Ignore Them? Yesterday, small business owners from Henderson, Las Vegas and Reno came to Washington, D.C. to tell President Barack Obama, Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley that their burdensome regulations are killing jobs. Additionally, former Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln who is currently the Chairwoman of the Small Business for Sensible Regulations and Dan Danner, President of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) penned a letter to President Obama where they reminded him that small business owners are the engine of our great economy and requested that his Administration halt any new regulations until small businesses are given a fair opportunity to offer their opinion on any new rules. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: Several Nevada business owners in Washington on Tuesday joined a campaign by the small business lobby calling on President Barack…
After Claiming The First $825 Billion Stimulus Would Be Spent On Infrastructure Projects, Berkley & Reid Want A Mulligan
In 2009, liberal United States Congresswoman Shelley Berkley told Nevadans that she would be supporting Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges. After the bill passed the House of Representatives it was revealed that only 5 percent of the so-called stimulus was spent on infrastructure. It was then revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts like a $753,000 project in Nevada’s 22nd Congressional District. Now that it’s been widely accepted that the first $825 billion stimulus was a boondoggle that never ‘saved or created’ 34,000 Nevada jobs, Shelley Berkley and her liberal mentor Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are now asking for a do-over. As The Hill reports: President Obama’s proposal to create a national infrastructure bank and spend $50 billion on transportation to stimulate job growth will…
