Expanding Energy Production to Create Jobs, & Help Pay for Better Roads & Bridges

SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER, 2/4/2012 - In the coming weeks the House will vote on the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R.7). Removes barriers to job growth by approving the Keystone pipeline rejected by President Obama, lifting the president’s offshore drilling ban, opening a small portion of ANWR, and more. Read more at the Speaker's Blog... Read More......

ABC: U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms

(Hat tip: Lou Copes) - Cities hire Chinese instead of American workers for building projects. See video at ABC News. Read More......

Debt deal could deal Columbia River bridge a blow

PORTLAND — One casualty of the coming federal budget crunch could be a new $3 billion bridge carrying Interstate 5 across the Columbia River.

At best, its sponsors acknowledge, the bridge project is going to take another whack. At worst, the sponsors say, are options they’re not ready to consider, including shelving $130 million worth of plans until the nation’s balance sheet looks better or scaling back the project.

The current I-5 bridge linking Oregon and Washington is considered at risk in an earthquake, and its tie-ups infuriate commuters and truckers.

Read more at The Columbian Read More......

Seven Score and Four Years Ago

GRAND OLD PARTISAN BLOG, 12/15/2009 by Michael Zak - The United States emerged from the Civil War a vastly different county. No longer could Democrats hinder economic progress so as to protect the slave system. Once most Democrats in Congress had gone with the Confederacy, Republicans met little opposition in enacting their pro-growth economic agenda: a national banking system and a national currency, free land for farmers in the Plains states, land-grant colleges, the transcontinental railroad, and other structural reforms that soon made the United States the wealthiest country in the world. Read more at the Grand Old Partisan... Read More......