Archive for September, 2009

BY DON MANLEY

The Fort Myers News-Press

The health care reforms proposed by Democrats in Congress all have one thing in common - the federal government would have the power to dictate citizens’ health care options.

So said U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, during his appearance at a breakfast meeting Monday for the Chamber of Southwest Florida. [...]

He is one of 144 House Republicans who co-sponsored the bill

By JENNA BUZZACCO-FOERSTER

The Naples Daily News 

Friday, September 18, 2009

NAPLES - A national scandal - and the backlash surrounding it - now has ties to Southwest Florida.

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, on Tuesday co-sponsored a bill meant to strip funding from the Association of Community Organizations [...]

By IAN JAMES

The Associated Press

Hugo Chávez wants to join the nuclear-energy club and is looking to Russia for help.

The Venezuelan leader is dismissing concerns over his nuclear ambitions, offering assurances that his aims are peaceful and that Venezuela will simply be following other South American nations in using nuclear energy.

His project remains in its planning [...]

By Congressman Connie Mack (R-Fort Myers)

For the Cape Coral Daily Breeze

Universal health care? Public option? Nationalized health care? Socialized medicine? Regardless of what you call it, it’s a bad idea. Americans are sick and tired of Washington’s non-stop spending and bailouts. Now is not the time to burden Americans with higher taxes, more spending, and [...]

The Los Angeles Times

By Paul Richter, September 4, 2009

Reporting from Washington

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cut off more than $30 million in aid to Honduras on Thursday in an effort increase pressure on the country’s de facto government to restore democratic rule after a coup in June.

The State Department, which had earlier suspended the [...]