It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.