I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

More women are graduating from college now than men.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.