Virginia Right!

U.S. Senator John Hoeven Delivers Weekly Republican Address ‘President Obama has been traveling and giving interviews on the consequences of the sequester…The fact is: Republicans in Congress, right now, will provide the flexibility to make the necessary spending reductions and address our deficit and debt, instead of going through the sequester. In fact, House Republicans […]

Read the full story

Though the economy continues to sputter along and many families are struggling, the Obama administration and Senate Democrat leaders are once again pushing policies to make energy even more expensive for Americans.   According to The Wall Street Journal, “Gasoline prices took a big bite out of Americans’ pocketbooks in 2012. The average U.S. household paid […]

Read the full story

Politico reports today, “Canadian oil executives this week are personally warning U.S. lawmakers that the delay in the Keystone XL pipeline has repercussions on U.S.-Canada trade relations. The CEOs of at least six Canadian oil companies or subsidiaries — in town on a regular annual visit ostensibly to talk about broader issues affecting Canadian oil […]

Read the full story

The Hill reports today, “AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is backing construction of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline in comments that downplay divisions among unions in the labor federation over the controversial project. . . . ‘I think we are all unanimous by saying we should build the pipeline, but we have to do it […]

Read the full story

The Washington Post editors write today, “The case for ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger.   “A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta. If activists could […]

Read the full story

During the 2008 election campaign, Candidate Barack Obama was fond of using the analogy that George Bush “drove the car in a ditch” to pertray an image that Bush had carelessly and perhaps recklessly caused the financial crisis in which America found itself. Here we are nearly four years later and the economy has yet […]

Read the full story

Democrat leaders claim they’re concerned about the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, but they continue to demonstrate that they’re not interested in changing some basic policies that could produce more and cheaper American energy.   According to The Hill, “Senate Democrats will hold firm and reject House Republican demands to include approval […]

Read the full story

Gas Prices Multiple Choice Which Of The Following Best Describes The Democrats’ Strategy On High Gas Prices?   A.     Voting On Judges   “Reid (D-Nev.) took a highly unusual step Monday of launching the process for Senate approval of 17 judges as soon as Wednesday…” (“Reid Tees Up Senate Fight To Confirm 17 Judges,” Los […]

Read the full story

Trying to find any sense in President Obama’s stunning rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline and the 20,000 jobs it would have created, columnist Robert Samuelson writes today, “It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the […]

Read the full story

Virginia Right! had the opportunity to ask US Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) a couple of questions on the Keystone XL pipeline that will create more jobs from private sector funds than anything else on the table. Unfortunately, President Obama has bowed to pressure from the environmental extremists and killed the deal until after the election, […]

Read the full story