With more than two-thirds majority voting in support, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to pass H.R. 3835. This legislation would extend the pay freeze of Members of Congress and non-military Federal employees through 2013.

On Friday I introduced H.R. 3835, legislation that would extend the pay freeze of Members of Congress and non-military Federal employees through 2013.

My bill is scheduled to be considered and voted on in the House on Wednesday, February 1st.

We used to make things here in Wisconsin.

We made machine tools in Milwaukee, cars in Kenosha and ships in Sheboygan. We mined iron in the north and lead in the south. We made cheese, we made brats, we made beer, and we even made napkins to clean up what we spilled. And we made money.

The original war on poverty was a private, mercenary affair. Men like Harnishfeger, Allis, Chalmers, Kohler, Kearney, Trecker, Modine, Case, Mead, Falk, Allen, Bradley, Cutler, Hammer, Bucyrus, Harley, Davidson, Pabst, and Miller lifted millions up from subsistence living to middle class comfort. They did it - not “Fighting Bob” La Follette or any of the politicians who came along later to take the credit and rake a piece of the action through the steepest progressive scheme in the nation.

 I've been listening to some of the pundits and reading about the deficit reduction super committee's proceedings and I have come to a conclusion about why they failed to accomplish anything.

First, let's break all the parts of this complex situation down to their most basic parts to analyze the situation.  

Republicans focused on spending cuts to reduce the size and cost of government and would not tolerate taxing the American people more in order to maintain the current levels of big government. That's what Republicans do.  No surprise here.

Democrats were obsessed with increasing taxes and would not consider cuts in spending to reduce the size of our out-of-control federal government. That's what Democrats do. No surprise here.

With both sides of Congress so predictably opposed to each other's solutions what could be done?

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