Author: Ripon Society
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Senators Portman and Shaheen Discuss Energy Efficiency Bill in Bipartisan Appearance Before The Ripon Society
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republican Senator Rob Portman (OH) and Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) appeared together at a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society yesterday morning to discuss bipartisan legislation they have co-authored that would promote energy efficiency in the United States. The legislation is called The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act (S. 761).
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July 17, 2013
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time, and if a country lets the time for wise action pass, it may bitterly repent when a generation later it strives under disheartening difficulties to do what could have been done so easily if attempted at the right moment.” – Letter to Edward Grey, November 15, 1913
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Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster’s speech to Ripon Society cited by Philadelphia Inquirer
Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster’s speech to Ripon Society cited by Philadelphia Inquirer
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“We are at a tipping point here”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bill Shuster (PA-9) delivered a speech to a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society yesterday morning, issuing a warning about the nation’s aging infrastructure and arguing that the federal government has a constitutional responsibility to keep America’s transportation system strong.
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Morning Call highlights Representative Charlie Dent’s remarks about Tuesday Group to Ripon
Morning Call highlights Representative Charlie Dent’s remarks about Tuesday Group to Ripon
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July 9, 2013
“The insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.” – Letter to Ray Stannard Baker, November 20, 1905
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“We consider ourselves the governance wing of the Republican Party”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The leaders of the Tuesday Group appeared before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society this past Friday to discuss the group’s agenda in the 113th Congress and its mission moving forward this year. The leaders included Reps. Erik Paulsen (MN-3), Adam Kinzinger (IL-16), and Charlie Dent (PA-15), who serves as Co-Chairman…
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July 2, 2013
“It is a good thing to read the Declaration of Independence every Fourth of July; it is a good thing to talk of what Washington and his fellows did for us; but what counts most is how we live up to the lessons that we read or that we speak of.” – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November…
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June 25, 2013
“The candidate is the candidate of a party; but if the president is worth his salt he is the president of the whole people” – Little Rock, Arkansas, October 25, 1905
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June 18, 2013
“No man is fit for control who does not possess intelligence, self-respect, and respect for the just rights of others.” – The Foes of Our Own Household, 1917
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“MAKE MY DAY”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (KY-5) appeared before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society yesterday morning, delivering a speech in which he not only responded to the recent threat by the White House to veto the MilCon/VA spending bill, but expressed his optimism that House and Senate appropriators would be…
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June 11, 2013
“Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so he does not wrong his neighbor.” – Paris, France, April 23, 1910