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March 27, 2015

Senator Fischer Pushes for Long-Term Plan to Rebuild America’s Roads & Bridges

WASHINGTON, DC – In a speech to The Ripon Society, U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer said Congress must develop a long-term plan to rebuild America’s aging infrastructure, and pointed to Nebraska as a state where lawmakers have done just that.
March 23, 2015

Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady Discusses Permanent Fix in SGR

WASHINGTON, DC – Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady spoke to a meeting of The Ripon Society on Thursday, where he discussed the importance of overhauling the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate.
March 18, 2015

Ripon Society Presents 1st Annual Theodore Roosevelt Awards to Tiberi, Walden & McMorris Rodgers

WASHINGTON, DC – At a dinner this past Thursday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, The Ripon Society presented three leaders with the 1st Annual Theodore Roosevelt Award
March 11, 2015

“How do we offer better value?”

WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking at a symposium sponsored by The Ripon Society, veteran pollster David Winston told a group of top Capitol Hill aides that the best way to strengthen the GOP coalition was to offer voters something of “value.”
March 6, 2015

“Let’s concentrate on the things we agree on.”

WASHINGTON, DC — In a speech to The Ripon Society, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson discusses his results-oriented agenda and some of the challenges facing Republicans – and America – this year.
February 26, 2015

“Americans can compete anywhere with anyone.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Led by Chairman Pat Tiberi, Members of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee appeared before a meeting of The Ripon Society to discuss their efforts to approve several key trade agreements this year.
February 22, 2015

Ripon Society Holds 5th Annual Legislative and Communications Directors Symposium on Leadership at Mount Vernon

WASHINGTON, DC — The Ripon Society held its 5th Legislative and Communications Directors Symposium at Mount Vernon this past Friday, an event that drew top Hill aides to the historic estate of America’s first President.
February 17, 2015

AMERICA’S CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE

WASHINGTON, DC – With a short-term highway funding bill set to expire at the end of May, the latest edition of THE RIPON FORUM looks at the bipartisan effort to rebuild our nation’s aging bridges and roads.
February 13, 2015

“Are We Becoming a Part-Time Economy?”

A new report by the Federal Reserve in Atlanta sheds light on today’s economy. When compared with 2007, the U.S. labor market now has about 2.5 million more people working part-time and about 2.2 million fewer people working full-time.
February 12, 2015

“This is going to make a difference for every American.”

WASHINGTON, DC — Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Fred Upton (MI-6) appeared before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society yesterday morning, delivering a speech in which he not only talked about his panel’s 2014 accomplishments, but one of his top priorities in the coming year.
January 30, 2015

Super Bowl Speed Read: “Vince Lombardi’s Greatest Speech”

According to football’s greatest coach, running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization — an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win.
January 28, 2015

“People elect us to make tough decisions.”

WASHINGTON, DC — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (LA-1) spoke to a luncheon meeting of The Ripon Society yesterday afternoon, delivering a speech in which he not only discussed the recent retreat for House and Senate Republicans in Hershey, but the possibility for greater bicameral cooperation and achievement this year.