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Press Releases

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • “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.”

  • “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.

  • “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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • “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.

  • “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.

  • 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.

  • “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.

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