Support Full Repeal of the Obama Health Care Law NOW!!!

On Wednesday, the House will vote on legislation that would fully repeal the detrimental health care law that was put into effect last March under the Obama Administration’s direction. Speaker Boehner is committed to passing full repeal of this bill.

The overhaul of our health care system under President Obama’s health care plan will drive up the national debt and has already led to increased health care premiums for many Americans.  Furthermore, this big government entitlement jeopardizes the health coverage Americans already have and cripples the ability of small businesses to compete.  Our economy is continuing to struggle, and the construction industry is facing the greatest challenges of almost any sector, with unemployment in our industry at a staggering 20.7%.

Write your member of Congress today and tell them to support immediate repeal of the new health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, today!
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NJECPAC Attends Chris Christie Town Hall in Paramus

NJECPAC Chairman Joe Coviello and Government Affairs Director Joseph Hovanec were invited to and attended a Town Hall Meeting in Paramus with Governor Chris Christie.

The Governor discussed many topics including the economic state of the State at the moment he took office. If he did not take immediate fiscal action the state would not make its Payroll by mid March, only three months later. As you can imagine the state was in much worse shape than any of us ever knew.

  

The Governor will be taking on teacher tenure in an effort to move to a merit reward system for good teachers, He will work to rein in  the pension and health insurance costs of public sector unions, that if no action is taken will in itself bankrupt the state. He will soon announce the construction of many new Charter Schools. He spoke on his commitment to Autism, Road and Bridge Construction and his #1 goal is to bring New Jersey out of this fiscal mess and restore pride to the State.

Immediately following the Town Hall Meeting we were interviewed by the Newark Star Ledger and we appeared in the Fox News Channel's report of the event.

Facing huge budget difficulties, Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other states how to survive, by taking on the government-employee unions. Christie's battles with the teachers unions over the past year have crisscrossed the entire country and he has become somewhat of a star on YouTube. Last month, he was able to get the Democrat Controlled Legislature to pass to legislation to limit Arbitration awards for public employee unions to an average 2 percent annual increase.

New Jersey is not alone, other states have begun to take notice, including those controlled by Democrats such as New York, California and Illinois who are all facing fiscal calamities. They find themselves in the position to increasingly follow Governor Christie's example and rein in their Public unions benefit costs.

As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that sooner or later "you run out of other people's money." Read More

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s 2011 State of the State Address

NJN News provided complete live coverage of Governor Chris Christie’s State of the State speech to a joint session of the New Jersey State Legislature on Tuesday, January 11 at 2 pm.

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By Joseph Hovanec Jr.



NJECPAC believes Governor Christie is making huge strides in fiscal responsibility for the State of New Jersey. That is especially difficult given the big union mentality that he is up against. He is absolutely correct  when he says that the unions in New Jersey are Living in the past and refuse to realize that this is 2011 and the state is out of money. 

NJECPAC supports the Governor and his efforts to restore fiscal responsibility to the State of New Jersey. However, the stark reality is his success depends on the cooperation or lack of cooperation that he receives from the Democratic Controlled Legislature. 

Every taxpayer in New Jersey must make it a point to watch the progress as well as the resistance that the Governor receives from the Legislature, because every voter will get the opportunity to either voice their approval or disapproval of both the Senate and Assembly in November when each and every one of them are up for election. 

NJECPAC will not tell anyone how to vote, but rather encourage every voter to enter the voting booth in November with their property tax bill and NJ income tax return in hand. Then, just before they pull the lever to vote for their representatives, look closely at those bills and ask themselves, did the candidates on the ballot who are asking for their vote exasperate or help to correct the fiscal problems that they and every other New Jersey taxpayer has and will continue to face. 

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GOP Removes "Labor" And Inserts "Workforce" in House Committee Name

AFL/CIO President Richard Trumka

Showing Their Desperation, Labor Officials Are In A Panic Over House Committee Name Change.

 

The Republican Majority's decision to drop “labor” from the name of the House Education and Labor Committee and change it to the House Education and the Workforce Committee shows that a new boss is in town, and one unions believe will not be friendly to unions.

The move is being interpreted by union officials as an attack on unions and will hamper their efforts to pressure the Obama administration on workplace laws and regulations. Bill Samuel, the AFL-CIO’s director of government affairs said “It really does mean something, More than the rhetoric, they have a different agenda.”

“We basically think this name change is symbolic of the new majority’s hostility toward the rights of everyday working Americans,” said Chuck Loveless, director of legislation at the American Federation of County, State and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). 

As you can see by the rhetoric, unions are in a tizzy over a simple name change that does nothing more than include all working men and women and not just those that belong to unions. Alexa Marrero, a spokeswoman for the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said the union officials’ claim that the name change reflected hostility toward workers is “bizarre,” since union members are part of the workforce. Read More

The Committee's basic jurisdiction is over education and workforce matters generally. While Congress has been concerned over education and workforce issues since its beginning, attempts to create a Committee with jurisdiction over education and labor failed in early Congresses due to Representatives' concern over the constitutional grounds for such a federal role.

Committee History

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Cumberland County Adds To Rules For Contractors

The Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders approved additional rules for contractors looking to do business in the county.

The approved resolution is intended to ensure that county construction workers are only employed by "responsible contractors who have the training and the qualifications to get the job done effectively and safely," said Freeholder Nelson Thompson during the meeting.

Qualifications that Electrical Contractors must meet include participation in an Apprenticeship Program registered with the Federal or State Department of Labor such as the IBEW and IEC Apprentice Programs, and a submission of a statement agreeing to not employ any worker of less than journeyman status on a project.

The new rules, which are added to current county rules regarding contractors and not to replace them, apply to all "significant work," as defined as projects that fall under the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act.

Among the provisions contained in the resolution are:

• Contracts in excess of $2,000 but less than $499,999 in total cost necessitate certification that the contractor and each subcontractor have at least one employee who has completed a 10-hour safety course provided by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Contracts of $500,000 and above require a 30-hour course.

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New Jersey Senate Passes Help For Small Business

NJ Senator Steve Oroho

Senate Passes Oroho Measures Simplifying New Jersey’s Tax Code
Two bills sponsored by Senator Steve Oroho (R-Sussex) that would streamline New Jersey’s cumbersome tax structure were passed by the New Jersey Senate. S-1646 simplifies the formula by which business taxes are calculated, requiring a single sales factor formula instead of the current three factor formula. S-1540 provides tax relief to small businesses by allowing taxpayers who generate income from different types of businesses to offset gains from one type of business with losses from another. Read More

Kyrillos Business Tax Credit Bill Heads to the Governor

NJ Senator Joe Kyrillos

Legislation proposed by Governor Christie and sponsored by Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) and Senator Fred Madden (D-Gloucester) to expand financial assistance grants for current and prospective New Jersey employers has cleared both chambers of the Legislature and heads to the Governor’s desk. If signed, the bill will broaden the availability of state financial assistance for those employers who wish to expand operations in or relocate to the State of New Jersey. Read More

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Obama's New Year's Resolution? Fix The Economy

President Obama has set his New Year's resolution high for 2011: He wants to Repair the struggling economy.

In his weekly radio address, he referenced data showing the economic recovery was gaining traction even as millions of Americans are still out of work.

"Our most important task now is to keep that recovery going," Obama said. "As president, that's my commitment to you: to do everything I can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs, and strengthening our middle class. That's my resolution for the coming year."

Isnt it nice of him decide to pay attention to what the rest of the Country has been concerned about since he was elected.

Unemployment of nearly 10 percent and dissatisfaction with Obama's efforts to spur an economic recovery from the worst recession in decades helped fuel Republican back into the Majority in the House and greatly reduced the Democrat Majority in the Senate.

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New Jersey-IEC Joins CDW brief In Union Trespass Case

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New Jersey-IEC Joins The CDW Brief In Union Trespass Case

New Jersey-IEC has Joined one hundred forty (140) other organizations that have signed on to the CDW amicus brief in the National Labor Relations Board case Roundy’s Inc. And Milwaukee Building and Construction Trade Council.  

The issue in the Roundy's case is whether employers are required to allow non-employee union agents to trespass on the workplace for the purpose of harming the employer's business if the employer has allowed workplace access to other non-employee individuals or groups that do not intend to harm the business (such as the United Way, blood drives, girl scouts, etc.). 

The Board's decision in this matter has an obvious impact on the ability of employers to shield customers, clients and employees from interference and harassment by non-employee union agents

The NLRB Case Notice Can Be Viewed Here

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) is a coalition of workers, employers, associations and organizations who are fighting to protect the right to a federally supervised private ballot when workers are deciding whether or not to join a union. http://www.myprivateballot.com/

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Top Ten Reasons America Won’t Miss the 111th Congress

The 111th Congress is officially over, and  officially the worst Congress in history. Yet despite its pitiful 13% approval rating some are hailing the 111th Congress as wildly successful.

Of course, most touting the so called “accomplishments” of 111th Congress are the very members of Congress defining their own incompetent actions as accomplishments, regardless of what the American People think.

Starting with Nancy Pelosi, who is not at all ashamed of the legislation she has rammed through Congress, despite the objections of the American People.

Pelosi says she is “very, very proud of the work that was accomplished by this Congress.”

The American people have a different take on the work of Nancy Pelosi and Her Congress. Nothing said "Enough" louder than the earthshaking results of the midterm election, or as Obama himself defined it, the Shellacking they were handed.

If you take a look at some of Congress’ signature “accomplishments,” you might understand where they’re coming from. Here are 10 major pieces of legislation passed by the 111th Congress over the last two years and a look at why Americans were not pleased. 

1. Obamacare: Pushed as the panacea for America’s health care woes, instead American taxpayers will take the hit for a trillion dollars in new federal spending.
2. The Failed Stimulus: Obama promised that his stimulus would save or create 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. The result? A 9.8 percent unemployment rate, a national debt of $2.9 trillion
3. The 9,000-Earmark Omnibus Bill: Never mind the $1.4 trillion budget deficit in 2009. Congress went ahead and passed an omnibus spending bill containing 9,287 pork project earmarks costing $13 billion.
4. Mountains of Debt: You can’t pin it on one piece of legislation alone, but the 111th Congress has piled heaps upon heaps of new debt, a massive $3.22 trillion. That comes out to $10,429.64 for every man, woman and child. That's more debt than the first 100 Congresses combined.
5. The Government Union Bailout: As if one massive bailout weren’t enough, Obama and the 111th Congress delivered another $26.1 billion bailout for Government unions and big-spending states that wouldn’t know a balanced budget if it smacked them in the face.
6. Wall Street Reform? Think Again: While Obama touted the Dodd-Frank bill as reform of Wall Street, the bill preserves the possibility of future government bailouts making a TARP-like bailout system permanent, and does nothing to reform two of the biggest culprits behind the financial crisis: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Many of whose former Executives have been rewarded for their failures with jobs in the Obama White House. 
7. The “Neighborhood Destabilization Act”: Speaker Pelosi would refer to it as the “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act,” but in reality the law does the opposite by Read More, And if you’re a responsible homeowner, you lose big time.
8. Cash for Clunkers:  Stuck with an old car or truck? The U.S. government would have paid you $3,500 to $4,500 to trade it in for a new, more fuel efficient vehicle. The program didn’t bring new buyers into the market, and the cost to taxpayers? $3 billion. or $24,000 per car. It did however result in the removal of millions of Obama Bumper Stickers from the road.
9. New START: Obama sold this nuclear arms treaty as a reduction of nuclear weapons. The Treaty will in fact be useless in limiting nuclear proliferation, detrimental to missile defense, and counter to the purpose of defense treaties, defending and protecting America from her enemies.
10. Cap-and-Trade: The Waxman-Markey climate bill was expected to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions with the unrealistic goal of curbing global warming. The plan would have increased gas prices by 58%, and household electric rates by 90% by 2035.

Read More on each of the 10 top reasons the majority of Americans say good ridens to the 111th Congress

  

Americans should expect better results from the 112th Congress, Provided that the newly-elected representatives heed their electoral mandate: less spending, lower taxes and limited government.

But Americans should also be aware that even if Congress stays in line, President Obama will still pursue his big government agenda by way of more regulations from unelected bureaucrats. As the president said when the Democrats lost the House and failed to enact cap-and-trade, “I’m going to be looking for other means to address this problem.” In Fact He Already Has.

Americans will either get more involved in the political process or continue to be its victim. 

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111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined

$10,429 New Debt Per Person In The U.S. !!!

The federal government has accumulated more new debt, $3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29), during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official U.S. Treasury Debt Figures.

That comes to $10,429.64 in New Debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census.

The Total National Debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has dwarfed the 110th Congress, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in New Debt.

During the 110th Congress the national debt increased $1.957 trillion. When that Congress adjourned, it held the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history.

As it turned out, that record did not last long.

With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi driving the car, (an analogy Obama so loved to use in his failed attempt to demonize Republicans in the midterm election), the federal government has run up $5.177 trillion in new debt. That is about equal to the total debt the federal government accumulated in the first 220 years of the nation's existence.

In her inaugural address as speaker, Pelosi vowed that Congress would engage in no new deficit spending. "After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” she said in an address from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt." 

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