FroshUpdate: YouCut Program Handed to Freshmen
This morning the popular YouCut program will be handed over to freshmen Reps, in an effort to show how seriously leadership takes the class. Elsewhere, a Rep. Kinzinger drive to call on the president to end ‘MediSCARE’ tactics nets 41 freshmen signatories.
And while Paul Gosar receives an award for dialoguing with his constituents, Joe Heck is rewarded with an interesting profile on his role on an intelligence subcommittee. This is FroshUpdate for May 11, 2011.
YOUCUT TO FRESHMEN: Eric Cantor will announce today that the GOP leadership is passing off its YouCut program to its freshmen. Freshmen Reps. Renee Ellmers (NC-02), Austin Scott (GA-08) and Mick Mulvaney (SC-05) will appear beside him. “It will be a freshman-led project this year,” said a freshmen aide. “Obviously Mr. Cantor will be supporting us in that.” http://politi.co/k0W4p9
FRESHMEN: END ‘MEDISCARE’: In an attempt to protest Democrats' rhetoric on Medicare, Rep. Adam Kinzinger sent a letter to the White House, signed by 41 other freshmen, "calling on President Obama to end the 'MediSCARE' tactics." http://politi.co/jEQ3Bx
HECK’S INTELLIGENCE ROLE SPOTLIGHT: Joe Heck’s role on subcommittee for Technical and Tactical Intelligence, which monitors the government’s satellite operations, gets profiled. Las Vegas Sun: He “bone[s] up on the network of military, intelligence and commercial satellites, figure[s] out how to improve government-private sector cooperation, and figure[s] out how to update the fleet but also cut costs.”
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GOSAR’S AWARD: Congressman Paul Gosar received the National Write Your Congressman (NWYC) ‘Constituent Communication Award’ in recognition of his efforts to communicate with constituents. NWYC is a non-partisan group established to encourage people to start a dialogue with their representatives. http://bit.ly/mN7l3l
ON O’s IMMIGRATION SPEECH: Rep. Ben Quayle responds to Obama's immigration speech, stating, "President Obama’s immigration speech today was driven by politics and politics alone. Instead of real solutions and reforms, the President offered finger pointing and spin. He even claimed that the border fence between the United States and Mexico is ‘basically complete.’" http://bit.ly/lO6I1q
ROBY IN AFGHANISTAN: Rep. Martha Roby calls her recent trip to Afghanistan a "life changing experience." … “This was a life changing experience for me, not just as a member of Congress and as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, but as a wife and a mother to firsthand to be in a war zone and spend time with troops making a sacrifice for my family," she said. http://bit.ly/jY9MJ4
LANDRY FOR AG? Freshman Rep. Jeff Landry (LA-03), whose seat has been threatened because of redistricting, may run for Attorney General rather than face the daunting challenge of opposing fellow Republican Rep. Charles Boustany (LA-07). http://politi.co/lNMUfo
WORKING WITH FRESHMEN PAYS OFF : Chip Cravaack’s former campaign manager, Tony Post, has been chosen to become the South Dakota GOP’s next executive director. “Post helmed arguably the biggest upset campaign of the entire election cycle as Cravaack unseated longtime DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar in the 8th District,” reports the Minnesota Post. http://bit.ly/iDVoSF
FITZPATRICK HUDDLES W/SMALL BUSINESSES: A group of small businesses in Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick’s district met with him Tuesday to talk about the national debt. "Most of my clients are scared for the first time ever," said Robert Wisner, one such businessman, told Fitzpatrick. http://bit.ly/ieZORp