Steve Pearce has introduced a new TV ad which shares his vision for bringing prosperity back to New Mexico.

By: Margery Eagan

October 17, 2010--Boston Herald

This president gives rousing speeches. He did it again yesterday. He bounded out onto the Hynes Convention Center stage, all youth and vigor, open-necked white shirt, navy blazer.

But he didn’t sell me, or reassure me.

And he obviously knows he’s having trouble connecting — even with true believers. He talked about this yesterday: the “fun” and “feeling good” and overwhelming optimism of Inauguration Day vs. the undercurrent of skepticism now.

Remember? Obama was JFK, RFK and MLK rolled into one. He was a once-in-a-generation superstar. The savior had been born.

What happened?

“I know that hope may have faded as we grind it out. I know it’s hard to keep faith,” he said yesterday, “with another foreclosure sign hung on the house down the street, and you watch TV and all you see are politicians tearing each other down.

“(The Republicans) figured they could ride people’s frustration and anger all the way to the ballot box,” he said.

Steve Pearce has introduced a new TV ad which exposes Congressman Teague's lie about not taking money from his companies for 21 months.  The ad also points out the hypocrisy of Teague claiming "times are tough" while he owns two luxury private jets.  Finally, it points out that Teague has requested $4.8 million dollars in taxpayer money to repave the road where he has eleven businesses.

By: Press

For Immediate Release

October 13, 2010

Teague Brings Transportation Secretary to District to Tout Failed Stimulus

Teague Still Silent on Using Taxpayer Money to Benefit His Businesses

HOBBS, NM – Today, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is in Las Cruces with Congressman Teague to promote the failed stimulus package. While selling the massive $800 billion spending program to the public for the past 21 months, Teague and President Obama said it contained billions of dollars in “shovel ready” projects to improve our nation’s infrastructure.

However, even the President is admitting to its massive failure. In today’s New York Times, he is quoted as saying that “there’s no such thing as ‘shovel ready’ projects.”

October 12, 2010--Republican Policy Committee

Today, the national unemployment rate stands at a painful 9.6 percent.  Unfortunately, reports indicate that the Obama administration, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon finalize a new job-killing environmental regulation.  Earlier this year, the EPA proposed lowering the limit from the current 75 parts per billion (ppb) standard to 60 ppb.  Currently, as many as 675 counties across the U.S. would violate the proposed standard—triggering job-killing mandates, new costs, new permitting requirements, and financial penalties for operations in those areas.

The economic impact of such an arbitrary federal rule would be dramatic and amount to a backdoor national energy tax promulgated by the EPA.  According to a National Association of Manufacturers study, the proposed 60 ppb ozone standard would lead to a total of $1 trillion in annual compliance costs and 7.3 million jobs lost.  The chart below indicates how the states would fare if the EPA’s job-killing regulation gets implemented:

By: Melissa Subbotin

September 30, 2010--Congressional Western Caucus Press Release

Washington - Today, Senate Western Caucus Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY), Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), and members of the Senate and House Western Caucuses released the “War on Western Jobs” report.  The report outlines the Administration’s policies and their negative impact on jobs and communities throughout the West. 

“Instead of making it easier for western businesses and communities to create new jobs, this Administration enforced an anti-business, anti-multiple use agenda that only makes the situation worse.  The findings of our report detail how this Administration’s policies are suffocating western economies, killing jobs and severely weakening America’s energy security.  Members of the Western Caucuses will continue to fight against Washington overreach and for a common sense agenda that promotes personal freedom and helps Western families and small businesses.”

By: Steve Pearce

October 8, 2010--AOL News

By: Press

For Immediate Release

October 8, 2010

95,000 Jobs Lost in September

Teague/Pelosi Economic Policies Continue to Fail

HOBBS, NM – Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment data from September. The report states that unemployment held steady at 9.6%, and 95,000 jobs were lost.

“For the first time since the Great Depression, unemployment has stayed above 9.5% for 14 months,” said Pearce campaign spokesman Jason Heffley. “Unfortunately, Congressman Teague continues to peddle the notion that things are getting better. The fact is that the liberal agenda of the current Congress has failed miserably.”

Heffley continued, “Toeing the party line, and shilling for the Pelosi agenda might win favors from far-left special interests in Washington, but New Mexicans know better. Harry Teague voted to add $800 billion to our debt in order to finance the stimulus package, and the result is over 41,000,000 Americans are now on food stamps, almost 9.5 million Americans can only find part-time work, and more than 700,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. Not to mention the fact that the Teague/Pelosi cap-and-trade energy tax would cost New Mexico another 12,000 jobs.”

By: Robert Samuelson

October 4, 2010--The Washington Post

If you're interested in job creation -- and who isn't these days? -- you should talk to someone like Morris Panner. In 1999, Panner and a few others started a small Boston software company called OpenAir. By 2008, they sold it for $31 million. The firm had then grown to about 50 workers. It turns out that entrepreneurship (essentially, the founding of new companies) is crucial to job creation. But as Panner's experience suggests, success is often a slog.

What's frustrating and perplexing about the present unemployment is that the U.S. economy has long been a phenomenal jobs machine. Here's the record: 83 million jobs added from 1960 to 2007 with only six years of declines (1961, 1975, 1982, 1991, 2002 and 2003). Conventional analysis blames today's poor performance (jobs are 7.6 million below their pre-recession peak) on weak demand. Because people aren't buying, businesses aren't hiring. Though true, this omits the vital role of entrepreneurship.