O'Brien For Congress - Bill O’Brien Comments on Rep. Ann McLane Kuster Failure To Vote for Obamacare Repeal

“Ann Kuster could have voted to stop this.
Instead, she once again walked away from
New Hampshire values.”

Mont Vernon, NH – State representative Bill O’Brien, Republican candidate for Congress in the Second District, made the following comments today in response to U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster’s failure to vote to repeal Obamacare when she voted last night against H.R. 45.

“Last night Rep. Kuster had the opportunity to stand with the hardworking taxpayers of New Hampshire and her constituents in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District by repealing Obamacare. Instead, she chose to stand with Nancy Pelosi and against our citizens and even against members of her party who have said that the full implementation of Obamacare will be a ‘train wreck.’

“If fully implemented, Obamacare will hijack and wreck not only the finances of the federal government, but also our state’s finances. Obamacare will also substantially increase private healthcare insurance premiums annually and consequently it will throw millions of Americans on Medicaid.

“Medicaid relies on substantial contributions from local taxpayers, yet it doesn’t even pay for half the cost of service to its recipients. It does all of this –or, none of this rather - while failing to provide better health outcomes than being uninsured, according to a study of Medicaid expansion in Oregon.”

“In lockstep with party bosses such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, Rep. Ann Kuster refuses to acknowledge what is becoming increasingly obvious. And that is, by driving private insurance costs through the roof, Obmacare will consign many of those caught in its web to permanent government dependency. Small increases in family incomes will require heads of households to pay fines or purchase private health insurance that will cost vastly more than those income increases. Ann Kuster could have voted to stop this. Instead, she once again walked away from New Hampshire values.”

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William O’Brien is a state representative from Mont Vernon, serving his fourth term in the New Hampshire House.

O'Brien For Congress - Bill O’Brien Comments on IRS Scandal of Targeting Conservative and Jewish Groups

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Calls on Rep. Kuster to demand investigation into government abuses

Mont Vernon, NH – State representative Bill O’Brien offered the following comments today in response to the growing scandal involving the admission by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the agency targeted conservative non-profit groups. Later revelations show that the IRS also directed extra scrutiny towards non-profits affiliated with Jewish interests.

Representative Bill O’Brien

“With the latest chilling revelations of targeting of conservative and Jewish groups by the IRS, the specter of governmental tax persecution based on politics has now been exposed. It is highly disappointing that we in New Hampshire have not heard either of our House members join with those calling for a U.S. House investigation of these IRS abuses.

“As an attorney who should know the history of political abuse by federal agencies, Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster should not let party loyalty stand in the way of doing all she can to investigate and prevent the IRS targeting Americans, including her constituents, based on political and religious beliefs alone. She needs to speak out now on how this abuse is corrosive to our citizens’ trust in government.

“Given her recent tax problems, Representative Kuster must be aware of the awesome power of the IRS to use its authority over taxes to disrupt lives. She should be leading the call for an investigation. Not only her conservative and Jewish constituents, but all those who care about avoiding government abuse based on politics should call on her to file a resolution now to have the investigation begin.”

Rep. William O'Brien's Comments on the Senate Tabling of the Repeal of the New Hampshire Education Choice Law

Concord - Today Rep. William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon) offered the following comment on the Senate Tabling of the Repeal of the New Hampshire Education Choice Law:

“I join with many parents and all in New Hampshire who believe that children of low and moderate income families deserve the best education possible in congratulating the Senate for preserving equal education opportunities for those families by tabling HB370, the repeal of the New Hampshire Education Choice Law. Giving parents more public and private school choices when it comes to the education of their children is going to expand elementary and high school educational opportunities for our children and, through competition, will improve public schools.  That this will be done, not by more government spending, but by business tax credits and that the program will allow us to use our public school dollars on educating fewer students, makes the opposition to this law inapplicable, unless that opposition is founded on reasons other than what is best for children.  We need to see more money-saving, opportunity-expanding programs such as the New Hampshire Education Choice Law on both the state and federal levels.”

Rep. William O'Brien's Comments on President Obama's FY 2014 Budget Proposal

Rep. William O’Brien’s Comments on President Obama’s FY 2014 Budget Proposal

“President Obama has once again failed the American people,” said Rep. William O’Brien (R-Mont Vernon).  “We need leadership in Washington that recognizes that, when we have just learned that the number of Americans forced out of the work force is at an historical high, now is not the time to propose another round of economically destructive tax increases, cuts on Medicare providers to our senior citizens, and deficits that never end and will grow by $5.3 trillion over the next 10 years.”

“What is particularly disappointing to New Hampshire citizens in the Second Congressional District is to hear of the immediate support given by our member of Congress, Ann Kuster, to the President’s reckless lack of leadership,” O’Brien added.  “She called a lifetime of permanent deficits adding up to $5.3 trillion in more borrowing against our children’s future over the next 10 years ‘a balanced approach.’  With a budget that never balances and nearly $600 billion in new taxes, one has to wonder what a liberal approach would look like.”

 “Ann Kuster has once again shown that her years as a lobbyist in Concord looking to grow government on behalf of her paid special interest clients did not give her the traditional New Hampshire value of fiscal responsibility, for it is clear she does not even know what a balanced budget would be,” O’Brien continued.  “Permanent deficits are not a balanced approach.  Neither is borrowing an additional $5 trillion a balanced approach.  New Hampshire needs Congressional representation in Washington that knows what it is to make spending choices and that the fiscal irresponsibility of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are not New Hampshire choices.”

William O’Brien is a state representative from Mont Vernon, serving his fourth term in the New Hampshire House.

NH Rep. William O'Brien's Comments on the Passing of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minster of Great Britain and the indispensable philosophical, political and international ally of Ronald Reagan, died this morning.

Lady Thatcher was a giant of conservative values and action.  Along with President Reagan, Margaret Thatcher inspired us with her thoughtful and unflinching advocacy of a dynamic, forward-looking conservatism. 

In reaction to her death, Rep. William O’Brien (R-Mont Vernon) was quoted as saying, “Prime Minster Thatcher will be missed.  She was one of the foremost conservative leaders who have come forward in recent years and led change both in Britain and the United States.  Just as the liberal progressives of the Reagan/Thatcher era tried to diminish both of them with arguments that they had to soften their rhetoric and abandon important goals to get elected, so we hear the same claims today.  Thankfully, the Iron Lady and Ronald Reagan knew better that the importance of achieving critical public policy goals outweighed the politics of the moment and we remember both so fondly for their willingness to stand against the tide, let the personal invective wash over them, and make the world a better and freer place.”

In discussing the passing of Margaret Thatcher, Rep. O’Brien noted how Mrs. Thatcher was confronted with the same arguments, at times so smugly delivered, that we hear to today.  They told her to acquiesce to some of the goals of the left to preserve a decreasing residual of liberty. She didn’t believe it.  Ronald Reagan didn’t believe.  And we likewise should reject those arguments.

As Rep. O’Brien further stated, “We should be no more distracted by those who would diminish our efforts today than were President Reagan or Prime Minister Thatcher in their time.  The passing of Margaret Thatcher reminds us this has been a long struggle with many successes along the way.  This great lady taught us that now is always the time for us to reach for more.”

William O’Brien is a state representative from Mont Vernon, serving his fourth term in the New Hampshire House.