Weekly Columns and Op-Eds

Obamacare: It's not about your health By REP. PAUL GOSAR Although Americans were told there was a medical crisis that only nationalized health care could solve, Obamacare was never truly about your health. Indeed, putting a bureaucrat between you and your doctor is not good for your health. Obamacare was about government control over a large sector of the economy, and intrusion… Read more »

From the cover-up of the failures of the Benghazi attack to the IRS targeting conservative groups to the Department of Justice secretly seizing phone records from the Associated Press, the public’s faith in government diminished — and rightfully so. Read more »

Skim the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s weekly fishing report and you can see — spring is here and fishing is back. This is great news for anglers. But it is also good news for our economy, and underscores the importance of common-sense policies and public-private partnerships that sustain public lands and provide opportunities for sportsmen and all of us to access and enjoy the outdoors. Read more »

Wasting American dollars on hostile countries By Rep. Paul Gosar  By what measure does our foreign aid policy make common sense?   Not everyone in Congress agrees on the role of foreign aid. Some think it should act as charity, while others seek to use it as a tool to further our interests abroad.   One thing I think we should all agree on is this: American… Read more »

Arizona Farming: New Taxes May Hit Farmers and Ranchers Hardest By Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S The Obama administration’s tax policies have been an attack on farm and ranch families. The tax and spenders fail to understand that taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success. In essence, this administration wants to see less… Read more »

Since declaring "war" on poverty in the mid-1960s, taxpayers have spent $15 trillion, yet the number of Americans on food stamps and other programs have increased and today close to 50 million Americans live below the federal poverty line. Read more »

In recent years, Arizona has suffered some of the largest wildfires in its recorded history. Read more »

Arizona Farming: New Taxes May Hit Farmers and Ranchers Hardest By Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S The Obama administration’s tax policies have been an attack on farm and ranch families. The tax and spenders fail to understand that taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success. In essence, this administration wants to see less… Read more »

In the last month, we have been subjected to propaganda from the White House warning the American public that practically everything the federal government does will be shut down because of the impending 2.4% sequestration cuts. Read more »

January 10, 2013 Contact: Orlando Orlando.Watson@mail.house.gov By Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S., (R-AZ)   "Presidential Gun Ban: Executive Power or Unconstitutional Power Grab" Over the last few years there has been a growing concern about the President's questionable expansion of executive powers.  As a nation of laws, public officials are sworn… Read more »