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  • Garrett Fails Purity Test

    The announcement of the Republican Purity Test is further proof of how far from an inclusive party the Republicans have gone, and how far the authoritarians written about by John Dean have come. Instead of allowing people to choose their own Representatives, the powerful few want to dictate [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:32pm EST

  • Garrett a Birther? Nah.

    Representative Scott Garrett seems to have been backed into a corner by Birthers. During the health care "house calls", Garrett managed to get badgered by a couple of birthers (those that refuse to believe the evidence President Obama was born here).

    After a few minutes of his [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:30pm EST

  • Garrett vs. 1.4 million Home Buyers

    Representative Scott Garrett finally explained why he voted against extending unemployment benefits and the first time home buyer tax credit:

    So, in sum, we have a program rampant with fraud, which gives taxpayer dollars to people who don’t legitimately qualify, and fails to appropriately credit the individuals that do [...]

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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • Garrett Talks Health Care

    Representative Scott Garrett chats with Fox 5 about his vote against the health care bill. Garrett talks almost exclusively about Medicare Advantage as his reason, which as I've written before can currently charge taxpayers up to a 40% mark up on services.

    It's good to see Garrett using [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:05pm EST

  • Live Stream Of Garrett's Town Hall

    Update: It was less of a town hall and more of a sales pitch for why Representative Scott Garrett was going to vote against the bill. He didn't read one question in support of the plan. He only spoke for 50 minutes. It's unfortunate he'd take that route.
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:03pm EST

  • Garrett vs. Unemployment Extension

    Representative Scott Garrett was one of 12 Representatives to vote against extending unemployment benefits to the unemployed. If Garrett ever releases a statement on his reasoning I'll post it.' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:55pm EST

  • Garrett Health Care Townhall

    Representative Scott Garrett is hosting a virtual Town Hall meeting on the Health Care Bill tonight at 7PM. Here's the info:

    RSVP by clicking here:

    Email your questions in advance or during the town hall to congscottgarrett@gmail.com.' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:53pm EST

  • Congratulations Governor Christie

    When I voted this morning, and saw that many many more people than usual had voted before me, there was definitely a sense Christie may have done it.




    Now, being the eternal optimist, I'm hopeful for this new chapter in our state's governance. Not only was [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:56pm EST

  • Garrett's Election Thoughts

    Those interested will be able to see Representative Scott Garrett weigh in on the Election over on Fox Business Channel tomorrow night. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:15pm EST

  • Garrett's $339 Billion Distortion

    It's been a while since we've needed a piece like this, but as the Health Insurance debate heats up, one had to guess at some point Representative Scott Garrett was going to start spinning like a top again.

    At issue is a floor speech made yesterday, that [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

  • Garrett and Consumer Protection

    Representative Scott Garrett voted against creation of the Consumer Protection agency yesterday. He discusses his stance and reasoning over on MSNBC, opposite Barry Ritholtz. Ritholtz takes Garrett to task for his characterization of the bill, as well as his belief we already do enough, and Garrett even seems to back [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:02pm EDT

  • No Bidding Bergen: Ferriero Goes Down

    This is long overdue. Papa Joe Ferriero has been convicted.

    While I've written a couple dozen times about Papa Joe, and could only hope they throw the 40 year/$500,000 book at him to send a message; the Record Editorial about the conviction makes me less' [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:02am EDT

  • Caroline Kennedy's Speech

    This was quite the surprise, to have Caroline Kennedy speak yesterday before Governor Corzine and President Obama.

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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:41pm EDT

  • Obama's Entire Speech

    It was quite the event. Here is Obama's speech for Governor Corzine:

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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:00pm EDT

  • More Updates

    Obama: One voice can change a room...

    Obama: Tells the story about Fired Up; Ready to Go. Pretty amazing.

    Obama: The outcome of this race isn't up to Jon, it's up to you.

    Obama is on absolute fire. Super aggressive.

    Obama "there seems to be some" [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 6:13pm EDT

  • Obama visiting NJ

    Update: Corzine is hammering education and health. He's slamming mandate free policies.

    Corzine: I believe we have a moral obligation to provide a world class education.

    Update: Corzine is thanking everyone. This crowd is loving him. "Yes we can". "We are all in this together"

    Update: Kennedy-' [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:03pm EDT

  • Garrett Talking Down Payments

    Here's Representative Scott Garrett discussing his plan to increase the down payment on FHA loans to 5%.












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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:08am EDT

  • Christie Just Keeps Burying Himself

    One has to wonder if Chris Christie is purposely trying to lose, or if his recent issues are reflective of what his management of the state would be like. We're in rough enough shape as it is, this kind of mismanagement won't help us get better.

    In case you [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 1:04pm EDT

  • Daggett Supporter Drops By

    As a former Independent candidate myself, I have a tremendous amount of respect for Chris Daggett and what his campaign has been able to accomplish to date.

    He's earned the endorsement of the Star Ledger, seeks the council of solid centrists like Governor Angus King (quoted' [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:56pm EDT

  • Christie's Room(s) at the Inn

    Update: Hotwire lays out the trips; Blue Jersey promoted a thoughtful comparison between Christie and Sharpe James.

    I'm going to flat out say it, Chris Christie is not the sharpest politician in the world.

    From the AP:

    On trips in 2007 and 2008, his top' [...]

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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:30pm EDT

  • Garrett Talking Health Care

    Representative Scott Garrett was on CNBC chatting about President Obama's health care reform plan.












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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 2:06pm EDT

  • Christie Vs. Christie on Mammograms

    While I've written about whether or not Representative Scott Garrett supports the elimination of mammogram coverage for women before, the argument is getting a fresh look in our Governor's race.

    Tom Moran of the Star Ledger has a must read piece on what Chris Christie is saying [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:50pm EDT

  • Way to go, Garrett!

    Back in July, I wrote that I would fully support Representative Scott Garrett getting involved with a discharge petition of H. Res. 554. For those that don't know, 554 would require all bills to be posted on-line for 72 hours before a vote.

    This is what I wrote at' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 11:06am EDT

  • Garrett for Wasting Tax Dollars

    One of the perplexing things about Representative Scott Garrett is that he chooses to advocate for practices that waste taxpayer money, while slamming waste in other programs. I've written before about Garrett's affinity for Medicare Advantage, which has been documented to cost taxpayers more than it should. Yet [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:35pm EDT

  • Garrett Votes for Unemployment Extension

    Well, this one happened after I did my little run down, and was a little surprising. Representative Scott Garrett joined the vast majority of the House in voting to extend unemployment benefits.

    Readers may remember, Garrett was one of only four Representatives to vote against extension [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 7:46pm EDT

  • Garrett's Recent Votes

    With the focus so much on health care these days, it's easy to forget that the House has other business. Representative Scott Garrett has had a number of votes recently that should interest folks here in the Fifth District. Here's a sampling:
    H.R. 3221 Garrett and most Republicans [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 7:03pm EDT

  • Garrett Opposes Medicare

    So, after taking a weeks vacation and working to get another project off the ground, I decided I should see what's been cooking in the health care debate with Representative Scott Garrett. Unfortunately, not much has changed in the two weeks of my hiatus.

    His staff, apparently in response' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 8:22pm EDT

  • Garrett Lectures EU on Hedge Funds

    A hallmark of conservative principles used to be that we don't interfere with other nations, because we don't want them interfering with us. However, in this new world, our Representative Scott Garrett decided he should join in defense of hedge funds with Representative Paul Kanjorski in criticizing what is essentially [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 3:08pm EDT

  • Garrett Talking Health Care Pt. 2

    It must be nice for Representative Scott Garrett to represent the District right next to New York and Secaucus. Being opposed to everything, he's likely getting a lot of phone calls for in studio time.

    Here, he's on Squawk Box with Rep. Allyson Shwartz.




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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 11:12am EDT

  • Nearly 10% of NJ's Lost Jobs Are Back

    Correction: It was pointed out that the 150,000 jobs lost was total, not simply private sector. Therefore, with the public sector losses, the overall gains are actually about 5%.

    In a conference call that just finished up a little bit ago, Governor Jon Corzine touched on something that probably [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 6:39pm EDT

  • Garrett Talking Health Care

    Representative Scott Garrett and Representative Anthony Weiner sat down on Fox 5's morning show to discuss the health care debate. One of the important things they discussed was whether or not Congress actually will read all 1,000 of the bill.

    Garrett, for his part, has put his money where [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 1:15pm EDT

  • Morons At The Gate

    If significant health care reform is defeated, and people's bills continue to rise with more and more of the GDP being eaten without improved outcomes, idiotic mentality will be a leading cause. As promised, the NJ Tea Party folks visited the town hall meetings of Rep. Steve Rothman yesterday, and [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 2:30pm EDT

  • Spinning Tea

    While our Representative Scott Garrett distorted numbers recently to scare people about health care reform, the Tea Party people are going from distortion to flat out lies. This is a long post, but if the mainstream media isn't going to do this, someone has to.

    It's been well' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 6:45pm EDT

  • Garrett's Big Day

    Representative Scott Garrett is going to have a big day today. H.R. 3269 is on the floor, which is going to give shareholders a greater say in compensation packages and disclose their incentives. As by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Garrett is on a mission to [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 11:17am EDT

  • 250K Cars Sold

    The news tonight that the fabled Cash for Clunkers program is out of money, less than a month after being passed and three days after applications began being accepted, is a good thing.

    From the New York Times:
    About a quarter-million vehicles were sold under the program, [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 11:12pm EDT

  • Garrett's Hiring

    For those looking to work for Representative Scott Garrett, or a Conservative in Washington in general, this could be your chance:
    Legislative Assistant - Congressman Scott Garrett has an opening for a Legislative Assistant handling a variety of issues including Foreign Affairs, Environment and Energy. A successful candidate will [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 3:48pm EDT

  • Garrett helps Corzine

    Representative Scott Garrett and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (a Republican) are not the closest of friends, at least in the media. I had written about one dust up two years ago between Garrett and the unapologetic moderate. Recently, they revisited their "good will" toward each other. From The [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 1:10pm EDT

  • Our Unbelievable State

    We should all be embarrassed about the corruption busts yesterday.

    Jason Springer of Blue Jersey did a nice job rounding up all of the video clips he could in this post.

    Google has about 1,700 stories up about the busts. They also seemed to make the [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 2:52pm EDT

  • Garrett and the Tea Baggers

    The Ridgewood Blog put up a video of Representative Scott Garrett addressing the Tea Party folks before the Fourth of July parade in Ridgewood. It was a nice chance for him to talk about his Constitutional Caucus:

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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 12:54pm EDT

  • Garrett's Healthcare Funny Numbers

    Here we go again.

    Representative Scott Garrett's streak of not misrepresenting numbers has officially come to an end. In this week's Garrett Gazette, the full court press to scare people out of us becoming more competitive with the world by implementing a better health insurance system stepped [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:52pm EDT

  • Discharge H. Res. 554

    With the health care debate raging, now is the time for Congress to implement the rules change being pushed by the good people at the Sunlight Foundation via ReadtheBill.org

    H. Res. 554 was reported to committee on June 17th, with no action since. Here's what the Resolution [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2009, 9:46am EDT

  • Garrett Backer Busted

    Since coming to Congress, Representative Scott Garrett has been the darling of the American Conservative Union, receiving a 100 percent rating from the group for the duration of his career. Garrett even acknowledges their stance on issues when explaining his own, most recently with regard to the Cap [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 4:10pm EDT

  • Full Text of Obama's Speech


    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. It is good to see you. Hello, New Jersey! (Applause.) All right, everybody have a seat. Everybody have a seat. I want to begin by just making a few acknowledgements. First of all, I'm going to have a lot to say' [...]

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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 10:17pm EDT

  • Obama for Corzine

    Update: And it's a wrap. The man is ridiculously gifted at imparting his passion on the crowds he's speaking to. However, it's passion like that we're going to need to get health reform passed.

    Longer post coming.

    Update: Obama to cynics: What's your plan? What do you plan' [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 12:11pm EDT

  • Health Politics of Fear

    Well, at some point we had to expect our Representative Scott Garrett to weigh in on the health care debate. In this week's Garrett Gazette he did, and his message is to be terrified of choice.

    That's literally what the health care debate is over. Cut out all [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 7:01pm EDT

  • Blue Dogs Step Up on Health Care

    Even though they have been drowned out this weekend by an interestingly timed explosion of stories about the CIA, the Blue Dog Coalition put out a comprehensive letter about why they couldn't support the current Health Care reform package as written. Without the Blue Dogs, a reform package cannot get' [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 11:45pm EDT

  • Garrett to Obama: No New Fed Powers

    Well, Representative Scott Garrett has sent a letter to President Obama requesting an investigation of the Federal Reserve. Garrett's been very vocal over the last couple of weeks about not giving the Fed new regulatory powers. Now, he's been joined by a few other Republicans and a couple of Democrats [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 3:58pm EDT

  • Menendez & Torricelli: The Company You Keep

    Herb Jackson had an interesting piece in The Record today about Senator Bob Menendez's newest ally as chair of the DSCC: Disgraced former Senator Robert Torricelli. If President Obama was serious about getting the stink of corruption and special interests out of politics, Menendez picked the wrong guy "to" [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 10:18pm EDT

  • Read the Bill

    I realized it's been a while since I last wrote, however a transparency bill has been introduced recently that I hope our Representative Scott Garrett and the rest of the delegation from New Jersey will get behind: H. Res. 554.

    Here's the purpose of the bill:

    Amending [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 1:12pm EDT

  • Thoughts on Corzine vs. Christie

    So the field is set for yet another very expensive, very nasty campaign here in New Jersey. Governor Jon Corzine against former US Attorney Chris Christie. The gloves definitely came off during Corzine's rally.

    Corzine is down in the polls, and it's going to be a heck of a [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 11:21pm EDT

  • Corzine Kick-off

    Well,after two hours in the car, I finally made it to West Orange for Jon Corzine's campaign kick-off.

    Melissa Harris-Lacewell started the festivities off. She sounded what is likely to be one of the themes of the campaign: Republicans want to implement in Trenton the exact kind of policies' [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 7:37pm EDT

  • Retire Garrett Launches Newsletter

    The folks over at Retire Garrett have launched a newsletter aimed at removing Representative Scott Garrett. Done in PDF, it's easy to e-mail to folks who don't tend to go to blogs. It introduces the organization to those unfamiliar with it:
    We are constituents of the 5th Congressional [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 4:19pm EDT

  • Moron for Kansas 1

    I realize I haven't been writing much of late, but this was just too much to pass on. Somehow I got on the mailing list for Rob Wasinger, who is running for the House in Kansas's 1st Congressional District.

    One of the things that started my running and [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 9:53pm EDT

  • Congressional Art Competition

    This is one of the cool things that Representative Scott Garrett and other members of Congress get to do every year. From the Garrett Gazette:

    Please join me for this year's Congressional Art Competition on Saturday, May 16 at Sussex County Community College, from 10:00am to noon.

    I have' [...]

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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 6:06pm EDT

  • Garrett's Statement On His Mortgage Vote

    As noted earlier today, if Representative Scott Garrett decided to shed some light as to why he joined 14% of voting Members in opposing cracking down on predatory lending and fraud I'd post it. It's roughly the same "if we take the fraud and dishonesty out of the process, you" [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 5:40pm EDT

  • Garrett Hearts Predatory Lenders?

    Well, Representative Scott Garrett was one of 59 Representatives to vote against providing the resources to crack down on predatory lenders. Garrett's vote really, to me at least, makes no sense.

    I can understand him standing with the hedge funds, he always has. I can' [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 11:55am EDT

  • Garrett Shows Hedge Fund Love

    Representative Scott Garrett released a statement criticizing President Obama for pointing out that it was hedge funds holding the debt of Chrysler who wouldn't budge enough to prevent bankruptcy. I've put the whole statement below, but here's the kicker of Garrett's statement:
    Many of those invested in these funds [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 5:14pm EDT

  • Garrett Explains Credit Card Vote

    Representative Scott Garrett was on NPR to explain his being one of only 70 (and only from NJ) to vote against the Credit Card Holder's Bill of Rights. Garrett maintains that if the credit card companies can't do things like double billing, they'll stop issuing credit cards. Representative Keith Ellison' [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 10:46am EDT

  • CFG, GOP and Specter

    I've written enough times about the Club for Growth, and their links to Representative Scott Garrett, that people are aware how wrong I think they are. Now, in the game of finger pointing about why Senator Arlen Specter switched parties, they're finally taking some heat. There are lessons [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 5:00pm EDT

  • Bye Bye Pontiac


    I was rather sad to see the news that GM is going to be shutting Pontiac down. My first car was a 1976 Grand Le Mans (similar to one pictured above), and I've had many many Pontiac rental cars (I ask for them). Even though' [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • Garrett's Reading List

    Politico has an interesting article about the Republican Party's new favorite book: The Forgotten Man. The book has been hailed and derided for it's approach to covering the New Deal from the perspective of the wealthy. It's subtitle is telling: A New History of the Great Depression[...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 10:53am EDT

  • Garrett on Durbin II

    It was hard to miss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hijacking of a conference that was supposed to lead to an end of racism. Representative Scott Garrett released a very strong statement condemning both Ahmadinejad and the tone of Durban II:

    “The Durban II Conference is not a peaceful platform' [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 4:01pm EDT

  • The Tea Parties

    Yesterday, in addition to being tax filing day, also became national "teabagging" day as thousands took to the streets to protest having to pay taxes. It's interesting that those leading the charge are many of the same people that looked the other way while the Bush Administration and his Republican' [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 6:30pm EDT

  • NJ Transit Cuts

    For those that hadn't seen it, it looks like the Governor is about to cut $62 million from the budget of NJ Transit. State officials are saying it's part of a larger group of cuts, but one has to hope this was a misquote.
    "In that $4 billion, of" [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 3:54pm EDT

  • Our Military Industrial Nightmare

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates has done the unthinkable: he's had the gall to recommend cutting military programs that aren't needed and shifting money to ones that are. The horror.

    Here's how Gates sums up his view:
    "When programs are out of control, when they're six years late, when" [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2009, 12:35am EDT

  • Garrett Talks Budget on CNBC

    This was interesting to watch:












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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 11:20am EDT

  • Republican Budget Bonanza

    Well, with the Budget Spin wars going in full steam, I figured I'd print off the President's Budget, the CBO's estimate on the President's Budget, and the Republican Alternative introduced by Representative Scott Garrett and his Republican colleagues yesterday. It's interesting to sit and have all the' [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:18pm EDT

  • 9,288

    As of this moment, that is how many press mentions Representative Scott Garrett has right now on Google regarding the financial situations. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 9:42am EDT

  • Garrett on Geithner's Plan

    Representative Scott Garrett got a lot of press today for his involvement in the hearing with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke yesterday. You can read his opening statement here.

    Here's my personal favorite comment he made in an interview, as reported by the [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 12:56pm EDT

  • Stimulus Scams

    Another piece of the update from Representative Scott Garrett covers stimulus scams:


    SEEING THROUGH STIMULUS SCAMS

    With talk of stimulus plans ruling the news, it’s no surprise a new round of stimulus scams are afoot.

    Here’s how it goes: An email, online ad, or website says [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 2:16pm EDT

  • Ringwood Superfund Meeting Tonight

    Just got this week's update from Representative Scott Garrett, and for those concerned with the Ringwood Superfund site, there's a meeting tonight. Garrett also provided a link to where residents and citizens can get more information. Here's the post:

    EPA TO UPDATE PUBLIC ON PROGRESS AT RINGWOOD SITE
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 2:11pm EDT

  • Garrett: End Partisanship?

    Well, here's to hoping, from Reuters:
    "The severity of issues facing our financial regulatory system calls for us to put aside partisan differences and elevate the level of dialogue," said New Jersey Rep. Scott Garrett, top subcommittee Republican, in a statement.I've written a lot about partisanship, as well [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 5:47pm EDT

  • Garrett: Let AIG Keep Bonuses

    Representative Scott Garrett has been pretty good in opposing all things bailout, but he seems to have lost touch with reality a bit today.
    This tax gives the government permission to take what is private property.Nope, sorry Scott, that's the people's money AIG was handing out and we the people [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 4:38pm EDT

  • Garrett on AIG

    Representative Scott Garrett has had a number of good quotes printed today regarding the AIG mess. Here's a sampling:

    From the Associated Press:
    "Part of me wants to say to some of the loudest critics, 'What did you expect and why weren't you asking more questions before?' I would" [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 9:47pm EDT

  • Call an Earmark an Earmark

    I've used this title before, but Representative Scott Garrett made it into the Warren Reporter for getting a "grant" again:
    This Institute was made possible by a grant of $894,348 awarded to Centenary College from the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a fully-integrated incident response and crisis' [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 9:33pm EDT

  • Happy Sunshine Week

    For those that hadn't heard, this is Sunshine Week. For those that are unfamiliar, here's the description from the website:Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 1:40pm EDT

  • Garrett Gets a Favorable Op-Ed

    While it's not uncommon for Representative Scott Garrett to find himself the focus of editorials, columns, and blog posts (clammyc rips him today on Blue Jersey); it's rather uncommon for him to get 1,500 words of praise.

    However, that's happened over at PolitickerNJ, where former EPA Region' [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 1:59pm EDT

  • Stewart vs. Cramer

    Wow. Daily Show host Jon Stewart gets his claws into Jim Cramer. It gives some fascinating insight as to how the market has been manipulated and how we the people were hurt by the Wall Street regulars. It also speaks directly to the need for real journalism.

    [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 7:40am EDT

  • Garrett on Public Lands

    As posted by Herb Jackson, here's part of the statement Representative Scott Garrett put out on why he voted against the Patterson Falls and Thomas Edison's Workshop:
    “If The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 only contained spending that truly improved and protected our environment, I would whole-heartedly [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 7:30am EDT

  • Representative Scott Garrett found himself ...

    Representative Scott Garrett found himself on TV with Donnie Deutsch talking about the TARP and other things. It's an interesting session, that Donnie starts off by ripping, albeit nicely, some of Garrett's previous statements.











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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 5:02pm EDT

  • Only in New Jersey

    When I was down at Transparency Camp the other weekend, I tried to explain to folks the types of shenanigans that go on at the local level here. With that in mind, I'm going to try and give readers regular examples of this. This first edition deals with "non-partisan" school' [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 2:55pm EDT

  • Garrett: Audit the Fed

    Representative Scott Garrett has joined Representative Ron Paul and 19 other Representatives in co-sponsoring legislation to audit the Federal Reserve and it's branches. With $11.7 trillion in lending since the the financial crisis began, Garrett wants some transparency:
    "I would assume that information would be shared by the'" [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 1:56pm EDT

  • Garrett at CPAC

    Herb Jackson of the Record has an excerpt from the speech given by Representative Scott Garrett at CPAC last week:

    "The first is that we have adopted a mantra in Washington of trying to either delay or prevent pain. Bailing out all Wall Street, homeowners who made bad" [...]

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    Posted: March 08, 2009, 11:44am EDT

  • Garrett Discloses Earmarks

    Due to my recent trip to Transparency Camp, and the work week since, I did not see that Representative Scott Garrett once again entered his earmarks into the Congressional Record. He declared what he had received from the pork stuffed Omnibus Bill.

    Garrett's share of the $7.7 billion' [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 9:52pm EST

  • Garrett and Iran

    Some may remember that Representative Scott Garrett attempted to tie his opponent, Rabbi Dennis Shulman, to Tehran in a mailer. Garrett has never made any bones about how he thinks we should deal with Iran. He reiterated his sentiment at The Jewish Community Relations Committee's annual Congressional breakfast on' [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 6:28pm EST

  • My Weekend @ Transparency Camp

    Those that read regularly know how important I think transparency is when it comes to making our government work the way it’s supposed to. I was fortunate this weekend to go to an event called Transparency Camp, where people from all over the nation with the same basic belief [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 11:35pm EST

  • It's Good to Be Ranking

    As I had mentioned when he got the nod, our Representative Scott Garrett is likely to get more opportunities to talk about the financial crisis now that he is Ranking Member of the committee which oversees the capital markets, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, as derided [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 10:30am EST

  • Garrett Gets $14.7 Million in Earmarks

    Today, Representative Scott Garrett did two things: He called on President Obama to cut more spending from the budget, and voted against the $410 billion spending bill with some of Garrett's $14.7 million in earmarks for FY 2009.

    Here's Garrett's quote to Jessica Coomes of the' [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 11:23pm EST

  • Garrett Hearts Beer Brewers and Drinkers

    Here's a measure I hope Representative Scott Garrett can help get passed, and a tax break I think most of us can get behind. The day before Valentine's day, Garrett joined a number of Representatives in co-sponsoring a bill calling for the Federal Excise tax on beer to be [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 11:15pm EST

  • Garrett, Earmarks and Donations

    Over at the NJ.com, Thurman Hart has a great story about the impending doom several of our Representatives face in what appears to be a donation for earmarks scandal. Our own Representative Scott Garrett received $500 from the PAC associated with this group. However, there doesn't seem to be' [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 10:12pm EST

  • Garrett Still Doesn't Get Housing Crisis

    With President Obama announcing his latest plan to stop foreclosures, by allowing certain people to refinance their mortgages through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it makes sense Representative Scott Garrett would find himself in the news. Seeing as he's the Ranking Member of the subcommittee that oversees Fannie and' [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 7:59pm EST

  • Garrett Gets His Susan Powter On

    Maybe I'm dating myself slightly, citing the slightly scary woman screaming at us to "Stop the Insanity", but that's the first thing that came to mind when reading the opening of the latest Op-Ed by Representative Scott Garrett published by the Record.
    AN APHORISM most often attributed [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 11:40pm EST

  • Gitmo Nimby

    Update: clammyc over at Blue Jersey has the whole letter, and a rather interesting/funny take on things.

    With the Senate getting all the press the last couple of days, Representative Scott Garrett and the Republican delegation decided to put together a letter to President Obama. Their cause, no [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 2:00pm EST

  • Retire Garrett Hosting an Event

    The folks over at the new Retire Garrett site are hosting a Town Hall meeting to kick off their campaign against Representative Scott Garrett.
    The purpose of the Take Back the 5th Town Hall is to raise awareness of Congressman Scott Garrett’s horrendous voting record, find someone to challenge [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 10:52am EST

  • Garrett vs. SEC & Madoff

    It didn't take long for the appointment of Representative Scott Garrett as Ranking Member of the committee overseeing the capital markets to pay dividends in terms of exposure and the chance to speak. Garrett's committee held a hearing today looking into the SEC's failure with regard to the Bernard Madoff' [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 6:35pm EST

  • It's Her Party Now

    With Republicans voting in Michael Steele as it's new chairman, somewhere Gov. Christie Whitman is smiling. Steele and Whitman worked together on the Repulican Leadership Council to give classic conservatives and moderates who were maginalized within the Republican Party a voice.

    I've often written about how the [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 10:23am EST

  • Feeling Stimulated?

    As expected, Representative Scott Garrett voted against the stimulus package yesterday. What was surprising, at least to me, was that so did the entire Republican delegation. Maybe it was a case of being political sore losers; or maybe all of the Democrats touting the "we won" mentality hurt their [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 8:20pm EST

  • Garrett Makes a Funny

    Last night, Representative Scott Garrett took to the floor to explain all of the reasons he doesn't like the Democrats' Stimulus package. During the exchange with Rep. Gingrey, Garrett made a bit of a joke at Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's expense:
    We could have our new Treasury secretary, if' [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 11:38am EST

  • Garrett and the Obama Summit

    Depending on which press account you read, Representative Scott Garrett was either optimistic or dismissive of President Obama's visit with Republicans today regarding the stimulus package.

    From CQ Politics:

    Several participants, including Scott Garrett of New Jersey, reported that Obama said he would be open to' [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 9:32pm EST

  • Garrett Gets More Bailout Press

    Representative Scott Garrett was quoted earlier today by the AP regarding the bailout bonanza down in Washington:
    "It's not going to be the most efficient" institution that gets the rescue money, said Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., a member of the House Financial Services Committee who voted against the bailout' [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 8:02pm EST
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