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Nightmare on Main St -- Part 1: Obama Administration Wraps Businesses and Families in Red Tape

President Obama beat his predecessors in the average number of major rules per year that cost the economy $100 million or more.

JEC Republicans Release Second Report of Series on the “New Normal” Examining Subdued Employment

Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Vice Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) released part two of a Joint Economic Committee majority report entitled “The ‘New Normal’?: Subdued Employment.”

Coats Statement on September Jobs Report

Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) issued a statement regarding today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that the U.S. economy added 156,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.0 percent.

JEC Republicans Release First Report of series on the “New Normal”

Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Vice Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) released part one of a Joint Economic Committee majority report entitled “The ‘New Normal’?: Economic Stagnation.”

JEC Examines Dangers of Growing National Debt and Explores Possible Solutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) chaired a committee hearing entitled “Federal Debt: Direction, Drivers and Dangers” on September 8, 2016. At the hearing, JEC members examined the causes of our growing debt, the potential consequences and possible solutions, in...

Coats Discusses National Debt Crisis during JEC Hearing

Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the impact of our massive federal debt entitled “Federal Debt: Direction, Drivers and Dangers”:

Coats Statement on August Jobs Report

Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) issued the following statement regarding today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that the U.S. economy added 151,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.9 percent.

Top 10 Olympic Events That Remind Us of the Obama Economy #1

It took all other presidents a marathon 220 years to accumulate the first $10 trillion of national debt...

Top 10 Olympic Events That Remind Us of the Obama Economy #2

None of President Obama's Budgets came even close to balancing.

Top 10 Olympic Events That Remind Us of the Obama Economy #3

Floods of duplicative government programs cost taxpayers billions.