By Rep. Peter Roskam
America’s elderly are victims of a crime spree so expansive that on an annual basis exceeds the value of all the cocaine smuggled in to North America. The crime is Medicare fraud, and it is conservatively considered to be a $50 billion industry.
The cover of the book “Young Guns” features its three authors — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Republican Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) and House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) — posing purposefully beneath a subtitle dubbing them “A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.”
The man just below Cantor and McCarthy on the leadership ladder, House Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (Ill.), is a few years older, less well-known and has no intention of writing a book anytime soon.
But while Roskam earns less ink than his colleagues, he serves as a calming, drama-free influence at the leadership table, and in those sometimes tense meetings where rank-and-file lawmakers are persuaded to vote with the team.
Congressman Peter Roskam joins Don Wade & Roma to discuss Illinois not getting a federal bailout, pensions systems in Illinois, and rising tensions between Iran and the US.
From The Minority Report
I’d like to introduce, or re-aquatint, you to Illinois Congressman and U.S. House of Representatives Chief Deputy Majority Whip Peter Roskam. Roskam represents the Sixth District of Illinois and is not only the party’s future but a consummate conservative warrior with real solutions on issues ranging from the economy and jobs to taxes, government spending and health care.
By Lori Ann LaRocco
Earlier this week, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) introduced a new piece of tax legislation called The Tax Hike Prevention & Business Certainty Act. I asked him what this bill would do and what kind of impact this would have on businesses and the american taxpayer.
See Peter on Fox Business discussing his bill to permenantly cap dividend and capital gains tax rates at 15%.
By Rep. Peter Roskam
With near-double-digit national unemployment gripping our country, the White House and Washington should be asking a simple question: What can we do to make America the most competitive environment in the world for job creation?
An important first step — with broad support from America's business community — would be to remove uncertainty and make permanent the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends.
By: Rep. Peter Roskam
In the coming weeks, the United Nations Security Council is expected to take a series of misguided procedural steps towards allowing the Palestinian Authority (PA) to unilaterally declare independence (UDI). If that happens, it will mark a step backwards from any potentially genuine Middle East peace and illustrate yet another failure of the Obama administration’s “leading from behind” approach.
On the brink of another government shutdown debate, Congressman Peter Roskam joins The Roe Conn Show with Richard Roeper to discuss what could happen.
House Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) used the Republican’s weekly address to slam “hostile” federal regulations and urge President Obama to terminate those he called “barriers to job creation.”
Tomorrow I have the privilege of delivering the weekly Republican address.
Congressman Peter Roskam joins Don Wade and Roma to give his prediction on what the President's job speech will contain. Will the President be able to reach Republicans in his speech?
Appropriate and responsible regulations play an important policymaking role. Yet the Obama administration has turned rule-making into an assault on American businesses and the jobs they create. Right now, 4,257 new regulations are in the works, 219 of which will cost over $100 million annually — 15 percent more than last year.
Is the price tag for government regulation too high? Congressman Roskam says yes - new regulations coming out of Washington are "inflexible, unwise, and ultimately don't add any value."
Congressman Roskam gives an update on Speaker Boehnor's plan to cut the deficit and raise the debt ceiling and explains why it is the best way forward.
The deadline to avoid a federal debt default is one week away.
By Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Peter Roskam
With $14 trillion in debt, sustained unemployment over 9 percent and a liberal Washington orthodoxy that demands continuously higher borrowing and spending, America is on the verge of drowning in red ink. Washington’s inability to control spending creates daunting obstacles to job creation in the short term while threatening America’s very being in the long term.
Although there is never a shortage of new and diverging opinions in Washington, sometimes the best remedy is a simple return to our basic principles. It’s time for Washington to get serious about a balanced-budget amendment.
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread, the free world breathed a deep sigh of relief and praised the United States for its accomplishment. But in the Palestinian territories, such sentiments were not shared.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), the House deputy majority whip, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) authored an op-ed in Politico today, urging a second look at funding for the Palestinians in lieu of the Hamas-Fatah merger. I spoke to Roskam by phone this afternoon.
The Daily Herald chronicles Congressman Roskam's political journey from his home in Glen Ellyn to Washington DC where he now serves as the Chief Deputy Whip, the #4 Republican in the House of Representatives.