Thomas C. Pinckney
| Feb. 27, 2012, Midnight
While the economic effect of budget sequestration could be devastating, the risk to our national security is even greater.
Gary Shapiro
| Feb. 21, 2012, Midnight
Our national strength stems in part from tough ethics laws and a culture that abhors corruption, but reporter Amanda Becker’s Feb. 14 story (“Loopholes Allowed for Long Vegas Vacation”) underscores how absurdly imbalanced our system has become.
Eric Rojo
| Feb. 1, 2012, Midnight
President Barack Obama’s best chance of getting a divided Congress to act in an election year (“Obama Takes Congress to Task in SOTU Address,” Jan. 25) is to marshal the wide bipartisan support for halting the devastating defense budget cuts automatically triggered by sequestration — cuts that threaten our national security and our economy.
John Michael Loh
| Jan. 9, 2012, Midnight
In response to the Jan. 5 article headlined “Obama Wants Defense Cuts as Wars End,” if anything, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta overstates the risks of changing strategy to focus on a smaller, nimbler force that can deal with global adversaries and asymmetrical opponents.
Eric Federing
| Dec. 15, 2011, Midnight
Roll Call’s interview (“Day of Infamy, Years of Resolve,” Dec. 7) with the author of “December 1941” was a bit too casual on the subject of the internment of Japanese-Americans by the U.S. government during World War II.
Rebeccah Heinrichs
| Dec. 7, 2011, Midnight
Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s Nov. 30 column on the importance of missile defense to our national security missed the mark.
Ray LaHood
| Dec. 6, 2011, Midnight
At the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, we have one fundamental obligation: helping Americans move safely to their destinations. The American people entrust us with their safety. As long as I am on the job, we will never take that trust lightly.
Jim Arkedis
| Nov. 14, 2011, Midnight
Regarding the article “White House Stays Out of Deficit Panel” (Nov. 3), I understand why President Barack Obama wants to keep super committee politics at arm’s length, but let’s not forget that he has a huge stake in its success.
Betsy Laird
| Nov. 9, 2011, Midnight
Janie Lorber and Humberto Sanchez’s recent piece (“Web Sales Tax Fight Heats Up,” Nov. 2) reveals a number of common misconceptions about the online sales tax issue. It’s time to cut through the old rhetoric that may have worked in 1992 or when the Internet was just getting started as a retailing platform.
Roll Call Reporter
| Oct. 18, 2011, Midnight
Although any Member of Congress should be praised for outlining concrete ways to reduce spending, Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) “Back in Black” plan to cut $1 trillion from the defense budget — in part by slashing investment in superior technologies that safeguard our troops — is a nonstarter for our national security.
Rep. Lamar Smith
| Oct. 11, 2011, Midnight
A recent article, “Democrats Turn Up Volume on Immigration,” doesn’t tell the whole story about E-Verify. With record unemployment, we need to put American workers first, and that’s just what E-Verify does.
Layli Miller-Muro
| Aug. 15, 2011, Midnight
On July 27, Roll Call published an opinion piece from Natasha Spivack in which she decried false allegations by immigrant victims of abuse. It is concerning that she is the spokeswoman for this issue. Spivack and her company are complicit in personally facilitating the abuse of several immigrant women whom she paired with American men.
Roll Call Reporter
| Aug. 3, 2011, Midnight
Richard Schmidt doesn’t get the facts right in his July 29 guest observer, “Worker Visa Is a Must for E-Verify Plan.” We could open up millions of jobs for unemployed Americans and legal workers by requiring all U.S. employers to use E-Verify. And that’s no myth.
William R. Dougan
| July 14, 2011, Midnight
The June 30 Guest Observer by Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) to justify cutting more than 200,000 federal jobs during one of our nation’s biggest economic slumps begs for a more deliberate analysis.
William J. Perlstein
| June 30, 2011, Midnight
Some readers of your recent articles on a provision contained in the House patent reform bill may have been left with an inaccurate and misleading picture of the intent and effect of the legislation.
Rep. Lamar Smith
| June 16, 2011, Midnight
The one-sided reporting in the June 15 article “Patent Carve-Out Finds Opponents Left and Right” on H.R. 1249 is unacceptable. The story extensively reports on the claims of a small group of opponents, without mentioning the large majority support for the House’s patent reform proposal.
Sarah Lukin
| March 28, 2011, Midnight
Rep. Bennie Thompson’s positions regarding Alaska Native Corporations reflect a core misunderstanding regarding the role and mission of these vitally important native enterprises (“ANCs Should Be Held to Same 8(a) Standard,” March 21).
