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‘USA, USA, USA!’: See the Speech That Got a Standing Ovation in Congress Today

Representative Mike Kelly, speaking on the House floor today, managed something very rare in the history of the institution – he got a standing ovation. Applause is usually forbidden in the house, but Kelly‘s blistering attack on regulatory red tape and Washington’s culture of control was apparently so powerful that several of his fellow house members couldn’t resist showing their support, clapping, standing up and shouting “USA! USA! USA!”

Would you applaud this way? See Kelly’s speech below and decide for yourself:

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  • steve-in-pa
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:40pm

    That is the guy I voted for and will vote for him again, way to tell it like it is Mike. Businesses are getting regulated out of business.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:02pm

      Watch him get censured or rerimanded by the Speaker of the House like will be done to Bachmann.

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    • troopsupporter
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:37pm

      I wonder if he’d consider moving to Illinois. We are DESPERATE for quality representation.

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    • PAlibertybelle
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:05pm

      Wait til you hear what he thinks of the Chevy Volt. I bought my last car from him and would happily do so again. I think he needs some gentle persuasion on a few issues but he’s the real deal. Will vote for him again.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:24pm

      I saw that earlier today Live on C-SPAN. It was fantastic. The Green tape, Yellow tape and Red tape really hit home.

      Too bad the progressive commies like the Red tape and are pushing it by the truck load.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:36pm

      Tellin’ it like it is, and they move on to the next bloviating non-binding resolution. Cut the pay for the senate and congress in half and make the work year May through October. Eliminate “campaign season” and let their deeds do their campaigning. Also, make the entire body of the senate or congress attend the open floor sessions. I, for one, am tired of seeing empty seats. Additionally, a “filibuster” must be attended by the entire body and SOMEONE must speak for the entire time. I am so sick of the rules they create so they do not have to be “inconvenienced”. CHRIST!!!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:39pm

      So, where are all the Ron Paul supporters spouting off about how Ron Paul speeches are oh so much better than this guy’s speech?

      I guess they’re absent; much like Ron Paul’s voting record. Did not vote = did not post.

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    • jmgair
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:48pm

      Thanks to Obama’s Cass Sunstein whom most Americans have never heard of we are down the path of ruin due to regulations.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:52pm

      Sure, they couldn’t open a ballpark because the mirror in the bathroom was a quarter an inch too high. Oh yeah. I believe that. That‘s for sure God’s truth.

      Yeah, it’s outrageous the way businesses in the US are stifled because their mirrors are 1/4″ off. Happens all the time. All these city inspectors are out with their tape measures shutting down new developments because their bathroom mirrors don’t meet the standard height. It’s in the news every day. Those city inspectors will do everything they can, under the direction of the city government, to stop any new development. All cities look for any reason they can to shut down new developments because they are afraid the Feds will swoop down and penalize them for the mirrors in their bathrooms that are 1/4 off. The lame stream media doesn’t report about all these closures due to mirror heights, but it happens all the time!

      This is one of those speeches congressmen give to cspan when there isn’t another person in the building except his family sitting in the upper seats. Idiots.

      jzs  
    • NancyBee
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:01pm

      Fantastic!!!

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:21pm

      STEVE-IN-PA, I must say I agree with you……. EXCEPT…… sometimes a person plays a part, not saying this man does but I have become open eyed. I believe MOST of what we see in Washington is nothing more than a scripted play. I truly hate do be so defeatest. I never wanted to be. Then I ask you, Eric holder was found in contempt, but his own office refused to prosecute. How much did we the tax payer pay to watch this broadway play that ended up with nothing happening?

      I am from Florida. I like Congressman Allen West. I am white and dont give a sheet that hes black, so what. A good man is a good man. A story just came out in the past few days about his support from his former troops. He was a LT Colonel in the Army that defied orders that ultimately wound up saving soldiers lives. I like that. Think for yourself. I applaud that. Dont EVER follow orders blindly. Think for yourself. So why then did he vote FOR the NDAA? The National Defense Authorization Act empowers the United States government to arrest you, NEVER tell you what the charges are, NEVER allow you to see a lawyer, NEVER allow you to see your family, NEVER allow you to have a court date and hold you TILL HELL FREEZES OVER because they THINK you MIGHT have done something wrong to help terrorists. Allen West defied orders from superiors to save the lives of his men but was willing to put his name on the dotted line to sign away your rights.

      What I am saying is, let time tell. Be carefull.

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    • Soflamama
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:35pm

      I’m from Butler originally (Mike Kelly’s home town in western Pa) and Mike is one of my 87 year old father’s best friend. Just this past Monday, I visited Mike at his office in DC with my two sons and husband while on vacation there. I just have to say (this is my first time commenting…I’m a lurker)….for all you who are critical of Mike and for those of you who love him, HE IS THE REAL DEAL! Butler is hard scrabble town and people from that part of the country don’t pull any punches! Mike is one special guy! My father is one tough old coot, a WW11 vet, who‘s been around the block and back and didn’t have the time (he worked three jobs when I was growing up) nor the patience for BS’ers, and he is so proud to call Mike his friend! We need to recruit him for VP! In person, he overwhelms you with his charisma and character! He is honest , doesn‘t need this ’job’, and went to Washington to make a difference…FOR REAL!!! He represents ALL of us and has what it takes to lead this country!

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    • Maji
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:49pm

      While a pretty good speech,I thought it was kinda mild!

      Lord knows how deluded we are on harsh speeches.
      This guy did well but it needs to increase dramaticaly
      remember people like JZS are in gov. now and we’re having
      to overcome their stupidity!!

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    • Chris G
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Great speech, Mr. Kelly — but if Congress refuses to CUT THE FUNDING from or limits the power of the federal agencies that are burdening our job creators, then there is little the American People can do to stop this onslaught against our free market system. Do something, Mr. Kelly!

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    • Cadcamtrainer
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:19am

      Why in God‘s name isn’t this man running for the preident?????? It is people like him thatunderstands the mess we are in and the mess that our government got us into.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:35am

      Soflamama- I truly like that you have total confidence in this man. I would ask you to realize this though. If a man, or woman, ANY man or woman, were to TRULY be AGAINST the establishment then you must realize that their lives are in danger. IN REAL LIFE. I know it sounds like some kind of a book written fantasy but I would ask this of you, Does the President and/or Congress of the US TRULY decide policy or do the bankers that we are indebted to decide policy? Those bankers are the FED (not a part of the Federal Government as it sounds, but a privately owned entity of rich bankers throughout the world), The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund or IMF. If you believe truly that the President and the Congress of the United States TRULY control what goes on in this country then so be it, I will not try to change your mind, I will say this though, Bankers control EVERYTHING Congress controlls NOTHING. Then again YOU have to figure this out for yourself. God Bless

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:45am

      This guy is GOOD…Lets MAKE Congress walk the walk!!!

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    • flagramah
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:15am

      Oh my gosh now there is a law maker that deserves to be where he is !!!!! Loved what he said and did he is a true patriot and we need 534 more just like him in congress willing to speak up just like that . Excellent . I want him for VP!!!!

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    • Simonne
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:08am

      He spoke the truth without being inflammatory. We need more of this.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:23am

      I love this guy! … and yes JZS, this does happen all the time, not just mirrors, but the government’s regulations are completely insane in many cases. I’ve heard probably about 200 stories or so similar to the mirrors being 1/4 inch off. I’ve heard other people with mirrors too high or low, pet cages 1/4 inch too short, wrong label sizes, plastic bags made illegal… so many incredibly stupid regulations that cost businesses fortunes, cause massive job loss, and even put some innocent people in prison for reasons that are completely insane. Ever hear about the guy that went to prison for mailing tulips with the wrong mailing label or the one that went to prison for putting captured lobsters in plastic bags? Everyone should know about the corrupt lawyers that go around suing small businesses for violations of almost completely unknown regulations – just like the mirrors being too low.
      We, who aren’t Obama fanatics, not collecting welfare, and not working for the government are sick and tired of this bulls#!!!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:28am

      JZS I have seen this BS ….you couldn’t be more wrong
      They just stopped a local business from opening because they didn’t like the faucets they used in the restrooms. So you are talking out of your A$$

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:30am

      JZS, you are kidding right? There are people who are “handicapped” and that’s their job, to go in to the bathrooms of establishments and measure them and then sue because the mirror isn’t the right height. Yes, I believe that this government would do that. I have a city code violation inspector who hit me for branches too close to the alley (not supposed to be closer than a foot) and hanging over my fence, but not 14 feet off the ground. I was walking to my car when she went down my alley and she didn’t get out of her car and measure….she saw my bumper sticker for Glenn Beck and the local conservative talk radio station and had to find something. I had 3 branches sticking through the fence, while the black neighbor next to me has a chain link fence with trees intertwined and hanging over and the lady down at the end of the alley has a bush that actually pokes INTO the alley and it brushes my car every time I go by. I was hit because I had “building materials” lying flat on my driveway (So no varmits could hide). I had to get them all 6 inches up off the ground, so now I have a rat problem.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:33am

      continued at JZS, I also got hit because my crepe myrtle trees weren’t 14 feet off the ground over the sidewalk in the front, and I’m home all day, no one came out and measuered, they just drove by. If I don’t make corrections, they will send a city worker out to do it for me and then bill me or put a lien on my property. I know because I have a friend who has a creek in their back yard and they complained to the city (it’s city maintained) that there was a bee’s nest there. The city came and removed it and sent them the bill. You better believe the city regulations are out of control and if you don’t, you’re living in the land of lollipops and unicorns.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:33am

      JZS….
      Enough with the mirror nonsense, you idiot! Typical progressive tactic. The topic is over-regulation, not mirrors. If you can’t refute the fact that we (businesses) are being held to a standard that, say, China and their lead painted junk are not held to, then shut up before I kick your arse.
      Let me ask you something, why do you bother with this site at all? If you love having your freedoms taken away, just vote for you racist Prez and be done with it. You obviously love situations likeGibson Guitar where “your man” Obama had armed Fed agents break into a legitimate American business over trumped-up charges of using illegal wood.

      Maybe you loved it when Obama/Holder refused to condem the racially-motivated attacks on G. Zimmerman. Not a word from those two racists on the vigilantism called for by the racist NAACP and NBP haters.

      Maybe it was the blindness Obama/Holder showed when the NBP held clubs in their hands at the Philly polling booth in ‘08.

      How about “under my administration, electric rates would necessarily skyrocket.” ….BHO

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:19am

      jzs deserves to have a voice and also deserves to be ignored….it’s tough, I know, but it is futile to debate with a rock

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    • KarinS
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:41am

      You are soooo lucky to have him….New York is pretty much a lost cause—
      I certainly would have given him a standing O- rules or not!!!

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:32am

      jzs

      Dood you’ve never had a job let alone start up a company…no doubt, you get paid by the post and responded to a Commie Craigslist job recruitment…SB do not plan out for just one quarter of a year at a time…Your cortex is more than 1/4″ off, IDIOTA!!

      Get off the methaqualone before you medulla becomes mush.

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    • cosette
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:01am

      @ Loriann12… Save your time and energy. Jzs. refuses to believe anyone who relates to him/her an event which occurred in their own life that doesn’t comport with his/her world view. In my case when, referencing Obamacare and the preexisting conditions clause and the negative impact it had on my son, he so much as called me a liar. I explained that while he wasn’t turned down, the cost to him was twice as much as his coworkers were paying, a price that left him without insurance. Still he refused to believe me. When faced with the truth, and that truth leaves JZS without an argument, the reply is always the same. You MUST be lying.

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    • Belzar
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:03am

      Yes sir Mr. Kelly. Tell government to get the hell out of the way and let the job creators do their job. Because of a few, the masses suffer.

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    • Freedom Hound
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:25am

      Slowly our representatives are getting the idea.

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    • In a Bunker
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:44am

      Hey folks, I‘ve read JZS’s blithering before and he is not stable. He just rambles and rarely sticks to the point and does not use facts to back him up (or if he does, he makes up his facts as he goes along).

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    • ccfonten
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:28am

      THIS is what we need more in DC and NOT the simpering politically correct wimps who have been there long enough for their “roots” to become permanent!
      TERM LIMITS!
      And to hell with the mentality that we need someone who “knows how DC works”!
      Saw the interview with Greta on FOX with Boehner last night….he likes Rob Portman.
      Don’t know a lot about Portman, but if this RINO, Boehner, wants him because (as he said it) Portman “knows how DC works” and “knows his way around”.
      That is the LAST one I want!
      Rather have Michelle Bachman!

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    • landman1
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:35am

      JZS, If you weren‘t in your Moms basement you’d understand that the mirror thing is very true. We had a multipurpose building that was not allowed to open because the handrail on the handicapped ramp was 1/4 in too small. The code enforcement officer said that a person in a wheelchair would have difficulty with the width. If I’m in a wheelchair trying to go up a ramp I probably got both hands on the wheels not on the handrail. Be kinda tough pulling a wheelchair up a ramp with one hand on a handrail. The million dollar plus building sat idle while they fought that one out. Regulations will kill this country eventually.

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    • Lynnese
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:07pm

      I am so jealous – my non-representative??? Keith Ellison! Can things get any worse???

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    • steve-in-pa
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Maverick4Harlot, he was running against Dhalkemper who caved in and voted for obamacare. Even though Erie is a very democrat heavy town people were mad about her vote. If I remember correctly 60% + of Erie was against obamacare so she was tossed out after her freshman term. However the super liberal news media in Erie keeps trying to bash him every chance they get. With his business experience he seems to be doing a good job for Erie in my opinion ( you don’t call a plumber to fix something electrical). Keep up the good work Mike, we need more people like him who have that American bravado we have been missing over the last few years.

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    • little big man
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:59pm

      I live in Pa but on the NE side this guys is great wish we had a rep like him in my district, but to many liberals from NY, NJ and they vote for liberals.

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:35pm

      muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:02pm

      Watch him get censured or reprimanded by the Speaker of the House like will be done to Bachmann.
      _________
      Boehner is untrustworthy to be Speaker. Boehner is THE POSTER BOY for getting men getting testosterone injections after age 50 because his low T causes him to cry like a female. Put this guy in charge.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:14pm

      Don’t forget in the PC ridiculous leftist Obamunist world that we live in today. JZS the Obamaunist drone‘s world it’s Not PC to chant USA, USA, USA. In JZS and Oblamer’s world they suspend kids for Chanting USA in highschool basketball game. You can be an Akbar yelling Islamic terrorist from Saudia Arabia that looks Mexican and just say “I’m a dreamer” No questions asked… let the Akbar go.

      Don’t forget that the Commies in Congress, like Maxine Watters, think that chanting USA is hate speech to Hispanics. This society is just a direct assult on Americans.

      Don’t forget that Oblamer and Holder want to crack down on a 6 year olds make shift lemonade stand. And it’s offensive to chant USA commies. The Commie Leftist are appaling and diseased. The other 75% don’t want your spewage.

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    • Marine 1
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:37pm

      Now that‘s how it’s done. Americans built America and we need to get back to doing business the old fashioned way. We need to get those idiots in the White House and many in Congress out of our way so we can rebuild this nation.

      Obama and his minions want to destroy this nation and we cannot tolerate another four years of that. We can‘t tolerate any of the crap that’s being shoved down our throats right now.

      We, the PEOPLE (with GOD’s help) will make or break this nation. Just that simple.

      Semper Fidelis

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    • Zipit
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:37pm

      JZS, perhaps you could start your own little private chat room with Brother-Winston -What’s his name!

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    • ERP
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:40pm

      @JZS

      So, you don’t believe that the current U.S. Government doesn’t over regulate the business community?

      Who are YOU calling idiots?

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    • ERP
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:43pm

      Isn’t Glenn Beck still trying to build a fence someplace because of overbearing Government regulations?

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:43pm

      @Everyone attempting to reason with JZS:

      Why bother? It’s a brick wall with that one. Funny thing is he’s better at doing his job than that Socialist School for Useful Idiots reject Encinom.

      @The Monk:

      The reason libertarians are mostly (not all) silent on this measure is…ok, it’s going in the right direction of thought. The speech was good, and spot on about the red tape of regulations that stifle business (regulations are even more expensive than any proposed tax increase short of 50%) growth and the inherent costs they bear.

      However, the bill he is promoting is pandering without any substance. The wording, to my understanding, as the bill stands right now, still contains the typo where we would need to be at 94% unemployment for regulators to stop cold. For the sake of argument, let’s assume the correction, and we see no regulation until 6% or less employment. What does that do about current nonsense regulations, excessive numbers of bureaucrats on the dole, pointless departments that offer nothing, excessively large bills that have hidden regulations/taxes/gifts to doners (get a better spellchecker blaze), and campaign donation laws that allow politicians to be bought out, granting their lobby firms unfettered access? Afterall, most of the laws on the books are written by lobby groups and businesses or banks with access and power. Most regulations cripple competition from below.

      Afterall, Rockefeller stated, “Competition is a sin.”

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    • ALM
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:21pm

      I only heard a couple of minutes but loved what I heard! I just opened a little coffee shop/snack bar. It was insane how many hoops I had to jump through! I could understand if it had never been one before but I used to own the place. I knew all the rules. In five years so much had changed. I am broke from all the fees and labor to get it up and running…Now no money for cash flow/stock. In my case it is not federal rules but city ones. Ironic – our city proports being a great place to move your buiness. I guess they mean big business that makes enough money to actually pay enough taxes to get a tax break!! I’ve got an idea that i might take to next city meeting: Let the little guys pay the fees out or on their one year anniversary or something! I have good ideas all the time : ) just no money or time to push them forward : (. When I was in college I dreamed of being in politics – just the policy making part, that is. I could never dress up everyday and play the game.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:23pm

      @JZS: It does happen but its not reported on since the news editors on papers and TV stations don’t cosider it “sensational” enough like a bloody dead body does.

      And I bet it would be you that would complain to the Code Enforcement that the ADA was being violated because you can’t comb your hair because the mirror is to low and does not show the top of your head with what little hair it has because it takes sun light to grow and your stuck in your basement Progressive Bunker…..LoL…

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    • Carl McPherson
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:32pm

      Please please please…. have him move to Arizona and run for Senate so he can take McCain’s position.

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    • Reclaiming Our Nation
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:15pm

      JZS,

      I like your approach. You know exactly how to trigger an emotional response. Hopefully your approach will wake more people up. Well done. :)
      http://www.reclaimingournation.com

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    • Rampart
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:05am

      So….Why isn‘t this guy on Romney’s VP short list…?

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:09am

      Again great speech, but actions speak louder than words. Check his voting record people please. Fascism isn’t better than Communism. They both lead to the same place…. tyrrany.

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:08pm

      We own a business in the building industry and it’s not just the out of control regs, it’s the inconsistancy. The regulation book is so think, you CAN”T comply with all the regulations. So what you do is call out your inspector and ask them what will pass. This VARIES from inspector to inspector. ANd the regulations change! And they sometimes change in the MIDDLE OF THE PROJECT. When we started our house you did not have to drywall your crawl space, when we called for our final inspection they wanted to know why we didn’t drywall our crawl space. THE HOUSE IS BUILT! Now in order to get access to the crawl space you have to enter through a tiny trap door – just how exactly are we supposed to get sheets of drywall down there?! This is the kind of stuff government does to people.

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:54pm

      We don’t build our business because of big government, we build our businesses in spite of big government.

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    • YSteiner
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:33pm

      This guy painted a picture where if his ballpark could have been opened, the only people really making money was the ball park owner (potentially $ millions) and ball players, if professional. All the other jobs are low-paying service industry jobs, hot dog sellers, cashiers, with no benefits, and are seasonal.

      Why didn’t he use as an example the fact that Obama is giving away billions of dollars in construction contracts to Chinese construction companies (which will import Chinese workers) to rebuild America’s infrastructure? Instead, thousands of constructions jobs will be lost to Americans as well as billions in revenue to American companies. He could have really driven home the point using this example.

      Why didn’t he use all the outsourcing done to China, India, South America et al. as an example? Without a manufacturing base, no economy can sustain. He didn’t choose that because those are real jobs with decent pay and benefits. This example would have gotten him a bid for the Presidency.

      If Kelly is REALLY interested in American jobs, he will put the pressure on to tear up the current trade agreements, limit imports, and prohibit outsourcing, instead of worrying about a couple low-paying service industry jobs at a ball park.

      His speech is a joke, and those who applaud it are gullible buying into the well-charged speech instead of listening to what he’s really saying. I remain unimpressed. Typical politician. Same bull-sh*t, different day.

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    • ChevalierdeJohnstone
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:52am

      @JZS

      The mirror height regulation is absolutely 100% true and has been on the books for going on two decades now. Not only has it been reported multiple times by multiple major mainstream print, radio, and television news agencies, but you can go to a government website and read the regulation for yourself. Anyone who has any practical knowledge of commercial construction knows this, and anyone else could have found it within 30 seconds using a search engine of their choice.

      Don’t look now but your ignorance are showing.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:37pm

    WOW!!! Someone in Congress KNOWS!!! There is REAL hope for our country after all!!!

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    • highcarry
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:46pm

      just another blowhard politician with nothing to lose.

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:08pm

      They haven’t figured it out yet but the less they do the more Golf time they could have.

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    • Soflamama
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:09am

      To: Maverick4harlot….I am just back from vacation and along with my stop in DC, I was fortunate enough to visit Williamsburg, Virginia. It was there, at the founding of our country, many a patriot risked their lives, their fortunes, their families for something better. I still believe there are patriots out there who will risk everything for this country. Even at my age, I retain my idealism and also still believe that individuals can make a difference. I , for one, would not be deterred over fear from the ‘world bank’ and I don’t think Mike Kelly is afraid either. This country is worth fighting for.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:08pm

      Love the rambling-cutter statement:”I want to know the time…and You build me a watch!!”

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Look, it sounds good, and it’s clear he has understanding of the cost of regulation. However, all of congress does. We have to stop thinking people creating regulations actually think them helpful to business. They know full well they stifle growth. It’s done entirely on purpose.

      This bill he’s pushing is just lip service. It offers nothing substantive. It just seems and sounds good. Let alone the current version as written still contains the typo last I checked.

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  • TheGhostofReagan
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:34pm

    WOW!!! Won’t be seeing that speech anywhere in the MSM.

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:09pm

      Nor THIS one: http://www.givemeliberty.50megs.com/Traficant.htm
      “When you’re up to your ice in alligators, it is difficult to remember your initial objective is to drain the swamp.’
      It’s the MESSAGE — not the MESSENGER. er — ‘bankrupt’ Corporation USA? Wait. What? Exactly. Its all there, People. Forget the legislative, the executive, even the judicial. Obviously we‘re focusing on the WRONG ’insitutions’ we are not even party to… (why IS that gold fringe on the Flag??) focus on the JURY box – where, as Will Cain so eloquently pointed out, is the seat of POWER of the People to restore the nation – lawfully. Sick of plausible deniability? Yes. ‘vote.‘ But ’change’ happens in the courtroom by the PEOPLE who are affected (unlawfully) by ‘mountains’ of legislation – most of which are MONEY based ‘victimless’ “crimes.” — -

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:12pm

      That is true I believe it should be required that they no longer have closed door meetings and should be covered on Cspan after all we pay for it.

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    • woodypynes
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:51pm

      I agree. As soon as we have the Restoring Memory event, we’ll be able to acknowledge what is/has/will be going on. In short, and NO offense to this well spoken Rep., if he was serious about the BS…he would be having press conferences on the steps outside of his place of business even if it was a “day off” or a holiday. These people are serious, just not serious enough to actually change anything.
      Wake me when the revolution begins.

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  • Tired of Code Names
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:32pm

    The American Disabilities Act while noble in thought has had incredible unforseen consequenses. They now hire “specialty consultants” to police it. Jobs that don’t lay a brick or even have a clue how a building gets constructed. But, they are the arbiters. Millions of jobs created that just monitor real economic expansion and it destroys it. No common sense anymore. OSHA was a great idea. It’s now out of control. Ask any business in construction what they really think.

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    • Buckeye4ABO
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 9:02pm

      Great example, and trust me, nobody hates the E.P.A. like a painter…

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    • vadale
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:42am

      I’ll answer the question about OSHA. They kill jobs, they fine people people for having generator a few inches out. write tickets for no hard hat even where it’s not required. you have to take the day off to fight it, or just pay it. then you get fire and you never did anything wrong. ask the big job sit people. it happens all day every day. it’s not their fault though. Congress made the law they use to harass the working people. the funny thing is, it’s union loving Dems that pushed it. one of their main targets is union workers. they hate each other. We can’t talk honestly about it because every time you bring it up, the thug liberals lie about what your trying to do. like the libs on this post.

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    • MikeNelson
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:34am

      You are correct about the ADA. I previously owned a restaurant and on the first day the gimps rolled in on their wheelchairs, looking and pointing at things they didn’t like, although the space recently passed inspection and C of O was granted. They threatened to shut the place down until an elevator or stair lift was installed to the second floor. I had to go to court (and pay for a lawyer) to stop their attempts at “enforcing the spirit of the ADA.” I won and none of the bastards ever spent a nickel in my restaurant.

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    • jaylew
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:13pm

      @MIKE …you just called people in wheelchairs gimps which I have to say as politically incorrect as that is…it made me choke on my coffee laughing. The same thing happened here in Pittsburgh with a bar called “Froggies”…..it was a bar that was very popular….located in town…but it was located in one of those old skinny 3 story buildings that were constructed WAY WAY before the ADA. The wheelchair gang demanded that the owner install ramps and elevators….the owner said he could neither afford that nor is there physical room to accomplish that and so they fought….with the owner offering his staff to carry the wheelchair crowd anywhere in the 3 story bar they wanted to go. Not good enough. Froggies is now no longer in business. So your use of the word gimps is actually funny…because the “gimps” really do know how to “gimp” things up to the point they would rather an establishment go out of business altogether….than not be in compliance with what at times are rules and regulations that cannot have a legitimate work around put in place. Nobody wants to be in a wheelchair…..but at the same time a person in a wheelchair can never be a shortstop for a major league ball team either……the same limitations that wheelchair bound people have…..are of no more importance than the financial or physical structure limitations that some business owners are faced with…why are the wheelchair bounds needs any more or less important than a business owners?

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  • The American People
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:29pm

    Mr. Kelly sir, you are a good man! SOMEONE had to say this inside the beltline! I submit to everyone who reads this and would ask you to comment in reply to my posting, I believe that he is one representative who is earning his pay as a public servant. Do you agree??

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:30pm

      Yup! http://www.givemeliberty.50megs.com/Traficant.htm
      While Traficant ‘served 7 years’ on a conviction of ‘bribery’ — me thinks it was a ‘trade-off’ for exposing the fraud Corp USA actually has perpetrated on natural Americans in the coup which transpired 190 years ago. – One so inclined COULD go back to the TREATY of 1783 and actually READ the thing to see that the Crown (owned by the Papacy) still ‘owns’ the place. :-) http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bcolony.htm

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:02pm

      @taxpro

      Read the article you posted and watched the videos.
      Note: one of the links was removed but found another.
      America Is Still A British Colony Youtube
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO5VYWyTceM
      Here is another website on the same topic
      http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/

      As a republican, I never studied John Kennedy but I found out that Kennedy – told The Federal Reserve to pound sand – and started We The People to printing our own money again. What an eye-opener which puts a whole new perspective on who/why Kennedy was killed. Johnson IMMEDIATELY upon becoming president gave the power back to The Federal Reserve.

      I have to say, my respect for President John Kennedy WAY UP.

      Why doesn’t Romney talk about getting rid of The Federal Reserve?

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    • ERP
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:51pm

      You bring up a very good point about JFK. Now, I hate his consistent infidelity but if he were in politics today he could very well be a moderate Democrat or even a Moderate Republican.

      “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

      A very conservative sentiment.

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  • pghpatriot
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

    I’ve changed my mind about cloning!!!!! Make about 1000 copies of him for the House, Senate, White House and Governors!

    Finally, a blue collar guy from Pennsylvania. VP hell! I’d rather vote for him for President! I only hope he can influence and not get caught up in the web of lobbyists and corruption.

    If Romney had that kind of moxie and passion and could reach out and touch (all) people, this race would be over.

    Ever hear the phrase, ‘fight fire with fire?’

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  • the Anti-Dem
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

    Too bad John Boehner can’t grow a pair and stop crying about being raised in a bar, and realize that Michelle Bachman is far more in touch with national security than he is. Instead, all he can prove is that any hope in establishment Republicans to provide anything other than some ******** calculation as to what would serve them best, is kind of like hoping the bum you invited to dinner won’t smell like pee. John, and the rest of you stinking so called Republicans, we are on Michelle’s side, not yours.

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    • lwillis59
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:38pm

      lost any respect I had left for the speaker( and I hardly had any as it was) when he decided to stand for the muslim brootherhood rather than Michelle Bachman

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  • TRUTHandFREEDOM
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

    WOW! Can we get enough politicians to ACT on that? That actually sounds patriotic and correct!

    That does clearly state how government intentionally legislates our prosperity and ambition away.

    When government over regulates us like that, it’s as if we let our enemies write our legislation and I have to say that we apparently did!

    Volunteer! Get out there if you’re not already and volunteer for candidates who understand the problem the way that Rep. Kelly does and candidates who will dismantle that assault on our freedom.

    Find a good candidate’s website, send money, contact them, volunteer at events, put signs around town, volunteer to work a phone bank, ANYTHING!

    Let’s fix this country!

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  • C. Schwehr
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:25pm

    And if you listened carefully, you also heard some “booing” from the communists in our House too. They need to be removed this fall!!!!

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:20pm

      The purge of progressives in the GOP will continue, God willing. As for the democrat party, they sold their souls to the devil long ago, and they’re going to hell.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Rep. Kelly, I salute you. Your the first politition I’ve heard
    that understands the problem. We need to take all laws and agencies
    created after 1959 and void them. Lets have some more of those
    good growth years we experienced back before the people inside
    the beltway decided they knew more about business than we
    do.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:41pm

      CLONE this guy immediately and Reid and Peeelooski RETIRE.
      OMG 2012

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  • LadyLibertykicksASS
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:24pm

    We need to watch him for the Future …….lot’s of potential !!!!!!!!

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  • ShyLow
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:23pm

    Free markets now!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGC9sHnKAw&feature=related

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  • ReaganBaby
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:22pm

    Man i got goose bumps watching that- i love this guy

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  • oldasdirt
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:21pm

    God Bless Representative Mike Kelly. We need 534 voices just like him. Throw the Dems out in 2012.

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  • go2gym
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Amen brotha!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Cabo King
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Aint this the (truth)

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    • child of the King
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:11pm

      I would agree with this man 110%. He should run for president of the United States. We need to cut out all of this bureacratic red tape burdensome regulations. Quit denying occupancy permits for nit picking stuff like the bathroom mirrors are a 1/4 inch too low or maybe a door is 1/32 inch too high. that last example might be an exageration but you never know now days.

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  • cassandra
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Outstanding !!! tell obama and his bureaucrates to take his regulations and stick it, We The People want to become MAKERS again not TAKERS

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  • chazmo
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Sweet..Finally someone with some sense..

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  • Scratchingmyhead
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Wow! No Uhhhh’s, Ummmm’s, or Stuttering. Not even a teleprompter!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:16pm

    A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!!

    That man gets my vote!

    AMERICA! YES!!!

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  • mg42sa
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:14pm

    AMEN TO THAT!! God Bless You Rep. Kelly

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:12pm

    Awesome. I need to post this!!

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  • ChiefIlliniCake
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:12pm

    Alright folks…we’re changing it back!

    Who’s with me?

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  • Pat Alexander
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:12pm

    We are from Pa, but not Mike’s district.

    I have heard him speak before. He is on fire. An from the real world.

    I wonder if Mitt has looked his way for a VP choice….

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    • woodypynes
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 10:54pm

      Wow. Hey, here’s a thought: Mitt isn’t good for our nation. It doesn’t matter who his VP choice is. Please wake up.

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:12pm

    I don’t know much at all about this Mike Kelly, but I sure liked that!

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    • chazmo
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:22pm

      Crap he voted for the NDAA.. :( ugh.. what is up with this Bill and the Republicans…

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:35pm

      @ Chaz,

      You have to know what was in the whole bill to help understand why some people voted for it.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 8:36pm

      @chas

      I‘m surprised you didn’t claim Wrong Paul said it first (years ago), with the stand-by ‘youtube’ (it HAS TO BE TRUE) link.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:51am

      Why NDAA?
      AUMF- Autrhorized Use of Military Force.

      Reason? Just my opinion, but….We no longer know who is within our own borders, who are legal citizens and who’s against us. Make sense now?

      Like that whacko that killed our service men at Ft. Hood! Got trained by our military and he in turn, decides it’s okay to take out our Army troops. And take a another look. You seen or heard about the violence in Chicago, right? Who do you think is responsible for those deaths? Oh yeah…Mexican Drug Cartels battling for turf. My god, how did they ever get to Chicago?

      You ever stop and wonder why Obama stayed away from the topic of the numerous deaths in Chicago? Go figure, it’s not only bad for his homie Emmanuel, he would have to save face in saying our borders have been breeched by cartels! This being an election year, none of it should be a surprise.

      But the sole reason I could only come up with, as to why they wouldn’t come right out with the facts, is an old one filled with irony. Brace yourself for this one…

      Doing so, would present a threat to national security.

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