I hope you will find my website a helpful to place to read key news about the issues I care about: protecting the environment, preserving an inclusive Republican Party, and promoting strong relationships with other nations. From this site you can read my opinion pieces from various publications throughout the world, and connect with the organizations with which I am involved. You can also get contact information for scheduling or media requests. I hope it will give you food for thought about what we as a nation need to be doing on these very important issues.
Republicans’ decision to boycott a planned committee vote of President Obama’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency made them look like “sore losers,” said Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under President George W. Bush.
U.S. enthusiasm for natural gas as an expanding source of electricity generation is shortsighted, said former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman.
By Philip Sean Curran
Princeton Packet
May 2, 2013
Former Gov. Christie Whitman told Princeton area business leaders Thursday it is important that more Americans participate in government, even saying she had no objections to requiring people to vote or get fined.
I was extremely disappointed to see the gun legislation voted down in the Senate on Wednesday. When 90% of Americans support a piece of legislation that is then voted down by the Congress, something in our democracy is broken. How can we stand by and let a lobbying group thwart the will of a majority of Americans? It can only happen when the majority sits back and assumes commonsense will prevail. Perhaps this will be the wake up call that people need – we cannot continue to allow our government to be controlled by a few. We must start to demand policy over politics and the only way to do that is to show up at the polls.
A team of energy companies and conservation groups has launched a new set of safety standards for Appalachian shale development to be bolstered by voluntary evaluations of production practices.
WASHINGTON — Top Republicans — including veterans of the George W. Bush administration, former members of Congress and ex-governors — are calling on the Supreme Court to support same-sex marriage.
In a sharp turn from a historically conservative position on gay marriage, a staggering number of prominent Republicans have signed a legal brief arguing that gay and lesbian couples have the right to legally marry under the Constitution.
By Erin Fuchs
AP/Business Insider
February 26, 2013
Seventy-five prominent Republicans are doing their best to convince the U.S. Supreme Court’s more conservative wing to allow gay marriage, The New York Times reports.