By Christine Todd Whitman and and Dennis Blair The Washington Post November 4, 2011 Partisan politics have brought our government to a standstill. Washington has forgotten that, for U.S. democracy to work, every citizen must be represented. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Bloomberg Business Week November 1, 2011 Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- “You reap what you sow” used to be a widely understood principle. Today, we seem to have lost that understanding as we watch the occupation of Wall Street and cities across the country. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Sun Sentinel 27 October, 2011 A dominating factor in Florida’s double-digit unemployment is a significant drop in construction activity. All across our nation, home starts and manufacturing are down and we are losing our competitive edge in technologies that America once dominated. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico September 26, 2011 Election-year pledges seem to be in vogue, particularly as the presidential cycle gets under way. Any number of organizations can ask candidates to sign their pledge to ensure voters, and particularly their own narrow audience, have a crystal clear understanding of the candidates’ positions on specific issues. In this way, pledges simplify the political process — providing both a clear view of the candidates’ viewpoints and a set number of policy choices candidates have committed themselves to making if elected. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico Arena August 5, 2011 It is past time for Congress to start acting like leaders. The market is in free fall and the Tea Party doesn't seem to care or feel that the debt ceiling negotiations we watched play out over the last few months have any bearing on what is happening now. The Democrats bear their share of the blame because of the Treasury's policy of keeping the dollar artificially low and for pushing the housing policies that led to the original meltdown. Of course, the Treasury doesn't have to worry about the dollar anymore, it is tanking on its own due to our eleventh hour debt solution, which itself was less than it should have been. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico July 27, 2011 Time for Compromise The tea party Republicans do not represent a majority of the members of the House of Representatives, yet they control the House as surely as if they were the only party. Unfortunately, their mantra seems to be “no”: no new taxes, no more spending, no votes before the passage of a balanced budget amendment, and most damaging, no compromise. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman The Hill 13 May, 2011 As Congress faces the very real challenges of cutting federal spending and putting the country on the path to a balanced budget, it faces predictable pushback each time it identifies a program to cut. The magnitude of what lawmakers are trying to accomplish argues for a thoughtful approach that separates out short-term political and ideological cuts from the larger, more impactful ones. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico March 31, 2011 As a leading advocate for nuclear energy, it saddens me to see the news from Japan. Nuclear engineers, working under extremely dangerous circumstances, are in an hourly struggle to prevent disaster at that nation’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The stakes could not be higher. [...]
By William D. Ruckelshaus and and Christine Todd Whitman Washington Post March 24, 2011 How soon we forget. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Daily Record January 5, 2011 Dear Editor, New Jersey is known as the Garden State for good reason, thanks in large part to the land our farmers steward and preserve. While I fully understand the need to periodically update the definition of a working farm, it is important to note that many good peaches, apples, and other produce come from farms that don't cover hundreds of acres. In your recent editorial ("Fake farmers need not apply,") about farmland preservation and "fake" farmers, you included my name in a way that seemed more like a political statement than a factual criticism of our farm. [...]