Opinion

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By CHRISTIE WHITMAN The Record November 4, 2010 THE ELECTION is over, and the results are good for America. I say that not because my party won quite a number of seats in the House of Representatives, the Senate and statehouses around the country, but rather because those who ran on the most extreme rhetoric were not successful. [...]

By Christine Todd Whitman The Record Tuesday, October 5, 2010 PRESIDENT Obama rode into the White House on a wave of optimism. “Change we can believe in,” however, quickly tempered into something ordinary in the eyes of many of the same Americans who had voted for him. CNN’s Sept. 24 poll showed that less than two years after his election, [...]

By Christine Todd Whitman The Washington Times Tuesday, October 5, 2010 With the midterm elections just weeks away, much has been made of the deeply divided character of the American electorate. It is true that on a variety of policies, from stimulus to health care to immigration, Americans do not see eye to eye. But when it comes to political [...]

Washington Post Sunday, September 5, 2010 With the Republicans leading the Democrats on the generic congressional ballot, what will the two parties in Congress do before November? Below, responses from Dan Schnur, Scott Keeter, Jennifer Palmieri, Matthew Dowd, Martin Frost and Christine Todd Whitman. [...]

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