Post archive for ‘Justice and Public Safety’
Posted by Paul Stam on January 18th, 2012 | Categorized as Budget, Death Penalty, Education, Government Corruption, Health Care, Issues, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, National Defense, News, Press Releases, Property Rights, Taxes, Wasteful Spending
HB 2: Protect Health Care Freedom (Stam, Barnhart, Hollo, Murry) House failed to override veto:3/9/11 Amicus brief from NC Republican Leaders submitted to the Court of Appeals HB 3: Exclusionary Rule/Good Faith Exception(Stam, Ingle, Faircloth) Ch. SL 2011-6:3/21/11 HB 8: Eminent Domain(Stam, Lewis, McGrady) Senate Judiciary I: 5/2/11 Will be considered by the [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on August 15th, 2011 | Categorized as Budget, Death Penalty, Education, Government Corruption, Health Care, Issues, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, National Defense, Press Releases, Property Rights, Taxes, Wasteful Spending
Notable Republican Bills Signed Into Law House Bill 36 – An act to require counties, cities and employers to use the Federal E-Verify program to verify the work authorization of newly hired employees was signed by the Governor on June 23, 2011. House Bill 92 – An act to repeal the land transfer tax [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on August 15th, 2011 | Categorized as Budget, Death Penalty, Education, Government Corruption, Health Care, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, National Defense, News, Press Releases, Property Rights, Taxes, Wasteful Spending
100 Day Legislative Update August 15, 2011 1. Balanced Budget and Reduced Tax Rates With bipartisan support, the House voted 73 – 46 to override the veto of Governor Bev Perdue. The House and Senate achieved this historic milestone on June 15, 2011. This fulfills our first two promises to the people of North Carolina: [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on April 25th, 2011 | Categorized as Budget, Education, Government Corruption, Health Care, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, News, Press Releases, Property Rights, Taxes, Wasteful Spending
Find out how House Republicans are keeping their legislative promises to the people of North Carolina. Here is an update of the Republicans 100 Day Legislative Agenda.
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on September 16th, 2010 | Categorized as Budget, Education, Health Care, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, News, Press Releases, Property Rights, Taxes
North Carolina’s state government must reduce costs and regulation on business, large and small, so that they can create jobs and prosperity. If the people of North Carolina entrust Republicans with a majority in the General Assembly on November 2, 2010, we commit to govern the State by focusing on these priorities…
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on August 16th, 2010 | Categorized as Death Penalty, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, News, Press Releases
No one will actually get relief under the act because actual racial discrimination has been illegal for decades and those with actual evidence that they have been discriminated against have been able to present those claims in court without this act. It is shameful that 61 House Democrats and 28 Senate Democrats voted for this unjust law.
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on August 5th, 2010 | Categorized as Budget, Education, Health Care, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, Property Rights, Taxes
Read legislation sponsored by Rep. Stam during the 2009 and 2010 sessions of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on July 7th, 2010 | Categorized as Budget, Education, Health Care, Jobs and Economy, Justice and Public Safety, Legislation, News, Press Releases
The 2010 “short session” of the NC General Assembly is winding down with plenty of unfinished business. The Democratic leadership has refused to allow consideration of a number of important bills, primarily sponsored by Republicans.
Recent public opinion polls emphatically indicate North Carolina citizens resoundingly support these Republican initiatives. However, they have been refused a fair hearing in the legislature.
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on February 15th, 2010 | Categorized as Budget, Government Corruption, Justice and Public Safety, News, Press Releases, Taxes
Raleigh – The News and Observer today reported that former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand (D-Cumberland) worked in secret to enact a law resulting in enormous increases in medical care costs for NC prison inmates. Rand used a technical corrections bill to strip an essential cost cutting provision from last year’s budget. According to [...]
Posted by Paul Stam, NC House Republican Leader on November 30th, 2009 | Categorized as Justice and Public Safety, Press Releases | Tagged as Justice and Public Safety
Today Gov. Beverly Perdue announced that she had saved the State from the predations of 20 vicious criminals who were about to be released. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. Here’s what happened: On October 16, 2009 Gov. Perdue received from her own Department of Corrections a list of 20 violent offenders who were [...]