The Club for Growth, the nation's leading free-market advocacy organization, announced that Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, has earned the annual Defender of Economic Freedom award. The award honors Members of Congress who have a strong, consistent voting record on economic growth issues. Huizenga was one of 34 U.S. Congressmen and 11 U.S. Senators and to receive the award this year. “With his score o... Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, will accept the “True Blue Award” from FRC Action this Monday for protecting family, faith, and freedom with a 100 percent pro-family and pro-life voting record from 2011. Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) and the Heritage Foundation's Values Bus tour will stop at Covenant Christian High School at 11:30 a.m. Monday. Huizenga will speak and take questions f... Read more »
Town Hall is Open to the Public, Students, and Media U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, will host an in-person town hall TODAY, Tuesday, February 21, at 5 p.m. to hear from constituents on current events in the district or D.C., including what’s on the agenda for the year ahead in Congress, continued efforts to cut spending and promote job creation, the deficit and debt’s impact on the economy, his r... Read more »
Today, U.S. Reps. Bill Huizenga, MI-02 and Carolyn Maloney, NY-14, joined with manufacturing and service companies to call for passage of legislation that will once again allow local job creators in these industries to compete on equal footing for contracts with the federal government. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL PRESS CONFERENCE. “This bill requires the government agencies to at least open these... Read more »
U.S. Reps. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, Barney Frank, MA-04, Jim Sensenbrenner, WI-5, Carolyn Maloney, NY-14, Walter B. Jones, Jr., NC-3, and Howard Coble, NC-6, are hosting a bipartisan press conference TODAY at 2:30 p.m. to announce their legislation that will once again allow local job creators - especially manufacturers and service industries - to compete on equal footing for contracts with the feder... Read more »
The Financial Services Committee will meet on Thursday to consider a package of bills aimed at removing government barriers to job creation and economic growth. Under Chairman Spencer Bachus’ leadership, the Committee has led efforts to reduce regulatory barriers that hinder small businesses’ access to the capital markets. Since the beginning of 2011, the Committee has approved 21 jobs bills. “Out... Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, released the following reaction to the President's $3.8 trillion budget released today. It features record levels of spending and tax increases, is projected to cause the fourth-straight year of $1 trillion deficits, and breaks his promise to confront the nation’s spending-driven debt crisis. "Every American knows a budget requires looking at what you make and what ... Read more »
Speaking out in favor of religious freedom and protection of the First Amendment, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga today said he supports Speaker John Boehner’s pledge that the House will stop the egregious government overreach by the Obama administration through a provision in the President’s Health Care Law requiring faith-based employers – including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospita... Read more »
Citing significant public interest, today the EPA today announced it would allow the S.S. Badger to apply for an individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to continue operating on Lake Michigan. The Badger is currently authorized to operate under the 2008 Vessel General Permit until December 19, 2012, when that authorization expires. U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, who has... Read more »
On Wednesday, the Financial Insitutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee will review Rep. Huizenga's Proprietary Information Protection Act of 2012 at 10 a.m. as part of a hearing on three Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight bills. H.R. 3871, the Proprietary Information Protection Act of 2012, provides legal certainty that the disclosure of privileged information requested from financia... Read more »
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