The economic downturn in 2008 cost Michiganians their jobs, families their savings, and some even their homes. In response to this seismic event, Democrats in Congress passed and President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. According to its supporters, Dodd-Frank was a panacea of regulatory solutions that would end “too big to fail” and prevent a future financial crisis. In reality, Dodd-Frank has made it even more difficult for struggling famili... Read more

The economic downturn in 2008 caused Michiganders to lose their jobs, families to lose their savings, and some even to lose their homes. In response to this seismic event, Democrats in Congress passed and President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. According to its supporters, Dodd-Frank was a panacea of regulatory solutions that would end “too big to fail” and prevent a future financial crisis. In reality, Dodd-Frank has made it even more diffi... Read more

With funding for protecting the Great Lakes on the chopping block under the Trump administration’s budget proposal, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) is making both the ecological and the economic case for saving the largest freshwater system in the world. “The Great Lakes ecosystem is extremely important and I believe we need to continue supporting it – the cleanup of it and the restoration of it,” Huizenga told The Ripon Advance in a recent interview. As co-chair of the bipartisan Great Lakes Tas... Read more

The tide is changing in Washington. For too long, bureaucrats prioritized the number of rules and regulations enacted ahead of how they affected the American people. Those days are over. Republicans in Congress are committed to getting our economy back on track, reining in bureaucrats across Washington, and reclaiming the proper constitutional role of the legislative branch. Over the past 20 years, the various agencies in Washington, D.C. have issued over 80,000 rules with little to no legislati... Read more

Last week, Congressman Huizenga toured Bates Manufacturing and attended a groundbreaking ceremony for their new expansion which is expected to create approximately two dozen new jobs. Bates manufactures footwear for our men and women in the U.S. military. Over the past few years, bureaucrats in Washington have attempted to make technical changes without legislation and these changes would have prevented Bates from manufacturing their high quality footwear for our troops. "What had happened was w... Read more

On Friday, Congressman Huizenga participated in a Bring Back our Small Businesses event at New Holland Brewery's the Knickerbocker in Grand Rapids. The Job Creators Network hosted the event and invited Congressman Huizenga to speak along side local small business owners Ted Vaughn, who owns Tolman’s Wholesale Meats in Hudsonville, and Johnny Brann Jr., owner of Kitchen 67 and Brann’s Restaurants in Grand Rapids. Rep. Huizenga led a discussion on how regulatory red tape can have a number of negat... Read more

Last week, Congressman Huizenga published an op-ed on CNBC detailing how Democrats are utilizing an obscure section of Dodd-Frank to enact a hostile takeover of the Federal Reserve and negatively impact how our nation conducts monetary policy. Congressman Huizenga is the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade which is the committee of jurisdiction and conducts oversight of the Federal Reserve. Congressman Huizenga held a Monetary Policy and Trade heari... Read more

Over Labor Day weekend, NBC News pulled back the curtain on Federal Prison Industries (FPI) revealing several disturbing facts about this government-owned entity that included costly recalls which endangered the lives of our men and women in uniform as well as fuzzy math that raised further questions about FPI's budget and funding mechanisms. NBC also brought to light FPI's ability to poach small business contracts despite having a labor force of more than 12,000 inmates, FPI’s unique mandatory ... Read more

Last week, the Justice Department Inspector General's office released a report detailing how Federal Prison Industries (FPI) jeopardized the lives of U.S. troops by providing defective helmets to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. FPI is a government-owned entity that uses federal prisoners to manufacture products and perform services for executive branch agencies and departments across the federal government. Due to FPI's deceptive practices, over 126,000 faulty helmets were recalled because FPI i... Read more

Recently, Congressman Huizenga wrote an op-ed describing the House Republican plan to improve how the federal government combats poverty. For decades the federal government has implemented dozens of ineffective and sometimes duplicative programs that have failed to lift Americans out of poverty. This new Republican plan focuses on rewarding work, increasing opportunity, and helping all Americans build a more productive life. Below is one facet of the House GOP's "Better Way" plan. If you would l... Read more