Obama, bank president: Home loans by decree The Union Leader-Editorial April 4, 2013 7:10pm As the economy struggles to recover from a recession triggered in large part by a collapse in the housing market, which itself was caused in large part by too many people signing mortgages they could not afford, the White House is urging banks to lower their lending standards so that Americans with weaker c... Read more »
House Republicans stand their ground Thought dead after 2012, GOP hasn't changed to appease critics Detroit News - Marisa Schultz April 4, 2013 at 1:00 am Washington — After a bruising start to 2013, Speaker John Boehner led his Republican House delegation to its party retreat in Williamsburg, Va., to forge a more practical path. Divisions lingered over the fiscal cliff deal on Jan. 1 that ushered... Read more »
The Senate After Dark The Wall Street Journal - Editorial March 25, 2013, 7:05 p.m. ET The U.S. Senate these days seems to conduct most of its business after dark, often after midnight, and no wonder. You wouldn't want voters to know what you were up to either if you were part of Majority Leader Harry Reid's national embarrassment. Consider last week's fiasco involving the air-traffic control sys... Read more »
Last coal-fired ferry stays alive under deal between EPA, shipping company Manuel Quinones, E&E reporter Friday, March 22, 2013 The Great Lakes' last operating coal-fired ferry will stay in business under an agreement between U.S. EPA and Lake Michigan Carferry Inc. The S.S. Badger -- which ferries travelers between Ludington, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis. -- had until December to stop dumping its co... Read more »
Pay Ratio Provision Not Worth Cost, Repeal Bill Sponsor Huizenga Says Bloomberg BNA - Mary Hughes | March 20, 2013 08:32PM ET (BNA) -- The pay ratio disclosure requirement of Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a “perfect example of an unnecessary and complex regulatory requirement that is not worth the cost and should be repealed,” Rep. Bill Huizenga... Read more »
Huizenga, President Agree The Detroit News - Political Insider March 14, 2013 President Barack Obama visited Wednesday with House Republicans on Capitol Hill to build bridges for a grand bargain on the budget. U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, said although "a deep philosophical divide" remains between Republicans and the Democratic president on the role of government, he found some common groun... Read more »
House GOP warily holds out hand to Obama CNN - Senior Congressional Producer - Deirdre Walsh March 13, 2013 Washington (CNN) -- When President Barack Obama enters the conference room in the Capitol basement Wednesday to sit down with House Republicans, he'll be met by a group that says it's willing to listen but deeply skeptical of the president's so-called "charm offensive." "There is clearly som... Read more »
Bill Huizenga Q&A on the insanity of sequestration Mlive - Matt Vande Bunte March 11, 2013 GRAND RAPIDS, MI – What’s more insane, gashing federal spending by sequestration or continuing to spend money the country does not have? After two years representing Michigan’s Second Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, said gridlock in Washington, D.C. isn’t based on partisan politic... Read more »
FYI - To watch Congressman Huizenga discuss the philosophical divide click HERE Watch U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga talk about philosophical divide between parties MLive March 12, 2013 GRAND RAPIDS, MI-- U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, spoke at the at the Grand Valley Metropolitan Council quarterly luncheon on the need for more compromise and trust between political parties on Monday, March 11, at t... Read more »
Huizenga ‘Comfortable’ With Cuts, Says ‘We Need To Be Smarter About How To Spend The Limited Resources We Have’ The Ludington Daily News- Steve Begnoche March 6, 2013 U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga and his Republican counterparts are looking beyond the sequester cuts now filtering into place and are set to approve a continuing resolution that embraces the $85 billion in cuts in a budget to make it throug... Read more »
See the latest happenings in the 2nd District by following me on my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social media channels. I encourage you to join the conversation!
