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MLive: Manufacturers Recognize Huizenga For Pro-Growth, Pro-Job Voting Record

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Rep. Bill Huizenga gets high marks from manufacturers' association MLive - Zane McMillin April 11, 2013 GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Rep. Bill Huizenga of Zeeland scored high marks from the National Association of Manufacturers, the largest industrial trade association in the country. Huizenga, a second-term congressman and small business owner, voted for NAM's legislative priorities 95…

WZZM: Huizenga applauds plans to dredge 58 Michigan harbors

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GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WZZM) -- Congressman Bill Huizenga is applauding how Michigan lawmakers are handling emergency dredging along the lakeshore, calling it "unprecedented." Monday, the congressman met with local, state, and federal officials about the condition of Michigan harbors. Earlier this year Gov. Rick Snyder approved $21 million in emergency funding for 58 harbors. Now…

Union Leader: Obama, Bank President: Home Loans by decree

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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…

Detroit News: House Republicans stand their ground

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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…

ICYMI: Washington Democrats Fail To Prioritize Federal Spending

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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…

Badger will continue to sail under agreement between EPA, shipping company

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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…

Huizenga: Dodd-Frank Pay Ratio Provision Not Worth The Cost, Needs To Be Repealed

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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,”…

Huizenga, Obama find area of agreement on Great Lakes issues

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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…

Huizenga on President Obama's Outreach: Don't Plan Dinner Dates, Build Relationships

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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…

Huizenga Talks Economic Growth, Making Michigan More Competitive in Grand Rapids

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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…

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