Huizenga introduces legislation to aid seniors
Mason County Press
April 18, 2013
Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after introducing the Health Freedom for Seniors Act, legislation allowing seniors to roll the required minimum distribution from their retirement accounts directly into a health savings account tax free.
“Currently, those who reach… Read more »
Ground broken at new, larger VA clinic
WOOD TV 8
Thursday, 11 Apr 2013
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) - Ground was broken Thursday morning on a new clinic for veterans.
The VA clinic will be located in Wyoming, behind the Spartan Foods YMCA near Metro Hospital.
It will be nearly three times larger than the current clinic on Coit Avenue NE in Grand Rapids -- 96,000 square feet. And it… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… 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… 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… 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… 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,”… 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… Read more »
