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… 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… Read more »
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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… 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… Read more »
Canceling tours of White House due to cuts 'laughable'
The Detroit News - Marisa Schultz
March 7, 2013
Michigan's Republican congressional members were stunned when the Obama administration decided Tuesday to cancel White House tours because of staff shortages it attributed to the sequester cuts.
They tried to stop a potential tourism drop from the Great Lakes State by… Read more »
Policy, not politics, needed on Violence Against Women Act
The Holland Sentinel
Rep. Bill Huizenga
March 6, 2013
We need to have programs in place to help women and children who have been abused, which is why I voted for the improved House version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
The House VAWA reauthorization was the strongest and best suited legislation to help all… Read more »
Huizenga Grills Bernanke on Long-Term "Entitlement" Funding Reform
WHTC - Thursday, February 28, 2013
WASHINGTON (WHTC) - While most of the attention dealt with the here and now when Ben Bernanke appeared before the House Financial Services Subcommittee yesterday, one Congressman had something more long-term in mind when he had his five minutes with the Fed Chairman. Bill… Read more »
Local Lawmaker Applauds Audit At LG Chem, Urges More
WWMT - News Channel 3
February 21, 8:30 PM
Watch video of the news broadcast on LG HERE
HOLLAND, Mich. - A local lawmaker is pushing for change after a government audit determined that a Holland battery facility mis-used stimulus money.
The Department of Energy found that LG Chem was paying employees to play games and… Read more »
Rep. Bill Huizenga: Trails, national forests on snowmobile tour are 'Pure Michigan'
MLive - Muskegon Chronicle
February 20, 2013
MERRILL TOWNSHIP, MI – Deep into the snowy Manistee National Forest, there's a bar and grill with great brick-oven pizza.
It's a little out-of-the-way – unless you're on a snow machine in the forest's trail system. Then, it's pretty handy.
On a… Read more »
Congressman Huizenga Snowmobiles Through Northern Michigan
9&10 News
February 20, 2013
Click HERE to watch the newscast covering Congressman Huizenga's town hall discussions on access to the national forest.
Congressman Bill Huizenga rode through Lake and Newaygo Counties today hosting town hall meetings along the way.
Snowmobile groups are trying to connect thousands… Read more »
