Rep. Bill Huizenga Receives 2012 FreedomWorks 'FreedomFighter Award' The Holland Sentinel September 25, 2012 Washington, D.C. - Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, was awarded FreedomWorks' "first annual FreedomFighter Award.” FreedomWorks is an activist organaization "fighting for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom." To qualify for the award, each recipient earned a minimum score of 90 percent on the FreedomWorks Congressional Scorecard during the 2011 legislative session. “Rep. Huizenga... Read more

Huizenga honored by small business group The Holland Sentinel Stephen Kloosterman September 19, 2012 U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, was honored Monday by a small business group. The National Federation of Independent Business, or NFIB, describes itself as a nonprofit and nonpartisan group focused on public policy issues important to small businesses. The group named Huizenga a Guardian of Small Business because of his voting record. As interpreted by NFIB, Huizenga voted in favor of small ... Read more

Fed Move Highlights Economic Uncertainty: Lawmaker CNBC Justin Menza September 13, 2012 A top Congressional Republican expressed skepticism on Thursday about how much the Federal Reserve can do with a new round of to bolster the economy and spur hiring, adding that it underscored how uncertain conditions really are. In the wake of the Fed's decision to flood markets with a third round of monetary stimulus, Rep. Bill Huizenga told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” that “having these artificially low rates rea... Read more

Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) issued the following statement on the national jobs report for August: "While President Obama can give a good speech, his rhetoric on the economy doesn't match his record. For 43 consecutive months, nearly every day President Obama has been in office, unemployment has been above 8% and today over 23 million Americans are either unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking for work altogether. Making matter worse, today's jobs report showed even mor... Read more

This afternoon, Business Insider published a revealing piece demonstrating how destructive the government-owned Federal Prison Industries (FPI) or UNICOR is to job creation across the country and how Congressman Huizenga is leading the bipartisan effort to ensure FPI doesn't take jobs away from the private sector. “This is a threat to not just established industries; it’s a threat to emerging industries,” Representative Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who has sponsored legislation to overhaul the indus... Read more

Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement commemorating Labor Day: "This Labor Day, over 23 million Americans are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work all together. Instead of promoting pro-growth solutions that would make it easier for small businesses to expand and hire more workers, the Obama Administration has chosen to continue to pursue its anti-jobs regulatory agenda and push job-destroying tax increase after job-destroying tax increa... Read more

Negative $4,019 The Obama years have been brutal on middle-class incomes. The Wall Street Journal Editorial August 24, 2012 The Presidential race is boiling down to one dominant issue: which party's policies will do more to help the financially stressed American middle class. President Obama's campaign theme is that Mitt Romney and the Republicans cater to the rich, while Mr. Obama cares about struggling families. He may care, but he sure hasn't done much for them. New income data from the Cens... Read more

The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One The president has postponed damaging rules until after the November election The Wall Street Journal Senator Rob Portman Americans are learning more about the "fiscal cliff" approaching at the beginning of next year, when tax rates for families and small businesses are set to spike and new taxes in President Obama's health-care spending law take effect. But unless there's real change in Washington, we're also headed for a steep "regulator... Read more

Today, CNN Money wrote a piece featuring Congressman Huizenga's work on promoting private sector job creation over government owned UNICOR. With unemployment over 8% for 42 consecutive months, Congressman Huzenga taken the lead, and garnered bipartisan support to help West Michigan small businesses and help get Michiganders back to work. • Unicor is a government-run enterprise that employs over 13,000 inmates -- at wages as low as 23 cents an hour -- to make goods for the Pentagon and other fede... Read more

Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) issued the following statement on the national jobs report for July: "Today's jobs report marks the 42nd consecutive month of unemployment above 8%. The uptick in the unemployment rate combined with the drop in the labor force participation rate demonstrates that President Obama's agenda of increased regulation and higher taxes is precisely the wrong approach to getting the economy back on track. A recent study by Ernst & Young states the President's plan... Read more