U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, released the following reaction to the President's $3.8 trillion budget released today. It features record levels of spending and tax increases, is projected to cause the fourth-straight year of $1 trillion deficits, and breaks his promise to confront the nation’s spending-driven debt crisis.
"Every American knows a budget requires looking at what you make… Read more »
The House of Representatives passed with U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga’s support a bill that will save billions of tax dollars by cutting a provision from President Obama’s health care law that even the Administration agreed was unworkable.
“I strongly support any bill to ensure that not one cent of taxpayer dollars is wasted under a government program. We have bipartisan agreement that this… Read more »
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its budget and economic projections for the next 10 years, which predict that under current law, America’s debt will exceed $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year, and the U.S. will continue to see poor economic growth and continued high unemployment, topping 9 percent next year.
“This report is a very clear economic… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga and House Republicans will vote tomorrow to defeat the Senate's temporary two-month Social Security payroll tax cut band-aid in favor of a more consistent and employee-friendly 12-month extension, preventing a $1,000 tax hike on American families, giving predictability to Medicare recipients and providers, and providing a reliable safety net for the… Read more »
A Freshman's Year In A Dysfunctional Congress
Washington, D.C. – This weekend, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga spoke with Weekend Edition Saturday Host Scott Simon about his year in Congress, the Payroll Tax Cut fight playing out in D.C. this week, and gets a guest appearance from Roxy.
Click here to listen to and read the full interview.
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U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, along with Reps. Carolyn Maloney, NY-14, Barney Frank, MA-04, and Jim Sensenbrenner, WI-05, announce legislation that will once again allow local job creators - especially manufacturers and service industries - to compete on equal footing for contracts with the federal government.
Under this bill, H.R. 3634, Unicor, a government-owned corporation that… Read more »
West Michigan’s small businesses and entrepreneurs this year have told me the same one thing they need from the federal government to create jobs: Certainty.
They need to know what their tax burden, their health care requirements, and their compliance rules are.
Yet I continue to hear that Administration agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, National Labor Review… Read more »
This week, the U.S. had the dubious honor of passing $15,000,000,000,000 in debt – yes, 12 zeroes. This is the equivalent of charging 95 percent of your salary on your credit cards, and no West Michigan family or small business would survive long with that much spending.
Neither will the federal government. That’s why I introduced the Honest Budget Act, H.R. 3414; I believe you have… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, said today that “Washington missed yet another opportunity to truly change course on its spending crisis” by failing to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
While a majority of the House voted for the measure 261-165, a Constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority.
Huizenga, a cosponsor and strong supporter of H.J.Res. 2,… Read more »
Our nation’s lack of long-term budgeting combined with record levels of out-of-control spending means that on November 16, America passed $15 trillion in debt – reaching nearly 99 percent of our economy.
This dubious landmark should signal one thing only: That is far past time the federal government pays down America’s unsustainable debt burden and learns to tighten its belt just like… Read more »
