Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after the April jobs report missed expectations by more than 700,000 jobs. While estimates from Dow Jones expected 1,000,000 new jobs to be created, only 266,000 jobs were created.
“President Biden and Speaker Pelosi have continued to push policies that disincentivize work and today’s job numbers show that. The… Read more »
Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga announced his support for the Abortion Providers Loan Elimination (APLE) Act. This legislation would require Planned Parenthood affiliates to return the $80 million in loans they illegally applied for and received under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). It also ensures Planned Parenthood affiliates, as well as other abortion providers, remain… Read more »
Tonight, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s address to the nation.
“Despite campaigning on a platform of unity, President Biden has put forward a tax and spend agenda the likes of which we have never seen with virtually no Republican input. With the annual federal budget coming in at roughly $4.4 trillion, President Biden… Read more »
Today, the bipartisan House Great Lakes Task Force Co-Chairs, Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and David Joyce (R-OH) along with Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Bill Foster (D-IL), led a group of 32 Members of Congress in sending a bipartisan letter to Office of Budget and Management (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and Acting Assistant… Read more »
Tonight, in an update on Facebook, Congressman Bill Huizenga spoke out against the latest Democrat proposal to "pack" the Supreme Court. Huizenga concludes that this effort would undermine the independence of the Supreme Court in an attempt to lock in policies well outside mainstream America.
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Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) announced his support of a section 332 Investigation by the International Trade Commission (ITC) into unfair trade practices that are negatively impacting operations for cucumber and squash growers in Michigan and across the nation.
According to the USDA, Michigan ranked first nationally for the production of processed cucumbers and second behind… Read more »
Yesterday afternoon, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) read a constituent letter from a West Michigan CPA to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calling for tax filing alignment and certainty. Recently, the IRS announced the federal filing deadline for 2020 was moved to May 17th. However, taxpayers who are required to file quarterly estimates for 2021 are still required to have those payments… Read more »
Last week, Michigan Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the top republican on the House Financial Services Committee, introduced legislation to protect American savers and investors from Democrats’ harmful tax proposals. The Protecting Retirement Savers and Everyday Investors Act would block states from imposing financial transactions taxes (FTTs) on… Read more »
Three hours after restaurants and bars were mandated to close here in Michigan, Speaker Pelosi and Democrats in the House were passing a $1.9 trillion partisan spending bill masquerading as “COVID relief” in the middle of the night in Washington. I voted against this package and I believe Michiganders deserve to know what is in this monstrosity.
Over the past year, Republicans and… Read more »
Early this morning, Congressman Bill Huizenga voted against President Biden and Speaker Pelosi's $1.9 trillion pork laden spending package. Following the vote, Congressman Huizenga released the following statement regarding the partisan legislation saying,
"Less than 9% of this massive spending bill goes toward defeating covid and 95% of the education funding won’t be spent until… Read more »
