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Huizenga, Obama find area of agreement on Great Lakes issues

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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…

Huizenga on President Obama's Outreach: Don't Plan Dinner Dates, Build Relationships

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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…

Huizenga Talks Economic Growth, Making Michigan More Competitive in Grand Rapids

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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…

Huizenga: We Need To Be Smarter On How We Spend Our Limited Resources

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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…

Huizenga Calls Canceling White House Tours Due To Cuts Laughable, Unserious

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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…

Huizenga: The Obama Administration Declares White House Closed To Public, Open To Donors

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Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after learning President Obama has decided to close the White House to the general public: "It is simply embarrassing that President Obama would decide to close the doors of the White House to the general public, while allowing 'pay to play' access for his friends and high-paying donors. The notion that modest across…

Huizenga On Keystone XL: State Department Draft A Good First Step Toward Energy Security, Job Creation In America

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Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after the State Department released its draft assessment regarding the environmental impact of the revised Keystone XL pipeline: "Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is crucial for American job creation and energy security," said Huizenga. "Today's draft assessment is the first step toward ensuring economic growth,…

Huizenga Discusses Sequestration, Debt Deniers & Washington's Out Of Control Spending On "To The Point"

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Washington, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) appeared on "To The Point" with Rick Albin to discuss sequestration and Washington's out of control spending.   Watch Congressman Huizenga's full interview on "To The Point" HERE On Sequestration: We are going to be cutting somewhere between 7% and 8% of our overspending, not our total spending, our…

Huizenga Applauds Audit At LG Chem, Urges More Audits Of Stimulus Programs

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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…

Huizenga Uses Unique Way To Reach Into Huron-Manistee National Forest Communities

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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…

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