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 released the following reaction to President Obama today denying the application to build the Keystone Pipeline, which Huizenga has strongly supported:
“Obama today has shut off the pipe to U.S. job creation and energy independence, and opened the spigot for China to come in and take that oil. It is very disheartening that President Obama would so blatantly… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga released the following statement on today’s Department of Labor December report that the nation’s unemployment rate is above 8 percent for the 35th consecutive month:
“I am cautiously encouraged that once again the national unemployment numbers dropped marginally, but we cannot forget the ‘hidden unemployed,’ those who have simply stopped looking for work and don’t… 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 »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga released the following statement on today’s Department of Labor report for November that the nation’s unemployment rate dipped .4 percent:
“I am cautiously encouraged that the national unemployment numbers dropped marginally. Unfortunately, Michigan still has double digit unemployment. There’s the specter of a potential financial crisis in the Eurozone that, as did… Read more »
