Last night, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, reached more than 10,000 constituents via telephone for a discussion on everything from Social Security to the Keystone Pipeline to the budget to gas prices. If you missed the call, click the link to listen to it in its entirety. To leave a comment for Rep. Huizenga or to be included in his next teletown hall call list, visit… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga applauded Michigan’s recovery, most recently marked by the lowest unemployment rate since 2008:
“Michigan is a great example of recovery, and I hope the President and Senate Democrats take note. Not only did we balance the budget and see a surplus in one year, after a decade of poor economic outlook, Michigan now have the lowest unemployment rate since… Read more »
Today, U.S. Reps. Bill Huizenga, MI-02 and Carolyn Maloney, NY-14, joined with manufacturing and service companies to call for passage of legislation that will once again allow local job creators in these industries to compete on equal footing for contracts with the federal government.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL PRESS CONFERENCE.
“This bill requires the government agencies to… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Bill Huizenga, MI-02, Barney Frank, MA-04, Jim Sensenbrenner, WI-5, Carolyn Maloney, NY-14, Walter B. Jones, Jr., NC-3, and Howard Coble, NC-6, are hosting a bipartisan press conference TODAY at 2:30 p.m. to announce their legislation that will once again allow local job creators - especially manufacturers and service industries - to compete on equal footing for contracts with… Read more »
The Financial Services Committee will meet on Thursday to consider a package of bills aimed at removing government barriers to job creation and economic growth.
Under Chairman Spencer Bachus’ leadership, the Committee has led efforts to reduce regulatory barriers that hinder small businesses’ access to the capital markets. Since the beginning of 2011, the Committee has approved… Read more »
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 »
