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 »
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 »
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga released the following statement on the October Jobs Report that national unemployment is over 9 percent:
"Nine percent is too high to not prioritize the passage of common sense, job-creating solutions, like those the House of Representatives has worked on all year.
Even the Democrats in the Senate found the President's 'jobs plan' didn't adequately… Read more »
