-
December 15, 2010
-
Madame Speaker, the national unemployment rate is 9.8%. The unemployment rate in my home state of Michigan is 12.8%. America is desperately in need of jobs, and American workers need Congress to focus on legislation that will help create jobs. This legislation is a solid step in that direction. I ha...
More
-
December 2, 2010
-
The unemployment rate in October, the latest data available, was 9.6 percent. That marked 15 consecutive months we were at or above 9.5 percent unemployment in this country – the longest period since the Great Depression. All told, 48 out of 50 states have lost jobs since the so-called $1 trillion s...
More
-
September 29, 2010
-
Let me start by saying that it is truly disappointing that this is the only trade bill in the past two years that has been marked up by the Ways and Means Committee. I find it unacceptable that this is the sum total of our trade agenda. While this legislation addresses an important issue, it will no...
More
-
August 10, 2010
-
Last Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is still at 9.5%. It would be much higher if the official calculations also looked at the fast-growing number of Americans who have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work. So while Congress should be here trying to find ways ...
More
-
July 30, 2010
-
Last night, I intended to offer a motion to recommit that would have eliminated the new, onerous, job-killing 1099 requirement that is in the health care law. In addition to helping small businesses, the motion to recommit would have better protected taxpayers from erroneously paying too much in hea...
More
-
July 29, 2010
-
It has been nearly one-and-a-half years since the President signed the one-trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill into law and now the majority has come up with a new “make it in America” agenda. Which begs the question, if stimulus was such a success, why don’t we already make it in America? The facts are...
More
-
July 29, 2010
-
Madam Speaker, the facts are clear: with unemployment stuck at nearly 10 percent and millions of jobs lost, the Democrats’ trillion-dollar stimulus bill has failed. So, what is the Majority’s response? Raise taxes on American jobs and give more money to state and local governments. That won’t create...
More
-
July 22, 2010
-
Republicans want to help those looking for work, but struggling in the current economic slow down. But we also agree with the American people that new spending must be paid for. This latest unemployment insurance extender bill fails to do what the American people want. Instead, the Democratic approa...
More
-
July 1, 2010
-
It is said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Well, that is exactly what the Democrats are doing today – trying to pass for the third time an unpaid for extension of unemployment benefits that the Senate – and the ...
More
-
July 1, 2010
-
This debate has shown the lengths Democrats will go to in order to avoid paying for any government spending – even calling the eighth extension of unemployment benefits an emergency. One would hope even Congress could see it coming after the first seven times? We could pass this bill with broad bipa...
More
|
COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS