Floor Statements
The unemployment rate in October, the latest data available, was 9.6 percent. That marked 15 consecutive months we were at…
Read More (Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 4853- Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010)Let me start by saying that it is truly disappointing that this is the only trade bill in the past…
Read More (Camp Statement – H.R. 2378, As Amended: “The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act”)Last Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is still at 9.5%. It would be much higher if the official…
Read More (Camp Statement H.R. 1586)Last night, I intended to offer a motion to recommit that would have eliminated the new, onerous, job-killing 1099 requirement…
Read More (Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5982 – Small Business Tax Relief Act)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…
Read More (Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5893, the so-called “Investing in American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010”)Madam Speaker, the facts are clear: with unemployment stuck at nearly 10 percent and millions of jobs lost, the Democrats’…
Read More (Camp Closing Remarks: H.R. 5893, the so-called “Investing in American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010”)Republicans want to help those looking for work, but struggling in the current economic slow down. But we also agree…
Read More (Boustany Floor Statement: Unemployment Insurance Motion To Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 4213)It is said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting…
Read More (Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension)This debate has shown the lengths Democrats will go to in order to avoid paying for any government spending –…
Read More (Camp Closing Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension)What has changed since yesterday? Nothing. And, certainly not the Democrats’ willingness to pay for government spending. So, just as…
Read More (Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension)