Capitol Hill Updates

  • Daily House of Representatives’ Schedule - 4/9/13
    TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH On Tuesday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. One Minute Speeches Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: 1) H.R. 254 - Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act (Sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz / Natural Resources Committee)2) H.R 291 - Black Hills Cemetery Act (Sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem / Natural Resources Committee)3) H.R. 1033 - American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 (Sponsored by Rep. Rush Holt / Natural Resources Committee) Special Order...
  • Congressman Price Correcting Record on Preview of the White House Budget
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D (R-GA), vice chairman of the House Committee on the Budget, released the following comments previewing President Obama's upcoming budget proposal, saying: “Americans know we are in a spending-driven debt crisis.  They understand that our gaping deficits are the result of Washington spending too much, not taxing too little.  Unfortunately, President Obama appears set to release a budget – two months later than its legally mandated deadline – that will ignore this simple fact. “Instead, the White House adamantly proclaims...
  • GOP Representative Camp-Democratic Senator Baucus Op-ed - "Tax Reform is Very Much Alive and Doable"
    Closing special-interest loopholes will help lower rates and boost the economy.  By Max Baucus and Dave Camp  Every week Congress has been in session for the past two years, one of us has made the short walk across the Capitol to the other’s office. We crowd into a room with our policy experts to chart a path to our mutual goal—comprehensive tax reform. While we are from different political parties, we agree that America’s tax code is broken. That is why we have been working together as the chairmen of Congress’s two-tax writing committees to make it fairer for...
  • Senator Cornyn: The Administration That Cried Wolf
    WASHINGTON – Leading up to sequestration, President Obama and members of his Administration traveled the country on a scare campaign, warning of “falling-sky” scenarios if the sequester went into place. More than a month later, many of the worst-case scenarios have yet to come to pass. Which claim will be proven false next?   CLAIM… Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the Federal Aviation Administration Would Close 149 Air Traffic Control Towers. “‘We heard from communities across the country about the importance of their towers and these were very tough decisions,’ LaHood...
  • Speaker Boehner on Margaret Thatcher
    WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement on the passing of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher:“The greatest peacetime prime minister in British history is dead.  Margaret Thatcher, a grocer’s daughter, stared down elites, union bosses, and communists to win three consecutive elections, establish conservative principles in Western Europe, and bring down the Iron Curtain.  There was no secret to her values – hard work and personal responsibility – and no nonsense at all in her leadership.  She once said, ‘Defeat?  I do...
  • Daily House of Representatives’ Schedule - 4/8/13
    THE LEADER'S WEEKLY SCHEDULE WEEK OF APRIL 8TH MONDAY, APRIL 8TH On Monday, the House is not in session. TUESDAY, APRIL 9THOn Tuesday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: 1) H.R. 254 - Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act (Sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz / Natural Resources Committee)2) H.R 291 - Black Hills Cemetery Act (Sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem / Natural Resources Committee)3) H.R. 1033 - American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 (Sponsored by Rep. Rush Holt /...
  • Congressman Tom Price Responds to March Jobs Report
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D (R-GA) responded to the release of the March 2013 jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, saying: “Today's jobs report reminds us that the policies championed by President Obama and Senate Democrats continue to cause harm to our economy, to America's workers and to their families. After trillions of dollars in debt spent on failed stimulus programs, destructive government regulations like the president’s health care law and preferential industry bailouts, millions of Americans are still without work and millions more...
  • Congresswoman Blackburn Demands Answers from Planned Parenthood on Post-Birth Abortion Lobbying Controversy
    WASHINGTON – Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Wednesday sent a letter to Planned Parenthood in response to their advocacy in support of post-birth abortion before the Florida state legislature. Video of the disturbing exchange between the Planned Parenthood lobbyist and several Florida state legislators can be seen here. Congressman Blackburn sponsored the first pro-life bill of the 113th Congress – the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (H.R. 61) – to stop taxpayer money from going to big, profitable abortion businesses. “Planned Parenthood owes the American taxpayers answers...
  • Congressman Price’s Statement on Third Anniversary of the President’s Health Care Law
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) issued the following statement ahead of the third anniversary of the president’s health care law. “Three years ago, President Obama and a Democrat majority in Washington jammed through the president’s vision of health care – a vision that raids Medicare to fund a new entitlement, that empowers a board of bureaucrats to effectively deny care to seniors, that raises taxes on families and job creators, and that will do irreparable harm to the doctor-patient relationship.  The president’s health care law violates every...
  • Senator Sessions Comments After Senate Democrats Stunningly Oppose Balancing The Budget Through Any Means Whatsoever
    “This is a sad day for America… It is wrong and unjust to continue borrowing money to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people. Tonight, the Senate majority voted to do exactly that.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement after Senate Democrats voted against his motion to recommit the Murray budget to committee with instructions to find a way to balance the budget in 10 years. Only Sen. Joe Manchin joined with Republicans in support of balancing the federal budget. Sessions’ comment follows: “Tonight...