Capitol Hill Updates

  • Daily House of Representatives’ Schedule - 5/9/13
    THURSDAY, MAY 9TH On Thursday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business First and last votes expected: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. One Minute Speeches H.R. 807 - Full Faith and Credit Act (Structured Rule) (Sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock / Ways and Means Committee) The rule provides for one hour of general debate and makes in order the following amendment: Rep. Dave Camp Amendment (10 minutes of debate) Special Order Speeches COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAYHomeland Security Committee hearing on “The Boston Bombings: A First Look”(Thursday, May 9th, at 9:00 a.m.)
  • Republican Congressman Forbes, Democratic Congressman Lipinski Put Patients First
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) announced on Tuesday that he and his Democratic colleague, Congressman Dan Lipinski (IL-03), have reintroduced the Patients First Act, H.R.1740, to intensify research and human clinical trials using ethically obtained stem cells that show evidence of providing near-term clinical benefits for human patients. The Patients First Act prioritizes funding for promising stem cell research without authorizing any new spending.  “Protecting life and promoting scientific progress are not mutually exclusive, and the Patients First Act...
  • Memo Confirms Obama Administration Long Planned to Undermine Welfare Work
    WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Tuesday released a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal memo that confirms that as early as 2009, the Obama Administration was actively exploring ways to circumvent welfare work requirements and other key provisions that were the cornerstone of the 1996 landmark bipartisan welfare reform law.  In July 2012, the Obama Administration unilaterally granted itself the authority to exempt states from those work requirements arguing...
  • Senate GOP Leader Mcconnell: President Should Prepare Nation for Negative Effects of Obamacare
    ‘The law-abiding citizens of this country shouldn’t have to pray for leniency from their own government. Last I checked, government existed to assist the public, not to antagonize it. Look: after ramming the law through Congress the way he did – ignoring the warnings that all these things would happen, ignoring the will of the American people – honesty and transparency is the very least President Obama owes the American people at this point. What he really needs to do, actually, is join with Republicans in agreeing to repeal this job-killing law. He needs to acknowledge the need to...
  • McConnell Remarks On Internet Sales Tax Bill
    ‘By imposing this new Internet Tax, states would suddenly be empowered to force online retailers to simultaneously comply with all the different tax codes of all the states in which their customers reside. That’s no small feat. From what I’m told, there are nearly 10,000 state, local, and municipal tax codes nationwide. And while complying with so many codes might not be a big deal for large online retailers, it’s a huge burden on the little guys. So small businesses owners are worried, and justifiably so.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the...
  • Speaker Boehner: Republicans are doing more with less to fix the budget
    Speaker Boehner: Republicans are doing more with less to fix the budget By Rep. John A. Boehner Monday night, hardworking moms and dads will gather around their kitchen tables, parsing the bills one by one to budget for gas, groceries, mortgage payments, a school trip, a child’s birthday party. Small-business owners do the same every day — poring over their books to find ways to cut costs without cutting jobs. As the slowest economic recovery of the past half-century grinds on, Americans are making sacrifices to make ends meet. They’re doing more with less and, as the stewards of the...
  • Daily House of Representatives’ Schedule - 5/6/13
    MONDAY, MAY 6TH On Monday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 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. 291 - Black Hills Cemetery Act (Sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem / Natural Resources Committee)2) H.R. 588 - Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2013 (Sponsored by Rep. Don Young / Natural Resources Committee)3) H.R. 507 - Pascua Yaqui Tribe Trust Land Act (Sponsored by Rep. Raul Grijalva / Natural Resources Committee) Special Order...
  • Congressman Forbes Urges FCC to Uphold Current Decency Standards
    Washington, D.C. - Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) led a bipartisan group of 20 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in sending a letter to Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging him to reject any and all proposals that would relax current policies on broadcast decency standards.  On April 1, 2013, the FCC announced that it was seeking comments on whether the Commission should change current decency standards that ban explicit profanity and non-sexual nudity in favor of targeting only egregious offenses. The...
  • Weekly House of Representatives’ Schedule - 5/6/13
    THE LEADER'S WEEKLY SCHEDULE WEEK OF MAY 6TH MONDAY, MAY 6TH On Monday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: 1) H.R. 291 - Black Hills Cemetery Act (Sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem / Natural Resources Committee)2) H.R. 588 - Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act of2013 (Sponsored by Rep. Don Young / Natural Resources Committee)3) H.R. 507 - Pascua Yaqui Tribe Trust Land Act (Sponsored by Rep. Raul Grijalva / Natural Resources...
  • Congressman Price Statement on April Jobs Report
    Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D (R-GA) responded to the release of the April 2013 jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, saying: “An economy marked by high unemployment where millions of Americans are still without work ought to keep the pressure on Washington to take action on policies that we know can help unleash opportunity and build confidence in our nation’s future. Creating opportunity does not mean that elected leaders pick winners and losers in one industry or another – whether through tax code special interest loopholes or more stimulus...