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Kline Statement: H.R. 1911, The Smarter Solutions for Students Act
May 23, 2013 - We’re here today to address a crisis of Washington’s own making. Several years ago, Congress decided politicians – not the free market – were better equipped to set student loan interest rates. Politicians set a fixed rate of 6.8 percent for all loans, and then decided to advance legislation based o... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 45, To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
May 16, 2013 - Our nation is mired in a jobs crisis and the president’s health care law is making it worse. Since ObamaCare was first enacted in 2010, federal bureaucrats have written nearly 20,000 pages of new regulations. Meanwhile, America’s job creators are struggling to manage the full effects of the law in t... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 1406, The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
May 8, 2013 - Today we have an opportunity to make life a little easier for working families across the country. This legislation doesn’t create a new government program or bureaucracy; it doesn’t spend taxpayer dollars or add to the national debt. The Working Families Flexibility Act simply removes an outdated f... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 1120, The Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act
Apr 12, 2013 - America’s workplaces are facing significant challenges. Consumer demand remains weak. Threats of new regulations and higher taxes continue. And a looming debt crisis threatens the growth and prosperity our nation is working so hard to attain. Washington should not be in the business of making these ... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 803, The Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act
Mar 15, 2013 - Despite an increase in hiring last month, our nation is still experiencing a jobs crisis. Twelve million Americans are searching for work. Nearly five million of these unemployed workers have been without a job for six months or longer. For many Americans, the hope of a new job grows more desperate ... More

Walberg Statement: H. R. 6371, The Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act
Nov 13, 2012 - The bill before us will take a small yet important step toward greater efficiency in federal construction contracting. For more than eighty years, federal contractors have been required to pay workers the ‘locally prevailing wage.’ Additionally, since 1961 those same workers have been entitled to on... More

Kline Statement: H.J.Res. 118, providing for congressional disapproval of the administration’s July 12, 2012 waiver of welfare work requirements
Sep 20, 2012 - I rise today in strong support of H.J.Res. 118, a resolution disapproving the Obama administration’s attempt to roll back successful welfare reforms. The resolution we are considering today is quite simple. It preserves bipartisan policies that serve low-income families, and reins in this latest exa... More

Walberg Statement: H.R. 4157, the Preserving America's Family Farms Act
Jul 24, 2012 - I want to first thank my colleague from Iowa, Congressman Tom Latham, for introducing this important legislation. Representative Latham is a long-time advocate for farmers and his leadership in Congress is greatly appreciated. According to a report on MLive.com, a news site from my home state of Mic... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 6079, the Repeal of ObamaCare Act
Jul 10, 2012 - On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to the American people. In a sharply divided opinion, the court upheld the president’s decision to tax individuals who don’t purchase government-approved health insurance. If Washington can dictate that private citizens must buy health insu... More

Foxx Statement: H.R. 2117, the Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act
Feb 28, 2012 - Today’s debate on the Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act affords us a valuable opportunity to discuss challenges facing our higher education system. There’s no denying the cost of college is skyrocketing. Last year, tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities incr... More

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