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02/11/2012 Protecting Religious Liberty
The uproar over President Obama’s proposal to require nearly all employer-sponsored health insurance plans to include contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs free-of-charge is not about whether women should have access to these servi...
02/07/2012 WATCH: Congressman Jack Kingston to be on MSNBC Today at 3:40 p.m.
WATCH: Congressman Jack Kingston to be on MSNBC Today at 3:40 p.m. Congressman Jack Kingston will be on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir TODAY at 3:40 p.m. to discuss his proposal to reform the unemployment insurance program and the larger debate on the payr...
01/28/2012 The State of Our Union
This week, President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address during a joint session of Congress. These are always inspiring events with the House and Senate united in welcoming the President, his cabinet, the justices of the Supreme Cou...
01/21/2012 House rejects President’s debt limit increase
On Wednesday, I voted against the President’s request to increase the nation’s statutory debt limit by $1.2 trillion. The House rejected the request by a vote of 239-176 and I hope the Senate will join us in rejecting this and any other debt limit i...
01/07/2012 December Jobs Report Underlines Need for Long-Term Economic Policy
The December jobs report issued yesterday by the Department of Labor found that the nation added 200,000 jobs in the last month of the year and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.5 percent. This marks the 35th consecutive month in which the un...
12/10/2011 Requiring drug screenings for unemployment insurance
Requiring drug screenings for unemployment insurance At a series of listening sessions with business owners throughout the First District conducted earlier this year, I heard repeatedly about barriers to job creation. I heard of overly-burdensome g...
11/19/2011 House votes on Balanced Budget Amendment
Fifteen years ago the House passed with overwhelming bipartisan support a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, only to see the measure fail by ONE vote in the Senate. Since then, the national debt has nearly tripled, this week topping...
11/05/2011 House bills would help small businesses grow, create jobs
The House continued its efforts to help create jobs this week by focusing on legislation to remove regulatory obstacles to capital formation so small businesses can grow and create jobs. The bills, approved with bipartisan support, change and up...
10/29/2011 House Continues with Bipartisan Jobs Bills in Face of Senate Inaction
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House this week passed legislation which would prevent a new 3% tax on all companies doing business with federal, state and local governments. The tax, which was slated to go into effect on January 1, 2013, ...
10/22/2011 Common Ground on Job Creation
The Senate last week rejected President Obama’s jobs package on a bipartisan basis, showing his all-or-nothing approach will not work. As evidenced by that vote, there are certainly areas of disagreement when it comes to how to reignite our economy ...
  
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