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Monday, July 29, 2013

Speaker.gov | Stopping government abuses that threaten our economy

Speaker.gov | Stopping government abuses that threaten our economy

Stopping government abuses that threaten our economy

Posted by Speaker Boehner's Press Office
July 28, 2013
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Speaker Boehner filmed a brief video for this week’s Speaker Alert previewing upcoming legislation to stop government abuses that threaten our economy. Watch him here:
Two of the bills highlighted by Speaker Boehner – one to get the IRS out of ObamaCare and another to rein in federal red tape – were the subject of this week’s Republican address by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA).  “You deserve a government that works for you, not against you,” says Leader Cantor. Watch him here:

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Hill: Obama calls Boehner, urges him to pass two-month payroll tax extension - By Amie Parnes


News from The Hill:

Obama calls Boehner, urges him to pass two-month payroll tax extension 

By Amie Parnes 

President Obama called Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday and urged him to allow a vote on the two-month payroll tax extension, calling it it "the only option" to ensure taxes don't go up.

In a phone call made late Wednesday morning, Obama urged Boehner to take up the Senate's bill, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

In the call, Obama told the speaker he was committed to working with Congress for extending the payroll tax for the entire year. He also reminded Boehner that "the short-term bipartisan compromise passed by almost the entire Senate is the only option to ensure that middle class families aren't hit with a tax hike in 10 days and gives both sides the time needed to work out a full year solution," according to a White House readout.



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Saturday, December 17, 2011

News from The Hill: House GOP members voice extreme opposition to Senate payroll tax plan By Russell Berman



News from The Hill:

House GOP members voice extreme opposition to Senate payroll tax plan 
By Russell Berman The two-month payroll tax cut extension that passed the Senate on Saturday may not be a done deal.
Rank-and-file House Republicans voiced extreme opposition to the package during a conference call Saturday afternoon in which Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) briefed them on the legislation and their options to respond, according to two sources with knowledge of the call.


One source said Boehner spoke approvingly of the deal as a win for the GOP but that three other members of the leadership team - Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) - all criticized it.


The source said that with the exception of Reps. Tom Cole (Okla.) and Walter Jones (N.C.), Boehner was the only person on the call to praise the deal.


Read the story here.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Speaker Boehner’s Press Office - Speaker Alert: 900 Days & Still No Budget from Senate Democrats

Speaker of the House John Boehner

900 Days & Still No Budget from Senate Democrats

October 16, 2011 | Posted by Speaker Boehner's Press Office | Permalink
Stopping Washington from spending money it doesn't have is a key part of the Republican jobs plan.The Democratic-led Senate, on the other hand, has now gone 900 days without passing a budget and is delaying action on more than a dozen House-passed jobs bills. In the Weekly Republican Address, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) - a former small business owner - urged "the president to call on leaders in his party to follow the House, listen to the American people, stop pushing ideas we know won’t work, and pass these jobs bills." McCarthy also highlights potential areas where both parties can work together to remove barriers to job growth. Watch the address here and read more below:

Republicans Working to Find Common Ground On Removing Government Barriers to Job Growth
  • On Fox News, Speaker Boehner said the American people expect both parties in Washington to work together and: "Stop the regulatory onslaught coming out of Washington. Fix this tax code so that American companies can be more competitive in a worldwide economy. And then thirdly, stop the overspending that’s serving as a wet blanket over our economy."
  • Whip McCarthy outlines several potential areas of common ground in the weekly address, including repealing the IRS three percent withholding tax (an item in the president's plan).
Eliminating Excessive Government Regulations & Stopping Washington from Spending Money It Doesn't Have
  • In the weekly address, Whip McCarthy said, "We agree with the American people: No more budget tricks, no more accounting gimmicks, no more broken promises... that’s why we support a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution."
Democrats' "Stimulus" Spending, Threat of Tax Hikes, & Excessive Regulations Are Creating a Worse Environment for Job Growth
  • Witnesses told the Natural Resources Committee that the Obama Administration's de facto energy moratorium is driving down energy production and sending American jobs overseas.
  • Roughly one-third of small businesses cite uncertainty regarding ObamaCare as one of the top reasons they're not hiring, according to an Education & the Workforce Committee hearing.
  • The House held another hearing this week on legislation preventing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from imposing drastic new rules to significantly limit the rights of workers and employers, and place added burdens on American job creators. Learn about it here.
  • President Obama asked, "Does anybody really think that" rolling back excessive government regulations “is going to create jobs…?” Small business owners across the country have answered the president's question with a resounding "yes." See here.
Keeping the Pledge to Make Congress More Open & Accessible
  • You can now watch the debate and votes on the House floor live online from any desktop or mobile device with video capabilities via HouseLive.gov. Check it out now.
  • Click here to find new ways to connect online with lawmakers, committees, and staff in the House of Representatives.
Don’t forget to watch the weekly Republican address by Rep. McCarthy, and be sure to stay connected with the Office of the Speaker on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Speaker.gov. Thank you!
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Saturday, October 08, 2011

Obama Administration’s Own Public Data Show Job-Crushing Regulatory Agenda Set to Increase, Not Decrease

Obama Administration’s Own Public Data Show Job-Crushing Regulatory Agenda Set to Increase, Not Decrease
Posted by Speaker Boehner’s Press Office on August 26, 2011  http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=257372
By law, the Executive Branch is required to annually document the number of new regulatory actions it plans for the coming year, and to make this information publicly available.  A search of this year’s information, posted online in recent days, reveals that the Obama Administration’s job-crushing regulatory barrage is not being scaled back, but rather expanded, appearing to contradict White House rhetoric this week about President Obama’s intent to reduce the regulatory burden on job creators.
A simple scan of the Obama Administration’s current regulatory agenda indicates that the Administration currently has 4,257 new regulatory actions in the works, of which at least 219 will have an economic impact of $100 million or more.  That is an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year, when a similar search showed 191 new economically-significant regulatory actions by the Administration to be in the works.  Americans know from the Administration’s own statements that some of these new economically-significant regulations will have an economic impact of tens of billions of dollars.  But how many, exactly?  The Administration hasn’t said. 
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today sent a letter to President Obama noting the scheduled increase in regulatory action by the Administration and asking that the White House provide Congress with a list of all of the regulatory actions it plans that would have an economic impact of $1 billion or more.  The Speaker formally requested that the White House provide this information before Congress returns this fall, when the House is scheduled to resume work on legislation promised in the Pledge to America that would require congressional approval for any new regulatory action that is projected to have a significant impact on job creation. 
Boehner sent a similar request for information to the president last August, when he was serving as House Republican leader.  The requested information was never provided.
Susan E. Dudley, director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, wrote about the 219 economically-significant regulatory actions planned by the Obama Administration this week in a guest op-ed for POLITICO in which she noted the president’s actions this week are unlikely to have much impact.  As Dudley noted: 
“The government’s most recent agenda of upcoming regulations (issued in July) does not indicate a slow-down in activity. It does list 4,257 regulatory actions under development — more than 300 more than last year at this time. Of those, 219 are expected to impose costs of $100 million or more — 28 more ‘major’ regulations than were listed by this time last year, and 47 more than in 2009.
“Some activity is required by new legislative mandates — particularly [Dodd-Frank and Obamacare].  Others, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, are based on new judicial interpretations of statutes passed 20 or more years ago — and don’t necessarily reflect the priorities of any recent Congress.  But some are discretionary actions, like EPA’s pending decision to tighten ozone standards.  This is likely to slow economic growth in thousands of counties across the nation and impose costs of $20 billion to $90 billion per year, according to the agency’s own estimates.
“The reform efforts detailed in the agencies’ retrospective plans pale in comparison.  Reforms that may promise real savings, like the Labor Department’s efforts to streamline some reporting requirements, at best offer paperwork burden reductions valued only in the millions.  Other reporting reforms --like replacing paper submissions with electronic reports — might as easily facilitate regulatory enforcement as grant relief.  Some agencies’ plans may actually increase uncertainty — like the Council on Environmental Quality’s commitment to periodically review its ‘categorical exclusions.’  These exemptions have traditionally provided potentially affected parties some certainty that projects would not face unexpected regulatory requirements.”
NOTE: You can also check it for yourself.  The Obama Administration’s newly-updated regulatory agenda is posted online athttp://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain.  Right on the front page is a graph showing that 4,257 new regulatory actions are in the works.  To dig a bit deeper on that number, one must go to the “Advanced Search” feature on the site, located at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaAdvancedSearch#.  To reach that search page, go to the “search” box in the upper right corner of the main page, check the “agenda” box, and hit the search button, then click on the “Advanced Search” link that appears on the page that subsequently comes up.  From there, check the option marked “Search most current publication only” and hit “continue.”  On the next page that comes up, select the option “All,” and hit “continue” again.  On the page that comes up, visitors are given the ability to break down the data based on a variety of different criteria.  To obtain a list of the regulatory actions currently planned by the Administration that will have an economic impact of $100 million or more, go to the “Priority” options about halfway down the page on the left, and check the box marked “Economically Significant.”  Hit the search button at the bottom of the page. 

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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Speaker of the House Boehner: White House to Taxpayers - Sorry About All This, But We Need You to Send Us More Money

Speaker of the House Boehner: White House to Taxpayers - Sorry About All This, But We Need You to Send Us More Money

Posted by Michael Ricci on September 29, 2011 http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=262327

Bank of America today announced it will soon charge customers a monthly fee for using a debit card to make household purchases, a move geared towards preparing for “new federal rules” in the Dodd-Frank bill. This is another example of how the job-crushing policies coming out of Washington are taking money from the pockets of cash-strapped families and small businesses.  Here are two others:

Higher Health Care Premiums. According to newly released national survey, health care premiums in the workplace have jumped by a “whopping” 9 percent in the year following enactment of President Obama’s government takeover of health care. For the typical family, this amounts to an increase of more than $1,200. This is a far cry from the $2,500 decrease in premiums the president promised his plan would bring – a $3,700 swing, to be exact.

Higher Gas Prices. Average gas prices have risen by nearly 93 percent since the president took office, according to AAA data. Unfortunately, Washington has consistently blocked American energy production that would lower costs and create jobs. As gas prices rise, so does the cost of everyday life. Higher fuel prices force food suppliers to charge restaurants and grocery stores more, costs that are inevitably passed on to customers. Small businesses are also hit hard. “The price of gas was putting me out of business,” the owner of a Kansas transportation company said recently.

Higher costs from regulations is also a major concern right now, as evidenced by the Bank of America story. The Obama Administration currently has4,257 rules and regulations in the works, of which at least 219 will have an economic impact of $100 million or more – an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year. There are, of course, good regulations that protect our kids and our environment, but there are also excessive regulations that increase costs for consumers and small businesses. It’s these unnecessary regulations that hurt job creation and lead to higher prices for American families. In Speaker Boehner’s home state of Ohio, there are roughly 845 regulations in the pipeline that would affect small businesses – an 11.5 percent jump since 2009. Federal mandates are “forcing many area school districts to raise hot lunch prices” in Michigan, a state suffering from 10.9 percent unemployment. Similar examples abound.

Americans are paying more for health care, more for gas, more for food, and more to stay in business – largely on account of the Obama Administration – and now it wants taxpayers to send more of their hard-earned money to Washington. “The economy is stalled, and it’s been stalled, and it’s not because the American people have lost their way,” Speaker Boehner said recently. “It’s because their government has let them down.” Making job-crushing tax hikes the centerpiece of a jobs plan further proves this point.

There’s a better way, and it starts with responsible, long-term solutions to address cost-of-living concerns and remove government barriers to job creation. This is the focus of Republicans’ Plan for America’s Job Creators, the dozen or so jobs bills the House has passed, and areas of common ground that House GOP leaders have identified. Learn more at jobs.gop.gov.

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Boehner: White House to Taxpayers We Need You to Send Us More Money

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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Speaker of the House John Boehner: White House to Taxpayers: Sorry About All This, But We Need You to Send Us More Money

White House to Taxpayers: Sorry About All This, But We Need You to Send Us More Money
Posted by Michael Ricci on September 29, 2011  http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=262327
Bank of America today announced it will soon charge customers a monthly fee for using a debit card to make household purchases, a move geared towards preparing for “new federal rules” in the Dodd-Frank bill.  This is another example of how the job-crushing policies coming out of Washington are taking money from the pockets of cash-strapped families and small businesses.  Here are two others:
  • Higher Health Care Premiums.  According to newly released national survey, health care premiums in the workplace have jumped by a “whopping” 9 percent in the year following enactment of President Obama’s government takeover of health care.  For the typical family, this amounts to an increase of more than $1,200.  This is a far cry from the $2,500 decrease in premiums the president promised his plan would bring – a $3,700 swing, to be exact. 
  • Higher Gas Prices.  Average gas prices have risen by nearly 93 percent since the president took office, according to AAA data.  Unfortunately, Washington has consistently blocked American energy production that would lower costs and create jobs.  As gas prices rise, so does the cost of everyday life.  Higher fuel prices force food suppliers to charge restaurants and grocery stores more, costs that are inevitably passed on to customers.   Small businesses are also hit hard.  “The price of gas was putting me out of business,” the owner of a Kansas transportation company said recently.
Higher costs from regulations is also a major concern right now, as evidenced by the Bank of America story.  The Obama Administration currently has4,257 rules and regulations in the works, of which at least 219 will have an economic impact of $100 million or more – an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year.  There are, of course, good regulations that protect our kids and our environment, but there are also excessive regulations that increase costs for consumers and small businesses.  It’s these unnecessary regulations that hurt job creation and lead to higher prices for American families.  In Speaker Boehner’s home state of Ohio, there are roughly 845 regulations in the pipeline that would affect small businesses – an 11.5 percent jump since 2009.  Federal mandates are “forcing many area school districts to raise hot lunch prices” in Michigan, a state suffering from 10.9 percent unemployment.  Similar examples abound. 

Americans are paying more for health care, more for gas, more for food, and more to stay in business – largely on account of the Obama Administration – and now it wants taxpayers to send more of their hard-earned money to Washington.  “The economy is stalled, and it’s been stalled, and it’s not because the American people have lost their way,” Speaker Boehner said recently. “It’s because their government has let them down.”  Making job-crushing tax hikes the centerpiece of a jobs plan further proves this point.  

There’s a better way, and it starts with responsible, long-term solutions to address cost-of-living concerns and remove government barriers to job creation.  This is the focus of Republicans’ Plan for America’s Job Creators, the dozen or so jobs bills the House has passed, and areas of common ground that House GOP leaders have identified.  Learn more at jobs.gop.gov.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Washington Post: News Alert: Senate tables Boehner bill

News Alert: Senate tables Boehner bill 

July 29, 2011 8:32:10 PM
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Roughly two-and-a-half hours after it was passed by the House, Senate Democrats on Friday night tabled, 59 to 41, House Speaker John Boehner's bill to raise the debt limit.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will now try to broker his own plan with Republicans and the White House before the debt ceiling expires on Aug. 2. Reid's current bill would achieve $2.2 trillion in deficit savings over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.


For more information, visit washingtonpost.com
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