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Excerpt: "In suburban Chicago there is a company called Fellows Manufacturing. These are the folks behind the bankers boxes, shredding machines and so forth. Stellar reputation, 550 employees, and in a nutshell they eneterd into a joint venture in China in 2006, which went well for 3 years and then in 2009 it just devolved into a nightmare. The nightmare now has involved theft of their property, they’ve been locked out, and they’ve lost tools and it’s been dramatic, to say the least. They have now been involved in a Chinese court to try and seek justice and over the past year it's become increasingly murky. So my question – and your staff has again been really helpful on this – my question is: would you be willing to raise this? You know how this works, if the trade ambassador raises it, it has the imprimatur and you’re able to move the ball significantly based upon your personal attention. "
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Excerpt: "The question is: Where are we and why are we here? Well, we are at 3 and a half dollars a gallon right now and there is really no end in sight. In the past year in the Midwest gas prices have spiked up a dollar and a half a gallon. But it really should be no surprise that we’re here, and the reason it's no surprise is we’ve got an Administration that is running an energy policy to benefit political allies. Think about it: The President of the United States says no to the Keystone Pipeline and yes to Solyndra, literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars for fringe projects that ultimately went bankrupt and didn’t help anybody. It sure didn’t help us."
Article: The Weekly Standard by Daniel Halper
Excerpt:"Sixty percent of employers said they offered medical benefits this year, a decrease from 69 percent in 2010." Yet today, in testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that Obamacare is not the reason there's been a drop in employer-sponsored health care coverage: his was the question asked by Illinois congressman Peter Roskam: "How about when the president said you can keep your health care coverage if you like it? And yet, the reality is, according to Bloomberg at least, 9 percent fewer businesses are offering medical coverage than in 2010. There the rhetoric didn’t meet the reality, did it?"
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Excerpt: “Right now, excessive Washington bureaucrat-imposed regulations are preventing American innovation, stalling economic growth, and killing jobs. With national unemployment still stuck at over 8 percent, Washington has to stop being a barrier to job creation so entrepreneurs and small businesses can succeed, grow, and hire in the U.S The bipartisan JOBS Act does just that by removing barriers many start ups face to present a less burdensome path forward, like Whip Kevin McCarthy’s bill to repeal the solicitation ban on companies trying to raise capital. Small businesses are the engine of the American economy; let’s stop Washington from hurting them.”
Article: Washington Times by Emily Miller
Excerpt: "Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee aren't impressed with the corporate tax reform plan released by White House Wednesday. "While some of the president's proposal moves in the right direction, perverting the tax code further with more loopholes to help allies - picking more political winners and losers - won't help our economy a bit," Rep. Peter Roskam, the chief deputy whip, told The Washington Times."
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Excerpt: Roskam: “The Administration has basically come up with an energy policy that rewards his political allies. He has put Solyndra on top of Keystone… [The White House is essentially saying] we're going to cater to a radical environmental base, which is completely on the fringe of the energy discussion. We're going to kowtow to them as opposed to trying to lower energy prices for the rest of the country.”
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Excerpt: “It’s encouraging that the White House is finally joining the business tax reform conversation and to see bipartisan agreement on the need to lower the business tax rate, broaden the tax base, and eliminate loopholes that give certain sectors preferential treatment. Our tax code is overly complex, is the second highest business rate in the world, and is easily manipulated and antiquated, having last seen reforms in 1986. The status-quo is simply indefensible and continues to create barriers to American job creation."
Op-Ed: Article, by Kevin McCarthy and Peter Roskam
Excerpt: "The nearly one trillion dollar “stimulus” package was supposed to be Democrats’ government fix for the American economy. Not only did President Obama promise 3.5 million jobs, but the White House’s chief economists insisted that if only we passed the nearly trillion dollars in government spending, national unemployment would never reach as high as 8 percent."
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Excerpt: “Three years ago President Obama promised Americans 3.5 million jobs and unemployment under 8% if they just supported his nearly trillion dollar ‘stimulus’ plan. In the time since, Americans have endured crushing job losses, 36 straight months of unemployment above 8%, and trillions more in debt. And yet, astonishingly, the White House still refuses to pivot from trying to borrow, tax, and spend our way into prosperity. Americans have fundamentally rejected this debt-end approach."
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Excerpt: "This week, we've gotten a lot of interest on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, H.R. 7. A lot of these questions surround this whole notion of mass transit: METRA, CTA and so forth. Here is the bottom line: Right now, the system is going to go broke in two years, everybody agree on that. This bill that the House has taken up creates five years of certainty for mass transit and it's fully paid for. That's a very important element of it."