I was back in the Valley this week, where I enjoyed having a townhall meeting with around a hundred Cigna employees who discussed ObamaCare, jobs, water, and other issues with me. Hundreds of Cigna jobs in Visalia had been jeopardized by ObamaCare regulations that put U.S. insurers at a disadvantage with foreign-based companies in issuing health plans for Americans living overseas. However, a bip... Read more »
I’ll be discussing the day’s issues with Ray Appleton on KMJ 580 am at noon PST tomorrow. Listen live here. Separately, along with Tulare Vice Mayor Carlton Jones, today I visited the Aspens Apartments, which uses tax credits to provide affordable housing for Tulare families. These sorts of public-private partnerships are an innovative way to enlist the private sector in fighting poverty and assis... Read more »
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) along with 110 bipartisan members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging reconsideration of proposed cuts to community cancer clinics contained in the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule. Specifically, the letter asks CMS to reconsider its proposal to cap reimbursem... Read more »
During our recent government crisis, I argued that the strategy of defunding ObamaCare through government spending bills would succeed in shutting down the government but would not succeed in ending or delaying ObamaCare. Now that the strategy has played out with little success, the Wall Street Journal – America’s largest conservative newspaper – offers this assessment: For weeks [Senator Ted] Cru... Read more »
I’d like to share a few recent interviews in which I explain my position on the shutdown – that we need to repeal ObamaCare, but that the shutdown strategy cannot achieve that goal. I discussed my views with Chris Daniel here, and yesterday evening I talked with John Batchelor here. Additionally, if you missed it, see my interview with National Review here. Read more »
The government shutdown has entered its second week. As you may know, I have fought hard to repeal ObamaCare, which I believe is disastrous for the American economy and for our healthcare system. However, I am critical of the strategy that brought us to this point – I have long believed that this strategy would result in a shutdown but would not achieve its goal of dismantling ObamaCare. With that... Read more »
I wanted to share my views with you on the government shutdown. I strongly oppose ObamaCare, and I have voted to repeal or defund it around forty times. I also have argued that the Republicans’ current political strategy would result in a government shutdown but would not succeed in dismantling ObamaCare – essentially the worst of both worlds. I will be discussing the shutdown today on America’s N... Read more »
Washington Times The bankruptcy filing by the city of Detroit garnered a lot of media attention, but it was not unexpected. It’s hardly shocking to learn that after decades of chronic mismanagement by a corrupt political machine, even America’s richest city — which Detroit once was — can be laid to waste. The Motor City’s downfall stems from a lot of bad policies, but one has been especially damag... Read more »
National Review Online President Obama recently offered Republicans a “grand bargain” — lowering the corporate tax rate, apparently from 35 to 28 percent, and closing some loopholes in return for new “investments” in jobs. The economy unquestionably needs help. Unemployment is 7.6 percent and economic growth is stuck below 2 percent. But the president is offering an inadequate reform in exchange f... Read more »
Tax Day has come and gone. But in the House Ways and Means Committee, we are continuing efforts to simplify and reduce taxes, recognizing tax reform as a vital way to jumpstart economic growth and job creation. I am developing my own proposal to revamp business taxes – explained here and here – that would spur companies to invest, expand, and hire more workers. Why do we need tax reform? In the p... Read more »
