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Tuesday June 18th
Capitol Corner: The Truth Behind the NSA Leaks
Earlier this month, a government contractor by the name of Edward Snowden made some pretty shocking claims in an article printed by The Guardian regarding surveillance programs conducted by the United States. A lot of what he “revealed” was inaccurate or incomplete – leading many to have the w...
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Friday June 14th
Westmoreland Supports Legislation to Fund Our Troops
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House has passed H.R. 1960, the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This is the 52nd annual consecutive defense authorization bill. It provides much-needed funding, authorities, and accountability for the Defense Department. Funding le...
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Thursday June 13th
Westmoreland Sends Letter Urging Delay of Round 2 of Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program
By Rep. Lynn WestmorelandJune 13, 2013 Today, I joined my Republican colleagues and a bipartisan majority of 226 Members in sending a letter to the newly confirmed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Marilyn Tavenner. This letter respectfully requested that she del...
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Thursday June 13th
ObamaCare Takes Its Aim at Low-Wage Earners
By Leslie SheddJune 13, 2013 AP is reporting today that due to a loophole in ObamaCare…excuse me…yet another loophole in ObamaCare, low-wage workers are much more likely to be forced to pay the fee…excuse me again…tax for not having insurance. That’s because ObamaCare requires medium and larg...
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Monday June 10th
Capitol Corner: GM Bailout Expected to End Up Costing American Taxpayers at Least $10 Billion
For those of you aren’t familiar, in 2011 the Treasury sold its remaining shares of Chrysler to Fiat – at a loss of $1.34 billion. However, they claimed the sale was “further evidence of the success of the Administration’s actions to assist the US auto industry.” I’m not sure about you, but I’m will...
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Tuesday June 18th
Capitol Corner: The Truth Behind the NSA Leaks
Earlier this month, a government contractor by the name of Edward Snowden made some pretty shocking claims in an article printed by The Guardian regarding surveillance programs conducted by the United...
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Friday June 14th
Westmoreland Supports Legislation to Fund Our Troops
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House has passed H.R. 1960, the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This is the 52nd annual consecutive defense authorization bill. It provid...
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Monday June 10th
Capitol Corner: GM Bailout Expected to End Up Costing American Taxpayers at Least $10 Billion
For those of you aren’t familiar, in 2011 the Treasury sold its remaining shares of Chrysler to Fiat – at a loss of $1.34 billion. However, they claimed the sale was “further evidence of the success o...
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Monday June 3rd
Capitol Corner: Second Appeals Court Proves Even the President is Not Above the Law
In the news we’ve seen a constant string of scandals. Each day a new report of the Obama Administration’s disregard for basic civil liberties and an abuse of powers. One scandal the administration jus...
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Monday May 27th
Capitol Corner: Westmoreland Commemorates Memorial Day
This week we commemorate Memorial Day, a day on which Americans remember the men and women who laid down their lives while serving in one of the branches of our military. Joan and I send our pra...
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Monday May 20th
Capitol Corner: The Truth Behind the Curtain: A Culture of Corruption in Obama's White House Revealed
It’s been a rough month for the president so far. His administration is under fire from even some of its biggest supporters. First it was revealed that the White House lied to the Ameri...
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Friday May 17th
Westmoreland Votes to Repeal ObamaCare
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 45, a bill to repeal ObamaCare. Congressman Westmoreland is a cosponsor of the legislation and joined a bipartisan majority of his...
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Monday May 13th
Capitol Corner: Targeting the Tea Party
It’s like something out of George Orwell’s novel “1984”: a government agency using its authority to spy on and obstruct any opposition to the ruler. Except it’s not the plot of some science fict...
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Thursday May 9th
Westmoreland Votes to Uphold the "Full Faith and Credit" of this Country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act. If the United States hits the debt ceiling, the legislation requires the US Department of Trea...
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Wednesday May 8th
House Passes Legislation to Promote Flexibility in the Workplace
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House has passed H.R. 1406, the Working Families Flexibility Act, legislation that would allow greater flexibility for private sector employees who fall under the Fair Labor Sta...
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Monday May 6th
Capitol Corner: Americans Should Learn from Europe's "Collapsing" Carbon Market
Cap and trade is a giant energy tax on American companies pushed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. It would cap the amount of emissions companies are allowed. Companies who d...
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Monday April 29th
Capitol Corner: Westmoreland Disappointed in Obama Administration's Handling of Benghazi, Vows to Continue Investigation
More than six months ago, our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was breached and US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were brutally murdered. Initially, the White House tried to bla...
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Tuesday April 23rd
Capitol Corner: Westmoreland Congratulates Winners of Congressional Art Contest
I would like to recognize and congratulate this year’s winners of the annual Congressional Art Contest in Georgia’s Third District. This year’s competition took place at the Central Ed...
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Monday April 15th
Capitol Corner: God Bless Our Farmers
In this day and age of computers, it seems like many people can forget the importance and impact of our agriculture industry. So I want to take this time to share something with you. If you e...
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Friday April 12th
Westmoreland Votes to Prevent National Labor Relations Board from Violating Constitution
Washington, D.C. - In January 2012, President Obama made three so-called recess appointments to the controversial National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – however Congress was not actually in recess. &...
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Thursday June 13th
Westmoreland Sends Letter Urging Delay of Round 2 of Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program
By Rep. Lynn WestmorelandJune 13, 2013 Today, I joined my Republican colleagues and a bipartisan majority of 226 Members in sending a letter to the newly confirmed Centers for Medicare and Medi...
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Thursday June 13th
ObamaCare Takes Its Aim at Low-Wage Earners
By Leslie SheddJune 13, 2013 AP is reporting today that due to a loophole in ObamaCare…excuse me…yet another loophole in ObamaCare, low-wage workers are much more likely to be forced to pay the fee…e...
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Wednesday June 5th
The IRS and ObamaCare by the Numbers
Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation June 5, 2013 Chilling new details emerged yesterday about the IRS targeting scandal, as representatives from six conservative groups testified before Cong...
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Tuesday May 28th
Westmoreland Sends Letter to Obama Urging a Solution to Veterans Disability Backlog
By Rep. Lynn WestmorelandMay 28, 2013 Today, I joined more than 150 of my colleagues to send a letter to President Obama urging him to become more involved in resolving the Veteran Affairs Administra...
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Thursday May 23rd
Westmoreland Supports Keystone XL Pipeline Construction
By Rep. Lynn Westmoreland May 23, 2013 Last night, the House passed H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, a bipartisan bill which approves construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. H.R. 3...
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Tuesday May 21st
Five Interesting Facts About the Keystone XL Pipeline
Courtesy of the House Energy and Commerce CommitteeMay 21, 2013 It’s been more than 1,700 days since TransCanada first submitted its application to the U.S. State Department for a Presidentia...
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Thursday May 16th
One of the Sequester's Effects on FAA: Bonuses
By Leigh Claffey May 16, 2013 The sequester has affected all Americans and businesses, forcing us to create tighter budgets with little wiggle room. One of the most talked about industries a...
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Thursday May 16th
The ObamaCare Broken Promises Keep Piling Up…
By Stephanie NewtonMay 16, 2013 The president’s broken promises about ObamaCare have become so common lately, it’s hard to keep track. Since the law passed in 2010, Congressman Westmoreland and Hous...
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Wednesday May 15th
37 Reasons to Repeal ObamaCare
Courtesy of the House Committee on Ways and MeansMay 15, 2013 After $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending, three years later the Democrats’ law has failed to deliver on t...
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Wednesday May 15th
Like the Rest of Obama's Administration, the EPA Plays Favorites
By Leslie SheddMay 15, 2014 You know that old saying when it rains it pours? Well, it’s pouring over the White House right now. According to recent news reports, the Environmental Protection A...
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Tuesday May 14th
Hagel’s Bad Decision
By Kevin DoranMay 14, 2013 Today, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that he will furlough around 800,000 civilian employees for 11 days, beginning July 8th. Each employee will have to tak...
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Thursday May 9th
Speaker Boehner, Leader McConnell Decline to Recommend IPAB Appointments
By Leigh ClaffeyMay 9, 2013 This morning, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter to President Obama informing him that they will respectfully decline to...
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Wednesday May 8th
My Internship on Capitol Hill
By Amber PorterMay 8, 2013 Currently, I am a junior at Georgia Southern University where I major in International Studies and minor in French. However, for the past four months, I have had th...
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Wednesday May 8th
Carney Claims on Changing Benghazi Talking Points at Odds with the Facts
By Brendan Buck, Courtesy of the Office of Speaker BoehnerMay 8, 2013 It’s well documented that in the days and weeks following the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi on September 1...
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Wednesday May 8th
ObamaCare: The 190 Million Hour Debacle
By Rep. Lynn WestmorelandMay 8, 2013 Things that you would need 190 million hours to do: Build Mt. Rushmore 1,547 times See Halley’s Comet 285 times (Halley’s Comet passes Earth every 67 years) ...
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