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Group hails Lynn as 'Taxpayer Hero'
Oct 16, 2009
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The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste named U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland as a "Taxpayer Hero" for his high score -- 88 percent -- in the group's 2008 congressional ratings.
The average for the entire House was 35 percent, and the average for the Senate was 38 percent; that makes Westmo...
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'Obamacare' bends cost curve the wrong way
Jul 17, 2009
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Any national health care reform must focus on increasing efficiency so that more Americans can have access to affordable coverage.
Sounds simple, but if it was all that easy we would have done it years ago. The debate over how to get health care coverage to all Americans, after all, goes back to ...
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Taxpayer group bestows ‘Taxpayers’ Friend Award’
Apr 17, 2009
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The 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union, a nonpartisan citizen group, has announced that U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland is among only a few dozen 2008 “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” recipients out of the entire House of Representatives and Senate.
“Given today’s economic climate, fiscal discipline is...
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Bill to tax bonuses at AIG is simply a cynical ploy
Mar 19, 2009
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U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland today voted against congressional Democrats cynical tax plan for AIG bonuses.
“House and Senate Democrats messed up big time and now they want to tinker with the tax code as part of a public relations stunt,” Westmoreland said after the vote. “I know Americans want to pu...
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Obama's pot o' fool's gold
Mar 17, 2009
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President Obama’s plan to spend up to $15 billion on loans won’t provide a “river of green” to small businesses in need of the money, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said this St. Patrick’s Day.
“As we’ve come to expect in the past two months, President Obama gives a little with one hand and takes a lo...
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Upcoming budget lays path to more crippling deficits
Feb 26, 2009
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U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said President Obama’s plans don’t match his rhetoric on fiscal responsibility after the president sent his 2010 budget blueprint to Congress on Thursday.
“President Obama’s tax-and-spend plan declares that the era of big government is back in force and it will assure...
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Dem 'stimulus' a raw deal for American families
Feb 13, 2009
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Democrats’ Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill Provides $1.10 Per Day in Relief to Workers, While Saddling Every American Family With $9,400 in Added Debt
Following are some very tentative quick facts on the trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending deal slated to be rushed through the House and Senate today o...
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Children's health program should focus on poorest
Jan 14, 2009
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As the House today voted 289-139 for massive expansion of the federal children’s health insurance program, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland voted against the bill and instead supported the Republican alternative bill that would keep the program’s focus on America’s neediest children.
“I’m not sure that ...
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Westmoreland: April 15 the ‘Un-Holiday’
Apr 15, 2008
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U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland marked Tax Day by reiterating his support for abolishing the Internal Revenue Service as he accepted a petition in support of the Fair Tax. The petition had 103,000 signatures that were presented by Americans for Fair Taxation and the National Taxpayers Union.
“Apri...
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Budget a plan for bigger government
Mar 13, 2008
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U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland today voted against the Democrats’ budget for next year, citing the plan’s $683 billion tax hike and massive increase in spending. The Democrats’ record-breaking budget passed on a tight party-line vote.
“You have to give the people who wrote this budget some credit fo...
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