- 12/19/05
On December 19, 2005, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) struck one of the first of two commemorative silver dollars to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin.
< Read more > - 12/15/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that, with his support, the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (H.R.4437) passed the House, 260 to 159.
< Read more > - 12/14/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) announced the passage of a bill that will restrict the sale of medicines used to make methamphetamine (meth), provide support for local authorities, and help protect the environment from meth lab contamination.
< Read more > - 11/18/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of the conferenced Fiscal Year 2006 Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), known as TTHUD. The bill provides for projects that will spur economic development in north Alabama through transportation advancement, industrial expansion, cultural improvements, and building renovation.
< Read more > - 11/10/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that he recently introduced the Farmers Tax Deferral Act (H.R. 4221), which would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow farmers to trade single purpose farm structures for a home at retirement without requiring them to immediately pay a capital gains tax.
< Read more > - 11/09/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of the conferenced Fiscal Year 2006 Science, Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies (SSJC) Appropriations Bill. This bill includes funding for many projects that will greatly benefit Alabama, including valuable crime fighting projects.
< Read more > - 11/09/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of the conferenced Fiscal Year 2006 Science, Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies (SSJC) Appropriations Bill. This bill includes funding for programs that will help further fight the methamphetamine (meth) problem in Alabama.
< Read more > - 11/08/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the United States and China reached a textile agreement that will limit sock imports from China for the next three years, until December 31, 2008.
< Read more > - 11/04/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the Private Property Rights Protection Act (H.R. 4128), of which he is a cosponsor, passed the House 376 to 38. This legislation prohibits states and localities from receiving any federal economic development funds for a period of two years if such entities abuse their power of eminent domain by taking private property for the private use of others.
< Read more > - 11/03/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on the decision by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) to protect against surging sock imports from China by extending import limits to January 1, 2006.
< Read more > - 10/28/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the conferenced Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY2006 (H.R. 2744) passed the House, 318 to 63.
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- 10/20/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (S. 397) passed the House with a vote of 283 to 144. This legislation will prevent reckless lawsuits from bankrupting the American firearms industry.
< Read more > - 10/07/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of H.R. 3893, the Gasoline for America's Security (GAS) Act of 2005 which seeks to increase capacity, streamline fuel supplies, provide transparency in gasoline pricing, fight price gouging, reduce bureaucracy, and revitalize refineries.
< Read more > - 09/30/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced his cosponsorship of the Methamphetamine Epidemic Elimination Act (H.R. 3889). This legislation will address every stage of methamphetamine trafficking - precursor control, international monitoring, environmental regulation, and criminal prosecution.
< Read more > - 09/30/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act (TESRA), H.R. 3824. This legislation will update the well-intentioned Endangered Species Act of 1973, under which less than 1 percent of species listed have recovered.
< Read more > - 09/28/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on Representative Tom DeLay (R-Texas) temporarily stepping down from the position of House Majority Leader.
< Read more > - 09/16/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the United States Marine Corps has awarded SUMMA Technology, Inc a $6.381 million contract to manufacture and deliver M1077 Flat Racks.
< Read more > - 09/08/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that he is an original cosponsor of the Gas Tax Relief Act (H.R. 3683). This legislation would ease some of the financial burden at the pump, caused by current market prices, by suspending the 18.4 cent federal excise tax on gasoline for 30 days.
< Read more > - 09/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on rising gas prices and their affect on consumers.
< Read more > - 09/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today suggested that the people of the Fourth District do their part to help victims of Hurricane Katrina by contributing to the following organizations.
< Read more > - 08/31/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) recently visited the following five local sites on his annual Fourth Congressional District Agriculture and Industry Tour: the Mueller Company plant in Albertville; Guntersville Lock & Dam; the Dean Sausage Company plant in Attalla; Timberlake Alpaca Farm in Glencoe; and Wills Creek Vineyards in Attalla.
< Read more > - 08/09/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on the safe return of the space shuttle Discovery.
< Read more > - 08/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the dates and locations for the annual Fourth Congressional District Agriculture and Industry Tour.
< Read more > - 08/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the domestic sock industry's petition to renew special textile safeguards, seeking extended protection against surging sock imports from China, has been accepted by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).
< Read more > - 07/29/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the House passage of the conferenced version of the six-year transportation reauthorization bill known as SAFETEA-LU.
< Read more > - 07/27/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) tonight released details of an agreement he reached with the United States Trade Ambassador Rob Portman to protect North Alabama's sock industry through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
< Read more > - 07/20/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) this morning made the following statement on President Bush's Supreme Court Nominee, U.S. Circuit Judge John G. Roberts.
< Read more > - 07/15/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), member of the bi-partisan Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Methamphetamine, today joined colleagues in sending a letter to President Bush, highlighting the severity of the methamphetamine problem in the United States.
< Read more > - 07/14/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today introduced an amendment to the United States Constitution that will protect private property rights. According to the Constitution, the Fifth Amendment clearly states that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
< Read more > - 07/01/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on the retirement of United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
< Read more > - 07/01/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that H.R. 3135, the "Private Property Rights Protection Act," was introduced on June 30, 2005. Congressman Aderholt is an original cosponsor of this legislation that would prevent federal funding from being used in any project that involves the condemnation of private property for the private use of others.
< Read more > - 06/29/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today, along with several members of the House, announced the introduction of the Cherokee Trail of Tears Documentation Act (H.R. 3085).
< Read more > - 06/27/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today responded to the Supreme Court rulings on the display of the Ten Commandments.
< Read more > - 06/24/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the introduction of the Parent's Right to Know Act of 2005. Congressman Aderholt is an original cosponsor of the legislation. This legislation aims to keep parents informed when a child is given prescription medicine.
< Read more > - 06/07/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the inclusion of key census sock reporting language in the full committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2006 Science, Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.
< Read more > - 06/07/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced the full Appropriations Committee passage of the Fiscal Year 2006 Science, Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies (SSJC) Appropriations Bill.
< Read more > - 06/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that he has been appointed to serve on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which is dedicated to monitoring and promoting human rights improvements and the development of the rule of law in that country.
< Read more > - 05/31/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
< Read more > - 05/26/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today issued the following statement in reaction to the House passing the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (H.R. 810). After voting to oppose this legislation, Congressman Aderholt made the following statement.
< Read more > - 05/24/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today spoke from the floor of the United States House of Representatives in opposition to the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (H.R. 810). The legislation would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells. Congressman Aderholt voted against the legislation.
< Read more > - 05/20/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that he has been successful in securing language in the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill that requires detailed explanations of how money is spent in the effort to enforce textile import limits.
< Read more > - 05/13/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the Defense Department's recommendations on base realignments and closures (BRAC) and its impact on Redstone Arsenal.
< Read more > - 05/13/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the Defense Department's recommendations on base realignments and closures (BRAC) and what it means for the Missile and Space Defense Agencies.
< Read more > - 05/12/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning H.R. 418, the REAL ID Act of 2005, which was later added to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005 (H.R. 1268).
< Read more > - 05/06/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today welcomed more than 215 students from across the congressional district to this year's Fourth Congressional District Art Competition, which was held at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville.
< Read more > - 04/30/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning former Senator Howell Heflin and former Congressman Tom Bevill.
< Read more > - 04/29/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning "The 2004 Current Industrial Report on Sock Production," compiled by the United States Census Bureau. The report studies the state of the domestic sock producing industry, and was completed at Congressman Aderholt's request.
< Read more > - 04/27/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today voted in support of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (H.R. 748), which passed 270 to 157. Shortly before the vote, Congressman Aderholt prepared the following statement to deliver on the House floor.
< Read more > - 04/26/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the number of seats Alabama holds in the United State House of Representatives.
< Read more > - 04/15/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the placement of signs designating Corridor X as I-22.
< Read more > - 04/15/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
< Read more > - 04/13/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today joined 271 of his House colleagues in voting to make the elimination of the "Death Tax" permanent. Congressman Aderholt cosponsored the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005 (H.R. 8), which passed the House 272 to 162 and now moves to the Senate for consideration.
< Read more > - 04/07/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) is joining a congressional delegation traveling to Rome, and then on to Vatican City, for Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday. Congressman Aderholt will be in St. Peter's Basilica for the service.
< Read more > - 03/31/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning Terri Schiavo.
< Read more > - 03/21/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning this morning's vote on legislation concerning the Schiavo bill.
< Read more > - 03/17/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) yesterday voted for the Protection of Incapacitated Persons Act of 2005 (H.R. 1332), which authorizes the removal of cases from state court to U.S. federal court to protect the federal rights of incapacitated persons. These proceedings would be authorized after all state remedies have been exhausted.
< Read more > - 03/10/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning the United States Commerce Department's decision on the steel monitoring program.
< Read more > - 03/03/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today re-introduced "The Constitution Restoration Act" (H.R. 1070), which would require federal courts to operate within the jurisdiction set by our founding fathers within the United States Constitution as it pertains to the public acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, and government.
< Read more > - 03/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today was at the United States Supreme Court as it heard key cases involving the inclusion of a Ten Commandments display as part of several historical documents presented at the county courthouses in Kentucky's McCreary and Pulaski counties.
< Read more > - 02/16/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today spoke from the floor of the United States House of Representatives in support of the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 (H.R. 310). The legislation would increase fines imposed on broadcasters airing indecent material over public airwaves.
< Read more > - 02/14/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today announced that the new House Appropriations subcommittee assignments have been made for the upcoming 109th Congress.
< Read more > - 02/10/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning constituent feedback.
< Read more > - 02/09/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) met yesterday afternoon with President George Bush at the White House to discuss the president's plans for Social Security reform.
< Read more > - 02/02/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement in reaction to tonight's State of the Union Address.
< Read more > - 01/19/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today made the following statement concerning North Alabama's rocket production program.
< Read more > - 01/12/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) left today for areas of Southeast Asia damaged by the December 26 tsunami. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake centered off Northern Sumatra, Indonesia's, west coast triggered massive tidal waves affecting several Southeast Asian and East African countries.
< Read more > - 01/07/05
Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) has been sworn in for his fifth term representing the Fourth Congressional District of Alabama. The ceremony was held in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol at noon on January 4.
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