In the Weekly Republican Address, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) continues a coordinated offensive to highlight Republicans’ ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy and hold Washington Democrats accountable for policies that have contributed to higher gas prices. As The Hill notes in its report on the address, “
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Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) office released a new video outlining the JOBS Act, a package of bipartisan proposals that remove government barriers preventing small businesses and startups from growing and creating new jobs. These proposals are key parts of the GOP Plan for America’s Job Creators, and are supported by proven entrepreneurs, President Obama, and a broad bipartisan majority in Congress.
Speaker Boehner said he was encouraged by the president’s willingness to seek common ground on bipartisan bills to address rising gas prices and remove government barriers to small business growth, including the JOBS Act introduced by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Republicans yesterday.
Speaker John Boehner criticized the Obama administration and its allies yesterday for blocking GOP efforts to expand energy production and for not having a strategy to address high gas prices (the administration has openly admitted lowering gas prices isn’t their goal). “Enough of this,” Boehner said, “It’s just about damn time that we actually have a national energy policy.”
In the Weekly Republican Address, Rep.
In an interview with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, Speaker John Boehner discussed Senate Democrats' unwillingness to act on bipartisan initiatives that help create new private-sector jobs or stop Washington from spending money it doesn't have. Boehner also highlighted the upcoming vote on the earmark-free American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7). Key excerpts are below:
Boehner: Senate Democrats Still Haven't Acted on Nearly 30 Bipartisan House-Passed Jobs Bills:
Delivering the Weekly Republican Address, Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) urges Democrats in Washington to remove uncertainty for small business job creators by acting on House-passed bills stalled in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Rep. Meehan notes that the Republican-led House has passed a measure extending the payroll tax cut for a full year, but the Democratic-controlled Senate still has not.
Speaker John Boehner welcomed the positive news in today’s unemployment report but said Washington must do better. Boehner noted that the Obama administration actually promised “unemployment at this point would be at six percent” if the ‘stimulus’ was passed; instead it’s been above eight percent for 36 straight months.
House and Senate negotiators are meeting again today, working to reach an agreement on a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut. The House passed a full-year payroll tax relief bill in December. Speaker John Boehner says in a new video the only road block to extending the tax cut now is Senate Democrats who “haven’t passed or offered a full, one-year plan of their own.”
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