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Huizenga Discusses Fiscal Cliff, Calls For Necessary Spending Reforms
Dec 29, 2012
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Lawmakers diverge over fiscal cliff The Holland Sentinel - Andrea Goodell December 28, 2012 Washington, D.C. — It’s going to be one heck of a New Year’s Eve on Capitol Hill. As the clock ticks down, lawmakers on both side of the aisle are struggling to devise a solution to avert a plunge over the fi...
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Huizenga Hopeful Badger Will Sail In 2013
Dec 19, 2012
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EPA Intends to Propose Permit Decision On Coal-Powered Car Ferry by March 2013 By Anthony Adragna | December 19, 2012 (BNA) - The Environmental Protection Agency said it intends to make a decision by March 1, 2013, on whether to extend a Clean Water Act permit for one of the last remaining coal-pow...
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Huizenga Fights For Middle Class Jobs In West Michigan
Dec 3, 2012
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Historic ferry SS Badger's future in doubt with EPA permit about to expire The Detroit Free Press, Todd Spangler - December 1, 2012 WASHINGTON -- A historic ferry that has shuttled passengers, vehicles and freight across Lake Michigan for decades is in danger of being put in permanent dry dock. The...
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Huizenga Honored With "FreedomFighter" Award
Sep 25, 2012
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Rep. Bill Huizenga Receives 2012 FreedomWorks 'FreedomFighter Award' The Holland Sentinel September 25, 2012 Washington, D.C. - Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, was awarded FreedomWorks' "first annual FreedomFighter Award.” FreedomWorks is an activist organaization "fighting for less government, lower...
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Huizenga Focuses On Private Sector Job Creation, Saving Taxpayer Dollars
Sep 24, 2012
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Huizenga Pushes Prison Labor Reform; Local Businesses Could Benefit The Holland Sentinel Andrea Goodell September 22, 2012 Washington, D.C. — Rep. Bill Huizenga is leading a charge to rein in Federal Prison Industries, a federally-owned industry that provides everything from polo shirts to desk chai...
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ABC News/GMA: Will a Federal Prisoner Steal Your Job?
Sep 20, 2012
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Will a Federal Prisoner Steal Your Job? ABC News Alan Farnham Sept. 19, 2012 It's hard to compete with workers willing to take pay as low as 23 cents an hour. Do we mean workers in Mexico or China? No. We mean Americans in federal prisons. An Alabama clothing-maker recently found out just how hard,...
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UNICOR Responsible For Job Loss In Alabama and Mississippi
Sep 20, 2012
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Workplace travesty The Dothan Eagle ( Dothan, Alabama) Editorial September 19, 2012 Recently, American Power Source, an apparel manufacturing company that makes military uniforms at plants in Fayette, located in northwest Alabama, and in Columbus, Miss., announced its plants would close in October a...
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Manufacturers Fear Layoffs Caused By UNICOR With No-Bid Process
Sep 19, 2012
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AUDIO: Listen to Congressman Huizenga's full interview with Matt Patrick of KTRH HERE Manufacturers fear layoffs with no-bid process KTRH Nik Rajkovic September 19, 2012 Texas prisoners make everything from state flags to office chairs, ornamental fencing, even polo shirts. Now the national prison ...
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