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- Rep. McKinley conducts a workshop on grants with area non-profit agencies in and around Wheeling.
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- Rep. McKinley Responds to December Jobs Report
Washington, D.C.—Rep. David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-W.Va.) released the following statement on the December jobs report released this morning indicating the unemployment rate remained at 7.8% in December:
“When President Obama is sworn in for a second term, the unemployment rate will be exactly the same as it was four years ago. The so-called economic ...“recovery” is looking more like stagnation, with 23 million Americans looking for work and our economy treading water. In order to improve job growth and give hope to millions of unemployed Americans, Congress needs to stop the wasteful spending that is burdening future generations with debt, reform the tax code to help families and small businesses, and do away with red tape and excessive regulations.”See More David McKinley shared a link.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), along with Mary McKinley, joins Rep. David B. McKinley for his second swearing in ceremony in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. — at United States Capitol.
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Mary McKinley places the Congressional pin on her husband, David, before he is sworn into office for his second term. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) conducted the ceremony at the nation's capital in Washington, D.C. — at United States Capitol.
- Mary McKinley places the Congressional pin on her husband, David, before he is sworn into office for his second term. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) conducted the ceremony at the nation's capital in Washington, D.C.
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- Rep. McKinley will be sworn in for his second term today by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH). An open house will be held at Rep. McKinley's Washington, D.C. office in 412 Cannon (HOB) beginning at 1:00 today until 3:00 p.m. You are welcome to attend.
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- Senate Bill Fails to Achieve Balanced Approach-Out-of-Control Deficit Requires Substantial Spending Cuts.
Washington, D.C.—Rep. David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-W.Va.) voted against the Senate-passed year-end fiscal plan because Republicans are consistently asked to concede on tax increases, but Democrat leadership has not given an inch on spending reductions.
“Simply put, the Senate version of the ...bill raises taxes, increases spending and only promises potential spending cuts in the future,” said Rep. McKinley. “It failed to address our long-term debt problem and is anything but the balanced approach promised by President Obama. America is now more than $16 trillion in debt. And Congress has failed in the past to cut spending that it promised the public.”
According to the official estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate deal includes more than $330 billion in new spending over the next decade.
Additionally, the bill calls for $620 billion in increased tax revenues with only $15 billion in spending reductions. That equates to a ratio of $1 in spending cuts to $41 in increased tax revenue, even though the President promised $2.50 in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenue during his campaign. The highly touted Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended a 3:1 ratio.
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) also opposed the plan on these grounds, saying, “We want a plan that materially reduces the deficit. This proposal does not meet that standard and does not put in place a real process to reduce the debt down the road.”
In a recent statement Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke called the current levels of spending “unsustainable,” and cautioned that “fiscal policy must be placed on a sustainable path that eventually results in a stable or declining ratio of federal debt to GDP.”
“Americans once again are being promised spending cuts in the future. We’ve seen this movie before – the spending cuts never happen,” said McKinley.
This has played out twice is recent memory with similar results:
•In 1982, President Reagan was promised $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes but the spending cuts never happened.
•In 1990, President George H.W. Bush agreed to $2 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases but none of the cuts occurred.
“The frustration of this process takes its toll,” said McKinley. “As my record reflects, I have already voted for tax relief for all Americans and $5.5 trillion in spending cuts – both of which died in the Senate. Now, the Senate sent us a bill that contains tax increases, no significant spending cuts, increases the federal debt and the Senate refused to consider any House changes.
Therefore I had no other recourse but to oppose the Senate plan.”
“Congress needs to address the real problem facing our country - excessive government spending that is being passed on to our children and grandchildren to pay for,” added McKinley.See More David McKinley shared a link.
- Rep. McKinley comments on currents "fiscal cliff" talks:
“It’s frustrating it has come to this stalemate just hours before the end of the year, “ said Rep. McKinley. “We continue to wait in Washington for the Senate to take action. The House has passed two bills that could have avoided this situation, both of which continue to sit in the Senate.” David McKinley shared a link.
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- Wall Street Journal Editorial
“The Jackson Damage”
The economic harm the EPA chief wrought.
More than four years after the 2008 panic, the U.S. economy still hasn't rebounded to its normal potential growth trend. So the legacy of one of the main culprits—Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency, who announced Thursday she is resigning—must include the millions of Americans who can't ...find a job or haven't seen their incomes rise.
The EPA chief is among President Obama's most abusive and reckless regulators—his repressed green id. Over her four years, Ms. Jackson inflicted an unprecedented surge of new rules on private business, including the most expensive ever in the history of government by several orders of magnitude. A "major" regulation used to be defined as imposing costs of $100 million or more. The EPA now routinely issues multibillion-dollar rules with little more than a press release.
Ms. Jackson most notably cranked up clean-air regulation that will force a third or even as much as half of the U.S. coal-fired electric fleet out of existence. She also rewrote laws to declare carbon emissions a "dangerous pollutant" even though the laws were written in the 1970s. Along with other rules, including auto efficiency standards, she started a re-engineering of the U.S. energy system, without so much as a Congressional vote.
Ms. Jackson used her discretion to make these rules as aggressive and punitive as possible, even if they couldn't survive legal scrutiny. To the extent this surge contributed to business uncertainty and stole dollars otherwise available for private investment, Ms. Jackson's agenda explains why the economic recovery and job creation are weaker than they ought to be by historical standards. Take the champagne off ice.
Nothing like this was expected out of Ms. Jackson, a New Jersey political functionary under then-Governor Jon Corzine. She turned out to be a master power-politics operator. Her most consequential victory was steamrolling Cass Sunstein at the White House regulatory review office.
Mr. Sunstein was a promoter of sensible regulation only when the benefits justified the costs, and he often opposed Ms. Jackson's methods internally. When he succeeded in persuading the President to yank a purely discretionary EPA rule on ozone in 2011, Ms. Jackson went around town threatening to resign and make trouble for Mr. Obama among his environmental base.
Her authority was never challenged seriously again. The EPA now routinely rigs its estimates to exaggerate benefits—which all of a sudden include such shapeless concepts as racial justice and economic redistribution—and underestimate costs, when it admits costs exist at all.
Astonishingly enough, the green lobby regards Ms. Jackson's term as something of a disappointment, because she didn't do enough on the supposedly humanity-defining problem of global warming and compromised too often. We'd hate to see who they think should continue the revolution she started.See More David McKinley updated his cover photo.
Rep. McKinley meets with constituents and business leaders in Wetzel County at Quinet's Court Restaurant in New Martinsville. — at Quinet's Court Restaurant.
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- As Year-End Deadline Nears, U.S. Senate Plays Political Theater
Washington, D.C.—Rep. David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-W.Va.) released the following statement on the Senate’s lack of action on two House-passed bills:
“Instead of taking action to avert the tax increases and mandatory across-the-board cuts that will go into effect on January 1, the Senate continues to grandstand and use the final day...s of the year for political theater,” said Rep. McKinley. “The House has already passed two bills that could be used to avoid the increase in personal taxes and the across-the-board government spending reductions called for in the Budget Control Act of 2011, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has chosen to ignore them. The Senate can take immediate action and approve either of the bills and send them to the President, or amend them and send them back to the House for us to consider.”
“But as recent as this morning, Senator Reid stated that he will not act on either of the bills and has insisted the House take up the Senate-passed tax bill which would raise taxes on families and small businesses with incomes greater than $250,000,” stated Rep. McKinley. “But there is a problem with the Majority Leader’s demand: as my Democrat colleagues should understand, Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that ‘All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
“The bill originating in the Senate does NOT meet these constitutional criteria and it has NOT left the Senate Chamber,” added McKinley. “Surely the Senate Leadership is aware that this bill is being held in the Senate because it is unconstitutional. The bill was merely a futile act of political posturing and obstructionism. For Senator Harry Reid and others to call for the House to vote on this bill is disingenuous and a violation to the legislative process laid out in the Constitution.”
“I stand with my House colleagues ready to get back to work when the Senate abides by the Constitution, stops its obstruction and amends the House-passed legislation to avoid tax increases which could hurt our fragile economy and punish small businesses and middle class Americans,” added McKinley.See More David McKinley shared a link.
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