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Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Rep. Tom Graves have called for restrictions on travel to and from West Africa in order to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency is overstepping its bounds with the agency's efforts to implement a new rule that would expand regulatory authority over many of the nation's streams and wetlands, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-South Pittsburg, said Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s planned exit from office has two delighted Southeast Tennessee Republican congressmen almost giddy, but a Democratic lawmaker from Memphis is hailing Holder, the first black to become the federal government’s top lawyer, for his work on civil rights and criminal justice reform.
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, issued the following statement on the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will resign from the Department of Justice:
Members of Congress are seething over Lois Lerner’s decision to speak with the press, but not with them, after the key figure in the IRS scandal gave an interview to Politico and proclaimed her innocence.
DesJarlais, R-South Pittsburg, was one of about two dozen conservative House members who started questioning the law in late 2011. They said its wording authorized the Internal Revenue Service to issue subsidies in the form of tax breaks — as well as tax penalties for employers not offering coverage — only in states that set up their own health care exchanges or markets.
Rep. Scott Desjarlais, R-Tenn., pointed out that $10 million to $30 million was not much compared to the $89 million the IRS paid in bonuses last year, including $1 million to employees who actually owed back taxes.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais also spent time with students from his district outside the capitol to answer questions on current political issues and for photos.
A federal court is about to rule on an argument against President Barack Obama's health care reform law that resembles one Rep. Scott DesJarlais advanced more than two years ago.
Congressman Scott DesJarlais, MD, TN-04, today cosponsored H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act of 2013, introduced by Congressman Rob Woodall, GA-7.