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  • Cultural Restitution

    01/31/14
    On Dec. 5, 2013, Rep. Granger introduced H.R. 3658, The Monuments Men Recognition Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation would honor the Monuments Men of World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.
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  • Pittenger, Foxx take issue with president's promises

    01/31/14
    U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, who represents the remainder of Iredell, also attended the State of the Union address and criticized the president for continuing his trend of delivering speeches full of platitudes in support of a long list of policy goals that the White House will immediately forget.
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  • South Dakota's delegation fighting changes to ethanol standard

    01/31/14
    That letter was signed by Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., who has led House opposition to proposed changes. The letter says that the changes could put the renewable fuel industry at risk. "The significant reduction in renewable volume obligations under this proposed rule could destabilize the renewable fuel industry and send the wrong message to investors," the letter reads. "This risks jobs and threatens the development of advanced and cellulosic biofuels that bring higher-level ethanol and biodiesel blends to consumers."
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  • Residents feel pinch of propane

    01/30/14
    On the federal front, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-2nd, and other Hoosier lawmakers sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx requesting that they extend an emergency exemption of limits on fuel delivery drivers' work hours. The exemption is set to expire Feb. 11, but lawmakers want to ensure there is no disruption in deliveries. Nearly 10 percent of Hoosiers use propane for residential heating, and Attorney General Greg Zoeller said he doesn't want them taken advantage of.
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  • Five-year farm bill heads to Senate

    01/30/14
    "We have a product in front of us that's not only good for producers, it's good for consumers. It secures our food supply into the future, which is one of the safest in the world," Rep. Kristi Noem said. "Now is the time to bring the farm bill home."
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  • Rep. Herrera touts victory in battle against logging road EIS reviews

    01/30/14
    Southwest Washington Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler announced this week that her bill avoid costly environmental reviews for building and maintaining logging roads will be included in a bipartisan agriculture funding package. The bill would spare the U.S. Forest Service and private timber companies from obtaining thousands of environmental permits for logging roads, a process that would cost $883 million annually in the Pacific Northwest alone, according to Herrera Beutler, a Camas Republican.
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  • Walorski, Coats respond to president's State of Union Address

    01/29/14
    Congresswoman Jackie Walorski Tuesday night released a video response to President Obama's State of the Union address.
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  • Representative Miller comments on President's speech

    01/29/14
    U.S. Representative Candice Miller of Michigan says that while she disagrees with much of what President Obama said in his State of the Union address she does agree that there is a need for joint cooperation when it comes to growing the economy and creating jobs.
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  • McMorris Rodgers delivers calculated rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union

    01/29/14
    The Eastern Washington Republican's response to the State of the Union was a clearly calculated rebuttal. Giving the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address was the five-term representative's biggest, although not her first, turn on a national political stage.
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  • Obama addresses income inequality in State of the Union address

    01/29/14
    Alabama Rep. Martha Roby had this to say following Obama's speech: "Everyone knows President Obama is a gifted speaker, but too often his rhetoric doesn't match reality. He brags about the unemployment rate, but fails to mention that participation in the labor force is at its lowest level since the 70s."
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  • Obama to visit Cities After State of the Union

    01/28/14
    U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn seemed not to take that advice when she issued a statement telling Obama to take a look around at Nashville's thriving economy and advising him that "our success is not a result of your failed policies.''
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  • Super Bowl XLVIII: Sex traffickers targeted in countdown to big game

    01/28/14
    "Online customers choose websites like Backpage and other advertisers to order an underage girl to their hotel room as easily as if they were ordering a delivery pizza," Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) said.
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  • Meet the GOP's Supermom Cathy McMorris Rodgers

    01/28/14
    U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers has spent many afternoons rocking a baby in a bassinet in her Cannon Building office–or toting one onto the floor of Congress. Her son, Cole, who was born in 2007 and diagnosed with Down syndrome, made her the first serving member of Congress to have a baby in over a decade.
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  • Ros-Lehtinen to deliver State of the Union response in Spanish

    01/28/14
    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, will deliver her party's response to the State of the Union address in Spanish.
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  • Florida congresswoman to give Spanish response to Obama

    01/28/14
    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban American elected to Congress, will respond to President Obama's State of the Union Address in Spanish. The Florida Republican, first elected in 1989, will be working off remarks by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, who has been tapped to give the official GOP rebuttal on Tuesday night.
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  • Rep. Candice Miller meets with Tuscola County students, educators

    01/25/14
    U.S. Representative Candice Miller paid a visit to Caro on Thursday, taking a couple hours to tour the Tuscola Technology Center, 1401 Cleaver Road in Caro. The visit was part of the congresswoman's District Work Week, during which she met with residents from Michigan's 10th district, which includes Huron, Lapeer, Macomb, St. Clair, Sanilac and Tuscola counties.
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  • How the pro-life movement is winning American hearts and minds

    01/25/14
    "Think about it – in 2008, more children died from abortion than Americans died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean, Vietnam and Gulf War combined," said Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler in an impassioned speech on the National Mall during the rally held on Jan. 22. "This must stop!"
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  • Rep. Hartzler: More Americans Aborted in 2008 Than Died in 7 Wars Combined

    01/24/14
    Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), speaking at the 40th annual March for Life on the National Mall on Wednesday, said more Americans were killed through abortion than died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam and Gulf War combined.
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  • Herrera Beutler gathering focuses on immigration

    01/24/14
    Immigration reform is a task that should be tackled with a systematic, piece-by-piece approach in Congress in the coming year, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler told a small gathering in Vancouver on Thursday.
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  • Obama Admin Chides GOP, Warns of Another Shutdown without Debt Ceiling Increase

    01/24/14
    Rep. Diane Black, Tennessee Republican and a member of the House Budget Committee, criticized Mr. Obama for yet another delay. "This is another sad reminder of just how un-serious this president is about tackling our nation's fiscal challenges, and I hope this does not signal a return to years past where Senate Democrats fail to pass a budget plan at all," Mrs. Black said.
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  • GOP Taps its Top Woman, Mom of Three, for Obama Rebuttal

    01/24/14
    Most of the national television audience hasn't heard of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Washington, D.C. and the standard-bearer tasked with delivering the GOP response to President Barack Obama's address. But Republicans hope that she'll make an impression with her unapologetically conservative message, her journey from humble origins to the U.S. Capitol, and her family-friendly biography as a busy mother of three young children.
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  • Potential for Gas Price Increase If Oil Ban Lifted

    01/24/14
    LUMMIS: "I am an advocate quite frankly for natural gas exports because we have such a tremendous glut of natural gas and the price is so low it discourages exploration."
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  • Congressional visits a good thing for Pike County

    01/23/14
    We applaud Rep. Roby for taking the time to stop by Pike County on her trip through her Congressional district. Rep. Roby could have easily chosen to speak at events in more densely populated areas, like Troy (pop 18,264). , but, instead, she chose to spend time in tiny Banks (pop. 180). We believe this shows that Rep. Roby is concerned with hearing every citizen's views.
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  • Noem: D.C. will debate sex trafficking bills this year

    01/23/14
    Rep. Kristi Noem says House leaders have committed to bringing bills to combat sex trafficking to the floor for debate this year. Noem is the prime sponsor of a bill that would make clear that people who pay for sex can be charged with human trafficking under existing federal criminal statutes.
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  • U.S. Delegation to Press Issues Like Climate Change and Syria

    01/22/14
    Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, is leading a delegation of House Republicans to the mountain resort, including Kay Granger and Jeb Hensarling of Texas; Darrell Issa of California; Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.
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  • Jenkins lauds Mental Health First Aid funding

    01/21/14
    Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) praised the Mental Health First Aid program on Friday, which would receive $15 million in funding from the House-passed Consolidated Appropriations Act. The Mental Health First Aid pilot program trains people to respond to individuals who are developing a mental health problem or are experiencing a mental health crisis. The training is designed to help caregivers indentify, understand and respond to mental illnesses and substance abuse issues.
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  • Herrera Beutler Helps Shape Federal Spending Legislation

    01/21/14
    Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, voted in favor of the bill, and as a member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, helped shape the 12 appropriations bills that make up the plan, she said in a news release.
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  • Thousands Take Part In Annual MLK Parade, Festival In Liberty City

    01/20/14
    "The discrimination is still around. You can't think ‘Oh we have a black president, everything is fine'. There's discrimination in the workplace for many ethnicities," said U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
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  • World's most wanted hacker' SLAMS Obamacare website security

    01/17/14
    The White House has opposed a House bill to require the administration to provide Congress with weekly reports on Obamacare website functionality problems and other Obamacare issues. As The Daily Caller reported this week, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has failed to provide a plan to guard against website security breaches and Obamacare-related fraud, according to Republican Rep. Diane Black.
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  • Manchin, Capito seek answers from Centers for Disease Control

    01/17/14
    Second District Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin sent a joint letter to the CDC on Thursday asking it to further explain whether pregnant women should drink water in the Kanawha Valley following the contamination crisis that impacted thousands of residents in nine counties.
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  • US Lawmakers Call for Surveillance Reforms

    01/17/14
    "I do think it has done damage to the United States abroad," said Representative Cynthia Lummis. "I would like to see a more rational basis for collecting that kind of data." Lummis is co-sponsor of a House bill that would require U.S. intelligence agencies to notify Congress of their total budgets for intelligence gathering each year. She says more transparency is needed.
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  • Right to Boehner: Be bold on 2014 agenda

    01/15/14
    "This is no time for Republicans to duck in a foxhole. This is the time for Republicans to lead," Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Wednesday at an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. "I don't want to see us just come up with a vision," Lummis said. "I want to see us devote considerable floor time in this calendar year to implementing that vision."
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  • Hartzler co-sponsoring legislation to repeal reductions in military retirement pensions

    01/15/14
    Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) is taking action to repeal the reductions in military retirement pensions that were part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. She is co-sponsoring legislation that will replace the $6 billion cut to military retiree pensions with a requirement that Social Security numbers be provided by people claiming the child tax credit on their income tax returns.
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  • In closed-door briefings, lawmakers express disbelief about military inaction in Benghazi

    01/15/14
    On Monday, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations – chaired last year by Alabama Rep. Martha Roby – released hundreds of pages of transcripts from briefings that took place over the course of several months on Benghazi. Many pages – containing classified material – were redacted. On Monday, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations – chaired last year by Alabama Rep. Martha Roby – released hundreds of pages of transcripts from briefings that took place over the course of several months on Benghazi. Many pages – containing classified material – were redacted.
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  • House Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

    01/15/14
    "We stand with Speaker Boehner and the other leadership," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). "We stand for conservative principles, [but] we realize that within the family we're not going to get everything we want."
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  • Republicans claim victory in net neutrality ruling

    01/14/14
    House Commerce Committee Vice-Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called the agency's "egregious" net neutrality rules "socialist regulations." "This ruling is a historic victory for America's innovators and the free market," she said in a statement.
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  • Noem criticizes Democrats' leadership on economy

    01/14/14
    Rep. Kristi Noem on Tuesday criticized the Democrats' handling of the economy, saying South Dakota's low unemployment rate is proof that her Republican Party is a better steward of the nation's finances. "South Dakota right now has an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent. ... We're one of the fastest- growing states in the country," Noem said. "And we have a Republican governor.
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  • Hartzler visits Fort Leonard Wood

    01/14/14
    U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler visited Fort Leonard Wood Monday to meet with U.S Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, who was touring the installation for the first time. After her conference with Odierno, Hartzler, a member of the Armed Services Committee, stopped by KJPW to talk with local media members about her recent visit and developments in the Fort Leonard Wood area.
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  • Congress to intelligence community: Show me the money

    01/14/14
    A bipartisan group of members of congress is asking the White House to declassify the so-called black budget, the budget that funds intelligence operations and make public the amount of money spent on by each agency involved. There are 16 agencies that are involved in intelligence for the U.S., and the budget for doing so cannot be found anywhere in the 1,500-page appropriations bill that congress will vote on this week. Rather, their budgets are considered classified, kept secret from Americans and even from most members of congress.
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  • VA opts to follow 2011 proposal

    01/14/14
    "This is not the decision any of us wanted to see the Secretary make, nor was it the decision our veterans and the Hot Springs community deserved," Noem wrote. "Ensuring the Hot Springs VA can continue to deliver the best possible healthcare to South Dakota veterans has been a top priority during my time in Congress."
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  • Granger calls for briefing on Iran nuclear deal

    01/14/14
    Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) said on Sunday that she has reservations about the implementation and tenets of the nuclear agreement reached between six world powers and Iran. The agreement called for Iran to halt portions of its nuclear program in exchange for loosened economic sanctions while negotiations continue.
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  • Congresswoman: No plan to fight Obamacare subsidies fraud, security breaches

    01/13/14
    Sebelius' plan "prohibits Americans from knowing what their health care costs will be" and fails to provide a "privacy and security plan" to prevent fraud and abuse that could cost taxpayers nearly $250 billion, Tennessee Republican Rep. Diane Black wrote in a letter to Sebelius provided to The Daily Caller.
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  • Hundreds of Thousands Getting Help After Water Crisis in Lower Counties

    01/12/14
    "All of the different volunteers and help from around the state is amazing. People are coming from Morgantown and other areas to try to bring in water to help this area. We're very appreciative of it. It's what we do as West Virginians. Hopefully, this will be over soon," said Shelley Moore Capito, Congress member for the second district.
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  • Odierno plans to visit post Monday

    01/11/14
    "I am pleased to welcome General Ray Odierno to Fort Leonard Wood and Pulaski County," Hartzler said. "Citizens of Missouri's Fourth Congressional District are proud to be home to one of our country's preeminent military installations. Monday's visit by the Army's highest-ranking officer highlights the importance of Fort Leonard Wood to the U.S. Army and to securing America's national security."
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  • Capito: New carbon dioxide limits hurt energy policy

    01/09/14
    Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) recently said that carbon dioxide limits for power plants published by the EPA on Wednesday contradict "all of the above" energy policy strategies and will drive up energy costs. The EPA's greenhouse gas emission regulations set separate carbon dioxide emissions standards for new coal and natural gas power plants.
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  • EPA overrides Congress, hands over town to Indian tribes

    01/08/14
    "The EPA's decision has in effect overturned a law that has been governing land and relationships for more than 100 years," wrote Wyoming Sens Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, along with Rep. Cynthia Lummis. "We are also very concerned about the political ramifications this decision could have for the tribes and the state of Wyoming."
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  • Rep. Diane Black again pushes to close immigration-rights advocacy office

    01/08/14
    Saying the Obama administration is ignoring a direct order from Congress, a congresswoman has introduced legislation that would – once again – eliminate the Obama administration's official immigration-rights advocacy office. Rep. Diane Black, Tennessee Republican, thought she'd nixed the office last year when Congress passed a spending bill defunding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Public Advocate.
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  • Lawmakers Seek Carve-Out in Volcker Rule

    01/08/14
    Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who chairs the House Financial Service Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, is sponsoring a bill that would exempt the securities from the Volcker Rule, according to a draft copy of the legislation.
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  • Thousands In NC Abuse Free Cell Phone Program, Have Multiple Phones

    01/08/14
    And according to FCC more than 78,000 people in our state have more than one phone. The FCC caught the misuse, turned off the phones and saved North Carolina cell phone users $9.1 million dollars. "There needs to be a better way to monitor that and stop that from happening," said U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx. Foxx is co-sponsoring legislation to abolish the federal Lifeline phone program.
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  • VA to do study on closing Hot Springs facility

    01/08/14
    Members of South Dakota's congressional delegation say they're disappointed that the Department of Veterans Affairs is taking another step toward closing the VA campus in Hot Springs.
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  • Rep. Blackburn to Newsmax: Jobless Benefits Face Trouble in House

    01/07/14
    The Senate's narrowly approved extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless "would be very difficult to pass in the House," Rep. Marsha Blackburn told Newsmax on Tuesday. "Conservatives are not in favor of passing it, certainly not without offsets," the Tennessee Republican said in an exclusive interview.
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  • VA Commits To Support Classes For Nearly 1,000 Tennessee Veterans

    01/07/14
    Rep. Black said, "I commend the VA for reversing this decision and agreeing to this essential funding to help our Tennessee veterans. We must do all we can to help our nation's finest receive quality educations and good jobs upon returning from service, and this decision is a necessary step in the right direction. I thank Senators Alexander and Corker and Congressman Roe for their help protecting the best interests of our servicemen, and of our local community colleges as well."
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  • Miller warns of ACA cybersecurity threats

    01/06/14
    Amid a number of high-profile cases of data breaches, Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.) expressed concern on Thursday with the security of the Affordable Care Act's online healthcare exchange. Miller, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, noted that security concerns voiced in hearings about the website have not been addressed, and personal information could be in danger of being hacked.
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  • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Hits Castro Regime For Jailing Activists

    01/06/14
    U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., came out swinging at the Castro regime ruling Communist Cuba after reports emerged that democracy activists such as Berta Soler of the Ladies in White and Jose Daniel Ferrer of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU in Spanish) were arrested.
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