Congressman Kevin McCarthy

Representing the 23rd District of CALIFORNIA
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House Continues Work to Reform the VA

Mar 2, 2015 Press Release
"In the House’s continued efforts to provide compassionate care for our veterans and hold the VA accountable, we passed two bills by a unanimous vote today."
Issues:
Veterans Issues

Leader McCarthy Speaks at Veterans Summit on 21st Century VA

Feb 26, 2015 Press Release
Congressman Kevin McCarthy spoke at the Concerned Veterans of America summit on solutions to build a 21st Century VA that provides America’s veterans the proper care they deserve when returning home. Since 2006, McCarthy has made fighting for veterans in the Central Valley a top priority in office.
Issues:
Veterans Issues

House Votes to Strengthen College Savings Plans

Feb 25, 2015 Press Release
Congressman Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor today in favor of H.R. 529 to improve and expand education opportunity by strengthening 529 college savings accounts.
Issues:
Taxes

House’s Bipartisan Veteran Suicide Prevention Bill Signed Into Law

Feb 12, 2015 Press Release
"Our nation must do everything it can to help provide veterans access to mental health resources when they come home, and I thank the President for signing this bipartisan bill."
Issues:
Veterans Issues

House is Fighting for the Incentive to End Hunger

Feb 12, 2015 Press Release
"My wife and I go down to The Mission in Kern County. I see lives changed. I see all walks of life. I was down to serve at The Mission one day and a person that was just a couple lines behind it, in there to get food, went to the same elementary school as me and the same junior high and the same high school. That’s the greatness of this country—that we’re willing to help one another."
Issues:
Taxes

McCarthy: No One Wins In Port Shutdown

Feb 12, 2015 Press Release
Congressman Kevin McCarthy today joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to call for an end to the current labor dispute that is shutting down West Coast ports.
Issues:
Economy

Congressman McCarthy on the President’s Proposed AUMF to Combat ISIL

Feb 11, 2015 Press Release
“I have been supportive of efforts to give the Commander-in-Chief additional authorities to confront these growing challenges, but rather than expanding his legal authority to go after ISIL, the President seems determined to ask Congress to further restrict the authority of the U.S. military to confront this threat."
Issues:
National Security

McCarthy Statement on Interior Drought Announcement

Feb 9, 2015 Press Release
“California is facing the worst drought in over a century, and the Administration just doesn’t get that Californians want to solve this crisis with more water, not by simply treating the symptoms with more government intervention."
Issues:
Water

House Votes to Reduce Regulatory Burdens on Small Businesses

Feb 5, 2015 Press Release
Congressman Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor today in support of a regulatory reform bill that would help scale back the burdens on hardworking Americans and small businesses:
Issues:
Economy

A Dozen Bipartisan Anti-Human Trafficking Bills Are Heading to the Senate

Jan 27, 2015 Press Release
“Human trafficking affects hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable in the world."

In The News

Bakersfield Californian: Efforts To Ease Regulations Coming Up

Sep 2, 2011 In The News
By Kevin McCarthy
September 2, 2011

Bakersfield Californian: Release Of Lands Long Overdue

Aug 30, 2011 In The News
By Chris Horgan
August 30, 2011

Executive director of the Lake Isabella-based Stewards of the Sequoia, the largest-on-the-ground volunteer organization in Sequoia National Forest working to protect access for all forms of recreation.

AV News Today Online: An Impressive Statesman

Aug 29, 2011 In The News
By Mike Handley
August 29, 2011

Bakersfield Observed: McCarthy: Congress [Must] Give Up Its 'Tax, Spend And Regulate' Mentality

Aug 26, 2011 In The News
By Kevin McCarthy
August 26, 2011

Associated Press: Survey Shows More Economists Prefer Cuts Over Taxes

Aug 22, 2011 In The News
Associated Press
August 22, 2011

NEW YORK -- The majority of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics believe that the federal deficit should be reduced only or primarily through spending cuts.

Bakersfield Observed: McCarthy Sponsors A Bill That Would Rein In The EPA And Retract The $29 Million Fine For Valley Air

Aug 19, 2011 In The News
By Kevin McCarthy  
August 19, 2011

I have often written that reducing the size and scope of government is crucial to turning our economy around. Locally, I am fighting in two areas to reduce Washington's burdensome, job-crushing regulations.

Wall Street Journal: Gold Fever Stirs Ghost Town

Aug 18, 2011 In The News
By Justin Scheck
August 18, 2011

BODIE, Calif.—A push for gold mining to return to the scrubby hills around this Central California ghost town has tapped into a national debate over land use.

Bakersfield Observed: Special Report: McCarthy Lashes Out At Senate, President For Lack Of Leadership During The Debt Crisis

Jul 29, 2011 In The News
By Kevin McCarthy
July 29, 2011

MSNBC: GOP Whip Holds Firm To Balanced Budget Amendment

Jul 25, 2011 In The News
By Brooke Brower
July 25, 2011.

The Washington Post: What Boehner Said To The Caucus

Jul 24, 2011 In The News
By Jennifer Rubin
July 24, 2011

Opinion

From a source familiar with the call, this is what House Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans on Sunday:

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