Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Department of Labor’s June unemployment report that the U.S. economy lost nearly 467,000 jobs in June, bringing the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent:
“When President Obama spoke to Congress on February 24th, he said ‘the recovery plan and the financial stability… Read more »
Following criticism from a range of Congressional Democrats that the Obama Administration has ignored the needs of rural Americans, the White House yesterday announced that:
“President Obama has directed many members of his Cabinet to begin what it describes as a ‘listening tour’ of rural America this summer...”
After House Democrats passed the National Energy Tax… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today after passage of H.R. 2454, the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Legislation:
“Congressional Democrats just dealt a devastating blow to America’s already fragile economy. History will show that in the middle of a serious recession, Speaker Pelosi’s number one priority was to… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) spoke on the House floor today urging Members to vote against the Democrats’ National Energy Tax that will decimate America’s economy. Full video and text of the speech follows:
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“Madame Speaker, this bill was written in a fantasyland where unemployment isn’t reaching 10… Read more »
Today, as the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Bill (H.R.2454), Republicans stood up for Rural Americans who will be disproportionately affected by this legislation:
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“This bill will destroy the livelihoods of those who live and work in rural America. Those who work every day to consistently provide our nation and… Read more »
A Vote of “Historic Proportions?” We Agree.
Today, President Obama said:
“Right now, the House of Representatives is moving towards a vote of historic proportions….”
We agree.
When Speaker Pelosi holds a vote tomorrow on the National Energy Tax bill (H.R. 2454) – it will be a vote of historic proportions.
Unfortunately, that’s because history will show that as America’s… Read more »
Today, after the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed that the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 5.5 percent from January to March, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding how the Democrats’ National Energy Tax bill (H.R. 2454) will further decimate America’s economy:
“The news that America’s… Read more »
Ranking Republican
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
On Monday, Democrat Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released an updated 1,200 page National Energy Tax bill. Unfortunately, the bill continues to contain a variety of measures that will devastate our economy and worsen the recession.
In addition to… Read more »
On June 22, 2009, House Democrat Leaders released an updated 1,200 page Waxman-Markey “Cap and Tax” bill (H.R. 2454) that is expected to come to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as early as Friday, June 26th.
In addition to forcing a massive new National Energy Tax upon the American people, buried in this legislation are provisions that impose even more economic punishment… Read more »
