Washington, DC — Congressman Kevin Brady released the following statement on the President’s final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program: “Congress will have time to assess the proposed Iran agreement, but clearly this is not about Republican versus Democrats, it’s about true security versus false security at a key moment in global history. Does President Obama’s agreement stop Iran’s nuclear capability for the long term? Does it prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East? And does i...
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Washington. DC — Congressman Kevin Brady released the following statement on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Director Andy Slavitt’s response to a letter from the Congressman and Ways and Means members requesting more information on the agency’s contingency plan ahead of the implementation of the 10th revision of the International Classification Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-10), a coding system used by doctors and health-care providers. “While I am pleased to see the...
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, made the following statement based upon today’s release of Employment Situation Report for June 2015 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which reported an increase of 223,000 nonfarm payroll jobs (all in the private sector) and the unemployment rate declined to 5.3 percent. BLS also reported that the labor force participation rate declined to 62.6 percent, the lowest level since Octo...
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“No family or small business wants to pay more for electricity because of Washington red tape. This decision is a blessing for those who simply can’t afford to pay more.”
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"My strong, sincerely-held belief is that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. The Supreme Court should have upheld the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, and left this principled issue to the voters and their elected representatives in each state."
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“This Supreme Court ought to get an Olympic gold medal for the torturous legal gymnastics it displays shoring up the unconstitutional and unworkable Affordable Care Act.
Apparently words in law simply don’t matter."
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“Raising Americans utility bills with more Washington red tape is the wrong way forward. Too many families and businesses are already struggling and they don’t need higher costs in the name of Global Warming. Reining in the overreaching EPA and allowing governors to put their electricity grid’s reliability and the needs of their citizens first just makes good common sense.”
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“I am standing up for seniors in my congressional district who rely on Medicare. We will not give unelected Washington bureaucrats unlimited power to ration health care payments for Medicare treatment. We are fully repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board and challenge Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to help protect America’s seniors.”
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America doesn’t increase access to affordable health care by taxing pacemakers, artificial joints, heart valves and MRI machines. By voting to repeal this tax, the House is working to save almost 40,000 good paying American jobs and save patients higher costs on medical devices.
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, made the following statement upon today’s Statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which indicates the FOMC is moving closer to normalizing monetary policy. “The Fed has been successful in producing a boom on Wall Street that has left most of Main Street America behind. It’s time for the Fed to begin reducing the size of its bloated balance sheet and clearly signal ...
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