Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee made the following comment on a new Joint Economic Committee staff analysis of federal revenues. “If ever there was proof that ‘Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem’, this is it. The federal government is gorging on the earnings of hardworking taxpayers, and yet President Obama and congressional Democrats demand more. Washington has all the money it n...
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Washington, DC — Today U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, Chairman of the Health Subcommittee of Ways and Means, released a letter to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood of America Inc., requesting information on the number of fetal organs and tissues they have harvested over the last three years. “Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life as I am, Americans have agreed that harvesting the organs and tissues of aborted babies for profit or compensation is both une...
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee issued the following statement on the today’s release by Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) that real GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent during the 2nd-quarter of 2015. “The Obama recovery’s failure on growth is even worse than previously reported. Without stronger growth, good jobs will remain in short supply and incomes will continue to stagnate.” Economy Smaller than Previo...
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Washington, DC — U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 427, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2015, which would require Congress to give final approval over any major rule that costs more than $100 million. “Red tape from Washington is strangling Main Street and middle class America. It’s one of the key reasons America is suffering with the most disappoin...
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Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the following statement on the 50th anniversary of Medicare, an insurance program that aids more than 50 million American seniors and disabled. “Medicare is a critically important health care program but it faces insolvency in a short 15 years. Republicans and Democrats need to work together, to act now to save Medicare for the long term. Our seniors and futur...
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Washington, DC — Congressman Kevin Brady, (R-TX), released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 3009, The Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act which withholds federal funds from local governments that do not abide by current law enforcement laws when dealing with criminal suspects living in the U.S. illegally: “When an undocumented immigrant is arrested for criminal behavior in your community, should local politicians intentionally ignore the law and block their police from report...
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Washington, DC — Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), released the following statement on the Planned Parenthood video describing the sale of fetal body parts. “Planned Parenthood doesn’t deserve Federal funding; they are responsible for more than 30,000 abortions each year preventing thousands of families who choose adoption, like mine, from raising healthy and happy babies. Recent revelations give Congress all the more reason to defund Planned Parenthood and any companies that buy and sell the bod...
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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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