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View from the Capitol: The payroll tax reduction extension
Posted Friday, February 17, at 8:43 PM Good Day! This week your elected representatives in the House and the Senate were able to come to an agreement which extends the payroll contribution reductions through the end of the year, passed important unemployment reforms, and ensured seniors and the disabled are still able to access health care by averting a 27% cut in the reimbursement rates for doctors of Medicare. Although I had hoped for even more reforms to these vital programs, I believe that it represents a needed start...
View From the Capitol: Birth control, labor regulations controversies Good Day, This has been a big week, fighting for you -- the good people of Missouri's Fourth District -- and listening to your concerns. As always, it was a privilege to be here on your behalf, advancing your priorities, and pushing back on onerous policies and regulations that would be harmful to you. The focus of one of my biggest concerns was on an assault to our Constitutional freedoms by the Obama Administration's Health and Human Services Department (HHS)...
View From the Capitol: Meeting with constituents, voting no on Congressional pay increase This past week, I had the opportunity to meet with many of you as I traveled through the 4th District. In Pulaski County, I hosted a jobs roundtable that was attended by small businessmen and women, local elected officials, and others who want to see more jobs created locally and across our country...
View From the Capitol: Progress for bill to aid small businesses This was a great week fighting for the common sense ideas and Heartland values embraced by citizens of Missouri's Fourth Congressional District. One of the highlights was passage of a bill I sponsored on behalf of farmers, small business owners, and manufacturers in our district. ...
View From the Capitol -- Opposition to Obama debt ceiling move, Keystone pipeline decision; support for caution on SOPA Efforts to rein in runaway spending and get our economy on the right track were dealt a serious blow, this week, when President Obama was allowed to increase our national debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. He took this unwise and irresponsible action despite the wishes of the House of Representatives which approved a resolution disapproving of the President's request for the increase. ...
ViewFrom the Capitol: Support for the Keystone pipeline project Good Day, Since I first began representing the people of Missouri's Fourth Congressional District a year ago, I have heard -- over and over -- of the need for America to become energy independent. I couldn't agree more. That is why I'm excited about a bipartisan, job-creating initiative that is awaiting presidential action. It's the Keystone XL Energy Pipeline which was first submitted for approval three years ago and now awaits President Obama's go ahead before it can get up and running...
View From the Capitol: Objecting to defense spending reduction The first full week of the year has not been a good one for America's national defense. President Obama announced a new defense strategy that House Armed Services Chairman "Buck" McKeon has appropriately described as "a lead from behind strategy for a left-behind America."...
View from the Capitol: On health care law, Protect Life Act and new bill summary As 2011 comes to a close and we move into 2012, the eyes of many Americans will soon zero in on the U.S. Supreme Court as it prepares to hold five-and-a-half hours of hearings over three days to determine the constitutionality of a number of components of the Obama health care takeover law. Among the issues to be determined by the High Court is the law's individual mandate...
On the payroll tax extension, Christmas celebrations The House came back to D.C. this Christmas week to do the people's work and ensure hardworking taxpayers are not faced with a payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2012. We did this by moving a one-year extension forward and appointing conferees to hammer out differences between the House and Senate versions of the payroll tax fix bill. ...
On the national defense bill, military equipment, middle class tax relief The House of Representatives took a critically important vote in support of America's national defense this week when it approved the National Defense Authorization Act to fund the military through the 2012 fiscal year. The legislation brings the total authorized funding for National Defense to $554 billion for the base budget and $115.5 billion for overseas contingency operations...
On flooding, DOD and gay marriage, reigning in regulation It's been a while since the waters of the Missouri River receded, but the threat of future flooding is first and foremost in the minds of many 4th District residents living along the river. With possible 2012 flooding on the horizon, the House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee met this week to assess the 2011 Missouri River flooding and to consider operational plans for the future...
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Vicky Hartzler is the U.S. representative for Missouri's 4th Congressional District. She was raised on a farm in Archie, and lives with her husband, Lowell and daughter, Tiffany, on a working farm in Cass County. She is a graduate of both the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1983 and Central Missouri State University (now University of Central Missouri) in 1992, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in Education from MU and a M.S. in Education from Central Missouri. For more information, visit http://hartzler.house.gov.
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