Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler today voted for the proposed 2012 House GOP Budget. Below are some of the common attacks on those who voted for this budget – and the facts on what this budget actually does.
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Today Jaime Herrera Beutler applauded her colleagues in the U.S. Senate for voting to get rid of the harmful “1099 mandate,” a repeal effort she co-sponsored and voted for in House.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler today sent a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seeking answers regarding a troubling pattern of Clark County foreclosures resulting from the failure of the Bank of Clark County. After the Bank of Clark County failed in 2009, a number of Clark County borrowers – many of them construction developers – have lost their properties to foreclosure. Other Clark County community members are scrambling to avoid the same fate at hands of the loan...
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Last year, I put more miles on my 1998 Ford Explorer than I thought possible, driving around Southwest Washington in my run for Congress. In all communities and during every meeting I was given the same directive: put Washington, D.C.'s focus on jobs. The pages of The Daily News just days ago gave us another reminder why jobs is the most pressing topic in every corner of Southwest Washington. The headline read, "State reports 12.8 percent January jobless rate in Cowlitz County." Southwest Washin...
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Today Jaime Herrera Beutler voted with a majority of her colleagues to successfully pass H.R. 4, a bill she cosponsored to repeal the harmful “1099 mandate.” This onerous paperwork burden would be a major barrier to job creators in Southwest Washington. The expanded paperwork requirement was initially adopted as a method to pay for last year’s government health care overhaul, and further expanded to pay for last fall’s mini-stimulus plan. The repeal of this mandate will reduce the deficit by $16...
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Last year, for the first time in history, Congress failed to pass a budget. That means Americans had no way of knowing how much of our money Congress intended to spend or where they intended to spend it. Taxpaying citizens, many of them unemployed or underemployed, were financially responsible for what basically amounted to a blank check for Washington, DC. Even more troubling was that Congress perpetrated this lack of fiscal planning after years of overspending. Americans have been losing jobs ...
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