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Andy Harris is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as healthcare and fiscal policy during his tenure in Congress. Harris has been an outspoken critic of the Affordable Care Act, often advocating for its repeal and replacement with alternative healthcare solutions. He has also been involved in discussions surrounding budgetary matters and government spending.
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 62, after line 2, insert the following new section: Sec. 609. None of the funds made available by this…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 23, line 4, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $6,000,000)''. Page 62, line 2, after the…
What happens when a fisherman retires, and when they decide that they don't want to do it anymore?
The only investing going on now are foreign governments, including China, investing our bonds because we are running a $1.5 trillion deficit.
As if businesses weren't struggling enough with the worst recession since the Great Depression, some Washington bureaucrat decided it was a good idea to distract the real job creators of our country from doing what they do best--create…
$17 million, Ms. Stoner. That's the President's increase. Anne Arundel County alone has a fiscal year 2012 share--that's one of my 12 counties...their share alone is $200 million.
Ms. Stoner, it takes money. It's a huge unfunded mandate. The local jurisdictions don't have the money. You are not going to have the money. We're broke.
What's the EPA's plans? Are they going to take the local jurisdictions to court in order to force an increase in property taxes?
The local jurisdiction can't afford that mandate. Anne Arundel County can't afford the $1.87 billion mandate.
If there is no funding. If there is no Federal funding, that community has to come up with the dough?
What took 2 years to implement a rule that milk spills on a dairy farm should not come under oil disaster response plans?
I don't know what you have done to gain the ire of so many hardworking people in my district, but you have.
They can't afford a 50 percent increase in their taxes from an unfunded mandate coming from a faceless bureaucrat.
I look forward to a spirited hearing today, as it should be whenever we're talking about something as important as clean water.
H.R. 1 actually will improve the job environment in the United States, not make it worse.
As a physician delivering care in labor and delivery for 26 years, I know that the last thing we need is a new government bureaucrat looking over our shoulders when I am in that delivery room administering an anesthetic to a mother for an…
The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Policies intended to mitigate climate change and conventional pollution with the use of corn-ethanol have backfired badly. Rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions, poorly-thought out ethanol mandates have increased them.
As more and more of our nation's public policy decisions involve the use of complex scientific information, it becomes more and more important that our policymaking institutions make use of such information in a process that is free of…
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