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Tim Walberg

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Tim Walberg is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district, a position he has held since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Walberg has focused on various issues during his tenure, including education and fiscal policy. He has been vocal about the challenges facing education in the United States, recently commenting on the decline in NAEP scores in subjects like math and reading.

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Mar 21, 2017

the 2015 standard for ozone, NAAQS, as a regulation that could be harmful in making investment in infrastructure that we sorely need.

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Mar 20, 2017

I have supported legislation in the last two Congresses introduced by my colleague, Pat Tiberi, called the STOP Act.

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Mar 20, 2017

It is clear from your testimony and the questions that you live in a world that is difficult, frustrating, challenging, ugly.

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Mar 20, 2017

I mean, it is great to have a border neighbor that generally we can work pretty well with.

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Mar 14, 2017

Having those both happen concurrently is a great idea, and really it is the way to ensure that these happen in a timely manner.

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Mar 14, 2017

So, certainly, we support regulatory modernization across the whole range of regulation that we face.

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Mar 2, 2017

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concluded the EPA overstepped and issued a report saying the EPA violated the law and undertook ``covert propaganda'' and grassroots lobbying during the process. My bill simply seeks to…

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Mar 2, 2017

I thank my colleague for leading this floor debate today. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my bipartisan bill, H.R. 1004, the Regulatory Integrity Act of 2017. Regardless of the chatter that I believe simply confuses what we want…

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Feb 28, 2017

Small businesses continue to drop coverage.

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Feb 28, 2017

We can make up all of the opportunities that would go in the wrong direction, in fact, and forget about the fact that did happen with the Affordable Care Act.

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Feb 28, 2017

The cost of health insurance is the principal reason that small businesses do not offer coverage.

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Feb 28, 2017

I want to thank my colleagues, HELP Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg and Representative Phil Roe, as well as a former member of this committee, Representative Sam Johnson, for their leadership on several of the reforms we will discuss…

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Feb 28, 2017

All these desperate tactics are aimed at protecting a failed law that has resulted in nearly 5 million Americans losing the health care they like and were promised they could keep.

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Feb 28, 2017

We must change course. That is why House Republicans are on a rescue mission not only to save families struggling under ObamaCare.

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Feb 28, 2017

To hear our colleagues speak, you would think that we have Simon Legree running every company in this country.

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Feb 28, 2017

We must change course. That's why House Republicans are on a rescue mission not only to save families struggling under Obamacare.

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Feb 28, 2017

Everything the Republicans predicted about ObamaCare has come true because we were actually reading a bill that was written in the back rooms of the people in charge of the Democrat Party at the time, no Republicans voted for it.

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Feb 28, 2017

What the ObamaCare bill did was coerce people into buying insurance they did not need.

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Feb 28, 2017

We believe patients, not Washington bureaucrats, should be in charge of their healthcare decisions.

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Feb 27, 2017

And it's exactly why we were so frustrated that the IOC refused to take any meaningful sanctions against the system that abused their own athletes in this process.

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Feb 16, 2017

We have seen more troubling signs this week that things continue to get worse under the healthcare law. Humana announced they are dropping out of the ObamaCare marketplace next year. The CEO of Aetna said that ObamaCare is in a ``death…

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Feb 15, 2017

Thank you to my colleagues that are still here, colleagues here in Congress who joined with in helping the Michigan delegation.

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Feb 15, 2017

It was an important issue to deal with.

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