Tim Walberg

Hearing held on July 23, 2015

I was still hopeful that somehow this time might be different--that somehow the administration would listen to all of the concerns.

Recognizing this administration's propensity for executive overreach, I shared many of those same concerns.

Unfortunately, the proposal's anticipated consequences extend far beyond added costs and could have much more serious implications for many Americans.

I thank the gentleman for the opportunity tonight to talk to this issue. I, too, stand in full support of passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and ask the Senate to reach down deep into their consciences, their hearts…

As former vice chair of the corrections committee in Michigan's legislature, and during a time when I saw Michigan go from, if I recollect, 17 prisons to 36 prisons, rapid expansion, with no resultant success in dealing with crime in the…

this is a well-intentioned policy that was designed to take money and assets from, like, drug cartels before they could hide them

I thank you for allowing me the time to speak this morning in support of my legislation, H.R. 272, the Medal of Honor Priority Care Act of 2015.

I believe to be a common-sense, I hope noncontroversial and certainly bipartisan piece of legislation.

All veterans deserve access to the healthcare they have earned.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: limitation on funds Sec. __. None of…

I urge support, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment Offered by Mr. Peters

I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. It is the law, and that is all I am trying to substantiate, but I have read to you not from an organ of the conservative Republican Party side, but from The New York Times. They also went on to…

My amendment tells the Environmental Protection Agency to follow the law and clearly establishes the view of Congress that the EPA cannot lobby on behalf of the waters of the U.S. rule, in violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act. Over the past…

On June 30, 2015, DMCS was re-categorized as low risk. Is your testimony today here under oath that these contracting issues are fully addressed?

Lois Lerner sat at that very table and pled the Fifth.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

In the 21st century workplace where women account for nearly half of the workforce, it is vital that our policies reflect today's new realities. Specifically, the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, PDA, is in need of modernization…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 130, beginning line 2, strike ``Provided'' and all that follows through line 17. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. 10003. None of the funds made available by this…

I appreciate the words, the sentiments, the compassion of both my colleagues; but this is an issue that we have addressed for quite some time. It is not new. I am as concerned about our administration of the funds, our Department of…

The gentlelady's time is expired. Appreciate the exchange there.

The last thing policymakers should do, including those in the administration, is to make a bad regulatory system worse.

It does need some updating. It needs to get into the real world of today.

We will have tension. We always will. It is part of America.