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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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Jul 22, 2013

If I might, the distinguished ranking member mentioned the efforts in the House to repeal Obamacare...

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Jul 22, 2013

The decision to delay enforcement of the employer mandate is the confirmation that the law is in fact, and I quote a senator, 'A train wreck'.

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Jul 22, 2013

It will shatter not only our hard earned health benefits but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.

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Jul 22, 2013

We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines as this law imposes increased benefit costs, fees, and new taxes on our plans.

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Jul 22, 2013

It would have been nice to have had it at a reasonable time before action was taken in a blog by the President.

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Jul 22, 2013

I believe we can do better than misguided policies that destroy full-time jobs.

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Jul 22, 2013

I can't think of another federal law that considers full-time work as 30 hours.

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Jul 22, 2013

It seems with each passing day there are new reports of employers facing tough choices thanks to this particular provision in the health care law.

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Jul 22, 2013

I want to say thank you to Dr. Holtz-Eakin, Ms. Turner, and Mr. Richardson for defending that truth of what private enterprise is about;

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Jul 22, 2013

Too few people see free enterprise as a healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon.

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Jul 22, 2013

the sky is falling argument doesn't cut it.

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Jul 22, 2013

The President's health care law is the first and only federal law that considers a full-time employee is one that works 30 hours a week or more.

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Jul 22, 2013

Mr. Richardson, if your employees like their health care coverage, will they be able to keep it?

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Jul 22, 2013

it is real live people that we ought to be concerned with.

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Jul 18, 2013

I thank my chairman. Mr. Chairman, our children are being held back by an outdated, cumbersome, and overbearing Federal system. It's clearly not working. Statistics show that only 34 percent of our eighth graders are proficient in reading…

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Jul 17, 2013

They deserve some kind of a treatment. They deserve, you know, timeliness.

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Jul 17, 2013

Do you think it was pretextual for Ms. Lerner to label these applications as advocacy cases when they were really Tea Party cases?

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Jul 17, 2013

Every taxpayer deserved an answer because if the answer is negative, they have other avenues they can pursue.

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Jul 17, 2013

We know that not to be the case. My constituents, the groups in question, those being targeted, the evidence we have uncovered so far and continue to look for, says differently.

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Jul 17, 2013

We can only hope it was resources and manpower.

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Jul 17, 2013

I thank my colleague from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, this must come as a shock to the administration and Democrat Senate leadership who have recently described ObamaCare as ``wonderful for our country.'' But not to us in the House and the…

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Jul 17, 2013

It's interesting that Mr. Hull, as we listened to this morning and know of his record, his tenure and service, extensive service, 48 years, in fact, do you have any sense of whether Ms. Goehausen has anywhere near the practical experience…

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Jul 17, 2013

According to Mr. Hull, who we had the privilege of listening to this morning with his direct testimony...

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Jul 16, 2013

So even I leave a State where my exchange was, or my marketplace, I guess is the new term, I will have some flexibility on reporting?

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Jul 16, 2013

If they haven't had any previous tax returns, for instance----

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