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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.
And I believe that more and more people, even those that are using the entitlements, the Social Security, Medicare, understand that and are growing in their fear that unless we do something, they indeed will be hurt. But I think that you…
I can show you from experience in Michigan as we went through this type of downturn back in the 1980s: too-large government, increased taxation, increased spending for all sorts of programs. We ran businesses out of the State. We turned…
It's not a voluntary tax. And in just a couple of short years, I will be capable of receiving that myself. I've not had a choice to do that. And yet the only way that we can see those entitlement programs continue, at least if we did it…
We, I'm sure, understand here on the floor this evening the impact of what our Framers and Founders had in mind of a limited government, a government that believed very clearly that free people, with the opportunity to be creative and use…
Currently, the CR funds the National Endowment for the Arts at the approximate fiscal year 2008 level of $145 million. Amendment No. 196 takes the funding levels back to the fiscal year 2006 levels at $124.4 million. If accepted, this cut…
I represent a district in Michigan right next-door to where you had the opportunity to tour the GM plant.
Forgive me. I guess the key question is, if, indeed, you came to the conclusion that we needed more time and needed to take more care, why wasn't that the first order?
Needless rules and onerous regulations are often roadblocks to economic growth and job creation.
Worker safety is a goal we all share, however, we have real concerns with the policies and process the administration has recently proposed.
I look forward to working with my colleague, Lynn Woolsey, the ranking Democrat member of the subcommittee.
we must challenge some of these long-held, erroneous assumptions about regulations being bad for profit margins and economic growth.
Our goal should be to prevent workplace accidents before they happen, not simply shame an employer once a tragedy has occurred on the job site.
I look forward to working with my colleague Lynn Woolsey, the ranking Democratic member of the subcommittee.
She has a deep passion for these issues, and no one can question her commitment to worker safety.
We all must be partners in an effort to get the American people back to work.
Currently, the unemployment rate in Michigan stands at 11.7 percent and even higher in some counties in the congressional district I represent.
Worker safety is a priority and so, too, is promoting policies that will allow businesses to grow and hire new workers.
Last November the people of Michigan, workers that long defined manufacturing, sent a message to Washington that business as usual in this town is not working. Currently, the unemployment rate in my home State is at 11.7 percent and even…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remember a great man and a great President, Ronald Reagan. Although President Reagan's 100th birthday would have been celebrated this year, I am reminded how clear and timeless his principles of limited…
I am standing here today to encourage my colleagues to sign that petition. If we won't deal with it in committee, let's bring it forward to say there is oil under the ground in ANWR, off our Outer Continental Shelf, the Bakken Reserve out…
Not only do we have a governor riding a bicycle to the Capitol, we are exploring for ice on Mars, but not doing exploration for oil-- that we know is there----
If my colleague could yield just a moment here on one point that ties into that. We heard yesterday from one of our Senate colleagues from a northern State, a northeastern State, say that what we ought to do is buy one million barrels a…
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And just to make sure that my constituents know that I have not changed States, it's Michigan. It starts with an ``M,'' it's up north, it's cold, generally. I can understand that. But I'm sure proud to represent…
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