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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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Feb 5, 2024

Trafficking is modern-day slavery, period. Trafficking goes against our country's founding values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, so it is all the more heartbreaking and frustrating to know this crime is happening in our…

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Feb 5, 2024

I thank my colleague, the Representative from the Northern Mariana Islands. We have worked on this a long time, and it is worthy of the time spent. Let me close with some heartbreaking statistics to remind my colleagues of why we have done…

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Feb 5, 2024

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for taking this opportunity tonight to remind us that on January 26, inexplicably, President Biden announced an indefinite ban on pending LNG export projects. I wish it were indefinite, but I believe…

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Jan 12, 2024

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I strongly support H.J. Res. 98 to overturn the Biden administration's joint employer rule which would directly harm employees across this Nation--employees who can become and do become…

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Dec 13, 2023

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Res. 927. Last week, Americans watched in bewilderment as the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn were unable to say if calls for a genocide of Jews violated…

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Dec 12, 2023

This goes on and on, and it is frustrating because it is again clear evidence that the union wants a thumb on the scale because they cannot accomplish it themselves.

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Dec 12, 2023

I want to keep my record of not being bombastic, but this does frustrate me.

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Dec 12, 2023

Like all sectors of the economy, dealing with Bidenomics, franchise businesses are navigating economic headwinds such as high inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions.

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Dec 12, 2023

The union wants to be big business as opposed to helping little people.

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Dec 12, 2023

I am not against unions, but franchises are successful because of choice.

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Dec 11, 2023

I have had the privilege to speak in each of those years talking about the Bible and its importance in my life. The Psalmist in Psalm 119:105, the longest Psalm in the Bible, the longest chapter in the Bible, is written entirely about the…

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Dec 4, 2023

The cure for antisemitism is not simply knowledge. It is truth.

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Dec 4, 2023

These are difficult times and difficult subjects, but they need to be addressed because leadership matters.

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Nov 29, 2023

As a Representative of a northern border district, I rise today to address the border crisis impacting communities across the country, including those in my district. What is unfolding at our southern border is a humanitarian and national…

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Nov 29, 2023

That is un-American. I think it is important to note that Michigan became an employee free choice State in 2012.

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Nov 29, 2023

It is not about workers, it is about business as we heard from Congressman Wilson.

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Nov 29, 2023

If you want a union, vote for one, join one. It is simple.

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Nov 29, 2023

That is un-American. This, despite more recent polls, showing the Michigan voters opposed repealing employee free choice in Michigan.

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Nov 28, 2023

Yes. It adds to the pain of Bidenomics, significantly more.

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Nov 28, 2023

Thankfully, seldom do I say that about the courts, but thankfully that rule was invalidated by the court.

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Nov 28, 2023

Amazing. The impact that that could be primarily for political purposes, and hurting the people allegedly that the administration says they want to help.

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Nov 28, 2023

During the 114th Congress, as I had the privilege to chair this Subcommittee, and along with over 200 of our fellow House members, I introduced the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act, which would have prevented the Obama…

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Sep 26, 2023

The family was dealing with the emotional loss of a brother and a husband, and the last thing I am sure that a wife was considering was picking up the phone to call OSHA hotline to report the death of her spouse.

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Sep 19, 2023

This would go away if the proposed rule were changed, and I think that is something where they would not be able to deliver services on the ground and in the field, and I think that could definitely hurt the individuals in those states.

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Sep 19, 2023

I think the best thing we could do is allow for demonstration authority to let Governors working with their local officials, come forward to Congress, to the administration and say this is what we would like to try.

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