I supported it, because looking back in retrospect, if we had a balanced budget amendment in place, it might have made it a little bit difficult to pass the 2001, 2003 tax cuts without paying for them or entering into two major wars in…
Ron Kind
The Public Record
I am going to ask you your thoughts on the insourcing initiative that this administration is focused on, and I am glad to see that today the President is in my home State, Milwaukee, visiting Master Lock.
I mean, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month the day President Obama was sworn in; $17 trillion of wealth was already destroyed in the stock market; and you inherited a $1.5 trillion annual budget deficit.
I believe that a global economic power like us has to have the ability to make and invent and produce things again.
If we are going to be serious at all about trying to attack the number of uninsured, you have to do something to deal with small businesses to make it more affordable.
Hopefully, we will have another opportunity at some point to reconvene and have another hearing and an update because I think, in a lot of respects, it is a little premature.
the only reason you see a chart like this is just to score cheap political points and to confuse people.
The USFWS testified in support of H.R. 5331, and confirmed that the boundaries of Unit RI-05P that captured private land owned by my constituent were drawn in error.
This constituent had previously worked with my predecessor, Representative Patrick Kennedy, to resolve this matter.
This technical mapping error has triggered onerous and unwarranted restrictions on the use of the property.





