Press Releases

Today, Congressman Walberg issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 2055, the Conference Report to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year.

“It’s positive that Congress reduced discretionary spending for the second year in a row, the first time since World War II, but with the magnitude of our fiscal challenges, this appropriations bill did not go far enough in reducing federal government spending,” commented Congressman Walberg following the vote.

Today, Rep Walberg voted in favor of H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011. The legislation would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating particulate matter, also known as dust, in rural areas where state dust laws are already in effect. More specifically, the legislation would limit the EPA’s power to situations where dust hurts people’s health,local governments are not monitoring it, and where the benefits of regulations clearly outweigh the costs. H.R.

Today, U.S. Representative Tim Walberg voted in favor H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2011. The bill requires that both Congress and the President approve of all new major rules created by federal agencies. A major rule is defined as any regulation which will have an annual economic cost of more than $100 million. Congressman Walberg is a co-sponsor of the bill.

The U.S. House voted today to repeal an onerous requirement created under the health care law. The provision would require businesses to issue IRS 1099 forms for all payments over $600. In voting for the repeal, Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following statement:

Congressman Tim Walberg voted against passing a second short-term funding measure in the US House today. If enacted, the Continuing Resolution would last for just 3 weeks.

After voting, Congressman Walberg released the following statement:

Congressman Tim Walberg voted today in favor of H.R. 861, the NSP Termination Act, which would terminate an ineffective program and return up to $1 billion dollars to the taxpayer.

Today,Congressman Tim Walberg invited all high school aged students from the 7^thDistrict to participate in this year’s annual Congressional Art Contest. After each participating congressional district chooses its winning entry, the winning piece of art will be displayed for an entire year in the Cannon Tunnel to the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., along with the winners from the other congressional districts across the country.