Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler today voted for the proposed 2012 House GOP Budget. Below are some of the common attacks on those who voted for this budget – and the facts on what this budget actually does.
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In the absence of a Senate bill to fund government operations, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler today joined a majority of her House colleagues in passing the Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2011.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler joined her House Republican Freshmen colleagues today in sending a message to Senate Leader Harry Reid: “Pass a Bill.” Thirty nine days have now passed since the House passed a long-term plan to fund government operations that contained $61 billion in spending cuts. To date, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has failed to pass this plan, or any other long-term funding bill. Jaime and 29 of her House Republican colleagues drafted and signed a letter to Senator ...
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) today announced that she will introduce the “Savings Start With Us” Act – a proposal that will save taxpayer money by reducing salaries of Members of Congress, the President and Vice President by ten percent. Jaime sent the following letter to her colleagues in Congress today, and intends to introduce the legislation next week. Savings Start With Us Dear Colleague, Next week I will introduce the Savings Start With Us Act to reduce the salaries of Member...
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Last year, for the first time in history, Congress failed to pass a budget. That means Americans had no way of knowing how much of our money Congress intended to spend or where they intended to spend it. Taxpaying citizens, many of them unemployed or underemployed, were financially responsible for what basically amounted to a blank check for Washington, DC. Even more troubling was that Congress perpetrated this lack of fiscal planning after years of overspending. Americans have been losing jobs ...
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Congresswoman Herrera Beutler released the following statement today after voting for the House “continuing resolution,” legislation that will keep the government funded and running while spending $100 billion less than what was proposed in the president’s budget: “Today marks an important step toward breaking the federal government’s addiction to spending, and restarting our economy. My message has been consistent: our massive national debt is a barrier to job creators and is harming residents ...
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Today Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) announced that she has cosponsored a U.S. Constitutional Amendment that would require the federal government to balance its budget every year. The measure would require that Congress not spend more than it receives in revenues each year. Congress has long been able to spend in the deficit, but has sharply increased its overspending in recent years. In each of the last two years, Congress has run $1 trillion deficits. Despite increased borrowing to...
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) today voted to reduce her own office budget by five percent. Herrera Beutler voted for a resolution introduced by Rep. Greg Walden (OR-02) to cut the operating budgets of House Committees, leadership offices and individual Members’ of Congress budgets by five percent. The measure, which passed by a vote of 410-13, will immediately save taxpayers $35 million. Herrera Beutler issued the following statement: “Residents of Southwest Washington are making t...
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