| There are currently 27 jobs bills waiting in the Senate for action. |
Now that Congress is back in session, it's time for them to start focusing on the issues that matter most to the American people: jobs and the economy. Last year, President Obama was allowed to travel the country and claim he was running against a "do-nothing Congress."
The truth is that the House passed (among others) 27 bills that would create an environment that would foster job creation. Those 27 bills are now sitting in the Senate because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) refuses to bring them up for a vote to keep President Obama's narrative going.
Senate Republicans stand behind these bills. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats (except those up for re-election) are in lock-step with Sen. Reid and President Obama in refusing to help create jobs and grow our economy.
27 bills. Twenty-seven bills that clean up the tax code; reduce burdensome regulations that make it too costly and time consuming to hire new employees, and open up the domestic energy market for job creation.
If the Senate would just pass each of these bills, then our country could experience much better than an annual growth rate of just 2.8%. How do we know these will work? Because they've worked in the past. Cutting taxes and removing exhaustive regulations is what President Reagan did in the early 80's, and our country experienced 10 straight quarters of 7% growth. Compare that with our last recession and you can see that President Obama's policies are stifling our economy.
2012 has to be the year about jobs and the economy. Congress is back in session, and we need to DEMAND that they focus on the issues Americans care about the most. 2012 has to be the year of big, bold ideas; we can't afford to tinker around the edges or play small ball anymore. Conservatives need to stand strong and stick to the principals that won them the elections in 2010.
CLICK HERE to fax every Senator and tell them that just because this is an election year is no excuse for them not to work hard every day fixing our economy. Inform them that these 27 bills will lead to job growth and won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's finally time to try something different than what this President has been forcing. It's time to pass these bills!
Twenty-seven bills focusing on job creation in one year is more than the President and his party passed while they were in complete control of Congress.
Each of the bills would make it easier for businesses to actually create jobs by removing the uncertainty surrounding taxes and regulation. Removing that uncertainty would immediately allow our economy to begin to fully recover, and the following bills will aid in that recovery:
Jobs and Taxes:
- H.R.3630, The Middle Class Tax Relief & Job Creation Act of 2011, would extend the payroll tax cut for one year, extend unemployment insurance benefits and put in place another "doc fix."
- H.R.3012, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011, would remove the cap on annual work visas for highly-skilled immigrants so that we can attract the best and brightest the world has to offer.
- H.R.3094, the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, would allow businesses no less than 14 days to prepare a case against workforce unionization, so that they may better inform employees about the costs of unionization.
- H.R.2930, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, would allow startup and small businesses to be exempt from registering with the SEC so that they could get the capital they need without all the regulatory obstacles.
- H.R.2940, the Access to Capital for Job Creators Act, would give small businesses access to more capital so that they could get up and running and create new jobs.
- H.R.1965 would redefine how large a business has to be before it must register with the SEC and deal with all the costs and regulations associated with such registration.
- H.R.1070, the Small Company Capital Formation Act of 2011, would increase the amount of securities a company must offer before being subject to SEC rules and regulations, which would help small businesses.
- H.R.1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011, would allow for new copper mining in the southeast Arizona region, which is currently on land owned by the federal government.
- H.R.2587, the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, would keep the NLRB from suing any more companies for any reason. This came in response to the NLRB's lawsuit against Boeing for moving to a non-union state.
- H.R.910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, would stop the EPA from regulating any naturally-occurring substance in the name of global warming. This would make it easier for businesses to continue operating and not lose jobs.
- H.R.1315, the Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2011, would replace the single leader of the CFPB with a five-member board in order to make it fairer. While conservatives want Dodd-Frank completely repealed, this is a good step towards cushioning the blow of the CFPB in the meantime.
- H.J.Res.37, a disapproval of the "net neutrality" act, which would stop the FCC from regulating the internet.
- H.R.872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011, would stop the EPA from regulating pesticides that are already being regulated by Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The EPA should not be double-regulating anything.
- H.R.1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011, would keep the EPA from enforcing their farm dust regulation, which does exactly what it sounds like and would absolutely cripple farmers.
- H.R.10, The REINS Act, would require a vote of Congress to pass any new major regulation with an economic impact of over $100 million. No longer would regulators be able to pass regulations that no one knows about.
- H.R.3010, the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2011, would redefine what a "major" regulation is and require regulators to take into account jobs and economic growth when considering new regulations.
- H.R.527, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011, would force regulators to fully consider the impact of new regulations on small businesses, not just major corporations, before passing any new rules.
- H.R.2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, would allow the EPA's coal ash regulations to be handled by the individual states, so they could assess their individual needs and be better able to meet those needs without destroying jobs and raising energy costs.
- H.R.2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, would halt the EPA's MACT rules from taking effect. These rules would absolutely decimate the cement industry if allowed to be implemented.
- H.R.2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, would stop the EPA's boiler MACT rules, which, like the cement rules, would cost tens of thousands of jobs while doing almost nothing to improve air quality.
- H.R.2401, the TRAIN Act, would require the EPA to provide cumulative and incremental analyses of its rules and regulations, most notably the effect such rules would have on jobs.
- H.R.2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, would stop the EPA from issuing new water quality standards when a state and the EPA has already adopted current standards and any change would cost jobs.
- H.R.1938, the North American-Made Energy Security Act, would ensure the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would create thousands of jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
- H.R.2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011, would remove the needless regulations that stand in the way of extracting oil off the shores of Alaska.
- H.R.1231, the Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act, would open up the Gulf of Mexico to new offshore oil permits, something the Administration claims is already happening, but due to purposefully slow approval processes, we know is false.
- H.R.1229, the Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act, would set deadlines for permit applications, and ensure safety by requiring new permits for new drills that are significantly different in design than the current ones.
- H.R.1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, open up the Gulf and the East Coast for new oil and gas drilling leases in order to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and lower the price of gas.
CLICK HERE to fax every Senator and tell them that just because this is an election year is no excuse for them not to work hard every day fixing our economy. Inform them that these 27 bills will lead to job growth and won't cost taxpayers a dime. It's finally time to try something different than what this President has been forcing. It's time to pass these bills!
Americans want to get back to work. With unemployment still at 8.5% and threatening to go back to 9% once seasonal workers are let go and the 315,000 people who dropped out of the workforce in December return to find jobs, we are faced with a decision:
Do we rely on big-government to supply handouts, or do we let the private sector flourish and create jobs?
We can't continue to wait and hope that things will change. We need to keep speaking out for great pieces of legislation, like the 27 House-passed growth bills. Please Fax every Member of the Senate now and tell them that these bills will actually put Americans back to work, not just temporarily, but for the long haul.
Sincerely,
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P. S. Americans want to go back to work. We should follow the plans that have worked in the past, like lowering taxes, reducing legislation and opening up domestic energy production in order to create jobs.
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