Pushing for Answers and Transparency
A recently-released report on Obamacare enrollment numbers shows that less than a quarter of those who have signed up for health care plans during the first few months are the young, relatively healthy adults the Administration is relying on to sign up and keep premiums in check. This is far less than the Administration’s target of around 40… Read more »
Promises, Promises
Jobs
On Friday, January 10, the U.S. Department of Labor released a disappointing jobs report – only 74,000 jobs were added in December. This is far short of the 197,000 jobs that economists had predicted, and more importantly, is far less than the American people deserve.
The nationwide unemployment number did drop to 6.7 percent, but this decrease is… Read more »
2013 In Review and 2014 Congressional Issues Survey
It is my privilege to represent and serve you in the House of Representatives, particularly at this critical time. I have traveled thousands of miles throughout Southwest Virginia, Southside Virginia, and the Alleghany Highlands in the last year, attending various meetings or events and speaking with many different people about… Read more »
The ADAPT Act, Fire Hydrants, and the NSA
The ADAPT Act
Regular readers of this column are aware of my ongoing efforts to improve the quality and safety of our health care system and increase patient choice and control. We have numerous bills that have been introduced, and that the various committees are working on. Among those committees that are working on improvements… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement after voting in favor of the bipartisan, bicameral budget compromise. It passed by a vote of 332-94.
“This budget agreement is a compromise. It is not perfect, nor does not contain everything I would like, but it is on the right track. This budget keeps with spending levels in previously passed House… Read more »
On My Christmas List…
Last week, I introduced the EPA MACT (Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats) Act, which would cut the EPA’s workforce by a reasonable 15 percent over a realistic three- to four-year period.
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am not the EPA’s biggest fan. However, I do want clean air and clean water, and I will give some credit where it… Read more »
Bipartisan Bill I Worked On Signed Into Law
Last week, President Obama signed into law the Drug Quality and Security Act. This win for common sense came after investigations into last fall’s fungal meningitis outbreak tied to tainted injections prepared by Massachusetts’ New England Compounding Center (NECC).
Traditional compounding pharmacies are overseen by State boards of… Read more »
Following months of bipartisan negotiations and Congressional hearings into last year’s deadly fungal meningitis outbreak resulting from tainted steroid injections, the House of Representatives on September 28 passed the Drug Quality and Security Act (H.R. 3204). This bipartisan, bicameral agreement incorporates some of the Compounding Clarity Act (H.R. 3089), introduced on… Read more »
Drill, Baby, Drill – Guess What? It Worked!
Previously, President Obama mockingly described Republicans’ energy strategy as: “Step one is drill, and step two is drill, and then step three is keep drilling.”
However, regular readers of this column know that simply isn’t the case. To provide jobs, secure our energy future, and keep costs low, we believe in an… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act, which passed the House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote of 261-157:
“I remain of the belief that Obamacare was fatally flawed from its inception, that it will not work, and that it ought to be repealed and replaced. But until that happens, we… Read more »
