IRS “Loses” Emails
On Friday, June 13 – more than a year into Congressional investigations regarding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) having improperly handled applications submitted by “Tea Party” or “Patriot” groups – the IRS announced they have lost Lois Lerner’s emails to or from outside agencies or groups from a period of January 2009 – April 2011 as a result of a supposed computer… Read more »
The Latest Obamacare “Glitch”
More than eight months after its launch, the Obamacare system remains incomplete. People’s costs and coverage remain unclear.
As of May 27, according to documents recently released by staff with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, there are at least 4 million inconsistencies in applications in Obamacare’s federal marketplace, which was launched… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today released the following statement on the 70th anniversary of D-Day:
“70 years ago today, approximately 160,000 brave Allied troops and members of the American military landed on the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day offensive, including the Bedford Boys and Mr. Bob Slaughter, who was born in Bristol and raised in Roanoke.”
“At the age of 15,… Read more »
President Allows Nations with Emerging Economies to Pick Carcass of U.S. Economy
Monday, June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new regulations that would require our nation’s existing power plants to cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. This rule will impact approximately 1,000 fossil fuel-fired plants, particularly those… Read more »
Congressman Griffith’s Ninth District STAFF will be available at the following locations during the month of June:
June 4, 2014
Smyth County: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Town Council Chambers
138 West Main Street
Marion, VA
Covington: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Covington City Hall
City Hall Conference Room
333 W. Locust Street
Covington, VA
Craig… Read more »
A Father
A Daughter
A Mission
The evening of December 22, 2011, three men knocked on the door of Pastor Peter, a Christian pastor living in Nigeria. He was home with his son, Caleb, and his daughter, Deborah. The men at the door, who were from the terrorist group Boko Haram (which figuratively means “Western education is a sin”), told the pastor he should deny his Christian… Read more »
More EPA Mumbo Jumbo
Bloomberg reports, “The Obama Administration is considering cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants by reaching beyond the plants themselves -- an unusual approach that could run afoul of anti-pollution laws. People familiar with the discussions say the Administration is seeking steep reductions -- as much as 25 percent -- that could be met if power… Read more »
Obamacare Insurance Rate Transparency
At a recent Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, I asked representatives of some of the nation’s largest health insurance providers if their companies expected that health insurance premiums for an average family would be cut by $2,500 a year, as promised by Barack Obama when campaigning for his health care bill now known as… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement after introducing the Insurance Rate Transparency Act (H.R. 4633):
“While campaigning in 2007, now-President Obama said ‘I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's… Read more »
Helping Patients
This column is not about Obamacare per se, but you can’t talk about patients without discussing Obamacare. I have voted to repeal Obamacare and will vote to repeal it again. I have also been active on the health care front in an effort to protect people from Obamacare.
Notwithstanding my desire to repeal Obamacare, I have been seeking to advance… Read more »
