Changing the House Following the September 25 announcement that then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) would be resigning from Congress at the end of October, many discussions took place regarding future leadership in the House of Representatives. In recent weeks, I and others have been working together to attempt to craft proposed changes to House Republican Conference rules and U.S. House of Rep... Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement on the House of Representatives’ selection of Congressman Paul D. Ryan (WI-01) to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives: “After having been voted Speaker-Designate by the Republican Conference yesterday, Congressman Paul Ryan said we have to start fresh and make rules changes, including some rules changes that are t... Read more »
Congressman Griffith’s Ninth District STAFF will be available at the following locations during the month of November. In the event of inclement weather (heavy snow, sleet, icy rain, etc.), traveling office hours may be rescheduled to avoid putting constituents at risk. Please contact the Christiansburg Office at 540-381-5671 or the Abingdon Office at 276-525-1405 with any questions or to confirm ... Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement on recent votes involving the United States Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, the official export credit agency of the United States. It expired in late June. In the Ninth District of Virginia, the Ex-Im Bank has been used by numerous small businesses. Though Griffith opposed and voted against procedural motions which undermined the... Read more »
Pipelines, Pipelines Everywhere On October 22, my colleagues and I on the Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for new and existing power plants. 4 out of 5 witnesses at this hearing said at some point that these are “cap-and-trade”-style regulations. Previously, Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air... Read more »
Rogue Iran President Obama’s bad nuclear deal with Iran entered a new phase on Sunday, October 18, which supporters of the deal are calling “Adoption Day.” This day is marked 90 days after the deal was endorsed by the United Nations. While different from full implementation of the deal, as reported by CNN, this “…means that officials from Iran, the United States and other world powers involved in ... Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement: “We applaud the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for their decision to grant a stay of the EPA’s overreaching rule to revise the definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. The regulations are extremely burdensome for American farmers, businesses, and landowners, and it is important... Read more »
Stetson and Barter System In 2009, President Obama’s idea of a cap and trade carbon dioxide (C02) emissions policy passed the House, but failed to pass the Senate. The legislation never became law, and Congress heard public opinion loud and clear in the next elections. In 2010, new members were elected in historic numbers, and many members who voted for the cap and trade scheme lost their seats. S... Read more »
The Great Game is Afoot Many are familiar with the 1967 Walt Disney classic film The Jungle Book – the tale of a young orphan boy, Mowgli, raised by wolves but who must leave his wolf family and return to the “man village” as the result of the fearsome tiger Shere Khan. This animated film was inspired by a book by the same name, which was written by the popular writer Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was ... Read more »
Congressman Griffith’s Ninth District STAFF will be available at the following locations during the month of October: October 1, 2015 Lee County: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Lee County Sheriff’s Office Conference Room – Suite U101 33640 Main Street Jonesville, VA Martinsville: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm NCI Room 106 – Classroom Building 30 Franklin Street Martinsville, VA Norton: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Norton City Cou... Read more »
