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Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, (2)
for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell: Now We Can Get Congress Going - WSJ - http://on.wsj.com/1skh4MM
Reform the tax code, redefine ‘full time’ as
working 40 hours a week, move on the Keystone XL pipeline—there are plenty of
tasks ahead. [/] [Photo caption:] Sunrise
on Capitol Hill. [/] Nov. 5, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET
Americans have entrusted Republicans with
control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to
help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an
increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that
seems incapable of performing even basic tasks.
Looking ahead to the next Congress, we will
honor the voters’ trust by focusing, first, on jobs and the economy. Among
other things, that means a renewed effort to debate and vote on the many bills
that passed the Republican-led House in recent years with bipartisan support,
but were never even brought to a vote by the Democratic Senate majority. It
also means renewing our commitment to repeal ObamaCare, which is hurting the
job market along with Americans’ health care.
For years, the House did its job and produced a
steady stream of bills that would remove barriers to job creation and lower
energy costs for families. Many passed with bipartisan support—only to gather
dust in a Democratic-controlled Senate that kept them from ever reaching the
president’s desk. Senate Republicans also offered legislation that was denied
consideration despite bipartisan support and benefits for American families and
jobs.
These bills provide an obvious and potentially
bipartisan starting point for the new Congress—and, for President Obama , a
chance to begin the final years of his presidency by taking some steps toward a
stronger economy.
These bills include measures authorizing the
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will mean lower energy costs
for families and more jobs for American workers; the Hire More Heroes Act,
legislation encouraging employers to hire more of our nation’s veterans; and a
proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment,
removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and
better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
We’ll also consider legislation to help protect
and expand America’s emerging energy boom and to support innovative charter
schools around the country.
Enacting such measures early in the new session
will signal that the logjam in Washington has been broken, and help to
establish a foundation of certainty and stability that both parties can build
upon.
At a time of growing anxiety for the American
people, with household incomes stubbornly flat and the nation facing rising
threats on multiple fronts, this is vital work.
Will these bills single-handedly turn around
the economy? No. But taking up bipartisan bills aimed at helping the economy
that have already passed the House is a sensible and obvious first step.
More good ideas aimed at helping the American
middle class will follow. And as we work to persuade others of their merit, we
won’t repeat the mistakes made when a different majority ran Congress in the
first years of Barack Obama’s presidency, attempting to reshape large chunks of
the nation’s economy with massive bills that few Americans have read and fewer
understand.
Instead, we will restore an era in which
committees in both the House and Senate conduct meaningful oversight of federal
agencies and develop and debate legislation; and where members of the minority
party in both chambers are given the opportunity to participate in the process
of governing.
We will oversee a legislature in which “bigger”
isn’t automatically equated with “better” when it comes to writing and passing
bills.
Our priorities in the 114th Congress will be
your priorities. That means addressing head-on many of the most pressing
challenges facing the country, including:
• The insanely complex tax code that is driving
American jobs overseas;
• Health costs that continue to rise under a
hopelessly flawed law that Americans have never supported;
• A savage global terrorist threat that seeks
to wage war on every American;
• An education system that denies choice to
parents and denies a good education to too many children;
• Excessive regulations and frivolous lawsuits
that are driving up costs for families and preventing the economy from growing;
• An antiquated government bureaucracy
ill-equipped to serve a citizenry facing 21st-century challenges, from disease
control to caring for veterans;
• A national debt that has Americans stealing
from their children and grandchildren, robbing them of benefits that they will
never see and leaving them with burdens that will be nearly impossible to
repay.
January will bring the opportunity to begin
anew. Republicans will return the focus to the issues at the top of your
priority list. Your concerns will be our concerns. That’s our pledge.
The skeptics say nothing will be accomplished
in the next two years. As elected servants of the people, we will make it our
job to prove the skeptics wrong.
Mr. Boehner (R., Ohio), is the House speaker;
Mr. McConnell (R., Ky.) is currently the Senate minority leader.
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