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December 18, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), a member of the House Budget Committee, voted against H.R. 2029, the “Omnibus” spending bill, because it doesn’t abide by the budget resolution passed by the House and it failed to include necessary policy corrections.
December 17, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Today at an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled “Terrorist Travel: Vetting for National Security Concerns,” Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), questioned Obama Administration officials about threats from terrorists entering our country by taking advantage of our visa laws. This threat has become more urgent after the recent attack in San Bernardino, California, where one perpetrator, Tashfeen Malik, was a foreign national who was cleared to enter the U.S. by exploiting weak points in our visa laws.
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December 10, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), notes the coming end of the 21st session of the Conference of Parties, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Paris, France, and calls on the Obama Administration to submit any agreement reached to the Senate for ratification, as required under the Constitution.
December 8, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Interior, attended a hearing on the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) recently proposed Stream Protection Rule, which would have significant negative effects on energy production. The original version of the rule, passed in 1979, created a buffer zone around year-round streams near mining operations. The new, more stringent rule would have significant negative economic effects. Estimates say it could cost up to 280,000 Americans their jobs.
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December 1, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), supported S.J. Res 23 and S.J. Res 24, which are aimed at stopping the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and Clean Power Plan (CPP) regulations that will have significant negative effects on the economy. These resolutions are brought pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, which creates an expedited procedure by which Congress can vote to disapprove of regulations that have an economic impact of more than $100 million. The Senate has already passed these resolutions.
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November 30, 2015
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Washington D.C. – U.S. Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL) is pleased that Congress passed H.R. 3490, the NCFI Authorization Act, which fully authorizes The National Computer Forensics Institute in Hoover, Alabama.
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November 30, 2015
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The EPA is out of control. Because of this, I have introduced The Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015. This bill would remove the ability of the EPA to regulate so-called “greenhouse gasses,” an authority the EPA assumed after Massachusetts v. EPA, a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision handed down in 2007 which interpreted the Clean Air Act to allow regulations of common and necessary compounds that were not contemplated when the act was originally passed.
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November 19, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), supported H.R. 3189, The Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization (FORM) Act. This bill increases transparency at the Federal Reserve, requiring the organization to explain its decisions, while protecting it from excessive politicization. It would also place tighter controls on the Federal Reserve’s ability to conduct bailouts.
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November 18, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), supported H.R. 1737, Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act. This bill would revoke the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) 2013 auto lending guidance bulletin, which has hampered the availability of indirect auto loans (loans facilitated by car dealers), particularly to the most vulnerable. Using a flawed model that bases decisions on what loans are authorized using nothing more than last names and zip codes, CFPB’s enforcement has led to rising costs for consumers. The bill was supported by a wide, bipartisan majority.
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November 10, 2015
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Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL) joins Americans all over the country celebrating our nation’s veterans this Veterans Day, and offers the following statement:
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April 8, 2015
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April 7, 2015
Freshman Class: Rep. Gary Palmer
Apr. 07, 2015 - 7:24 - Alabama congressman on what he would do to bridge the bipartisan divide
April 7, 2015
WASHINGTON — Several of Alabama’s Congressional delegates are cosponsoring a new bill being introduced to Congress, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow the concealed carry permits of any state to be valid in all states around the country.
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April 6, 2015
Rep. Gary Palmer said the agreement announced last week related to limitations of Iran's nuclear program weakens America's position on the international stage and hurts U.S. allies.
The White House announced last week it had reached what it described as an "outline" of a program to curb Iran's nuclear programs in return for lifting of economic sanctions. The Obama administration has maintained the agreement would counter the expansion of Iran's nuclear efforts but critics said it cedes too much to a hostile country. Congressional Republicans, as well Israeli leaders, have blasted the plan.
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April 6, 2015
In 1989, Gary Palmer founded the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank. By the time he resigned as its president last year, API had become a powerful force on state issues, everything from pensions to prison reform to politics. Palmer led the successful fight against a lottery—Alabama is among the few states without one—and organized the drive that defeated Republican governor Bob Riley’s bid for a whopping tax increase.
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March 31, 2015
Alabama's U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer said it's time for Obamacare to go the same way as a bad shot in golf.
"I don't fault anyone who supported Obamacare, but it's kind of like golf -- every once in a while, you need a mulligan. And I think this administration needs to take a mulligan because it's not working and the cost has gone through the roof," Palmer said.
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March 31, 2015
Repealing ObamaCare and creating a more effective national healthcare plan that truly works is one of his top priorities in Washington, Alabama Congressman Gary Palmer told members of several area chambers of commerce today, March 31 at the Birmingham Marriott on U.S. 280.
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March 31, 2015
As members of the U.S. House of Representatives we recognize that the power to consent on executive branch nominees resides in the Senate. The Senate also has the power, indeed, the obligation to reject those nominees unfit for service. We believe that Loretta Lynch, who has been nominated by the President to serve as the nation's next Attorney General, falls in the unfit category.
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March 30, 2015
Since January, when he took office as the new U.S. representative from Alabama's Sixth District (Birmingham), Republican Gary Palmer has demonstrated why — even in Congress — he remains the conservative "outsider" he was for years heading pro-family and pro-freedom "think tanks" in his home state.
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March 27, 2015
Speaking to a packed crowd of about 1,800 at Lawson State Community College, President Barack Obama today laid out his plan for more oversight of the payday lending industry and criticized Republican Congressional efforts to weaken or defund his consumer protection agenc
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