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Representative Gary Palmer and Hurd at ORG Hearing
December 10, 2015

For Immediate Release

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 9, 2015

Congressman Gary Palmer(AL-06), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Interior, attended a hearing Tuesday on the Department of the Interior's (DOI) recently proposedStream Protection Ruleand took a stand against it citing how i


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December 8, 2015
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.

December 2, 2015

WASHINGTON — The same day President Barack Obama returned to the United States from a climate change conference in Paris, Republican members of Alabama's congressional delegation unanimously voted to block proposed regulations that are at the heart of the President's environmental agenda.


December 2, 2015

As President Barack Obama meets with world leaders at Paris' United Nations summit, House lawmakers passed legislation to undo a key part of the president's global warming agenda Tuesday.

House lawmakers passed resolutions to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's so-called Clean Power Plan. House passage of the anti-EPA resolutions comes just two weeks after the Senate passed the Congressional Review Act resolutions to repeal federal rules on power plants.


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Representative Gary Palmer
December 1, 2015
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.

November 30, 2015

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.

"The National Computer Forensics Institute is a one-of-a-kind facility that trains scores of officers, prosecutors and judges from all 50 states in cyber-security, and has graduates from hundreds of agencies," Palmer said. "I am pleased that the House supports its full authorization."


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.
Issues:Energy and the Environment

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November 19, 2015
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.

November 19, 2015

Wednesday, November 18 U.S. Representative Gary Palmer (R from Hoover) announced his support for H.R. 1737, the 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).