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WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate voting to reject the House-passed Continuing Resolution (CR), H.J. Res 59, to fund the government until December 15, 2013, which included an amendment to delay the Individual Mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for one year.
The American Health Care Reform Act–H.R. 3121 – is a commonsense, patient-centered alternative to the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) that will make health care insurance more affordable and more accessible to the most vulnerable Americans in a way that does not damage our economy or disrupt anyone's existing coverage. It achieves the following:
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) issued the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed H.J. Res 59, a Resolution to Make Continuing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014, along with two bipartisan amendments which would delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for one year and permanently repeal the law’s Medical Device Tax provision. The House also passed H.R.
Rep. Kelly: “A tragic day for our national sovereignty”
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, issued the following statement today in response to the retirement of former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner, who previously served as director of the agency’s Exempt Organization Division. She had been on paid administrative leave since May following the agency’s admitted targeting of conservative groups for excessive scrutiny.
Rep. Kelly: “Now that the House has acted, the ball is in the Senate’s court”
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement today after introducing H.R. 3134, the Charitable Giving Extension Act, which would allow taxpayers to deduct their charitable contributions of the previous tax year until April 15 of the following year, in order to coincide with tax filing deadlines. According to studies by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, 88 percent of U.S. households donate to some form of charity.
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, addressed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel yesterday regarding lingering questions about the IRS targeting scandal during the subcommittee’s hearing on the status of the agency’s Exempt Organization Division (formerly run by IRS official Lois Lerner).
Highlights from Rep. Kelly’s remarks:
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), a co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Korea, entered the following statement into the congressional record today in support of H.R. 2449, which would extend the current United States–Republic of Korea (South Korea) Section 123 agreement for civil nuclear energy cooperation for two years while both countries finalize a long-term successor to the agreement. The legislation was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives on September 17, 2013.
WASHINGTON — Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the followed statement today in response to the committee’s releasing of three pieces of e-mail correspondence between former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and her staff which appear to contradict claims by Ms. Lerner and others that the agency’s targeting of conservative groups was not politically motivated.