Press Releases
"You talk about these are common sense solutions or reforms that are going to make it easier. It’s not making it easier. It’s making it more difficult. Access to credit can’t be done over a long period of time, people need it now, if you need a transfusion of capital you need it now.”
Yesterday morning, Rep. Kelly appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss the president’s recent comments that, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Rep. Kelly, a small business owner, called the president’s comments “offensive.”
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Washington, DC —U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) voted today in support of the fiscal year 2013 Defense Appropriations bill, which provides $519.2 billion in regular funding and $88.5 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) for defense activities related to the Global War on Terror. The bill passed the House with broad bipartisan support by a vote of 326 to 90. Rep.
Washington, DC —U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) responded to a report by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) that Pennsylvania will be one of the hardest hit states once the more than $500 billion in defense budget cuts take place in January 2013.
Washington, DC —U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) issued the following statement on his vote today in support of the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012, which requires the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to more efficiently develop domestic sources of strategic and critical minerals and mineral materials.