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H.R. 1304 – Self Insurance Protection Act: YES. Some employers set up their own employee health care fund, and will often buy stop-loss insurance that picks up costs above a certain amount, thus protecting the employer from catastrophic losses and assuring employees' expenses are covered. Some states are attempting to regulate these stop loss agreements as health insurance, driving them out of the market. This bill makes clear that these contracts are financial instruments and not to be regulated as if they were end-user health insurance.
S.J.Res. 34 – Congressional Disapproval of FCC Rule on Broadband Privacy: NO
Liberty and Union
House Chambers, Washington, D.C.
February 15, 2017
Mr. Speaker:
One of the most troubling aspects of California's lurch to the left are the rise of two doctrines unknown in this country since the last gasp of the Southern Confederacy.
What True Democracy Looks Like
House Chambers, Washington, D.C.
February 7, 2017
Mr. Speaker:
Our nation has come to a crossroads between two competing visions of the future that don't easily reconcile. At such times as these, emotions run high.
The good news is that our institutions are the best ever designed to resolve such political disputes. In other countries, the government is the sovereign and rights flow from it to the people. In America, the people are sovereign.
I strongly support President Trump's executive order on refugees. There is no unconditional right to enter the United States, and the President has a sworn responsibility to assure that those entering our country are not hostile to our Constitution, our people, or the rule of law. The order is limited to countries that are hot-beds of Islamic extremism and provides for case-by-case waivers to assure that bona fide dissenters from these regimes can enter.