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WASHINGTON – The Blue Dog Coalition announced their support for H.R. 2911, the Small Business Healthcare Relief Act. The legislation seeks to roll back problematic regulations put in place to implement the Affordable Care Act that fine businesses with less than 50 employees for offering Healthcare Reimbursement Agreements (HRAs) to reimburse their employees for healthcare-related expenses. Employees can use these funds to purchase healthcare on the individual market or for out-of-pocket medical expenses.
COALITION NEWS:
WASHINGTON – The Blue Dog Coalition announced their support for H.R. 1624, the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act.
WASHINGTON – The Blue Dog Coalition announced their support today for H.R. 702, a bill to repeal the ban on crude oil exports in the United States. The Coalition backs the bill as changing market conditions have proven that the 1970's-era ban on crude exports is hopelessly outdated. Among countries with the largest energy reserves, the United States is the sole nation that prohibits the export of its own domestically-produced oil.
MEMBER NEWS:
WASHINGTON -- As the House of Representatives takes up debate on H.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, the Blue Dog Coalition announced their endorsement of the legislation.
MEMBER NEWS:
WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives resoundingly passed H.R. 2576, the Toxic Substances Control Modernization Act of 2015 (TSCA), by a vote of 398-1. The Blue Dog Coalition endorsed this bipartisan legislation as a commonsense reform of outdated regulations to improve chemical safety while boosting economic growth and innovation.
In 1994, when Republicans won the House for the first time in four decades, a band of fiscally conservative Democrats had a simple explanation: Their party had moved too far to the left.
In 2014, when Republicans shrunk Democratic numbers to their lowest since the end of World War II, a similar faction of fiscally conservative House Democrats came to a similar conclusion: The party's progressives weren't speaking to moderate voters.
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