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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressmen Bruce Westerman (R-AR), co-lead Fred Keller (R-PA), and 11 cosponsors introduced the IRS PRIORITIES Act to address the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) overwhelming backlog of more than 8 million unprocessed individual tax returns. The bill prohibits the IRS from hiring additional tax enforcement personnel until it processes the tax returns from the past two years. The Members released the following statements:
As New Mexico’s legislators returned to Santa Fe for the 2022 legislative session, one of their main challenges was how to spend the nearly $2 billion budget surplus the state collected in 2021.
This surplus came in large part from revenues collected from oil and gas production on federal and state lands. Our state public education system will be a major beneficiary of these funds, while students are still reeling from months of virtual learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Drug addiction is an all too common problem in communities across America, and recently, fentanyl use has gained traction. From big cities to small towns, illegal fentanyl – largely produced in China and smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico and over our southern border – is a crisis that is stretching border agents and local police departments beyond their limits.
In less than two weeks, the U.S. government runs out of money to fund necessary programs. Prices continue to rise for consumer products of all kinds, from gasoline to chicken. Millions of Americans have left the workforce and businesses are desperately searching for employees. Students and their families in Blue states across the country are still dealing with school district policy dictated by teachers' unions that want schools closed.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Westerman (AR-04) recently cosponsored the bipartisan "Invest to Protect Act of 2022" to make critical, targeted investments in local police departments and ensure that departments with fewer than 200 police officers have the resources and training needed to keep themselves and their communities safe. The bipartisan bill is led by Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and former sheriff, Congressman John Rutherford (FL-4), with 35 other original cosponsors. The members released the following statements:
Before COVID-19 shut down our economy and drove millions of Americans to work from home, those who had to call a federal agency for assistance may have experienced a reasonable wait time. Agencies like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Social Security Administration, the Small Business Administration, or the Department of Veterans Affairs have often felt slow to respond, but the wait was understandable considering the volume of people looking for help at any given time.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) cosponsored legislation reintroduced today by Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) to ensure seniors, rural communities, and their pharmacists have access to important information about their prescription medications. The Patients' Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2021 would require drug manufacturers to include printed inserts containing drug information when they ship their products to pharmacies.
On the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, thousands across the nation showed their support for life. For 49 years, pro-life warriors have stood in defense of the "least of these" in their towns and cities to speak out for the more than 62 million children who lost their lives to legal abortion. This year, however, is unlike any other. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments for Dobbs v.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Westerman (R-AR) released the following statement on the one year anniversary of President Biden's inauguration.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down President Biden's and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) vaccine mandate on private businesses with over 100 employees. This important decision protects the rights of private enterprise and roughly 84 million Americans from government overreach. The Supreme Court serves as a check and balance on both the Executive and the Legislative branches, and, in this case, the Court demonstrated its power to protect the American people from the President's desire for more control over our lives.