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100 Days

One hundred days ago, I was sworn into the United States House of Representatives. Representing the First Congressional District of Georgia has been one of the greatest honors of my life and I have been working diligently since day 1 to promote conservative values and deliver results.

In 100 days, House Republicans have passed dozens of bills to repeal Obamacare, support domestic energy independence, simplify the burdensome tax code, grow our economy, rein in the out of control Administration and so much more. This is just the beginning and I know there is a long road ahead, but I want to share a snapshot of key accomplishments from the first 100 days of the 114th Congress:

 

Balanced the Budget

  • Passed the H. Con. Res. 27, A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America
    • A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America balances the budget in less than ten years, calls for a fairer and simpler tax code, eliminates wasteful programs, provides for a strong national defense and supports the brave men and women who risk their lives for it, strengthens vital programs like Medicare and repeals Obamacare in full

Repealed Obamacare

  • Passed H.R. 596
    • This bill repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in full. Georgians deserve better than Obamacare and it’s time to repair our broken healthcare system and empower patients with more choices, lower costs and better services.

Promoted Job Creation & Empowered Hardworking Americans

  • Passed the Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act (H.R. 37)
    • This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from prudential rules for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization.

  • Passed the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act (H.R. 527)
    • This bill amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA) and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Act of 1996 (SBREFA) to revise and expand the rulemaking requirements and procedures of federal agencies (excluding Congress, U.S. courts, U.S. territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia) that affect small entities.

  • Passed the Save the American Workers Act (H.R. 30)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage under Obamacare from an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours a week to an employee who is employed on average at least 40 hours a week.

  • Passed the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015 (H.R. 185)
    • This bill amends the Administrative Procedure Act to revise and expand the requirements for federal agency rulemaking by requiring agencies, in making a rule, to base all preliminary and final factual determinations on evidence and to consider the legal authority under which the rule may be proposed, the specific nature and significance of the problem the agency may address with the rule, any reasonable alternatives for the rule, and the potential costs and benefits associated with such alternatives.

Held the Administration Accountable

  • Passed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act (H.R. 240)
    • The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 provides FY2015 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and would stop the President’s unconstitutional executive order to pardon illegal aliens that have broken our laws and will ensure that our current laws are strongly enforced.
  • Passed a bill to end the NLRB’s ambush election rule (S.J. Res 8)
    • Disapproves and nullifies the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board and published December 15, 2014, relating to representation case procedures.
  • Passed the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (H.R. 50)
    • States as the purposes of this Act to: (1) improve the quality of the deliberations of Congress with respect to proposed federal mandates by providing Congress and the public with more complete information about the effects of such mandates and by ensuring that Congress acts on such mandates only after focused deliberation on their effects; and (2) enhance the ability of Congress and the public to identify federal mandates that may impose undue harm on consumers, workers, employers, small businesses, and state, local, and tribal government.

  • Passed the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 1029)
    • This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to revise the process of selecting members of the Science Advisory Board, guidelines for participation in Board advisory activities, and terms of office. The Board provides scientific advice to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This bill requires the Board to independently provide that advice.

  • Passed the Secret Science Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 1030)
    • This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing, finalizing, or disseminating a covered action unless all scientific and technical information relied on to support such action is the best available science, specifically identified, and publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent analysis and substantial reproduction of research results.

  • Passed the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act (H.R. 1058)
    • Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to ensure that IRS employees are familiar with and act in accordance with taxpayer rights, including the right to be informed, to be assisted, to be heard, to pay no more than the correct amount of tax, to an appeal, to certainty, to privacy, to confidentiality, to representation, and to a fair and just tax system.

  • Passed the IRS Email Transparency Act (H.R. 1152)
    • Prohibits any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service from using a personal email account to conduct official business.

  • Passed the Taxpayer Knowledge of IRS Investigations Act (H.R. 1026)
    • Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose to any person who provides information indicating a violation of internal revenue laws relating to unauthorized disclosure or inspection of tax information or to unlawful acts of revenue officers or agents: (1) whether an investigation based on such information has been initiated and is open or closed; (2) whether any such investigation substantiated a violation; and (3) whether any action has been taken against a violator, including a referral for prosecution.

  • Passed a bill Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right to Appeal (H.R. 1314)
    • Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury to prescribe regulations for allowing a tax-exempt organization to request an administrative appeal to the Internal Revenue Service Office of Appeals of an adverse determination, made on or after May 19, 2014, with respect to: (1) the initial or continuing qualification of such organization as tax-exempt, or (2) the initial or continuing classification of such organization as a private foundation or a private operating foundation.

  • Passed the IRS Bureaucracy Reduction and Judicial Review Act (H.R. 1259).
    • Directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process under which a person who lives or does business in a state may apply to have an area in the state identified as a rural area if it has not yet been so designated by the CFPB for purposes of federal consumer financial law.

  • Passed the Prevent Targeting at the IRS Act (H.R. 709)
    • Amends the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 to expand existing grounds for termination of the employment of an Internal Revenue Service employee to include performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official action (including any audit) with respect to a taxpayer for purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit or for a political purpose.

  • Passed the Fair Treatment for All Gifts Act (H.R. 1104)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from the taxable amount of gifts for gifts made to specified tax-exempt organizations, including: (1) social welfare organizations; (2) labor, agricultural, and horticultural organizations; and (3) business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade, and professional football leagues.

  • Passed the Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2015 (H.R. 1562)
    • Requires the head of any executive agency that issues an invitation for bids or a request for proposals for a contract, or that offers a grant, in an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold, to require each person submitting a bid or proposal or grant application to: (1) certify that such person does not have a seriously delinquent tax debt, and (2) authorize the Department of the Treasury to disclose information limited to describing whether such person has a seriously delinquent tax debt. Subjects a person who has a seriously delinquent tax debt to a negative responsibility determination when applying for a federal contract or grant, or to debarment from the federal procurement process.

Enacted Real, Long-Term Medicare Reform

  • Passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 2)

    • Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permanently replace the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula which was intended to control costs for Medicare but has done nothing to improve the program’s solvency.

Simplified the Tax Code

  • Cosponsored H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act of 2015, to create a simple, fairer and flatter tax code to build a stronger economy.

  • Passed the Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015 (H.R. 1105)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes for estates.

  • Passed the Permanent State & Local Tax Deduction (H.R. 622)
    • Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.

  • Passed America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015 (H.R. 636)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent after 2014 the $500,000 allowance for the expensing of depreciable business property (section 179 property) and the $2 million threshold after which the amount of such allowance is reduced. Both the allowance and the threshold amount are indexed for inflation for taxable years beginning after 2015. The allowance is also made permanent for computer software and qualified real property (i.e., qualified leasehold improvement property, restaurant property, and retail improvement property).

  • Passed the America Gives More Act of 2015 (H.R. 644)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate and make permanent the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food by any trade or business, regardless of whether the contributions are made by a C corporation.

Protected America’s Veterans

  • Passed the Hire More Heroes Act (H.R. 22)
    • This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to add a provision to exempt any employee with coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense, including the TRICARE program, or by the Veterans Administration, from classification as an eligible employee of an applicable large employer for purposes of the employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide such employees with minimum essential health care coverage.

  • Passed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act (H.R. 203)
    • Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) arrange for an independent third party evaluation, to be conducted by September 30, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, of the VA's mental health care and suicide prevention programs; and (2) submit a report to Congress, by December 1, 2018, and each year thereafter, containing the most recent evaluations not yet submitted to Congress and any recommendations the Secretary considers appropriate.

  • Passed the Long-Term Care Veteran Choice Act (H.R. 294)
    • Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), during the three-year period beginning on October 1, 2015, at the request of a veteran for whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care, to place such veteran in a medical foster home that meets VA standards. Requires such veteran to agree, as a condition of such placement, to accept VA home health services.

  • Passed a bill To recoup bonuses and awards paid to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (H.R. 280)
    • Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to issue an order directing a VA employee to repay the amount, or a portion of the amount, of an award or bonus paid to the employee if: (1) the VA determines that such repayment is appropriate, and (2) the employee is afforded notice and an opportunity for a hearing conducted by another federal agency. Makes such repayment decisions final and unreviewable.

Promoted Educational Opportunities for America’s Students

  • Passed the STEM Education Act of 2015 (H.R. 1020)
    • Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue to award competitive, merit-reviewed grants to support: (1) research and development of innovative out-of-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning and emerging STEM learning environments; and (2) research that advances the field of informal STEM education.

  • Passed legislation to improve 529 savings accounts (H.R. 529)
    • This bill makes changes to the rules for qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans). The Internal Revenue Code is amended to allow payments from 529 plans for the purchase of computer or peripheral equipment, computer software, or Internet access and related services to be used primarily by a 529 plan beneficiary while enrolled in an eligible educational institution.

Expanded Domestic Energy Production

  • Passed the Keystone XL Pipeline Act (H.R. 3)
    • Authorizes TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities specified in an application filed by TransCanada Corporation to the Department of State on May 4, 2012.

  • Passed the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 161)
    • Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve or deny a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a prefiled project within 12 months after receiving a complete application that is ready to be processed.

  • Passed the LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (H.R. 351)
    • Directs the Department of Energy (DOE), for proposals that must also obtain authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the United States Maritime Administration to site, construct, expand, or operate liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities, to issue a decision on an application for authorization to export natural gas within 30 days after the later of: (1) the conclusion of the review to site, construct, expand, or operate the LNG facilities required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA); or (2) the date of enactment of this Act.

Protected the Sanctity of Life

  • Passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015 (H.R. 7)
    • Prohibits the expenditure of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law for any abortion.