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Rep. DesJarlais among other members of the Tennessee delegation signed a letter urging the US Department of Transportation not to cut $60 million in federal funding on Oct. 1.
Rep. DesJarlais stated, “Obviously, we wouldn’t be closed-minded” and Republicans would certainly consider a Clinton plan to revise a health care law that is in a death spiral. The bottom line is, how do we take care of people and make it affordable for them?"
Rep. DesJarlais is among ten representatives and four senators to sign off on two letters asking the USDA for a 60 day extension to the public comment period in an effort to propose changes to the Horse Protection Act.
Rep. DesJarlais issued the following statement yesterday, "The Tennessee Walking Horse industry is a significant part of the economy of Kentucky, Tennessee and other states across the country and is comprised of thousands of individuals and small businesses.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Rep. Tom Graves have called for restrictions on travel to and from West Africa in order to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency is overstepping its bounds with the agency's efforts to implement a new rule that would expand regulatory authority over many of the nation's streams and wetlands, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-South Pittsburg, said Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s planned exit from office has two delighted Southeast Tennessee Republican congressmen almost giddy, but a Democratic lawmaker from Memphis is hailing Holder, the first black to become the federal government’s top lawyer, for his work on civil rights and criminal justice reform.
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, issued the following statement on the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will resign from the Department of Justice:
Members of Congress are seething over Lois Lerner’s decision to speak with the press, but not with them, after the key figure in the IRS scandal gave an interview to Politico and proclaimed her innocence.
DesJarlais, R-South Pittsburg, was one of about two dozen conservative House members who started questioning the law in late 2011. They said its wording authorized the Internal Revenue Service to issue subsidies in the form of tax breaks — as well as tax penalties for employers not offering coverage — only in states that set up their own health care exchanges or markets.