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Congressman Geoff Davis : Serving Kentucky's Fourth District

Weekly Columns
  • A Better Solution to Health Care Reform
    Nov 17, 2009  - Although Speaker Pelosi’s flawed 1,990 page health care bill (H.R. 3962) passed the House on November 7th, the debate on health care reform is far from over.  We need health care legislation that will give the American people the reform they have asked for: fix what is broken in our health care ... More
  • House Passes Massive Government Takeover of Health Care
    Nov 10, 2009  - On Saturday, November 7th, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi successfully forced passage of her trillion-dollar government takeover of health care, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962).  The bill narrowly passed the House by a vote of 220 to 215, despite broad bipartisan opposition. Th... More
  • Democrats Reintroduce Health Reform in Bigger, More Expensive Packaging
    Nov 3, 2009  - On October 29, 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the Democrats’ new health care reform legislation.  The Speaker, who once famously promised the “most open and transparent Congress in history,” added more than 900 pages to H.R. 3200 behind closed doors to develop a bigger, more expensive and... More
  • Congress Striving to Improve Breast Cancer Education and Treatment
    Oct 27, 2009  - Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, aside from skin cancer.  It is estimated that 192,370 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009.  In Kentucky, there were 3,624 reported cases in 2007, according to the most recent data from the Kentucky Cancer Registry.  The wid... More
  • Tort Reform Critical to Successful Health Care Reform
    Oct 20, 2009  - For months, Members of Congress and the American public have hotly debated the right way to reform our health care system.  We all agree that there are steps that can be taken to improve health care to make it more affordable and accessible, but the devil is in the details.  It is critical that we f... More
  • REINS Act to Increase Government Accountability
    Oct 13, 2009  - In early 2006, Democrats gained the Majority in Congress, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Senate Leader Harry Reid and then-Senator Barack Obama in unveiling the Honest Leadership Open Government Act.  In her remarks, Speaker Pelosi said, “Ours must be a government ‘of the people, by the peo... More
  • "Read the Bill" Legislation is Common Sense Government Reform
    Oct 6, 2009  - Americans are counting on Congress to craft legislation that will effectively and responsibly address critical issues.  Unfortunately, on the most important matters of the day, like the economy, energy and health care, Democrat Majority leaders have been consistently unwilling to allow an open proce... More
  • Time to End Federal Funding of ACORN
    Sep 29, 2009  - One of Congress’ primary responsibilities is to be a responsible steward of taxpayer money.  In recent months, however, the Democrat Majority in Congress seem to have abandoned this fundamental duty as they continue to push legislation that calls for higher taxes and more spending, including the sti... More
  • Illegal Immigrants and Health Care Reform
    Sep 22, 2009  - Since President Obama’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on September 9th, there have been many conflicting reports about whether illegal immigrants would be able to access the health care benefits included in the reform legislation currently being considered in the House of Representatives ... More
  • Democrats’ Health Care Bill Fails to Meet President Obama’s “Dime Standard”
    Sep 15, 2009  - On September 9th, President Barack Obama came to the Capitol to address a Joint Session of Congress on the subject of health care reform.  During his speech, the President outlined a number of broad proposals and requirements for any bill, but none were uttered more forcefully than this one: “I will... More