REP. KRISTI NOEM (R-SOUTH DAKOTA- AT LARGE
Kristi Noem (R) Incumbent
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Rated -2 by AAI, indicating anti-Arab anti-Palestine voting record. (May 2012)
HOT BUTTON ISSUES
HEALTHCARE Repealing and Replacing the President’s Health Care Law With the Supreme Court upholding President Obama’s healthcare law, it’s more important than ever for Congress to repeal and replace this ill-conceived law. Sadly, my opponent doesn’t agree. He has promised to protect the President’s healthcare law, which gives Washington too much control and patients too little. The President’s healthcare law need to be replaced with a patient centered approach will make sure that the only people making healthcare choices for you are you and your doctor. We should put patients in control and force insurance companies to compete for their business. If we can purchase TV’s and books across state lines, then why can’t we do the same with health insurance? I’m proud to co-sponsor legislation that would allow just that – creating more competition between insurance companies, which means better rates for you and me.
ECONOMY AND JOBS As we’ve seen in the recent unemployment reports, our economy is struggling. In some ways, our economy has never truly recovered from the 2008 economic crisis. Four years later, millions of Americans who are looking for work still can’t find it. This is unprecedented, unacceptable and unsustainable. Unfortunately, the policies coming from some of our leaders in Washington have failed to create a society where hard work is rewarded and every American has the opportunity to succeed. If we’re going to breathe new life into our economy, we need real solutions and real growth to create real jobs.
Creating Certainty for Job Creators Small businesses and the hardworking Americans that make them go are the heart, soul, and strength of this country. One of the most frequent comments I get from these job creators is that the uncertainty over tax increases is preventing them from hiring and expanding. To give them the certainty they need, we need to overhaul our entire tax code and bring it into the 21st century. Let’s lower the rates so that we can compete in the global marketplace, broaden the tax base, and eliminate the special interest loopholes that benefit Wall Street at our expense.
Repealing Job Killing Regulations Washington has too many regulations that increase costs on families and stand in the way of job creation – just ask our farmers and ranchers. Last year, the Obama Administration decided that some farms and ranches are too dusty and began considering a ban on so-called “fugitive dust.” You don’t have to be an agriculture expert to know that farms and ranches can get, well, a little dusty. That’s why I wrote a bill – which passed the House of Representatives – that prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing this absurd ban.
Another proposed regulation that would’ve had a profound impact on South Dakota was a rule put forth by the Obama Administration’s Labor Department that would have severely curtailed the chores that children could do on farms. These chores are an essential way for today’s farmers and ranchers to pass their knowledge onto the next generation of farmers. Fortunately, the public outcry was too much for the Labor Department to take, and they quickly withdrew the rule after hearing from angry farm families across the country. There certainly are some needed government regulations, but banning children from farm chores or banning farm dust aren’t among them. Let’s strictly enforce the necessary regulations and streamline the rest.
ENERGY Our nation needs an American energy policy that will reduce our reliance on foreign oil and lower energy costs. I support an all-of-the-above approach to our nation’s energy portfolio that emphasizes the production of ethanol, natural gas, clean coal, domestic oil, nuclear, wind and other renewable energy sources. Using our American energy resources will create jobs at home and reduce energy costs. South Dakota has taken advantage of our wind energy resources and today, more than 20% of our state’s energy is produced from wind. I have led efforts to extend the Production Tax Credit for wind energy so the industry can continue to build on its success.
I have also supported several bills to create jobs and expand American energy production. America has been blessed with abundant resources. It is common sense to develop those resources in our efforts to become energy independent. I also support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Building the pipeline would help decrease our dependence on unstable sources of energy from the Middle East and will create up to 20,000 new American jobs. This project has received strong bipartisan support and there is no reason why Washington should stand in the way of making this project a reality. I will continue to work towards an all-of-the-above American energy policy with my assignment to the Natural Resources committee.
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