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  • Speaker Pelosi Gives Doctors a Placebo Not a Real Remedy for Medicare Reimbursements
    Nov 19, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) said the so-called “doc fix” bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat leadership team passed on Thursday is nothing more than a placebo for physicians concerned about getting paid less next year to treat Medicare patients. Gerlach said Senate lead... More
  • Gerlach Says It’s Time for House to Vote on Keep Terrorists Out of America Act
    Nov 19, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) said on Thursday it’s time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to end six months of stalling on legislation that would prevent terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from being transferred to or released in the United States. Gerlach signed a discharge petition... More
  • House Adopts Gerlach Resolution Aimed at Raising Public Awareness of Distracted Driving
    Nov 17, 2009  - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a bipartisan resolution sponsored by Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) designating Sunday, November 29th as “Drive Safer Sunday” to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. The date was selected because it is the Sunday fo... More
  • Gerlach Opposes Job-Crushing Tax Hikes, Medicare Cuts and Expanding Government Control Over Health Care Decisions
    Nov 7, 2009  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used a rare Saturday session to pass a nearly 2,000-page bill that would lead to more jobs losses, painful cuts in medical care for seniors and unprecedented power for government officials to fine and throw in jail those who cannot afford or chose not to buy health insur... More
  • Gerlach Makes House Speaker Pelosi’s Massive Health Care Bill Available in Libraries Throughout 6th District
    Oct 31, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) personally delivered the massive House Democrat leadership plan for a federal government takeover of health care to libraries in Berks and Montgomery counties on Friday. Gerlach visited the Mifflin Community Library in Shillington and Montgomery County-No... More
  • Gerlach: Democrat Leaders’ Health Care Proposals Would Put Pennsylvania Budget in Critical Condition
    Oct 16, 2009  - Pennsylvania’s poor financial health would only get worse if proposals for creating a costly new government-controlled health care plan backed by Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate become law, Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) said on Friday. Gerlach and... More
  • Gerlach Votes to Hold Rangel Accountable for Hiding Assets, Income from the Public
    Oct 7, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) voted on Wednesday to end the embarrassing situation of allowing New York Democrat Charlie Rangel to continue writing tax laws while he is under investigation for breaking those same laws. The Democrat-controlled House quashed a measure that would have remo... More
  • Gerlach Wants Audit of How ACORN Spent Public Money
    Sep 21, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) on Monday asked the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make sure the liberal interest group ACORN is held accountable for every dollar of taxpayer funding it has received. In a letter to HUD Inspector General Kenneth M. Donohue, Ge... More
  • Gerlach Says Taxpayers Should Not Be Forced to Subsidize ACORN Activities
    Sep 15, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) on Tuesday co-sponsored legislation aimed at protecting taxpayers from wasteful spending by cutting off all federal funding to the liberal interest group ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. “We owe it to American taxpayers to... More
  • We Must Never Forget
    Sep 11, 2009  - Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) issued the following statement on the eighth annivesary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks: "I join all Americans today in honoring the memory of ordinary people who became extraordinary heroes eight years ago today in the clear blue sky over Somerset, ... More
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