{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://hultgren.house.gov//newsroom/press-releases/hultgren-supports-comprehensive-jobs-and-energy-bills-to-get-illinois-back", "Hultgren Supports Comprehensive Jobs and Energy Bills to Get Illinois Back to Work, Lower Energy Prices", "2014-09-18", "2014", "2014-09", "Republican", "House", "IL", "Randy Hultgren", "H001059", "hultgren.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, DC \u2013 U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren (IL-14) today supported House passage of two comprehensive pieces of legislation to help open up job opportunities for Americans looking for work, and lower energy prices for Americans who are finding their paychecks are not keeping up with rising prices of daily necessities. H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act and H.R. 2, the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act both contain bills Rep. Hultgren previously supported.\n\u201cSince I\u2019ve been in Congress, my number one priority has been to get the people of Illinois back to work and open up opportunities for everyone to succeed. Washington policies, however, have driven away businesses and manufacturers and forced them to lay off Illinois workers. Further, rising prices of everyday items like groceries and gas have hurt middle class individuals and families who are simply trying to get by,\u201d said Rep. Hultgren. \u201cThe House has passed hundreds of bills to help Illinoisans get back on their feet again, but they have received no attention in the Senate.\n\u201cI challenge Harry Reid and Senate Democrats to take up just one of the many bills included in this legislation. The Hire More Heroes Act would help veterans find jobs. The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act would permanently ban taxes on internet access. These common sense bills would do much to help Americans find jobs and keep more of the income they earn from them. I am hopeful Harry Reid has the courage to do what\u2019s right for the American people.\u201d\nH.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act, includes:\n H.R. 2575, the\u00a0Save American Workers Act, which repeals Obamacare\u2019s 30-hour definition of full-time employment\n\tH.R. 899, the\u00a0Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act, which equips Congress and the public with tools to determine the true costs of regulations\n\tH.R. 2804, the\u00a0Achieving Less Excess in Regulation and Requiring Transparency (ALERRT) Act, which promotes jobs, better wages, and economic growth through regulatory reform\n\tH.R. 367,\u00a0Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which ensures that Congress votes on all new major rules before they can be enforced\n\tH.R. 1105, the\u00a0Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act, which prevents Dodd-Frank Act regulations from diverting capital from small- and medium-sized businesses\n\tH.R. 2274, the\u00a0Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act, which streamlines regulations to help capital formation to grow small- and medium-sized businesses\n\tH.R. 3474, the\u00a0Hire More Heroes Act, which incentivizes businesses to hire veterans by excluding them from Obamacare\u2019s employer mandate threshold\n\tH.R. 1526, the\u00a0Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, which will put Americans back to work by promoting responsible timber production\n\tH.R. 761, the\u00a0National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act, which allows the country to develop resources that are critical to our economic competiveness\n\tH.R. 3086, the\u00a0Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, which protects internet access for all Americans and fosters growth in the digital economy\n\tH.R. 4438, the\u00a0American Research and Competitiveness Act, which makes the R&D Tax Credit permanent\n\tH.R. 4457, the\u00a0America\u2019s Small Business Tax Relief Act, which ensures that our small businesses have the certainty they need to grow their businesses and create jobs\n\tH.R. 4453, the\u00a0S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act, which provides the necessary flexibility for S corporations to access capital and make new investments\n\tH.R. 4718,\u00a0Amending the Internal Revenue code of 1986, which makes bonus depreciation permanent in order to lower the cost of capital for businesses\n H.R. 2, the\u00a0American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act, includes:\n H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, which ensures the Keystone pipeline project moves forward by removing the Presidential Permit requirement, among other things\n\tH.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, which provides for the timely consideration of all licenses and other approvals for natural gas pipeline projects\n\tH.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, creates a new approval process for oil and natural gas pipelines and electric transmission facilities that cross national boundaries between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico\n\tH.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act, prohibits EPA from issuing rules that cost more than $1 billion and will cause significant adverse effects to the economy\n\tH.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, which ensures that any standards established by EPA for new power plants would be achievable based on technologies that have actually been demonstrated at commercial power plants, rather than based on what EPA expects will be demonstrated in the future\n\tH.R. 4801, the Report on Energy and Water Savings Potential from Thermal Insulation, which directs the DOE to submit a report within one year on the impact of thermal insulation\n\tH.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity 3 and Global Freedom Act, which provides for expedited approval of exportation of natural gas to World Trade Organization countries\n\tH.R. 4899, the Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel and America That Works Act, which opens up new areas to energy exploration and development on onshore and offshore federal lands\n\tH.R. 1963, the Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act, authorizes a uniform, non-federal hydropower generation framework that promotes cost-effective renewable energy production and an environment for economic development and job creation\n\tH.R. 2640, the Central Oregon Jobs and Water Security Act, allows for hydropower development and water security\n\tH.R. 2278, which prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from enforcing federal regulations on federal lands in states that already have state hydraulic regulations in place\n\tH.R. 2824, the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act, stops the ongoing waste by the Department of the Interior of taxpayer resources and implements the final rule on excess spoil, mining waste, and buffers for perennial and intermittent streams\n\tH.R. 2641, which establishes a more 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