It is halftime of the 112th Congress and I can’t tell you how instructive it has been to spend it at home listening to your plans and ideas about getting this country moving again.
As I have traveled around the District and made note of the progress many of you have made in these difficult times I am encouraged. Your tenacious spirit is evident everywhere I go and I feel recharged to head back to Washington next week and fight for the things you suggest and hold dear.
Discussions during my visits to area Chamber groups, one-on-one visits at my office and even informal chats at the grocery store and at church helped me confirm my Second-Half strategy for the second session of the Congress.
Though indications are that things are improving ever so slightly for the Sacramento-area economic forecast, these buds of recovery do not change our game plan. It still is all about identifying obstacles to job creation in the private sector, working to remove said obstacles, and then allowing the free market to naturally grow.
Some area businesses and local government officials have recognized our potential to facilitate discussions designed to identify unnecessary regulatory burdens that stunt efforts for companies to expand, serve more customers and thus create more jobs.
Locally we have been happy to bring these stakeholders together to negotiate the simplification or removal of anti-business regulations. Nationally, there are 30 bipartisan jobs bills awaiting a vote in the Senate. All of these echo our game plan: reduce regulation; create jobs.
When we get back in session my colleagues and I will work on those and fastrack discussions on things like the Keystone XL Energy Pipeline which, by even the most conservative estimates, would create thousands of new jobs without tapping more artificial and counterproductive stimulus government funding.
During my District visits last week I had the pleasure of visiting a small company with big American Dreams for success. MacroUSA, which was established in 2008 at the McClellan Business Park, manufactures nano and micro robotics that can do the work of humans in sticky or life-threatening situations arising from terrorism, crime, war theater patrols and other hazards. Headed by veterans and staffed by disabled veterans, MacroUSA has contracts with US Customs Border Patrol and several branches of the military. Local firefighters and law enforcement units are considering the line.
In the robotics world MacroUSA is a little guy, but with an impressive product and a great track record for hiring veterans to help engineer and assemble its unmanned ground vehicles platforms and control boxes.
It is small businesses like MacroUSA and dozens of others like them in our District that will lead the way in our region’s recovery. I have a hunch you and their competition will be hearing a lot more from them in the days to come.
Sincerely,
Daniel E. Lungren
Member of Congress
As I have traveled around the District and made note of the progress many of you have made in these difficult times I am encouraged. Your tenacious spirit is evident everywhere I go and I feel recharged to head back to Washington next week and fight for the things you suggest and hold dear.
Discussions during my visits to area Chamber groups, one-on-one visits at my office and even informal chats at the grocery store and at church helped me confirm my Second-Half strategy for the second session of the Congress.
Though indications are that things are improving ever so slightly for the Sacramento-area economic forecast, these buds of recovery do not change our game plan. It still is all about identifying obstacles to job creation in the private sector, working to remove said obstacles, and then allowing the free market to naturally grow.
Some area businesses and local government officials have recognized our potential to facilitate discussions designed to identify unnecessary regulatory burdens that stunt efforts for companies to expand, serve more customers and thus create more jobs.Locally we have been happy to bring these stakeholders together to negotiate the simplification or removal of anti-business regulations. Nationally, there are 30 bipartisan jobs bills awaiting a vote in the Senate. All of these echo our game plan: reduce regulation; create jobs.
When we get back in session my colleagues and I will work on those and fastrack discussions on things like the Keystone XL Energy Pipeline which, by even the most conservative estimates, would create thousands of new jobs without tapping more artificial and counterproductive stimulus government funding.
During my District visits last week I had the pleasure of visiting a small company with big American Dreams for success. MacroUSA, which was established in 2008 at the McClellan Business Park, manufactures nano and micro robotics that can do the work of humans in sticky or life-threatening situations arising from terrorism, crime, war theater patrols and other hazards. Headed by veterans and staffed by disabled veterans, MacroUSA has contracts with US Customs Border Patrol and several branches of the military. Local firefighters and law enforcement units are considering the line.
In the robotics world MacroUSA is a little guy, but with an impressive product and a great track record for hiring veterans to help engineer and assemble its unmanned ground vehicles platforms and control boxes.
It is small businesses like MacroUSA and dozens of others like them in our District that will lead the way in our region’s recovery. I have a hunch you and their competition will be hearing a lot more from them in the days to come.
Sincerely,
Daniel E. Lungren
Member of Congress
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