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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of the STREAM Act, which ensures transparency in the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) over its process of governing the interaction between surface mining operations and streams, known as the Stream Buffer Zone:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), today issued the following statement after voting in favor of a measure that would protect victims involved in class action litigation by ensuring that all members of a proposed class seeking monetary relief after suffering an injury have the same level and scope of injury, rather than allowing the courts to continue to allow classes to be certified even when all members of the class do not share the same injury type or scope:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of two bills that provide Americans and small businesses relief from the federal regulatory process:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of a budget reconciliation package that will cut the federal deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years by repealing the core parts of the president’s health law and defunding Planned Parenthood:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Rob Woodall (R-GA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process, today issued the following statement in response to the subcommittee meeting on a bill to establish biennial budgets for the United States Government:

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WASHINGTON, DC – The House this week adopted a measure that will provide discretionary funding for the federal government through September 30, 2016, as well as a package to provide permanent tax relief for hard working American families.

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after the House’s passage of a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on surface transportation legislation that will help sustain roads, transit, bridges and rail systems in the U.S.:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of a comprehensive energy measure known as the “Architecture of Abundance,” which focuses on replacing outdated policies based on notions of energy scarcity and capitalizes on today’s era of energy richness in the U.S.:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of two resolutions that overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules that were put in place by President Obama’s “Climate Action Plan”:

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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after the House voted to adopt a resolution that sets up final passage of two bills, H.R. 511, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act, and H.R. 1737, the Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act: