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David Visits South Central Primary Care Center

August 12, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: health care, rural health care

Perdue participates in health care community meeting
The Albany Herald

U.S. Senator David Perdue, R-Ga., participated in a recent community meeting here with South Central Primary Care Center, health care professionals, and local officials to discuss the critical services provided by community health centers and solutions to fix the country’s broken health care system.

“More than ever before, community health centers in Georgia are being relied upon for high-quality, affordable care,” Perdue said. “Rural health centers, like South Central Primary Care, are on the front lines of mental health, care for women and children, and the opioid crisis that continues to devastate far too many families in Georgia and across America.

“Not only do community health centers provide better and more convenient care, these clinics also save our health system more than $24 billion annually by reducing emergency room visits. As we continue to discuss ways to rescue our broken health care system, community health centers will undoubtedly play a key role in these solutions.”

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What We’re Up Against In 2020

August 1, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: 2020 election, Green New Deal, health care, illegal immigration, immigration, socialism

What we’re up against in 2020
By U.S. Senator David Perdue
The Resurgent

I never thought we would be debating capitalism versus socialism in my lifetime. However, after watching the Democratic presidential debates this week, it has become clear that we are in an ideological war for the future of our Republic.

Throughout the current presidential campaign, Democrats have proposed increasingly radical socialist policies.

Bernie Sanders said “you’re damn right” he would end private health insurance.

Elizabeth Warren said she would “get rid of the Electoral College.”

Kamala Harris said packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices is “on the table.”

Democrats are promising to decriminalize illegal border crossings and provide free health care to those here illegally. They are promising higher taxes. They are promising to effectively legalize infanticide. They have supported a “Green New Deal,” which would crush our economy and hit working families hardest.

The irony is that these socialist policies have always failed the very people they claim to champion: the working middle class and the working poor.

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Americans For Prosperity Action Endorses David

June 27, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: endorsements, health care, jobs, veterans

David Perdue Has Earned Our Vote By Trusting Us
By Stephen Allison, Senior Advisor to Americans for Prosperity Action

It’s important for voters to feel like they can trust their elected officials. But what might be even more important is having elected officials who trust their constituents.

In David Perdue, we have both.

From health care to taxes to veterans’ issues, Perdue has shown that he trusts the people of Georgia to make their own decisions, without someone from Washington telling them what to do.

On veterans’ issues, Perdue championed reforms to address the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs that was preventing our veterans from getting the quality health care they deserve.

“We have a solemn charge to provide our veterans with the upmost respect and best care our country has to offer,” Perdue wrote on Veterans Day in 2017. “For years the federal government failed to keep that promise. It is an open secret that the total lack of accountability at the VA jeopardized the ability of veterans to get timely and quality care.”

He was a strong supporter of the VA MISSION Act, passed in 2018, which will dramatically expand access to care by giving more veterans more choices about where they can get the care they need.

Perdue applied the same philosophy of expanding options to health care for all Americans.

He supported protecting access to short-term, limited-duration insurance plans, which are often much less expensive than the plans offered through Obamacare. These plans will now give Georgians new options with lower costs and access to the best doctors.

Those who hold these short-term insurance plans are generally very happy with them, so Perdue stood fast against attempts to practically ban them.

Perdue also supported historic right-to-try legislation, making it easier for patients facing life-threatening conditions to obtain potentially lifesaving treatments.

When it comes to taxes, again Sen. Perdue showed that he trusts Georgians.

He was a key leader in passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which helped jump-start the economy and cut taxes for two-thirds of Americans, letting them keep more of the money they earn to spend, save and invest as they see fit. Perdue made sure that poison pills – such as the Border Adjustment Tax – didn’t tank the opportunity for this significant reform, and now Georgians are reaping the benefits.

“For example, a family of four earning the median income of $73,000 will see their tax bill reduced by 60 percent,” Sen. Perdue wrote when the bill became law. “A single mom earning $41,000 is going to pay 75 percent less. In fact, up to 6 million Americans will be removed from the federal income tax rolls altogether.”

He also trusts us to be stewards of our own land, which is why he was “against the EPA’s ridiculous Waters of the U.S. regulation since day one” and why he has assured Georgians that “I will keep doing everything I can on a federal level to protect Georgia farmers and our state’s agriculture community from egregious executive overreach.”

Running through Perdue’s record over the past five years is a consistent theme – trust the people of Georgia. In 2020, we can repay that trust by sending him back to the Senate for another productive term.

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Year Of The Turnaround

January 7, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: Dodd-Frank, economic growth, economy, global security, health care, immigration, jobs, judges, judicial activism, level playing field, national debt, obstruction, President Trump, Robins Air Force Base, trade, VA

2018 Was The Year Of The Turnaround
By Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)

America is experiencing the greatest economic turnaround in U.S. history. Two weeks after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, I was in a small meeting in the Oval Office to establish the agenda for 2017 and 2018. He said that job one was to grow the economy, and he laid out a plan to focus on regulations, energy, taxes and Dodd-Frank. President Trump’s agenda is working.

When I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014, I talked about how $6 trillion was not at work in our economy. By rolling back regulations, undoing the most onerous parts of Dodd-Frank and changing the tax code to end the archaic repatriation tax, we’ve begun freeing up that $6 trillion to work in our economy. Look at the results.

More than 4 million new jobs have been created. Middle-class income is the highest it’s ever been. Total unemployment is at a 50-year low. African-American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded. More than 1,500 bureaucrats have been fired at the VA for poor performance. Consumer confidence is at a 20-year high. Small business optimism is at a 35-year high.

President Trump promised to be there for farmers in Georgia and around the country. In December, we got a good Farm Bill across the finish line.

The U.S. Senate has taken action to fill judicial vacancies. Eighty-five federal judges have been confirmed. Nearly one out of every six circuit court judges was nominated by President Trump.

President Trump has been successful in getting European nations to commit to paying more for NATO. We’ve begun rebuilding our military. We are closer to a level playing field for American workers and businesses because of new trade deals with South Korea and Canada and Mexico. We have brought China to the trade table and are working toward zero tariffs with the European Union. We have rebuilt relationships with important allies.

After years of disinvestment, President Trump had to rebuild our military and get our readiness going again. Georgia is playing a major role in this effort. Robins Air Force Base has been named the home of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. The Army’s Cyber Command and Cyber School of Excellence continue to build their capability in Augusta. Production of the Columbia Class submarines that are coming soon to Kings Bay has been boosted.

Georgia is also seeing the results of the economic turnaround. Household income in Georgia grew by 4.3 percent in 2017. The population of Georgians living below the poverty line is the lowest it’s been since 2006. Unemployment claims in Georgia fell by 17 percent in 2017 and are the lowest they’ve been in 44 years.

These are the results of policies that boost private sector job creation and grow the economy, not government. Thanks to 16 years of leadership under Govs. Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, Georgia has been named the best state in the country in which to do business for six straight years. Just as I worked with Gov. Deal, I am already working with Gov.-elect Brian Kemp to ensure Georgia remains the best state in the country in which to do business.

There’s much more work to do. Health care, immigration and infrastructure are at the top of the president’s agenda for this year.

Unfortunately, Democrats have shown they will do whatever it takes to obstruct this president’s agenda, including shutting down the government. Political self-interest cannot continue to come before the national interest. We must break through the gridlock in order to deal with the big issues, including the $21 trillion debt crisis. This year’s economic growth is the first step toward tackling this debt. Now it’s time for action to change Washington’s broken budget process, cut redundant agencies, save Social Security and Medicare, and get after spiraling health care costs. Each of these is critical to dealing with the debt over the long-term.

The results of 2018 are not just Republican talking points. They are American accomplishments, some of which were done with bipartisan support. In 2019, we have to keep up the momentum. At the federal level, the key question in 2019 will be whether House Democrats will work with the president to legislate, or will they yield to political self-interest and only investigate?

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Shaking Things Up

October 4, 2017  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: August recess, health care, Tax code, tax reform

Senate Republican Class of 2014 Looking to Shake Things Up
Roll Call
By Joe Williams

Sen. David Perdue keeps a calendar in his office to remind him how many working days the Senate has left this year.

But with just 43 legislative days remaining and a packed agenda ahead, it’s not a countdown he particularly enjoys. To make matters worse, that number counts most Fridays as in-session days, though the chamber almost always wraps up its weekly work Thursday.

“We’re going to run out of time,” the Georgia Republican said in an interview last week. “We should be in here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Perdue is one of 10 Republican senators who swept into office in 2014. In that election, the GOP gained nine seats in the chamber, giving the party a majority in the Senate for the first time since 2007.

They’re a group who proudly tout the value they place in hard work over empty rhetoric and talk openly about changing some of the historic processes of the Senate.

And now, amid a stalled legislative agenda that includes a brutal defeat on health care, the class is flexing its muscle and demanding more results from Republican leadership.

“We got elected to come up here to try to change the direction of the country,” Perdue said. “We’re just trying to fight through the limitations of the structure and of the traditions of the Senate that some of us feel need to be addressed to try to get some of those changes made.”

The group was instrumental in convincing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel a portion of the August recess, a decision Sen. Mike Rounds said did not sit well with some of his Republican colleagues.

“Sure enough, it worked. The [Democrats] came around and we had more nominations done by threatening to take away two weeks than we did in the first six months of the year,” the South Dakota Republican said.

When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan tried to push for a contentious border adjustment tax in the pending tax overhaul, opposition from Perdue and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, also elected in 2014, helped to sink the proposal.

 

Eyes on committees

 

And failing multiple times to repeal the 2010 health care law — a seven-year campaign promise by Republicans and one that nearly all members ran on in the 2014 election — they have their sights set on something higher: the committee process.

“One of the problems in the United States Senate is not just the partisanship, it’s the structure of the committees,” Perdue said. “It’s a joke really. It’s a fraud on the American people.”

Others agreed and said the tendency for work on major legislation to stay private among the staff of the committees of jurisdiction on a particular topic is concerning.

“We want to see the bills, because I don’t know if it’s the way its been done in the past, but we actually read bills,” Rounds said. “We want information, we want to get down into it because we came here to read bills, we came here to analyze, we came here to make those small decisions; that’s our jobs.”

One GOP senator, speaking on background, spelled out drastic consequences should the Senate continue down a path of the “committee as a whole” process that they believed contributed to the failure of the health care effort.

But others see it as a change that could further align power at the top despite the appearance that more senators have influence in the process.

“It’s counterintuitive because some people think that that can be dangerous and you can lose control,” Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, also elected in 2014, said. “If that can be done right, leadership gains more control.”

Altering the rules and process of a legislative body built solidly on traditions grounded in decades of adherence is a monumental task and one that would certainly run into opposition from more established members of the chamber.

But the 2014 class has shown they can stick together. And with a membership that accounts for nearly 20 percent of the Republican majority in the Senate, the numbers are on their side.

 

‘The Bear Den’

 

Members of the Republican Senate class of 2014 meet as a group almost every other week.

Touted as the “Bear Den,” the meetings serve as an opportunity for open dialogue on a particular topic. While the attendees change each week depending on schedules, the gatherings help the group to maintain their camaraderie.

Their group on paper may resemble something of a Freedom Caucus — the coalition of conservative lawmakers in the House — but they differ in several major ways.

Unlike that group, led by GOP Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, the Senate class of 2014 doesn’t take a stance on legislation as a singular body and are quick to shoot down any assumption they are a formal caucus. Instead, they frame themselves as a force for positive change, with the goal of helping leadership accomplish the major GOP agenda items.

But their frustration is growing.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who was also elected in the 2014 wave, said waiting two years for a new administration has created restlessness on the part of members who were elected to make change.

“That hasn’t been the case as much as many of us would like,” she said last week.

When asked whether the failure thus far to do much of anything legislatively is on the part of GOP leadership, Capito said she is “not in the business of second-guessing.”

“I think they’re all tough calls, but sometimes they don’t go your way,” she said.

(In addition to Perdue, Cotton, Rounds, Tillis and Capito, the GOP class of 2014 senators includes Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Steve Daines of Montana, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Joni Ernst of Iowa and Dan Sullivan of Alaska.)

Following the health care defeat, Perdue issued a blistering statement in which he vented frustration over the failure of a Republican-controlled Washington, D.C., to fulfill a core promise to voters.

“There is a complete lack of Congressional leadership and no accountability to get results,” he said. “From the get go, three Republican Senate Chairmen failed to support our efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as we have all promised to do.”

Perdue was referencing Armed Services Chairman John McCain of Arizona, Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Aging Chairwoman Susan Collins of Maine — three Republicans who pushed back on GOP repeal efforts.

When asked about those comments, he continued to blast the GOP trio.

“In most worlds outside of Washington, people who are in leadership are held accountable for their results, either good or bad. We kind of live in a different world here,” he said.

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It’s Time to Pull the Plug on August Recess

June 28, 2017  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: August recess, budget process, health care, Obamacare, tax reform

By Senator David Perdue

The United States Senate has just 35 working days until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and that’s assuming Mondays and Fridays are indeed used for deliberation.

One thing is totally clear: There isn’t time to deal with the issues that demand immediate attention.

The only appropriate response is to cancel, or heavily truncate, the annual August recess that turns the United States Capitol into a ghost town.

Last year, voters handed Republicans a Senate majority, a House majority, and the White House. They gave us a probationary period to turn the conservative policies we champion into actual results.

The expectations are high and we’ve made some progress. We’ve confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and we’ve taken on the boldest rollback of federal regulations since President Ronald Reagan was in office.

We’ve gotten President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in place and made some headway on health care, but all of this consumed the first half of the year.

The American people are expecting us to get much more done. Five imperatives must be accomplished in short order.

First, we have to complete the work on the first phase of repealing Obamacare and fixing our health care system.

Second, we have to pass a budget resolution that will work within the reconciliation process for changing the tax code.

Third, we have to use the appropriations process to fund the federal government by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

Fourth, we have to deal with our debt limit. The Treasury Department has used extraordinary measures to buy time since the national debt hit its limit of $19.8 trillion in March.

Fifth, we have to finally act on our once-in-a-generation opportunity to change our archaic tax code, but we will only be able to do so if we don’t get stuck on the first four priorities.

All five of these priorities are unique and present their own challenges. For example, the current budget and appropriations process is broken. It has worked the way it was intended just four times in the past 43 years since the Budget Act of 1974.

This year, however, the stakes are much higher.

The opportunity to change our archaic tax code is hanging in the balance. Markets are already anticipating regulatory relief and additional changes to the tax code that will make us more competitive with the rest of the world.

Failure to deliver could cause uncertainty in financial markets and erode the budding confidence among consumers and CEOs. It’s imperative that we act on tax changes this year to realize the full economic impact.

Every single delay, both expected and unexpected, will damage our chances of success. If we haven’t made meaningful progress on these priorities by the end of July, then we should pull the plug on the August recess.

The norms of Washington—including a monthlong recess—must never stand in the way of our efforts to act on the people’s priorities.

Making America great again requires a substantive time commitment. It requires prioritizing national interest over self-interest. It requires a willingness to work through the weekends and make sacrifices when necessary.

Change is never easy, but the millions of Americans who placed their confidence in our leadership are expecting our full and best effort. Failure is not an option.

The president and his administration have accepted this challenge and are moving at business pace to see it through. It’s time the Senate does the same.

Read more at The Daily Signal.

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