Tagged: Frank Guinta

Speaking at a business awards ceremony in Manchester Friday, First District Congressman Frank Guinta emphasized the role that small businesses play in creating jobs and keeping what he called a diverse economy thriving. Guinta argued that over 30 pieces of jobs-related legislation were passed in the house with bipartisan support and criticized the media for not highlighting this more.  The congressman also stressed the role the federal budget can plan play in fostering a stronger national economy.

“It is important to at least produce a document that shows what your budget priorities are and give predictability to those job creators, and to try to do what you can to improve outdated or archaic decisions from past congresses.”                               

Congress broke a record this year, but hitting the lowest approval rating of all time isn’t what the region’s lawmakers had hoped to accomplish.

Correspondent Matt Laslo talked with the New Hampshire congressional delegation and has a look back at this year’s wild ride in Washington.

Republicans took over the lower chamber at the start of the year…hoping to drastically slash the federal debt. But it now sits at more than $15 trillion dollars.

To address that problem, lawmakers created the so-called super committee designed to slash a trillion dollars from the debt but it devolved into partisan bickering and eventually failed.

That gridlock and other factors have many polls showing less than ten percent of the public approving of Congress.