Phil Hare

01/27/10 -- Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL) tonight released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.    » read more »

12/11/09 -- Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL), a member of the Congressional Task Force on Job Creation and Chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Task Force on Jobs, today introduced the New Deal for a New Economy Act, legislation that would put millions of Americans back to work by implementing a 3-year, $180 billion direct job creation and retention program paid for by unused money from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).

“Faced with 10 percent unemployment, President Obama this week rightly acknowledged the need to accelerate job growth in the short term,” Hare said. “This emergency job creation plan would do just that.”    » read more »

Leads Letter to Speaker Pelosi

12/05/09 -- Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL) today was joined by 53 Members of Congress in sending a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling for an extension of COBRA health care benefits. Click here to read a copy of the letter.

“..As the COBRA subsidy expires millions of unemployed Americans and their families will become uninsured because they cannot afford their policy,” the letter reads. “We urge you to quickly bring to the floor an extension of the COBRA premium assistance adopted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.”    » read more »

11/09/09 -- Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL) today released the following statement in response to this morning’s employment report which showed that the United States lost 190,000 jobs in October, raising the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent.

“While the rate of jobs lost has continued to decline as a result of President Obama’s economic recovery package, unemployed workers are not in the mood for moral victories. The American people don’t care about the GDP, they need a J-O-B. Congress must move swiftly to pass the surface transportation authorization bill which would create up to 6 million jobs.

Source: Congressman Phil Hare

10/19/09 -- Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL) today was joined by local citizens and realtors in Moline, Canton, and Macomb to call for an extension of the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit. The credit is set to end on December 1, 2009.

“The first-time homebuyer tax credit has been an undeniable success,” Hare said. “Extending it until the end of 2010 will continue to help our economy recover and give more families the chance to own their first home, a central component of the American Dream.”    » read more »