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Labrador Racks Up Awards

Congressman Raul Labrador has been racking up honors in recent days. In a press release this morning, he enumerates them:

  • National Federation of Independent Business named him a “Guardian of Small Business” for a 100 percent record on 10 issues in 2013 and 2014. Among those was my support of delaying the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act by one year and approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline without a presidential permit.
  • The second honor was the “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” from the National Taxpayers Union for (his) votes in support of fiscal responsibility in 2013. Awards were presented to those scoring above 83 percent in the House; my score was 87 percent. Just 45 members of the House received the award, where the average score was 51 percent.
  • He received the “Champion of the Worker” award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit group that advocates limited government, free enterprise, privacy and individual liberty. Complete news release here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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