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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (NC-13) and more than two dozen Members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner today urging him to reevaluate the Homes Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and consider implementing a new federal entity modeled on the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC). HOLC was a New Deal agency established in 1933 under President Roosevelt to refinance homes to prevent foreclosure.

In America, we have the best health care in the world: the best doctors, the best hospitals, and the most sophisticated technology. Despite this, we spend twice as much on health care as other prosperous nations, and Americans don’t live as long and aren’t as healthy. Currently 47 million Americans are uninsured and most Americans are at risk of losing their insurance if they get sick, lose their job, or get sick and lose their job. Health insurance reform is essential to ensuring coverage and controlling health care costs, now and in the future.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (NC-13), today, submitted 25 letters from North Carolina Small Business owners to the House Financial Services Committee during a joint hearing that is focusing on the lack of credit availability for small businesses in the current economic environment.

“They’ve got customers, they’ve got a product that they can sell, but they can’t get the lending to expand their operations and hire new employees,” Miller said. “We have to get money out to the people who can really create jobs and help turn around the economy.”