The freshman representative of the Republican Study Committee stressed cutting federal spending and repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act and other Democratic legislation such as the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill to move the economy forward.



Rep. Diane Black Diane Lynn BlackBottom line Overnight Health Care: Anti-abortion Democrats take heat from party | More states sue Purdue over opioid epidemic | 1 in 4 in poll say high costs led them to skip medical care Lamar Alexander's exit marks end of an era in evolving Tennessee MORE (R-Tenn.), also a member of the Ways and Means and Budget committees, criticized the Obama administration's policies on fixing the economy in the weekly Republican address Saturday, even with improving unemployment numbers released Friday.





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"The policies of the past haven't worked, and despite some signs of life in our economy, the unemployment rate is far above the levels that the president's advisers promised when the 'stimulus' spending bill was signed into law," Black said.Black also highlighted the recent vote in the House to repeal a funding measure for the Affordable Care Act — the so-called "1099" provision."We're hoping to find things that could have been discovered if Washington had been doing its work in an open and transparent way," Black continued. "There's no better example of this than the 1099 paperwork manned in Obamacare. The House passed a bill this week to repeal it."

Black also said that the House would vote to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill.



Black's criticism and vows to repeal Democratic legislation come as Congress stays in a virtual standstill over passing a long-term federal funding bill. Shorter continuing resolutions funding the government for a small period have passed but Democrats and Republicans are yet to come to a compromise on a measure that funds a government for more than a few weeks.