By Author "Norm Singleton" - page 102
USA Freedom Act: New and (Not) Improved
Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will markup a new version of the USA Freedom Act. Sadly, like last year's version, the new (and not improved) USA Freedom Act will do little or nothing to protect our freedom. If Congress was serious [...]
WATCH: Ron Paul- Stop the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism
Watch C4L Chairman Ron Paul talk about the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism at the Future of Freedom Foundation's event in Austin, Texas.
Open the NDAA!
Campaign for Liberty has joined a broad-based coalition on a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee asking that the committee ”open" the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Opening this markup will allow the [...]
C4L to Congress: Hold the line on defense spending
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of fiscally conservative organizations on a letter to the House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price and Senate Committee Chairman Mike Enzi requesting that the final House-Senate budget [...]
C4L Joins Coalition Calling for an End to Ex-Im Bank
Today, Campaign for Liberty joined over 50 other organizations in calling for the Export-Import Bank to expire. The Ex-Im Bank provided taxpayer-backed loans to foreign companies to buy American products. Not only does this interfere with the [...]
Does the Iran Nuclear Review Act violate the Constitution?
Yes and the reason will surprise you.... The week the Senate is debating HR 1191, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act. This legislation requires the President to submit any agreement with Iran to the Senate for [...]
The disgraceful cave-in on Lynch
Andrew McCarthy, writing at National Review, has a must-read piece on the Senate leadership's cave-in on Loretta Lynch. Read the whole thing here, with excerpts below: On Thursday morning, top Republican strategist Karl Rove proclaimed, “The [...]
GOP leadership helped Loretta Lynch
The Hill reports that the Senate leadership whipped Republican Senators to make sure Loretta Lynch received over 60 votes on cloture. The reason they did was that if Lynch received less than 60 votes a Senator could have raised a point of order [...]
Tell Senate: Reject Loretta Lynch!
Tomorrow morning the US Senate will vote on "cloture" on Loretta Lynch's nomination for Attorney General. As detailed here Lynch is a strong support of "civil asset" theft, where the government takes people's property without granting them due [...]
McConnell Moves Forward with Patriot Act Reauthorization
Last night Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell read a clean version (without any sort of reforms) of the Patriot Act Extension. This means that McConnell can move to proceed to the bill without hearings or any committee process whenever he [...]