National Blog - page 130
RON PAUL: Beltway Conservative Budget Plans Are Big Spending and Anti-Liberty
According to a recent poll, 73 percent of all Americans oppose increases in federal spending. Since this anti-government spending sentiment is a major reason Republicans control the House and Senate, one would expect the Republican Congress to [...]
Janet Yellen’s Press Conference Translated from Fedspeak into English
This week, the Federal Reserve held a press conference announcing that it would not raise interest rates. Of course, it's sometimes hard to understand what the Federal Reserve is actually saying, so our good friends at the Carl Menger Center have [...]
Without government who will close the subways?
Next time someone tells you Government is more efficient than the private sector show them this: The D.C. Metro system will be shutting down entirely Wednesday for safety checks, according to multiple reports. An announcement is expected [...]
What do you get when you combine the IRS with crony capitalism
Something really bad... Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation letter in opposition to HR 4141. This legislation gives the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) authority to license tax preparers. Proponents of the bill claim that the IRS needs [...]
This Week in Congress: War, Taxes, and Regulations
So what else is new... The House of Representatives comes back to D.C. today. Today, they will consider fourteen bills under suspension of the rules. Among the bills considered is H.Con.Res. 11, a resolution calling on the U.S. Representative [...]
This week in Congress: March 21, 2016
The US Senate is not in session until April 4th. The US House is in session Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, following which the House will recess until April 12. Monday and Tuesday the House will consider bills under "suspension of the [...]
FDA considering manure regulations
No, I am not kidding, and I am not commenting on the quality of FDA regulations... The hard-working folks at the Food and Drug Administration have announced a new initiative to "....conduct a risk assessment to determine how much consumer [...]
This week in the Senate: Another assault on Federalism
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed a new Secretary of Education. Today, the Senate takes up legislation (S. 2609) creating new national standards for GMO labeling and preempting state GMO labeling laws. I wrote about the House version of the [...]
Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor
C4L Chairman Ron Paul wrote the foreword to this new book out tomorrow. "The highly acclaimed legal self-help book written from the perspective of a lawyer and non-lawyer—a perfect hybrid that is the product of a unique synergy not found [...]
RON PAUL: Loretta Lynch and the Government War on Free Speech
During her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that she asked the FBI to examine whether the federal government should take legal action against so-called climate change deniers. [...]