National Blog - page 165
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 [...]
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 [...]
Political Murders in Kiev, US Troops to Ukraine
Last week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important [...]
RON PAUL: The Real War on the Middle Class
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare [...]
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 [...]
Hey FDA: Let us live!
National Review has a good article out today about loosening the FDA's strict, expensive, and time consuming process for approving potentially life-saving drugs. With the time it takes to bring a new drug to market now taking 12 years and costing [...]
It's High Time to End the War on Drugs!
Today seems like a good day to pass along some comments on the federal War on Drugs from C4L Chairman Ron Paul. Below is an excerpt from the chapter titled "Prohibition", in his 2011 book, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our [...]