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This Week in Congress
The U.S. House is in session from Tuesday through Friday. The news will be dominated by the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings. The main bill on the House calendar is H.R. 4, which restores requirements that certain states [...]
The Real Lesson of Thanksgiving: Be Thankful for Freedom
This week, Americans will gather around the table to eat turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and no doubt argue about politics and football with their relatives. Most Americans believe they are carrying on a tradition began by the Pilgrims [...]
This week in Congress wrap-up plus Senate stands in the way of help for homeschoolers
Yesterday, the Senate passed the Continuing Resolution funding the government through December 20 and reauthorizing Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act until March. The vote was 74-20. You can see that vote here. Congratulations to [...]
Vote on Patriot Act Today!
Late yesterday, Campaign for Liberty learned that House leadership attached a provision to the Continuing Resolution (CR) extending the USA Freedom Act (the phony "reform" that replaced Section 215 of the so-called PATRIOT Act) [...]
Action Alert!
In just a few hours, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 4863, legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank and renaming it the Export Financing Agency. . . Congress may be changing its name, but they aren’t [...]
Fight Another 'Terror War' Against Drug Cartels? There's a Better Way!
The 50-year US war on drugs has been a total failure, with hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain and our civil liberties whittled away fighting a war that cannot be won. The 20 year “war on terror” has likewise been a [...]
The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings
The most shocking thing about the House impeachment hearings to this point is not a “smoking gun” witness providing irrefutable evidence of quid pro quo. It’s not that President Trump may or may not have asked the Ukrainians to look into [...]
This Week in Congress
Before getting to this week’s schedule, here’s a look at what happened last Friday. The House passed H.R. 4863, legislation reauthorizing the Export Finance Agency (previously known as the Export-Import Bank), by a vote of 235-184. [...]
Federal Reserve: Enemy of Liberty and Prosperity
Lost in the media’s obsession with the impeachment circus last week was Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony on the state of the economy before the Joint Economic Committee. In his testimony, Chairman Powell warned that when the [...]
C4L Joins Rand Paul in Fighting the Zombies
Halloween may be over but the monsters are still haunting us . . . especially in Washington, D.C. On Halloween Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management Senate Committee on Homeland Security and [...]