National Blog - page 43
Last Week in Congress
The House is in recess this week. Here is what happened last week. The House passed H.Res. 296, legislation recognizing the Armenian genocide committed by the Turks. The vote was 405-11. Some members voted for it because they felt it was [...]
Ron Paul: Sentence First, Crime Later?
Attorney General William Barr recently sent a memo to law enforcement officials announcing a new federal initiative that would use techniques and tools developed in the war on terror, such as mass surveillance, to identify potential mass [...]
The scariest thing in the Swamp
What's the scariest thing in the world to the Big Government statists in BOTH parties in Washington, D.C.? It's the idea of being forced by citizens like you to uphold and defend their Oaths to the Constitution of the United States. This [...]
Senate Vote to Cut Spending Today
Today, at approximately 5:30, the Senate will vote on an amendment to H.R. 3055--the Commerce-Justice-Science, Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction, Veterans’ Affairs, and Transportation and Housing and Urban Development ”minibus” [...]
This Week in Congress Wrap-Up: SHIELD, NATO, Spending, and SALT
On Wednesday, the House passed H.R. 4617, the SHIELD Act, by a vote of 227-181. Every Democrat but Collin Peterson (MN-07) voted for it and every voting Republican and Independent Justin Amash (MI-03) voted against it. You can see the vote [...]
Senate Wrap-Up
Last week, the Senate passed H.R. 3055, Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development [...]
Ron Paul: Elites Should Practice What They Preach
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recently penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Times exposing an example of hypocrisy of the politicians and celebrities who want to take away our liberties in the name of fighting climate change. The article [...]
This Week in Congress
Senator Rand Paul’s amendment to H.R. 3055 (the omnibus appropriations bills), which cut spending by a mere 2%, failed by a vote of 24-67. With the federal deficit reaching 960 billion dollars, it is outrageous that only 24 senators would vote [...]
Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.
President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of [...]
Ron Paul Classic: Free-Market in Organ Donation
President Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment of kidney patients. One part of the order aims to incentivize kidney donations by providing donors compensation for lost wages and child care expenses [...]