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Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:21:26 -0400 en-US hourly 1 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/blame-woke-authoritarians-covid-learning-loss http://www.campaignforliberty.org/blame-woke-authoritarians-covid-learning-loss#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:46:57 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/blame-woke-authoritarians-covid-learning-loss http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-gift-america-christmas http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-gift-america-christmas#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:51:21 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-gift-america-christmas http://www.campaignforliberty.org/biden-media-gaslight-people-inflation http://www.campaignforliberty.org/biden-media-gaslight-people-inflation#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:06:33 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/biden-media-gaslight-people-inflation http://www.campaignforliberty.org/real-problem-foreign-policy http://www.campaignforliberty.org/real-problem-foreign-policy#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:12:19 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/real-problem-foreign-policy http://www.campaignforliberty.org/must-demand-justice-january-6th-protestors http://www.campaignforliberty.org/must-demand-justice-january-6th-protestors#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:27:51 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/must-demand-justice-january-6th-protestors http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-11 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-11#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:20:38 -0400 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-11 here and here. The House already passed an infrastructure spending bill, HR 3684, the “INVEST in America Act,” by a vote of 221-201. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) and Chris Smith (NJ-04) were the only Republicans to vote for the bill, which was supported by every Democrat. One part of the House bill that is causing some controversy is a change to the way federal infrastructure funds are distributed.  The House bill adds complexities to the application procedure for state and local governments to receive transportation funds.  The purpose of this is to “encourage” them to spend more on public transportation and other “green” projects and less on highways. States traditionally have spent the majority of funds on highways, which makes sense since most people prefer traveling by car rather than by bus or subway, but the green movement wants to force people out of their cars and onto buses, subways, and bike trails. This provision has understandably generated opposition from state and local governments who object when Congress puts strings on federal funding.  It has also generated opposition from the General Association of Contractors, since a lot of their members are heavily involved in highway construction. Some progressive House members are threatening to blow up the infrastructure deal unless immigration reform is added to the forthcoming “human infrastructure” bill that the Senate intends to pass under reconciliation, which means they only need 51 votes. While the House can put immigration in the bill, there’s a good chance it would be stripped out by the Senate Parliamentarian for not falling within the parameters of what is proper to include in a reconciliation bill. Before moving to the second infrastructure bill, both the House and Senate will likely attempt to pass a budget. The Biden administration recently unveiled a $6 trillion budget plan. Several weeks ago, the House snuck a provision into a rule “damming” the funding levels available for the Appropriations Committee at $1.5 trillion.  This enabled the Appropriations Committee to set their spending numbers for each subcommittee so they can get to work on this year’s spending bills. The Appropriations Committee passed all of their spending bills during the recent committee work period. You can read the Appropriations Committee Subcommittee allocations  here. Note that, despite Republican cries about how the Democrats are under-funding the military, the Defense Subcommittee’s allocation dwarfs the allocations for every other subcommittee, except for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education—and that is only because the Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations allocations contains the “mandatory” funding for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Take that out and Defense appropriations spending allocation is larger than Labor. Campaign for Liberty will continue fighting all attempts to increase spending and instead, work for real cuts right now. Please support our efforts.]]> http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-wrap-up-3 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-wrap-up-3#comments Mon, 17 May 2021 12:53:06 -0400 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/this-week-in-congress-wrap-up-3 here. The big event in the House was a vote to remove Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her position as Chair of the House Republican Conference. Many Republicans supported her removal for her vote to impeach President Trump in January and her continuing attacks on him, which is considered divisive and a distraction from opposing President Biden’s agenda. Libertarians should cheer Cheney’s removal from GOP leadership. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is truly a “chip off the old block” in that she never saw a war she did not like or a liberty she would not restrict in the name of the “war on terror.” Cheney, who has always been a promoter of the idea that the president has nearly unchecked authority in foreign affairs was one of the leading proponents of a provision in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) limiting the president’s ability to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. So, in Lynn Cheney’s bizzarro world, presidents can send troops around the world at will but need Congress' approval to end war. Cheney also violated the (unspoken) rule against GOP incumbents openly supporting a primary challenge to a GOP incumbent when she supported a primary challenger to leading liberty champion Representative Thomas Massie. Cheney's actions against Massie show how devoted she is to squashing any opposition to the neoconservative position that we must wage endless wars and sacrifice our liberties to be safe from terrorism. The January 6 incident was likely just an excuse to break with Trump and pose as the upholder of decency against the cult of the orange man. Now, Cheney is a media darling and can use her “martyrdom” to rally and mobilize pro-war, anti-liberty “Never Trumpers.” Unfortunately, Cheney’s replacement as conference chair, Elise Stefanik (NY-21), shares Cheney’s hawkish foreign policy views. Stefanik is also a proponent of unconstitutional government surveillance. She voted against the Massie-Lofgren amendment forbidding the use of taxpayer dollars to carry out warrantless wiretapping under Section 702 of the USA PATRIOT/FREEDOM Act. She also voted against the USA Rights Act, which would have rolled back the surveillance state. So, the war hawks and snoop state boosters will still have a prominent place in the leadership of the GOP. Campaign for Liberty will continue to mobilize pro-liberty Americans to roll back the surveillance state and obey the constitutional limits on government power in all areas—including foreign policy.]]> http://www.campaignforliberty.org/ron-paul-on-passing-of-rush-limbaugh http://www.campaignforliberty.org/ron-paul-on-passing-of-rush-limbaugh#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:32:34 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/ron-paul-on-passing-of-rush-limbaugh “Carol and I extend our deepest sympathies to Rush Limbaugh’s family, friends and many fans. While I had disagreements with Rush on foreign policy and civil liberties, I appreciate his defenses of economic liberty. Rush introduced millions of Americans to sound economic principles and the dangers of big government policies like ObamaCare.  Rush did this both through his own broadcast and by having my late friend Walter Williams as a regular guest host. Rush’s  unfailing good humor and his constant optimism should serve an example of how to effectively spread the message of liberty.”]]> http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-proves-business-washington-war http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-proves-business-washington-war#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:26:24 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/congress-proves-business-washington-war http://www.campaignforliberty.org/week-congress-102 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/week-congress-102#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:16:16 -0500 http://www.campaignforliberty.org/week-congress-102