The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), sent a letter to Chairwoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) urging her to require Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to testify at next week’s hearing alongside Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge. Committee Republicans want answers from Secretary Yellen on the Treasury Department’s mismanagement of the … Continue reading House leader demands Treasury Secretary testify on mismanagement scandal
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), along with Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) released a joint statement on Thursday in response to Democrats’ partisan spending package. “Our nation is nearing $30 trillion in debt. There … Continue reading Sen. Paul and Colleagues slam partisan spending bill: America needs to invest in infrastructure without out of control spending
Yesterday evening, Senate Democrats announced they had reached a topline agreement of $3.5 trillion for a massive tax and spending plan. House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement: “This is nothing more than a bait-and-switch. Joe Biden proposed $4 trillion in new reconciliation spending then claimed he would seek common ground … Continue reading Budget leader rips $3.5 trillion spending spree
The full House Appropriations Committee met to consider the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills for the subcommittees on Defense and Homeland Security. Committee Republicans were unable to support the bills due to the total spending level and controversial policy provisions that are in the bills.In an effort to fight for the necessary funds for the … Continue reading Congressmembers reveal waste and abuse in Defense and Homeland Security bills
U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, urged Speaker Pelosi to cancel any recesses or “Committee Work Weeks” until a clean supplemental to fund the National Guard is signed into law. In the letter, Ranking Member Rogers writes, “Without securing urgent funding, Army and Air National Guard units will be forced … Continue reading Rogers tells Pelosi to cancel August recess, refund Natl Guard for Capitol deployment
U.S. Senator Steve Daines introduced the “Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act” to help end taxpayer support for the abortion industry. “Not a single penny of taxpayer dollars should go to fund Planned Parenthood or any other abortion business,” Daines said. We must protect all life and the consciences of pro-life American taxpayers by defunding the abortion industry … Continue reading Daines Slams Biden Move to Expand Obamacare Abortions
U.S. Senator Steve Daines made the following statement after the Biden administration took steps to expand abortion under Obamacare: “This is another move by President Biden and Secretary Becerra to promote their abortion agenda above following the law, and is even more alarming as Democrats look to increase taxpayer subsidies for Obamacare. Abortion is not healthcare and taxpayers … Continue reading Daines Slams Biden Administration’s Move to Expand Abortion Under Obamacare
Judicial Watch received 301 pages of emails and other records from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014. These new records reveal that NIAID gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats … Continue reading New Documents Show Wuhan Lab Asked NIH Official for Information on Disinfectants; Nine Fauci Agency Grants for EcoHealth Bat Coronavirus Research
Ranking Member Luetkemeyer (R-MO) sent a letter signed by all Committee Republicans to Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding answers regarding her failure to testify before the House Small Business Committee on the status of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 states: "Not later than the date that is 120 days after … Continue reading Congress demands answers on Yellen defying law, refusing to testify
The full House Appropriations committee met to consider the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills for the subcommittees on Interior and Environment and State and Foreign Operations. Committee Republicans were unable to support the bills due to the total spending level and controversial policy provisions that are in the bills.Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX), the lead Republican on … Continue reading House members object to partisan waste, abortion funds in spending bill
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