House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans are raising questions about the Department of Energy’s (DOE) sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to a Chinese energy company that Hunter Biden’s private equity firm has a financial stake in. Recently, DOE sold 900,000 barrels of … Continue reading Republicans Probe DOE’s Sale of Oil to Chinese Company Affiliated with Hunter Biden
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U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) opposed efforts to proceed to Senate consideration of a massive new federal intervention into commercial manufacturing. At the time of the vote, legislative text was still unclear, but the one area that will be included in the ultimate bill is over $75 billion to subsidize the semiconductor industry—commonly known as … Continue reading Toomey Opposes Corporate Welfare Handout to Semiconductor Industry
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) Tuesday afternoon sought to shed light on the risks to the First Amendment rights of free speech and association under provisions of a controversial campaign finance bill promoted by Democrats since 2010. Hyde-Smith serves on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee that conducted a hearing to examine the Democracy Is Strengthened by … Continue reading New Democrat bill doxxes political donors as liberal mobs step up targeted threats
Judicial Watch announced filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Secret Service records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs. (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security(No. 1:22-cv-02097)). The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after United States … Continue reading Judicial Watch Sues Secret Service for Hunter Biden Travel and Security Cost Records
House Energy and Commerce Republicans submitted an amendment to an annual energy spending bill to prevent President Joe Biden from jeopardizing America’s energy and national security by selling oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to the Chinese Communist Party. Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement on the dire need … Continue reading House GOP seeks to stop Biden from giving US oil reserves to Chinese Communist Party
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released a fact sheet highlighting the innovation-killing impact of Democrats’ proposed prescription price controls. Here’s how Democrats’ partisan agenda would harm American medical breakthroughs and advancements: DEMOCRATIC BIG GOVERNMENT PRICE CONTROLS WILL CRUSH BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION & PREVENT FUTURE CURES The Schumer plan … Continue reading Deadly Democrat plan cancels medical research, cuts off development of new medications
Republican members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), sent a letter to Senate colleagues highlighting concerns with a proposal to impose a tax on small- and medium-sized businesses—businesses already reeling from the pandemic, massive inflation and worker shortages. A proposal to expand the so-called Net Investment Income Tax, or … Continue reading Democrat plans for new small business tax would crush struggling US economy
“The sharp increase in softwood lumber prices, on top of high inflation and supply chain challenges, has only further added to residential construction costs.” U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) this week urged U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai to prioritize lumber tariff relief … Continue reading Thune, Menendez Urge Administration to Prioritize Lumber Trade to Improve Housing Costs
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) this week participated in a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Federal Hydrogen Pipeline Regulatory Authorities. Lankford began his remarks saying that the permitting process as a whole needs to be addressed. Lankford focused his questions on how to address the current permitting process and how to fix it moving … Continue reading Lankford Pushes to Fix Permitting Process for All US Energy Production
Senator Mike Braun is introducing “The Braun Budget” – a balanced federal budget designed to throw the brakes on out-of-control government spending, fight inflation by bringing expenses and revenue into balance over 10 years, and unleash American prosperity by making the Trump tax cuts permanent. Under to Congressional Budget Act, if the Senate Budget Committee fails … Continue reading Senator Braun introduces balanced federal budget to fight inflation, unleash prosperity
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