Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is raising budgetary alarms about a postal reform bill. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 appears to rely on unwise budgetary gimmicks that might shore up the USPS balance sheet in the short term, but likely in exchange for significant long-term cost headaches, AFP indicated in a Monday letter to … Continue reading ‘Postal reform’ bill loots Medicare of billions, uses accounting tricks to cover losses
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This week, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) unveiled a bill to suspend the gas tax for the remainder of the year – a good thing if it wasn’t so blatantly two-faced. Maggie Hassan has been an outspoken champion of gas tax hikes dating back to her time as New Hampshire governor when she signed into law a massive 23% increase … Continue reading Desperate Maggie Hassan Blatantly Flip Flops on Gas Tax
Senate Republicans, led by Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), are urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to do everything it can to support taxpayers during the current tax filing season. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, the senators press the agency to provide taxpayers with targeted, … Continue reading Republicans Urge IRS to Provide Maximum Taxpayer Support During Difficult Filing Season
U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., joined U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) and the entire Senate Republican Conference in a letter urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to suspend the pending rulemaking to redefine the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water … Continue reading Barrasso and Lummis Join Fight to Stop WOTUS Overreach
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in introducing the Cutting Rampant Access to Crack Kits (CRACK) Act of 2022 to block American Rescue Plan Act dollars from funding the purchase and distribution of drug pipes to drug users. “The Biden administration wants to spend millions of dollars helping drug users smoke … Continue reading CRACK Act blocks Biden from using tax dollars to buy crack pipes
On the heels of new inflation numbers released today showing a 7.5% spike in inflation over the past year under the Biden and Democratic agenda—the largest increase since 1982—U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is putting forward a new measure requiring any bill from Congress to include a report on how it will impact inflation for … Continue reading PRICE Act requires all proposed legislation to disclose its effect on inflation
U.S. Senator Steve Daines and Representative Matt Rosendale this week introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill to ban Members of Congress and their spouses from owning and trading individual stocks. The bill, the “Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2022,” was introduced by Daines and Senator Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate and Rosendale and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal in the U.S. House. … Continue reading Daines, Rosendale Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Ban Members of Congress from Trading & Owning Individual Stocks
This week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Representatives Chip Roy (TX-21), and Representative Mike Johnson (LA-4) led a cohort of 42 other Republican Members of Congress in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Feds for Medical Freedom v. Biden. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), … Continue reading Sen. Cruz, Reps. Chip Roy and Mike Johnson Lead on Amicus Brief Against Biden’s Federal Workforce Vaccine Mandate
This week Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House released its plan, via the task force on union organizing, to increase union bosses’ stranglehold over American workers: “It’s truly baffling to watch a President openly collude with anti-worker groups to identify government actions which will … Continue reading Biden releases scheme to boost union bosses’ stranglehold over workers
This week Politico published an article outlining allegations of inappropriate behavior by Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Eric Lander. The article references an internal investigation conducted by the White House and disciplinary measures taken in response to the finding that Dr. Lander violated the Executive Office of the President’s Safe and Respectful Workplace Policy. … Continue reading Dem and GOP House leaders demand details on abuse and misconduct by Biden climate adviser
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