The House of Representatives is considering the America COMPETES Act this week, a bill described by sponsors as a “China competition bill.” The wide-ranging legislation includes provisions on issues ranging from trade to energy to labor policy and the Republican Study Committee released a memo calling the bill the “America Concedes Act.” CEI experts weighed … Continue reading House Democrats’ China Bill Would Make the US Less Competitive and Harm Consumers
Category: Washington
With only 10 months until election day, one would think that Democrat Senate hopefuls would want the support from their party’s leader, President Joe Biden. Instead, they’re running as far away as possible to try to hide their full-throated support for the flailing president. Pennsylvania’s Democrat Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman was scheduled to skip President Biden’s event in … Continue reading Biden: A Pariah for Democrat Senate Hopefuls
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week published a report entitled “ Left Behind: A Brief Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Strategic Failures during the Afghanistan Evacuation ,” to give an overview of what went wrong in the planning and execution of the Biden Administration’s hazardous withdrawal … Continue reading Risch Publishes Report on Biden Administration’s Strategic Failures During Afghanistan Withdrawal
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse condemned Speaker Nancy Pelosi's cowardly remarks discouraging athletes from speaking out against China’s human rights abuses at the 2022 Olympics. "The Chinese Communist Party is just thrilled that the Speaker of the House is encouraging athletes to self-censor. Speaker Pelosi missed the mark. Every American — Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter — … Continue reading Sasse slams Pelosi subservience to Communist China
This week House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on seven scientists who initially believed COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab to provide … Continue reading Comer, Scalise, Jordan Call on Scientists Who Privately Supported Lab Leak Theory to Provide Answers Under Oath
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to over 700 Texas hospital executives about how President Biden’s Build Back Better Act would have a devastating impact on Texas hospitals, medical providers, and Texans who are uninsured or from underserved communities. As Sen. Cruz highlights in the letter, the Build Back Better Act would cut Disproportionate … Continue reading Build Back Better guts Medicaid reimbursements
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) pressed one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors over her suspicious conduct in helping Reserve Trust, a non-bank trust company, obtain access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system (“master account”), a privilege exclusively reserved for banks. Reserve Trust was the first, and currently the … Continue reading Biden Fed Nominee Raskin Grilled Over Suspicious Influence Peddling
Newly leaked documents from the White House Situation Room the day before Kabul fell have become public and they look horrible for the Biden Administration and the complicit Senate Democrats. According to the documents, the withdrawal was worse than Americans could have imagined. It was ill-conceived, disorganized, and the Biden Administration was shamefully unprepared. This … Continue reading Senate Dems STILL Silent as Damning New Info on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Emerges
Suffering from the disastrous impacts of Joe Biden and Senate Democrats’ radical agenda, Americans are reporting a record low feeling of optimism in the latest measurement from Gallup. It’s no surprise Americans are feeling less optimistic after a year of Democrat leadership. Gas prices have skyrocketed, there is a never-ending border crisis, grocery prices are astronomical, and grocery … Continue reading American Optimism Hits Record Low Under Biden, Democrat Leadership
The U.S. should not approve a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a new Competitive Enterprise Institute report argues. “CBDCs could hand the federal government a powerful tool for economic and social control and unprecedented intrusion into the private financial lives of billions of people,” warned Paul Jossey, author of the new report. Despite claims that a CBDC would … Continue reading A Government Central Bank Digital Currency Would Pose Big Risk to Financial Sector, Economy
DonnyFerguson.com 