With inflation running rampant—and threatening to worsen as Washington seeks to advance more reckless spending programs—Americans for Prosperity is announcing a new six-figure campaign calling for accountability for trillions in reckless spending. The ads highlight the empty promises and damaging results of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which pushed inflation into overdrive and failed … Continue reading AFP Releases New Targeted Ad Campaign Holding Lawmakers Accountable for Reckless Spending and Historic Inflation
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House Committee on Oversight Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican lawmakers renewed their request to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Lawrence Tabak to provide all documents and communications about a grant awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled taxpayer funds to … Continue reading Comer, Oversight Republicans Again Press for Information About Taxpayer Funds Awarded to Wuhan Lab and Possible Fauci Cover-Up
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) called on Democrats to address the rising prices that are hurting American families across the country. Excerpts and highlights from his remarks: AMERICANS ARE PAYING HIGH PRICES FOR EVERYTHING “I would be remiss if I didn’t express some disappointment that … Continue reading Bilirakis: We Must Have an Honest Discussion About how American Families are Paying Higher and Higher Prices
Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), urged Senate colleagues to reconsider efforts to implement a tax on financial statement income of U.S. companies, or a “book minimum tax,” detailing the problematic and unaddressed issues that have resulted from such proposals in the past. As the senators note, … Continue reading Finance Committee Republicans: Congress Should Close the Book on the Failed Book Minimum Tax
This week the American Trucking Associations hailed the introduction of a pair of bills that will streamline the credentialing process for millions of professional truck drivers, easing a number of onerous and unnecessary burdens. "With a shortage of roughly 80,000 drivers, we should be making the process of becoming a professional truck driver as user … Continue reading ATA Hails Introduction of Legislation to Reduce Red Tape for Professional Drivers
On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21), alongside 48 of his Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, informed GOP leadership that they will refuse to fund the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates when government funding runs out later this month. "Congressional Republicans must once again decide whether they will vote to fund a federal government that is enforcing tyrannical … Continue reading 48 Republicans join Rep. Roy in fight to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), along with Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.), ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, introduced the Kids in Classes Act. The bill would allow families with children in Title I schools to put unused federal education funds toward in-person education, should their school close due … Continue reading Scott bill blocks schools from using COVID and union strikes as shutdown excuses
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reintroduced a sweeping ethics reform package that increases accountability for members of Congress and officials in the Executive Branch. "People hate politics, and politicians have worked hard to earn that hate. This ethics package is pretty simple: If Congress wants to rebuild some public trust, we ought to put some pretty simple rules … Continue reading Sasse Reintroduces Ethics Overhaul: “This is going to hack off a whole bunch of Republicans and Democrats”
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding COVID-19: “This week marks two years since the federal government first declared the new coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency. “I don’t need to recount the staggering number of lives lost or the terrible upheaval throughout society that our … Continue reading Given Current COVID Facts and Science, “It Is Time for the State of Emergency to Wind Down”
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), alongside Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Jon Ossoff (D-GA), this week announced the introduction of the Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2022. This bill would bring greater accountability to our nation’s federal prisons by requiring the Director of the … Continue reading McConnell, Paul, Lee, Sinema, Braun, Ossoff Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Increase Accountability at Federal Prisons
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