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U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Army’s investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year: “Reports regarding the U.S. Army’s investigation into the botched Afghanistan evacuation mirror the findings in my report released last week. The Biden Administration failed to … Continue reading US Army investigation confirms Biden bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, abandoned Americans to Taliban

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to President Biden co-signed by 32 senators rebuking the administration’s negotiations for a new Iran nuclear deal. Co-signers of the letter are: Sens. Hagerty (R-TN), Cotton (R-AR), Grassley (R-IA), Marshall (R-KS), Tillis (R-NC), Rubio (R-FL), Scott (R-SC), Cassidy (R-LA), Braun (R-IN), Scott (R-FL), Lummis (R-WY), Wicker (R-MS), Ernst (R-IA), Boozman (R-AR), Johnson (R-WI),Barrasso (R-WY), Young (R-IN), Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Cramer (R-ND), Inhofe (R-OK), Hoeven (R-ND), Sasse (R-NE), Daines (R-MT), Toomey (R-PA), Kennedy (R-LA),Cornyn (R-TX), Portman (R-OH), Blackburn (R-TN), Lee (R-UT), Thune (R-SD), Risch (R-ID), and Sullivan … Continue reading 33 senators commit to blocking any Iran deal not submitted to Congress for approval

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

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

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