After a June letter to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) and colleagues, the IRS reversed course on a determination removing tax-exempt status of a religious values group. The letter called out the IRS determination that “the sanctity of life, biblical marriage, and … Continue reading IRS Changes Course after Sen. Lee and Rep. Owens Send Letter on Religious Liberty
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pr7yteiCYLk Massie:Under the Constitution, everyone deserves 4th Amendment protections, not just members of the media. It was necessary to remind my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee of this simple fact during a hearing yesterday. The focus of the hearing was to examine legislation to deter prosecutorial abuses of power, which have too frequently involved government … Continue reading Massie: Everyone Deserves 4th Amendment Protections, Not Just the Media
NJ teachers Jeanette Speck and Susan Fischer are suing the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) for forcing “escape period” policies on workers. This particular “escape period” is heinous because it only allows 10 days in August when teachers have an opportunity to resign from the union. And, they cannot submit resignations in advance. This scheme does not protect their constitutional rights as expressed in the Foundation’s … Continue reading These teachers sued their union over ‘escape period’ scheme to trap them in dues
Judicial Watch received 301 pages of emails and other records from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014. These new records reveal that NIAID gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats … Continue reading New Documents Show Wuhan Lab Asked NIH Official for Information on Disinfectants; Nine Fauci Agency Grants for EcoHealth Bat Coronavirus Research
Ranking Member Luetkemeyer (R-MO) sent a letter signed by all Committee Republicans to Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding answers regarding her failure to testify before the House Small Business Committee on the status of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 states: "Not later than the date that is 120 days after … Continue reading Congress demands answers on Yellen defying law, refusing to testify
House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) opening statement at today’s Republican-led Select Subcommittee hearing about COVID-19’s origin questions why Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have refused to investigate claims that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab. Whip Scalise notes that today’s witnesses will … Continue reading Scalise rips Communist China for covering up COVID origins
President Biden’s unprecedented removal of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb, and subsequent installation of forced-unionism zealot Peter S. Ohr as Robb’s “Acting” replacement, quickly threatened workers’ individual rights. It also threatened the independence of the Board itself, including in multiple ongoing cases brought with National Right to Work Foundation legal aid. … Continue reading Biden rigs labor board to stop prosecution of union bosses for illegal dues, secret-organizing deal
On the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx spoke with Fox News to explain how the CCP is using money and influence to control American higher education. While the CCP’s attempts to infiltrate colleges and universities appear innocuous – a Chinese language institute, money to teach … Continue reading Foxx Explains Communist Chinese infiltration into US colleges, research
The full House Appropriations committee met to consider the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills for the subcommittees on Interior and Environment and State and Foreign Operations. Committee Republicans were unable to support the bills due to the total spending level and controversial policy provisions that are in the bills.Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX), the lead Republican on … Continue reading House members object to partisan waste, abortion funds in spending bill
Salesmen for Frito Lay in Del Rio and Eagle Pass, Texas have successfully removed officials of Teamsters Local 657 from their workplace. On May 13, 2021, John Adams filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a decertification election, and gathered enough of his coworkers’ signatures to trigger an NLRB-supervised vote to … Continue reading Frito Lay workers vote to boot out Teamsters
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