Category Archives: Capitol Hill Updates

Senator Tim Scott Letter to PayPal: Financial Institutions Are Not Engineers of Social Policy

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wrote a letter to PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman on Wednesday, following the company’s announcement that their policy fining users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation” was published by mistake. In the letter, Sen. Scott urges PayPal to disavow discrimination in the financial services industry and requests more information related […]

Congressman Roy, Sen. Lee lead colleagues in demanding answers on FBI’s ‘abuse’ of the FACE Act

WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and 38 of their House and Senate colleagues demanded a briefing from the FBI on its use of the FACE Act to target Americans for their beliefs. “The recent rise in high-profile FBI investigations into pro-life Americans raises well-founded concerns that the FBI has amassed too […]

SENATOR CRUZ, COLLEAGUES SLAM DOJ ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE DISSENT ABOUT GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES FOR MINORS

Demand DOJ Communications with American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, Children’s Hospital Association, and any of their representatives WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland condemning the Department of Justice’s […]

Rep. Roy requests briefing on Air Force ‘advancing a radical political agenda’ with new mixed-sex restrooms, showers

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) requested the Air Force brief him on their plans for mixed-sex restrooms, locker rooms, and showers at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland’s new Special Warfare Training Wing’s (SWTW) $66.6 million 76,000 square-foot aquatics training facility. “While I understand that those who fight together must train together, this development […]

CONGRESSMAN SCALISE TORCHES DEMS’ “AMERICA LAST” AGENDA

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox Business Network’s Kudlow this week to discuss how House Republicans are ready to reverse Democrats’ self-made crises when they take the majority next year. Whip Scalise emphasized that House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” would lower inflation, cut energy costs for American families, halt illegal […]

SENATOR COTTON, COLLEAGUES WARN AMALGAMATED BANK FOR ABUSING FINANCIAL SYSTEM TO INFRINGE ON SECOND AMENDMENT

Washington, DC—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) led 24 colleagues in a letter to Amalgamated Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Priscilla Sims Brown criticizing the bank’s manipulation of an international rules organization to force U.S. financial services firms to categorize gun purchases—an attempt to target law-abiding Americans exercising their right […]

SENS. CRUZ, BLACKBURN CALL ON COMMERCE SECRETARY TO ADDRESS ANTI-SEMITIC PRACTICES OF MORNINGSTAR INC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, calling on her to address the role of so-called Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in facilitating anti-Semitic boycotts of Israel that would fall under the […]

Senator McConnell: Democrats’ Total Control Has Produced Total Economic Disaster

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding inflation: “Two years ago, the American people elected a President who claimed he would govern as a uniting moderate. Underscoring that mandate, voters gave him unusually small coattails, the slimmest possible majority in Congress. “This […]

Congressman Steve Scalise: THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE REPORT

What’s Important Biden’s Education Department Reportedly Allowing School COVID Relief Funds to Pay for Radical, Left-Wing Curricula: Top Republicans have launched an investigation into Biden’s Department of Education reportedly allowing COVID relief funds intended for learning loss remediation to pay for racially biased and other leftist programs. Former Governor Cuomo Fails to Show Up for Nursing Home Hearing: Select Subcommittee […]

Weekly House of Representatives’ Schedule 9/26/22

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 26TH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH On Monday, no votes are expected in the House. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH On Tuesday, no votes are expected in the House. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK On Wednesday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. […]