WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) led 40 of his House Republican colleagues in demanding Biden’s Department of Defense immediately rescind its directive to create a new abortion travel fund for service members and their families. Last week, DoD released a memo announcing their plans to direct American taxpayer dollars to this fund – an […]
Category Archives: Capitol Hill Updates
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.), members of the Senate Committees on Finance and Banking, along with a group of their colleagues, sent a letter to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demanding a swift and thorough assessment of the short- and long-term effects of the Democrats’ reckless spending and inflationary policies on the nation’s fiscal future. “We write to obtain […]
WASHINGTON— House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra raising concerns about the federal government’s use of taxpayer funds to promote radical gender ideology and the medical transition of children using pharmaceutical or surgical […]
WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy released the following statement following the Department of Justice’s failure to turn over Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) prosecution data by last Thursday’s deadline: “Yet again, the Biden Administration is systematically stonewalling Members of Congress — in this case flat-out ignoring a demand for basic, historical […]
“The Nation’s Report Card” Shows Decline in Students’ Reading, Math Scores Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a senior member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, released the following statement after NAEP scores showed the largest math declines recorded for fourth and eighth graders. The data released today also showed a three point decline […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that 2022 was the worst year at the border on record, with 2.4 million border encounters, more border encounters than any year on record […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) co-authored an op-ed for FoxNews.com highlighting how Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies and support for the radical “Defund the Police” movement have weakened police departments and caused a dramatic rise in violent crime and homicides in Wisconsin and across the country. Additionally, Whip Scalise and Congressman Fitzgerald […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Rick Scott issued the following statement after President Joe Biden delivered a speech spewing lie after lie about his disastrous economic record and ignoring the real consequences of his radical tax and spend agenda that’s caused the U.S. debt to rise above $31,000,000,000,000. Senator Scott also released a weekly update on […]
This week, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a series of letters and preservation notices to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, continuing the Committee Republicans’ oversight of the Biden Administration’s use of law-enforcement resources, including counterterrorism resources, to target parents […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted Democrats’ politicization of the Select Subcommittee to attack the Trump Administration rather than conduct impartial congressional oversight of the pandemic. Since the panel’s inception, Democrats refused to investigate the origins of COVID-19; President Biden’s politically motivated decision-making; […]