Category Archives: Capitol Hill Updates

Sen. Cruz: Defeating the Corrupt Politicians Act is a ‘Victory for the American People’

DELIVERS FLOOR REMARKS AFTER VOTING AGAINST DEMOCRATS’ S.1 BILL   WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered remarks on the Senate floor following his vote against Democrats’ radical S.1 legislation, or the ‘Corrupt Politicians Act,’ which failed to advance in the Senate. Read excerpts of his remarks below. “I rise today to celebrate […]

Lankford Pushes Back on Bid to Make DC a State, Addresses Religious Freedom Issues during COVID Pandemic

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, questioned a panel of witnesses on the constitutionality of making DC the 51st state. Lankford discussed the late Oklahoma Senator, Dr. Tom Coburn’s very brief remarks at the previous hearing to discuss the idea of Washington, DC, becoming a […]

Congressman Steve Scalise: THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE REPORT

What’s Important     Democrats Officially Refuse to Investigate COVID Origins & Hold Communist China Accountable: In a Friday evening news dump, Chairs Clyburn and Maloney made it official that they refuse to confront Communist China and will not investigate the origins of COVID-19.   Evidence Continues to Mount Against Cuomo: Last week, the New York State Bar […]

Senate Will Give Democrats’ Disastrous S. 1 No Quarter

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding S.1: “As I’ve noted before, Senate Democrats entered June with an agenda that was designed to fail. The Democratic Leader planned votes on a host of the Left’s most radical priorities. “None of it was intended to […]

Sen. Rick Scott: Biden’s Iran Appeasement Threatens American Security

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Rick Scott released the following statement calling on President Biden to refuse to re-join the disastrous Iran deal. Senator Scott’s statement follows months of urging President Biden to walk away from this failed deal and after Iran’s new president-elect said he will not meet with President Biden or negotiate over Tehran’s ballistic missile program […]

Democrats’ S. 1: A Massive Election Takeover With a Fill-In-The-Blank Rationale

‘S. 1 is a bad bill filled with bad ideas, and I’ve been crystal clear about opposing it from the very beginning… Nobody is fooled. And next week, the Senate will reject it.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding S.1: “Next week, as […]

Sen. Cruz: Democrats Want to ‘Strike Down Any State Laws Protecting Human Life’

DELIVERS OPENING REMARKS AT SENATE JUDICIARY HEARING SLAMMING DEMOCRATS’ PRO-ABORTION BILL     WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks criticizing Democrats for their radical legislation that includes protections for taxpayer-funded abortions in order to defend Roe v. Wade. Excerpts of Sen. Cruz’s remarks are […]

Washington Democrats Attempt to Impose Their Radical Preferences on Ordinary Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding nominations: “Unfortunately, thus far, the Biden Administration hasn’t just neglected to aggressively prosecute overt discrimination. In some cases, it’s actually trying to promote it. “Take the massive spending package Democrats rammed through in the name of COVID […]

Congressman Steve Scalise: THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE REPORT

What’s Important     Democrats Refuse to Investigate COVID-19 Origins: Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) has repeatedly called on Democrats to investigate the origins of COVID-19, but Democrat leaders have refused.   OMB Won’t Say if Biden Budget Funds Research at the Wuhan Lab: At last week’s House […]

Democrats’ Exclusion of Unborn Protections Breaks With Commonsense, Bipartisan Precedent

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding protections for the unborn: “Unfortunately, the Administration’s radical left turn touches much more than just infrastructure policy. In fact, it includes an unprecedented new threat to the basic dignity of human life. “On the campaign […]