SEC. POMPEO REAFFIRMED THE U.S.’S COMMITMENT TO USING SANCTIONS TO HALT PIPELINE’S CONSTRUCTION WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday, asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to unequivocally affirm the administration’s commitment to imposing whatever sanctions are necessary to stop the completion of Vladimir […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tim Scott released the following statement after the Senate Democrats voted against expanding the Paycheck Protection Program for American workers and businesses: “Countless Americans have spent several months without a paycheck and today’s vote is just proof of how the Democrats are unwilling to put aside partisan politics to help the American people,” said Senator Tim Scott. […]
Today, Speaker Boehner released Pillars of a Renewed Majority, which details his five-point vision for resetting the foundation of our economy and the steps the House Republican majority is taking to make it a reality.“Over the last four years, the House has served as an outpost in Washington for the people’s priorities,” Boehner writes in […]
The latest two United States Senators announcing their intention to vote against the nomination of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court are Senator John Thune from South Dakota and Senator David Vitter from Louisiana. It is hard to believe that there has ever been a more left-leaning Supreme Court nominee than Elena Kagan. […]
For those of you who may have missed the news this morning, Sen. Hatch announced his opposition to Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. His full statement is below. ———- Utah Senator Says, He “Cannot Ignore Disturbing Situations in which it Appears that Her Personal or Political Views Drove her Legal Views” WASHINGTON – […]
Note the following email from the Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell’s office regarding the Obama administration’s newest avowed socialist; a gentleman who was given a recess appointment by the president over the July 4th recess, of all the times for the president to go around the Congress. Obama’s appointment of Donald Berwick as the new […]
As you can see in the email below from the Office of the Senate Republican Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, the opposition to the nomination by Barack Obama of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court continues to grow over the July 4th Senate recess. As you will read below, the most noteworthy […]
Three more United States Senators came out against the radical nominee for the United States Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, yesterday: Senators Saxby Chambliss, R-GA; John Cornyn, R-TX, and Roger Wicker, R-MS. They argue that Elena Kagan will not show judicial restraint if she becomes a Supreme Court justice. ———- Chambliss Statement on Elena Kagan “Any […]
Many “pro-life” Democrats were fooled into voting for ObamaCare — which 60% of the American people still want to see repealed — after they heard Obama’s promises that abortion would not be funded with Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars. As many of us predicted, this turned out to be not the truth. The votes of these […]
The probable new House Majority Leader next year, the House Republican Whip, Congressman Eric Cantor from Virginia, issued the following statement yesterday blasting the Obama administration for its federal funding of abortion, after promising “pro-life” Democrats who eventually voted for ObamaCare, that his health care reform bill would not fund abortions with Americans’ hard-earned tax […]