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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Wednesday, issued the following statement on the passing of the pioneering conservative radio talk show host, New York Times best-selling author, and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Rush Limbaugh: “Today, Americans’ hearts are heavy as we bid farewell to Rush…
Read More U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz: The Passing of Conservative Icon Rush Limbaugh
A new cost estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that Congressional Democrats’ new reconciliation bill will kill jobs and result in billions of dollars of unfunded mandates on employers. Senators Braun, Burr, and Portman previously asked CBO to estimate the impact…
Read More U.S. Senator Braun: CBO Score Shows Democrats’ Wage Bill Will Kill Jobs
By: Sen. Chuck Grassley For generations, school kids went to bed dreaming about the possibility of a snow day. No one would have imagined today’s scenario. When winter storms blanketed the Midwest and moved to the East Coast, the bedtime prayers for millions of students…
Read More U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley: Let Them Go Back To School
In light of new reports alleging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff engaged in a cover-up of New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), on Wednesday, sent a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,…
Read More U.S. GOP Senators Call For Investigation Into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Cover-Up
On Thursday, Feb. 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover and Mars Helicopter complete their 203-day voyage from Cape Canaveral to the surface of Mars, where the probes will search for potential traces of past life and scout out future routes to explore the Red Planet. It’s the latest…
Read More U.S. Senator Rubio: NASA’s Success Is Critical to Our Nation’s Future
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host who pioneered conservative talk radio, has died at the age of 70. The death was announced on his program today by his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh. His death comes a little more than a year after his announcement of a diagnosis of stage 4…
Read More Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70, Liberal Twitter Celebrates
The Senate Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, chaired by Senator Lauren Book (D-Plantation), on Tuesday, passed Senate Bill 80, Child Welfare, by Senator Jason Brodeur (R-Sanford). The legislation expands and clarifies existing laws related to sibling and transition placements for children in out-of-home…
Read More Florida Child Welfare Legislation To Increase Protections
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and John Thune (R-SD), as well as Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI), are leading a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue new clarifications that would ensure more…
Read More U.S. Senators Baldwin, Thune Lead Bipartisan Push to Make More Farmers and Ranchers Eligible for PPP Loans
Like Rodney Dangerfield in his 1980s hit “Easy Money,” President Joe Biden is sporting “the regular guy look.” One day he’s clad in jeans on the White House lawn surveying Valentine’s Day yard signs with “Dr.” Jill Biden and his dogs. Then we’re getting reports…
Read More U.S. President Joe Biden: Regular Guy, Irregular President
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a report called “Fighting for Florida: Mid-Term Update” detailing his legislative accomplishments in 2020 and the landmark laws he wrote over the past four years. A non-partisan analysis produced by GovTrack ranked Rubio as the second top leader compared to all Senators in…
Read More U.S. Senator Rubio Releases Report on 2020 Accomplishments, Looks Ahead to Next Two Years