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Friday, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, voted against the adoption of S.Con.Res.5, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Budget Resolution. The proposed budget directs the Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over major direct spending programs and all revenue…
Read More U.S. Senator Mike Crapo: Pandemic Relief Should Be Bipartisan
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), author of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (P.L. 116–76), issued the following statement after Hong Kong announced educational ‘guidelines’ under the Chinese Government’s draconian National Security Law. Following the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist…
Read More U.S. Sen. Rubio Condemns CCP’s Educational Reforms in Hong Kong, Urges Biden to Stand Up to Beijing
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Interior, Scott de la Vega, demanding answers on the Biden administration’s recent orders banning new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. In the letter, Barrasso expressed his strong opposition…
Read More U.S. Senator Barrasso Demands Answers on Biden’s Oil and Gas Leasing Ban
Florida State Senator Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, filed Senate Bill 74, COVID-19-related Claims Against Health Care Providers. The bill offers strong protections from civil liability for health care providers working to serve Floridians in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. “So many of our hardworking…
Read More Florida Sen. Brandes Files Legislation, COVID-19 Liability Protection For Health Care Providers
Op-Ed By: Senator John Thune R-SD President Biden pledged to be a president for all Americans. He reiterated that sentiment at his inauguration, stating, “On this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation.” But it’s…
Read More U.S. Senator John Thune: People Over Partisanship
As millions of businesses have closed their doors and thousands more are on the verge of closing permanently, Senator Scott has been a vocal champion for job-creators that are trying to make it through the pandemic. Some of the hardest hit, especially in his home…
Read More U.S. Senator Scott Fights Job-Killing Artificial Minimum Wage Hike
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Steve Daines (R-Mont.), founder and chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, were joined today by 46 other pro-life senators in sending a unified message to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledging to block…
Read More U.S. Sens. Cruz, Daines to Schumer: We Will Vote to Block Any Radical, Pro-Abortion Agenda
In 2020 Lin Wood and Sidney Powell were something rare: activist lawyers who successfully argued conservative causes. For Wood, it was wrangling undisclosed but likely lucrative settlements out of CNN and The Washington Post for defaming Nick Sandmann and the other boys from Covington Catholic…
Read More Report Confirms GOP’s Worst Fears About Georgia Run-Offs: Republicans Stayed Home
Republicans in the Senate can only dream about Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin flipping parties and giving them control of the chamber again. After all, former President Donald Trump won only one state last year by a bigger margin than he captured Manchin’s home state of…
Read More Moderate Mitt Goes All-In On One Yang Gang Idea
It’s woefully too late, especially for thousands of New Yorkers who died from COVID-19 after the state’s governor put sick people back in nursing homes, but the national media appears to be performing penance for its past failures. They’ve suddenly realized that they can no…
Read More Florida’s DeSantis Offers a Lesson To Success, If Other Republicans Are Smart or Brave Enough to Follow It