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    Congress Weighs Changes That Could Seriously Impact Farmers, Hidden in Funding Bill

    Congress is debating an expansion of a migrant-worker visa program.   Tucked within the Department of Homeland Security’s $91.5 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2024 are changes to the H-2A and H-2B visa programs. The H-2A visa is specific to temporary agriculture work, while the H-2B is a temporary work visa for non-agriculture work….
    Virginia Allen
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    4 Images Reveal How Congress Is Committing an $11 Billion Fraud on American Public

    Perhaps the single biggest legislative fight this year has been over federal spending. There’s a good reason for that: The national debt is now an eye-popping $32.5 trillion (roughly $250,000 per household), and out-of-control deficit spending is one of the main reasons why families are struggling with inflation. In May, Congress passed a bipartisan deal…
    David Ditch
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    GOP Senators Rip Democrats’ Bill They Say Would Eviscerate Supreme Court

    A bill from Senate Democrats to be marked up in committee Thursday would destroy the independence of the Supreme Court, a group of Republican senators said at a Wednesday press conference. Six GOP lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke about how the Supreme Court “ethics” bill drawn up by Democrats on their committee would…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Jim Jordan Threatens to Hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in Contempt of Congress

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray Monday threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress after the FBI allegedly failed to comply with subpoenas issued earlier in the year. Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote that the FBI’s compliance in two separate subpoenas has been “wholly inadequate” and warned the House Judiciary…
    Jake Smith
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    House Votes to End Pentagon Abortion Funding in Passing National Defense Authorization Act

    A divided House voted Friday morning to pass an annual national defense bill after Republicans amended it to prohibit the Pentagon from spending taxpayers’ money to pay for travel and other abortion-related expenses. With this pro-life amendment, the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 passed by a bipartisan vote of 219-210,…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    4 Takeaways From Climate Czar John Kerry’s House Hearing

    Lawmakers grilled climate czar John Kerry on Capitol Hill Thursday, asking about his private jet usage and views on China. Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, defended the cost of President Joe Biden’s climate policies before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and accountability. The country’s first climate czar is set to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    These 49 Senators Voted to Confirm Biden EEOC Pick Seen as Likely to Force Transgender Ideology on Employers

    The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Kalpana Kotagal, President Joe Biden’s pick to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a move critics warn will force transgender ideology on employers across America. “I’m incredibly concerned about Kalpana Kotagal’s record of support for radical transgender ideology,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Conservatives Urge Senators to Oppose Gen. Brown for Chairman of Joint Chiefs

    Calling him the “wrong man for the job,” a group of conservative leaders strongly opposes the president’s nomination of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown to be the nation’s highest-ranking military officer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  In an open letter to senators, the 30 leaders of conservative groups urge the lawmakers…
    Fred Lucas
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    Senate Democrats’ Supreme Court ‘Ethics’ Bill Is Really About Disapproval of Rulings

    If you hadn’t heard by now, Democrats in Congress and their left-wing allies are really in a state of panic about the Supreme Court, and it’s easy to see why. The Left can’t risk leaving the country to the American people and their elected legislators, but need politically driven judges to impose their agenda. Well,…
    Thomas Jipping
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    EXCLUSIVE: Senator Challenges Biden Admin to Fly Pro-Life Flags After Pride Celebration

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is calling on President Joe Biden and his federal agencies to show inclusivity toward pro-life Americans by flying pro-life flags during October, which is Respect Life Month. The Nebraska senator sent 20 letters to Biden administration agencies with this request, first obtained by The…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Congress Expands Biden Corruption Probe to DOJ, IRS, Secret Service as Hunter Deposed

    Amid whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department stymied the investigation of Hunter Biden by federal prosecutors and IRS agents, the president’s son was deposed Thursday in a civil suit regarding his laptop.  Lawyers in a defamation suit brought by computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac questioned the younger Biden, who Isaac has said…
    Fred Lucas
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    Martha Washington: Remembering America’s 1st First Lady

    On Independence Day, Americans rightly honor our Founding Fathers for their courage and sacrifice. George Washington is arguably the most important figure in U.S. history, and his wife, Martha Washington, was a constant support during his career. Martha Washington didn't have an easy life. Her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died after the couple had…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘SEVER EVERY TENTACLE’: Va. Senate Candidates Pledge to Probe SPLC’s Federal Ties Amid Attack on Moms for Liberty

    Two leading Republican candidates in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race have pledged to investigate the federal government’s use of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing smear factory that recently put parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Scott Parkinson, former…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Republicans Challenge ‘Dead Weight’ Tim Kaine as Youngkin’s Popularity Puts Virginia’s US Senate Race in Play

    Republicans seem well positioned to win the U.S. Senate in 2024, since they have only 12 seats to defend compared to the Democrats’ 22. In Virginia, Republicans aim to unseat incumbent Senate Democrat Tim Kaine, slamming him as “dead weight” and noting the success of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican. “I think this race is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Votes to Censure Rep. Adam Schiff

    The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., initially filed a privileged resolution on May 23 "to censure, condemn, and fine" the California Democrat $16 million "for his egregious abuse of the trust of the American people." Luna introduced a…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Senate Candidate Makes Major Parental Rights Pledge After SPLC Attack

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Republican candidate for the Virginia Senate has responded to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attack on parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty by pledging to introduce a Parental Bill of Rights Act in the Legislature should she win election in November. The SPLC last week added parental rights…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    State Senator Tells Parents to Flee His Own State Amid Bill That Would Take Kids Away From Non-’Affirming’ Parents

    A California state senator told a gathered crowd of parents at the California Senate Judicial Committee to flee the state on June 13 during a hearing on a bill which would put parents who don’t affirm their child’s “gender transition” in danger of child abuse charges. Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, is one of the…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Analysis of Voting Patterns in Congress Shows Hill Democrats Are the True Extremists

    In an effort to divide the nation that he pledged to unite, President Joe Biden routinely decries "MAGA extremists in the Republican Party." A March 27 White House fact sheet, for example, excoriated "Extreme MAGA Congressional Republicans." Biden's regime-media bodyguards parrot that sentiment. MSNBC warned about House Speaker "Kevin McCarthy's GOP extremism problem," and Clean Technica reported Wednesday night, "Republican Extremism Could Be Major Threat To Home Insurance." Scary! If Biden…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Biden Official Says ‘We Need Congress to Act’ on Border; GOP Rep Calls Statement ‘Outrageous’

    Members of Congress questioned two top immigration officials Tuesday to understand what the current situation is on the United States’ borders.   “We’ll ask questions extensively from both sides of the aisle, again, seeking truth,” Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., said. “And there’s no benefit to any of us to conceal the actual numbers and the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Senate Passes Debt Ceiling Bill

    The Senate voted Thursday evening to pass the debt ceiling legislation, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to sign it into law. The Senate vote to pass the debt ceiling bill was 63-36. The Senate also voted on 11 amendments on Thursday night, none of which passed. >>> Scroll to end of article to…
    Samantha Aschieris
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