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    Did University of Delaware Lie About Biden’s Senate Papers? Lawsuit Seeks Answers.

    The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch have asked a Delaware court to reopen their case seeking the release of President Joe Biden’s Senate records held at the University of Delaware. Special counsel Robert Hur’s February report on his investigation into Biden’s retention of classified documents contained findings that contradicted the university’s claims that no tax…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    House Votes to Stop Biden’s Green ‘Slush Fund’

    By a vote of 209-204, the House passed legislation Friday to eliminate what critics call a green energy slush fund.  The Daily Signal first reported last year on the bill, called the Cutting Green Corruption and Taxes Act and sponsored by Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.  “This is a major…
    Fred Lucas
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    NO SURPRISE: Liberal Media Ignore House Panel’s Hunter Biden Hearing  

    For the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the partisan Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the “Pelosi-Picked Panel” on Jan. 6 as a dominant story, worthy of hundreds of hours of television, both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews.   Once Republicans took over the House, would…
    Tim Graham
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    Conservatives Protest as House Passes $1.2 Trillion Spending Package

    By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning, avoiding a partial government shutdown but putting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in jeopardy of losing the speakership. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to pass because Democrats have a working…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Here’s How DC Created ‘Crime and Disorder Crisis,’ Witness Testifies at House Hearing

    The nation’s capital has seen a drastic jump in violent crime in recent years, putting residents, visitors, and lawmakers at elevated risk of victimization. A House committee held a hearing Thursday to address the crime issue in the District of Columbia. Among the witnesses was Rafael A. Mangual, the Nick Ohnell fellow at the Manhattan…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Senate Republicans at Odds With Democrats on Banning This Digital Currency

    If you’re a fan of the U.S. dollar, you can keep it from turning into a surveillance tool of the federal government—at least according to a new bill introduced in the Senate.  A few days ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, along with four other senators, reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. The bill would ban…
    Peter St. Onge
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    Congress to Decide TikTok’s Fate in US

    TikTok might soon be facing a choice: Divest from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company, or cease to operate in the U.S.  “This is not about the content that is being posted on TikTok,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says. “It’s about the conduct of the company that controls TikTok, that makes the decisions, that has…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE’: Senators Rip FEMA on Poor Handling of Illegal Immigrant Travel

    Key Senate Republicans blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency for shoddy record-keeping regarding the transportation of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S.  FEMA distributes grants to nonprofit organizations for shelter and travel expenses for illegal immigrants, but last month informed The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project that it has no documentation about how that taxpayer money has…
    Fred Lucas
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    Republicans Must Use Leadership Change as Opportunity to End Business as Usual in Senate

    With Wednesday’s announcement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will step down as the Republican Senate leader in November, conservatives have a generational opportunity. McConnell has been the Senate’s GOP leader for over 17 years. The choice senators will face now is between continuing business as usual or setting up the Senate to…
    Clint Brown
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    McConnell to Step Down as Senate Republican Leader

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will step down from his position in November, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The 82-year-old senator will announce the decision on Wednesday, the publication reported. He will have been the longest-serving Senate leader in United States history. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    IVF Isn’t the Pro-Life Option for Addressing Fertility Issues. Duckworth’s Senate Bill Isn’t the Solution.

    The Left, and even many Republicans, have misrepresented the Alabama Supreme Court recent decision in the LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine case involving frozen embryos. The court sided with parents who pursued a wrongful-death lawsuit against a negligent in vitro fertilization clinic, where their frozen embryos were killed when a patient entered the unsecured…
    Arina Grossu Agnew
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    McConnell Says Full Senate Trial on Mayorkas Impeachment Is ‘Best Way to Go Forward’

    Senate Democrats need only a simple majority to dismiss the House’s impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a move that appears likely.   The House voted Feb. 13 to impeach Mayorkas 214 to 213, with every Democrat voting no. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hasn’t said whether he would act to dismiss…
    Virginia Allen
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    Mayorkas Had 3 Years to Secure Our Border. Americans Deserve a Real Senate Impeachment Trial.

    Members of Congress have promised to “hold accountable” those in power so often that the phrase has become hollow. Exhibit A: Alejandro Mayorkas. For many months, President Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security has dodged responsibility for his direct implementation of a historic border crisis. Until now. On Feb. 13, the House successfully impeached Mayorkas for the irreparable…
    Lora Ries
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    Why Senate Has a Solemn Obligation to Conduct a Mayorkas Impeachment Trial

    Rumors abound that Senate Democrats want to avoid holding a trial on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by “tabling” or otherwise dismissing the House impeachment articles. But doing so would be contrary to the Senate’s impeachment trial rules and its own historical practice. The Senate has never refused to hold…
    Thomas Jipping
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    These Republicans Demand a Full Senate Impeachment Trial for Mayorkas

    Republicans controlled the Senate during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed a full Senate trial in public view even though he would vote that Trump wasn’t guilty of the House’s charges.   Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces a similar choice with the House’s…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Easy Vote’: House Passes Bipartisan Rebuke of Biden Admin’s ‘Radical’ Natural Gas Restriction

    The House passed a bill Thursday that would effectively lift the Biden administration’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. The lower chamber passed the “Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act,” introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, by a 224-200 bipartisan vote, with nine House Democrats crossing the aisle to join Republicans in…
    Nick Pope
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    Senate Will ‘Pay for It’ If It Doesn’t Act on Mayorkas Impeachment, Rep. Mark Green Says 

    The House on Tuesday voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is not expected to vote to remove him from office.  “There isn’t a whole lot of power we have,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said of House members’ ability to push the Senate…
    Virginia Allen
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    5 Charts Show Why Congress Must Stop Deficit Spending

    Both chambers of Congress are locked in fierce battles over spending legislation. A “supplemental” package has found bipartisan support in the Senate after the removal of flawed border and immigration provisions. However, its $95 billion price tag—$60 billion of which would go to Ukraine—means there will be stiff resistance in the House. Meanwhile, Congress is…
    David Ditch
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    With Bipartisan Measure, Congress Could Expand Successful ‘One Door’ Policy on Welfare, Workforce

    The federal government has more than 90 welfare and workforce programs spread across dozens of federal agencies, with funding flowing to thousands of state and local agencies and programs. Navigating the web of welfare and workforce assistance can be a nightmare. And, too often, Americans end up trapped in the welfare web instead of being assisted…
    Rachel Greszler
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    WATCH: GOP Senator Rips Into White House Blackmail on Deportations

    In an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal on Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the White House’s threat to “reduce” deportations of illegal aliens if Republicans didn’t vote for the recent Senate border and foreign aid bill “ridiculous”: I guess we shouldn’t be all that surprised that this White House would do something like…
    Tony Kinnett
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