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    Washington, DC, ‘Energy Efficiency’ Program Forcing Locals to Reduce Energy Use by 20%

    Everyone wants to pay lower electricity bills, and construction companies can insulate newer residential and commercial buildings to lower heating and cooling costs while those in existing structures may choose to install upgrades to create greater energy efficiency. So, why is it then that local Washington, D.C., officials are imposing draconian building efficiency mandates on…
    Jack Spencer
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    BREAKING: GOP Senators Turn on Tuberville on Approval of Biden’s Military Promotions

    Some Senate Republicans sided with Democrats in pushing to approve hundreds of President Joe Biden’s military promotions Wednesday night, even as the Defense Department continues to allow taxpayer-funded travel for service members or spouses to obtain an abortion. The bipartisan move was to break a “hold” placed by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., on more than…
    Fred Lucas
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    House Liberals Use Hearing on Global Religious Persecution to Decry ‘Christian Nationalism’ in America

    At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses a position that its proponents call “Christian nationalism.” The Oct. 25 hearing was held by the House Oversight subcommittee on national security, the border, and foreign affairs. Yet, rather than…
    Arielle Del Turco
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    5 Charts Sum Up Biden’s Irresponsibility in Asking Congress for $106 Billion More

    President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $106 billion in supplemental “emergency” funding, a proposal that contains several important policy flaws and threatens to drive the nation further down the road to bankruptcy. Biden’s Oct. 20 request includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $13 billion for border security, $10 billion for global humanitarian…
    David Ditch
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    Mike Johnson Becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives

    The United States House of Representatives has voted in Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as speaker. "It is the honor of a lifetime to have been elected the 56th Speaker of the House," Johnson said Wednesday. "Thank you to my colleagues, friends, staff, and family for the unmatched support throughout this process." "It has been…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Biden Admin Using Same Authority to Build Border Wall GOP Senator Recommended 8 Months Ago

    The Biden administration is using the authority of a 1996 statute to build a section of border wall in South Texas less than a year after a Republican senator proposed a bill to resume wall construction using the same legal authority.   The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 gives the secretary…
    Virginia Allen
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    Citing Congress’ ‘Complete Absence of Leadership, Vision, and Spine,’ Lawmaker Threatens to Quit

    “I’m sick and tired of the gamesmanship when we’re dealing with people’s lives,” a Republican congresswoman from Indiana says, threatening to quit over the GOP House leadership’s inaction on the national debt, the open southern U.S. border, and Ukraine war funding.  Rep. Victoria Spartz, in her second term representing Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, joined The…
    Tony Kinnett
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    House Votes to Oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker

    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position Tuesday afternoon. Eight Republicans and all Democrats present voted to remove McCarthy. “The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., who was presiding over the House chamber, said following the vote.  Rep….
    Virginia Allen
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    Did This ‘Squad’ Member Really Think There Would Be No Consequences to Pulling an Alarm as Congress Voted?

    “You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus—and you’ve got to make it stop,” activist Mario Savio said during the Berkeley, California, counterculture protests of the 1960s. On Saturday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a socialist member of “the squad” in Congress, appeared to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Why Conservatives in Congress Voted Against the Spending Bill

    The budget showdown on Capitol Hill has been put on pause. On Saturday, just hours before the government shutdown deadline, Congress by a bipartisan vote passed a continuing resolution. It passed by a tally of 335-91 in the House and 88-9 in the Senate. President Joe Biden signed the bill on Saturday night. The bill keeps agencies…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Senate Republican Leaders Silent as Democrats Undermine House Efforts to Fight Border Crisis Amid Shutdown Battle

    Senate Republican leaders have declined to comment on the bill that Senate Democrats introduced to fund the government through Nov. 17 that avoids a government shutdown but that also fails to address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. In introducing the bill, the Democrats undermine House Republican efforts to convince President Joe Biden to address…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    What to Expect in First House Hearing on Potential Biden Impeachment

    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee plans to present evidence and lay the groundwork for the potential impeachment of President Joe Biden in its opening hearing Thursday, Republican members say.  “If this were anyone else, they would be nailed on tax fraud,” Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., also chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, told The…
    Fred Lucas
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    NJ’s Menendez Rejects Calls to Quit Senate Amid Corruption Indictment

    The U.S. Justice Department on Friday released an indictment, which accuses New Jersey’s senior Democratic U.S. senator, Bob Menendez—along with his wife and several others—of engaging in a corrupt scheme to benefit himself, potentially at the expense of U.S. national security interests. Based on the serious allegations in the indictment, many in Menendez’s own party…
    Zack Smith
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    Democratic Senator Indicted on Bribery Offenses in Case Involving Gold Bars

    A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, Friday, charging him with bribery for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bars. Menendez denied the charges, saying he had been "falsely accused." The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the charges…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Senators Seek to Secure Border and End Biden’s Arson of America

    Calls for Congress to defund the Biden administration’s open-border operations and to enact real border security measures gained steam this week. With a week of funding left in the federal fiscal year, the House is considering attaching most of the Secure the Border Act to a continuing resolution package to fund the government. After the bill…
    Lora Ries
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    4 Ways Washington’s Spending Spree Caused Inflation With Trillions in Waste, Fraud

    Americans are justifiably unhappy with the state of the economy. The inflation figures for August took a turn for the worse—meaning families have now lost $5,100 in purchasing power since President Joe Biden entered the White House. In addition to the burden of inflation, rising interest rates are making home mortgages unaffordable, pushing the American…
    David Ditch
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    CALLING HIS BLUFF: Tuberville Tests Schumer by Forcing Senate Vote on Military Officer

    Sen. Tommy Tuberville is planning to force his Senate colleagues to vote on Gen. Eric Smith’s promotion to U.S. Marine Corps commandant—a new tactic in the Alabama Republican’s monthslong dispute with the Defense Department over its taxpayer-funded abortion policy. At a meeting Tuesday with his Senate Republican colleagues, Tuberville secured the backing of at least…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Amid Surge in Illegal Alien Encounters, GOP Senators Push ‘Secure the Border’ Bill

    Illegal alien encounters on America’s southern border approached record highs between Friday and Monday.   In just four days, Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 35,000 illegal aliens on the U.S. border with Mexico, according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.   When you do the math, “that’s almost 9,000 every single day,”…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘FBI Does Not Exist to Harass Law-Abiding Americans,’ 8 Senators Remind Wray

    U.S. senators on the Intelligence Committee are demanding the nation’s top law enforcement agency explain why it was targeting Catholics. Eight members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a letter last week to FBI Director Christopher Wray, giving him until Sept. 29 to explain how the Richmond, Virginia, field office crafted a memo detailing plans…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Dressing Down an Unserious Senate

    Axios reported Sunday that “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly has directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to no longer enforce the chamber’s informal dress code for its members.” “Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit,” Schumer said. The reporting frames the…
    Eric Teetsel
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