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Modernizing a longstanding trade deal with Canada and Mexico will help achieve the energy dominance the Trump administration is pushing for, three policy analysts said at The Heritage Foundation. The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, ratified by the Senate in 1994, was designed to limit the tariffs and boundaries of trade among Canada,…
An influential caucus of conservative Republicans is pushing House Speaker Paul Ryan to hold a vote on an immigration reform bill that has emerged as a White House favorite. The 150-member Republican Study Committee announced Tuesday that it endorses the Securing America’s Future Act, which gives legal status to certain younger illegal immigrants in exchange for…
Leaders of conservative organizations are calling on Congress to pass a law to prevent taxpayer funds from being used to pay settlements to alleged victims of sexual harassment and other workplace violations by lawmakers. Their call for congressional action was spurred by the recent revelation that $17 million has gone toward secretly paying off such claims against…
The three-day partial government shutdown on President Donald Trump’s first anniversary in office had some marked differences from the last shutdown in 2013, aside from the duration. “I’m pleased the Democrats in the Senate have come to their senses and are willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable…
KYIV, Ukraine—On Wednesday, Russian weapons killed three Ukrainian troops and wounded five more in eastern Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region, where Moscow continues to wage a 4-year-old proxy war, which has, so far, killed more than 10,300 Ukrainians. Meanwhile, grocery stores in Kyiv are still stocked with Russian products, such as caviar and vodka, and…
Lawmakers in the Senate are poised to continue immigration negotiations after voting 81-18 to advance a bill to fund the government through Feb. 8, ending a government shutdown that started Friday night. “If we learned anything during this process, it’s that a strategy to shut down the government over an issue of illegal immigration is…
President Donald Trump applauded Senate Democrats Monday for backing a bill that will keep the government funded through Feb. 8, which ends the three-day government shutdown over legal protections for 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and their families. “I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now…
Some lawmakers are calling on the House intelligence committee to release a classified memo they say contains information on the FBI’s handling of a controversial anti-Trump dossier, as well as about related abuse of the government surveillance law known as FISA. “This has to been seen,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Sunday of the four-page…
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama asserted that he was a “citizen of the world.” By contrast, during his first address to Congress last year, President Donald Trump said, “My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America.” Many around the world seem to…
The White House revealed a new voicemail recording Sunday, this one blaming Democrats for shutting down the government over immigration. The public line to the White House that allows the public to leave messages for President Donald Trump now blames Democrats for holding up funding for America’s troops over an “unrelated immigration debate,” reports CNN. “Thank…
Google says it is discontinuing its fact-check feature because it proved to be too faulty for public use, directly attributing the decision to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The company has no date set for when it will return, if ever. “We launched the reviewed claims feature at the end of last…
Speaking at the 45th annual March for Life, Pam Tebow shared her story of her pregnancy with Tim Tebow, a former NFL quarterback. “From the beginning, it was a difficult pregnancy,” she said. Tim had a tumor, so the nurse said she needed to abort him “immediately” or she would die in childbirth, Pam Tebow…
Senate Democrats say they have 50 votes to block the Federal Communications Commission’s December repeal of net neutrality, the 2015 policy of the FCC under the Obama administration that required internet service providers to treat all data on, and users of, the internet equally. They are still one vote short of the 51 needed to…
A member of Congress said she chose life for her child even though doctors said she should have an abortion, and is encouraging society to take a chance for life. “We were told that our unborn baby had zero percent chance of survival, zero,” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., said during a speech Friday at…
The pro-life movement is “on the rise” because of science, House Speaker Paul Ryan said at the 45th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. “Truth is on our side. Life begins at conception,” said Ryan, R-Wis. Ryan also praised House lawmakers for passing Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, which the House passed 241-183 Friday. “Today,…
The Trump administration took a step toward protecting religious freedom Thursday by establishing a new division of the nation’s largest social services agency that marks a dramatic shift from the Obama administration. “We face today a time of rising religious persecution … a new orthodoxy, and it is intolerant of dissent,” @GOPLeader says. During a…
President Donald Trump called on the Senate to vote on banning late-term abortions when delivering livestreamed remarks to the 45th March for Life in Washington. “I strongly supported the House of Representatives’ pain-capable bill, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide, and I call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it…
The Department of Justice filed an amicus (or “friend-of-the-court”) brief at the Supreme Court, urging the justices to overturn a California law requiring pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to post information about state-funded abortions. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the law in November. The law, called the Reproductive FACT Act, requires crisis pregnancy clinics to post…
In a remarkable filing, the Department of Justice formally asked the Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to continue administering the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The petition is highly unusual, as the government bypassed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked the justices to hear the…
Former FBI Director James Comey will begin teaching an ethical leadership course at the College of William & Mary in the fall, the school announced Friday. Comey, who was fired from his position as head of the FBI in May 2017, accepted a nontenured position as an executive professor in education, according to The Washington Post. The…