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Will 12 GOP senators continue to help pass the Respect for Marriage Act? – Conservative Partnership Institute

Will 12 GOP senators continue to help pass the Respect for Marriage Act? – Conservative Partnership Institute

Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. The House and Senate return to session this week. Last week, I wrote about the battle over religious liberty brewing in the Senate on the Respect for Marriage Act, which claims to “codify same sex marriage” (it doesn’t – nothing in the bill changes the status of, or benefits afforded to, same sex marriage post Obergefell.) What it...

Conservatives urge a delay in GOP leadership elections – Conservative Partnership Institute

Conservatives urge a delay in GOP leadership elections – Conservative Partnership Institute

Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. Congress is back in session and the lame duck session starts now. On deck is a government funding deadline on December 16th, the defense authorization bill, more aid for Ukraine, and possibly even a same sex marriage bill. But before we even get to that point, the tight majorities in the House and Senate are still taking shape. After...

Do-Nothing GOP Senate Passes Football to the Court, Fumbles Again – Conservative Partnership Institute

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GOP senior statesmen making push for a carbon tax

GOP senior statesmen making push for a carbon tax

A group of Republican senior statesmen are pushing for a carbon tax to combat the effects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House. Former Secretary of State Jim Baker is leading the effort, which also includes former Secretary of State George Shultz. In an opinion piece published Tuesday night in The Wall Street Journal, they argued “there...

GOP elders push for climate action

GOP elders push for climate action

TODAY, LET’S take a cue from the poet Max Ehrmann and go placidly amid the noise and haste and disarray, the conflict, confusion, and incompetence, the rancor, recrimination, and scheming, the whingeing, whining, and self-pity . . . Ahem. Today’s subject is actually a recent hopeful moment for rationality in the Trump White House. It featured a past generation of...

Why College Republicans Think the GOP Should Act on Climate Change

Why College Republicans Think the GOP Should Act on Climate Change

A group of more than 20 college Republican groups issued a call to action on climate change Wednesday with the endorsement of a proposal for a federally imposed carbon tax. The announcement from the newly-announced Students for Carbon Dividends group is the latest signal of a fissure between an older generation of elected Republicans who view climate change policies...