July 2, 2024 The U.S. Congress is out of session this week for the July 4th holiday. Before members left town, we saw a flurry of activity related to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Specifically, the long-awaited fiscal year 2025 funding proposal from the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee was released, calling for the NEA’s...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. The House and Senate are back in session after a brief recess. Last week, the Senate followed the House and passed their $95 billion Taiwan-Israel-Ukraine-TikTok supplemental spending bill. Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer blocked all amendments with the tacit acquiescence of Mitch McConnell and a majority of the GOP...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. It’s officially Christmas time and we’re well into Hanukkah, but here in DC, it’s Washington at its absolute worst. The holiday deadline is a cynical excuse to jam through thousands of pages of legislation covering not only the nation’s annual spending, but billions more for Ukraine, passage of actual bills like the Electoral Count...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. It’s Thanksgiving week, so Congress is out of session. Former president Donald Trump last week officially declared he will seek re-election to the presidency in 2024. And by week’s end, his Twitter account was officially reinstated after over 15 million people voted approvingly in a Twitter poll put out by the company’s CEO, Elon...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. After a little more than 15 hours of vote-a-rama, the Senate yesterday passed the $740 billion reconciliation bill by a vote of 51 to 50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a tie vote. All previous skeptics of the large reconciliation package – Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I...
On a predominantly party-line vote, the federal takeover of elections — and measures that would put vote integrity in jeopardy — was defeated in the U.S. Senate on January 19. With Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) fulfilling their promise not to override the filibuster, these liberal measures were soundly defeated. More from Breitbart.com The...
When Arizona’s Senate President Karen Fann’s office received numerous reports of potential voting irregularities from Maricopa County voters after the 2020 election, she took a strong leadership role to investigate, identify and fix reported problems. No stranger to powerful leadership, Fann started her career as a female entrepreneur in the highway construction...
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats held a hearing in early October to push bills that corrupt and undermine fair elections. With a title worthy of Saturday Night Live — “Protecting a Precious, Almost Sacred Right” — one of the liberals’ witnesses was the Biden Administration Assistant AG for Civil Rights at DOJ, Kristen Clarke. In this article from May, election...
In a recent Senate Judiciary hearing, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of the Election Transparency Project of the American Principles Project and the Susan B. Anthony List lays out in painful detail the true racist and suppressive past of Jim Crow laws, created and perpetuated by Democrats. Since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, these abusive...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. It’s pretty much a fortress downtown, with over 25,000 National Guard troops stationed across DC. Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president tomorrow shortly after 12pm EST. The inauguration will be a mix of in-person and virtual. Vice President Mike Pence will attend. Outgoing President Donald Trump will not. Jon Ossoff and...