Mary Margaret Olohan – Health professionals said lawmakers should stay out of Washington, D.C., and vote remotely. – U.S. senators proposed legislation allowing them to vote remotely, and legislatures across the country have begun to examine and pass such measures. – But remote voting might not be entirely constitutional, said R Street Institute senior fellow…
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel said during the country’s last major emergency. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing this noxious idea back as she uses the coronavirus pandemic to permanently stamp identity politics on corporate America. Pelosi’s coronavirus relief bill is a veritable pork barrel for programs that…
The President and those running to replace him ignore the nation’s $23 trillion in national debt; $18 trillion of which was incurred by the last three presidents. The President’s proposed 2021 fiscal year budget is $4.8 trillion and anticipated revenues are $3.64 trillion, adding another $1.2 trillion to the deficit. Every person living in the…
I would prefer not to write about President Trump’s new budget, largely because I know it’s not a serious proposal. Even before he was elected, I pointed out that Trump was a big-government Republican who had no intention of dealing with serious fiscal issues such as the rising burden of entitlement spending. So I wasn’t surprised that he capitulated to…
Amid the drama surrounding impeachment, both parties came together on one area of shared support: spending enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars and adding to the $23.1 trillion national debt. Congress had little time to properly review fiscal 2020 spending bills, which weighed in at more than 2,000 pages of clunky text. The legislation contained a multitude of flaws,…
Mary Margaret Olohan Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday night over Gabbard’s impeachment vote. Ocasio-Cortez spoke out after Gabbard, a 2020 presidential candidate, voted “present” on impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. Gabbard also did not give a 30-second to one-minute speech about her vote as most…
Audrey Conklin Democratic California Rep. Katie Hill resigned Sunday after allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers surfaced, as well as the announcement of a House Ethics investigation. “It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress,” Hill wrote in her statement. “This is the hardest thing I have ever had to…
Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been in the headlines a considerable amount lately, and that didn’t change late Thursday night. While still caught up in all the hoop-la of her strange and random feud with Hillary Clinton, Gabbard put out a video announcement on her Twitter account at 9:00 PM PST. The video, which…
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A climate change activist showed up at a Town Hall for US House Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with an odd message. “We have to eat the babies.” She specifically told Ocasio-Cortez that this should be her next campaign slogan, and that we only have a few months left to act on climate change. During her time…
On the eve of Eric Brakey’s Constitution Day announcement of his run for Congress, I talked to him about wars – foreign, drug, and trade. We also discussed generational challenges, Tulsi Gabbard, and Saudi Arabia. What the ninth amendment says about vaping. His proven record of advancing liberty in Maine – and where he goes…