Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 6/24/16

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CALENDAR: The House is in recess for the Fourth of July break, and will not return until Tuesday, July 5. The Senate will be back at work on Monday, June 27. LAST TWO WEEKS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House came back into session on Monday, June 13. They took up seven bills on the…

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Taxes, Spending, and Tax Credits Out of Control under Kurt Schaefer

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RAISING OUR TAXES, PUSHING MEDICAID EXPANSION, AND SUPPORTING WASTEFUL SPENDING While Kurt Schaefer has been in the State Senate, state spending has ballooned by nearly $3.6 billion dollars. Several of the budgets passed under his watch, were actually higher than what the Democrat governor requested. He Supported Medicaid Expansion in Missouri - Just like Obama…Read More

Report: Houston-area Veterans Affairs office falsified wait times for Texas vets seeking appointments

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It’s again come to light Veterans Affairs employees falsified wait times of veterans who were seeking medical appointments – this time in Texas – according to a report released this week. Fox News has the details: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General said more than 200 appointments were incorrectly recorded for the…

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Iowa farmer, former state rep: ‘[N]avigating the cumbersome tax code takes time away from our livelihood’

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Former Iowa state representative and third-generation family farmer Annette Sweeney in a recent opinion piece says members of Congress need to join together and fix our unnecessarily intricate tax code. Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. have no excuse for not simplifying what should be a simple process, she says. The Des Moines Register has the details:…

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Bill of Rights Week: Second Amendment

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Back to the Bill of Rights Week Like clockwork, immediately following a mass shooting – in this case an actual terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 49 Americans in Orlando – the gun control advocates start ringing the bells to place limits on the second amendment. They will use any crisis they can to…Read More

Tea Party Patriots to Congress: Stop IRS’ free-speech violations!

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Tea Party Patriots this week sent a letter to members of Congress asking they support Rep. Peter Roskam’s (R-Ill.) legislation, which would curb the power of the IRS to force nonprofit charities to disclose donor information “As the head of an organization that was itself targeted, and as the representative of hundreds of tea party…

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