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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 7/10/16
CALENDAR:
The House will return on Monday, July 11, with the first vote scheduled for 6:30 PM. The House will stay in session until Friday, with no votes later than 3:30 PM. And then begins the Summer Recess, which will last for seven glorious weeks, until Tuesday, September 6.
The Senate will return on Monday, July 11, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM. The Senate will stay in session until Friday, at which point begins the Senate’s Summer Recess, which will also last for seven glorious weeks, until Tuesday, September 6.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was in recess for the Fourth of July break from Friday, June 24 ...
Tea Party Patriots joins nearly 100 others in signing support letter for IRS free-speech legislation
Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin this week is among nearly 100 conservative leaders who have signed their names to a letter in support of legislation introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) that would eliminate the IRS requirement that nonprofit charities in their annual tax filings – specifically, "Schedule B" – disclose their donors' identities, a flagrant assault on Americans' free-speech rights and a requirement the IRS has used to target Americans for their political beliefs.
"Free speech has been under assault in recent years and the IRS has been at the center of the controversy. In several well-documented cases, the ...