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Bill demands stronger protections for VA whistleblowers
Congressional plans to encourage Veterans Affairs employees to speak out against departmental abuses like waste and negligence – and shield such whistleblowers from retaliation – may soon be put to a vote.
Stars and Stripes has the story:
A long-stalled plan in Congress to strengthen protections for Veterans Affairs Department employees who disclose waste and misconduct – and to punish officials who retaliate against them – is poised to hitch a ride to enactment this week on the high-priority measure to head off a partial government shutdown…
While the measure would continue funding most government operations only through Dec. 9, the ...
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘We have multiple threats to our critical infrastructure’
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Sunday during a Tea Party Patriots national conference call told grassroots leaders nationwide that the “biggest threat” to national security is a general unwillingness to acknowledge dangers right in front of our noses – especially when it comes to our electrical grid.
“We have our heads buried so far – I’ll say – in the sand in terms of our critical infrastructure, particularly our electrical grid,” he says.
The threats to our critical infrastructure include EMPs; geomagnetic disturbances; and cyber attacks that could potentially shut down our electrical ...
National Review: Plans to tackle our national debt need to be front and center
The national debt isn’t a scintillating topic; we get it. But ignoring it won’t make our debt and all the troubles associated with it go away. It’s time for the issue to get more airtime from politicians this year.
National Review has the scoop:
Judging from the presidential campaign so far, perhaps we should put the debt’s image on a milk carton somewhere. In the last Republican debate, there was precisely one question on the debt — and the candidates answered it by talking about their tax plans. That was far too typical. According to the FiveThirtyEight website, “the deficit” was mentioned an average of two times in the first five ...
Senator says bad IRS customer service result of ‘monopoly,’ lack of ‘competitive environment’
Having trouble contacting the IRS this tax season? That’s no surprise, according to a recent Government Accountability Report that says the agency’s customer service is abysmal – a record some in Congress attribute to the IRS’ rehiring of employees fired for disciplinary reasons.
West Virginia’s Bluefield Daily Telegraph has the details:
The report prompted denunciations from members of Congress including Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, a member of the Senate Finance Committee.
“This is what happens when you have a monopoly instead of a competitive environment,” he said in an interview.
Isakson has already been critical of the ...
704 Reasons Tea Party Patriots is stronger than ever
Tea Party Patriots this year has exploded its membership with 704 active groups nationwide, many of whom banded together in their local communities to host rallies and support local tea partyers running for office.
Highlights include members of the We The People Tea Party of Southern Iowa hosting community-wide town halls with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas); former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); and Dr. Ben Carson.
The Iowa Grassroots Coalition live-streamed an event featuring Sen. Cruz; former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.); and former Sen. Santorum. The live-stream attracted more than 8,000 viewers nationwide.
Furthermore, tens of ...
IRS rubs nonprofits the wrong way as agency proposes collecting donors’ social security numbers
President Obama’s weaponization of the IRS continues. Even in the wake of the backlash the IRS received for targeting conservatives for their political beliefs, the agency still hasn’t learned its lesson and is proposing a new rule that could require nonprofit organizations to hand over donors’ social security numbers to the government.
Fox News has the details:
Under the proposed rule, the IRS would create an optional filing for 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Those participating would, as part of their yearly report, turn over the Social Security numbers of any donors who give $250 or more to a charity in a given year.
“I don’t know any ...
Senate Report Finds IRS is Prone to Abuse – Tea Party Patriots Respond
Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee released a report of their two-year investigation into the IRS's treatment of tax-exempt organizations, which found "gross mismanagement at the highest levels of the IRS and confirm[ed] an unacceptable truth: that the IRS is prone to abuse,” according to Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
Jenny Beth Martin, the President and Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots, which had its tax-exempt status held up by the IRS for years, issued the following statement:
"The Senate Finance Committee Report confirms what Tea Party Patriots already knew: The targeting did indeed happen, IRS employees obstructed justice, and the White ...
GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis to run for Senate in Florida (Patricia Mazzei – Miami Herald)
DeSantis, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012, has been openly thinking about the Senate since Rubio launched his presidential campaign last month. He has the encouragement of conservative groups such as the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, a political action committee that in an April statement called DeSantis "exactly the kind of Republican we need in the Florida Senate race."... Continue here.
Jenny Beth Martin, Ronald Reagan, and Jelly Beans!
Yesterday evening (April 21st), Tea Party Patriot's President Jenny Beth Martin addressed the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series at the Embassy Suites hotel in Ashburn, Virginia. More than 100 patriots attended.
Started in 2009, The Ronald Reagan Lecture Series is a non-partisan organization with the goal of educating the public about conservative ideas through leading conservative speakers. The group is named after Reagan for his extraordinary communication skills.
After a montage of highlights from Border States of America about our immigration crisis, Jenny Beth spoke and took many questions from local activists about how best to continue promoting ...