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

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

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

Bill of Rights Week: Defend the Bill of rights

Back to the Bill of Rights Week When we began the week and dubbed it Bill of Rights Week we had no idea that the Democrats were going to stage a sit-in on the House floor for the very purpose of taking away our civil liberties. Our original plan today was to focus on John…Read More

Bill of Rights Week: Call and Tweet the House Judiciary Committee to tell them to impeach John Koskinen

Back to the Bill of Rights Week The House Judiciary Committee is meeting at 10AM this morning to hold its second hearing on the impeachment of John Koskinen. Will this just be another show hearing or will Congress finally use their oversight authority to hold the IRS accountable? Please call and tweet the Members of…Read More

Bill of Rights Week: Second Amendment

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

Follow Rep. Roskam’s lead in protecting the First Amendment and demand his IRS legislation gets a vote!

The “Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act” (H.R. 5053), which would prohibit the IRS from demanding those who donate to nonprofit charities reveal their identities in annual returns, was introduced in April by Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) but needs a floor vote in the House of Representatives. “In the…

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