Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 9/11/16

CALENDAR: The House will return on Monday, with no votes scheduled before 6:30 PM, and will stay in session through Friday, with no votes scheduled after 3 PM. The Senate will return on Monday, September 12, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM on a substitute amendment offered by GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe to…Read More

Report: Detroit VA spent $300,000 on televisions it can’t even use

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Staff at the Veteran Affairs medical center in Detroit, Michigan signed off on the purchase of $300,000 worth of incompatible televisions now languishing in a dark VA office, according to a report recently released by federal inspectors. ABC 7 has the details: The report says the items were purchased before an installation contract was awarded,…

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House Ways and Means Chairman: We plan to lay out ‘comprehensive blueprint on where we want the tax code to go’

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady during The Atlantic Summit Wednesday told Bloomberg View columnist Margaret Carlson that his committee is exploring numerous pro-growth tax plans to roll out by the close of 2016. The Daily Caller has the scoop: “What we expect to do is to lay out, later this summer, a…

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Columnist: ‘Work should be rewarded, not punished’

A writer and activist lobbying for right-to-work laws in Michigan criticized the status quo at the IRS and is pushing for a simpler tax code – one that doesn’t bog down hardworking American taxpayers. The Detroit News has the commentary: It’s a complex and corrupt system, now consisting of thousands of pages of instructions and…

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Yellow Card: Right to Work Law

National Right To Work“Will you commit to signing into law S. 391 or H.R. 612, the National Right To Work Act, or similar legislation?” Background Compulsory unionism – the requirement that an individual join or pay dues to a labor union as a condition of employment – violates that individual’s right to sell his labor…Read More

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Ground Game Signup   With less than 60 days left until the November elections we need your help to spread Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund values and increase our influence and reach. In these final weeks before the election we will be working with local volunteers on the ground going door to door in North…

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