Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/15/16

  CALENDAR: The House comes back into session on Monday, May 16, and will be in session through Thursday, with last votes expected no later than 3 PM. The Senate will return to session on Monday, May 16, and will be in session through Friday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House came back…

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Tea Party Patriots React to House Judiciary Committee Calling Hearings to Examine Misconduct of IRS Commissioner

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ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots co-founder and CEO Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today reacting to news the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings to examine the misconduct of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.   “On behalf of the Tea Party Patriots, which was targeted by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents and has…

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Healthcare expert says some insurers could hike premiums by more than 10 percent

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Those signing up for Obamacare are more so the “frequent fliers” than the young, healthy millennials the Obama administration was banking on to keep its disastrous health-insurance scheme afloat. Consequently, health-insurance companies are alleging they need to hike their premiums – some in excess of 10 percent, says one healthcare expert – to make up…

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Reid Reveals Senate Democrats’ Agenda: Liberal Supreme Court Majority for Decades

Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today in response to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton should re-nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, if she is elected president. “Harry Reid and the rest of the liberals in Congress continue to reveal the…

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Jenny Beth Martin: ‘Americans are opposed to shifting the [Supreme Court] balance in a more liberal direction’

As a small contingent of Senate liberals continue to spar with Senate conservatives over whether to hold hearings for President Obama’s left-wing Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin in her latest column reminds us Americans don’t want someone like Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court and instead…

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Wow — You’ll never believe what Sen. Harry Reid said 11 years ago – we even agree!

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is in hot water for apparently flip-flopping regarding his position on the role of the U.S. Senate in considering presidential nominees. “The duties of the United States Senate are set out in the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give…

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