Tea Party Patriots: It is up to the American people to hold Sec. Clinton accountable after the release of Benghazi report

ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today after the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their final report on the terror attack in Benghazi. “Thanks to the House Select Committee on Benghazi — and especially committee members Mike Pompeo and Jim Jordan — we now…

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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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House one step closer to ousting President Obama’s corrupt IRS commissioner

Conservatives on the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday inched closer toward removing IRS Commissioner John Koskinen from the helm of the tax agency after the commissioner repeatedly stonewalled congressional investigation and covered for those involved in agency targeting of Americans for their political beliefs. The Washington Examiner has the scoop: Republicans framed the impeachment resolution as…

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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

Iowa farmer, former state rep: ‘[N]avigating the cumbersome tax code takes time away from our livelihood’

Former Iowa state representative and third-generation family farmer Annette Sweeney in a recent opinion piece says members of Congress need to join together and fix our unnecessarily intricate tax code. Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. have no excuse for not simplifying what should be a simple process, she says. The Des Moines Register has the details:…

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