Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 4/17/16

CALENDAR: The House will come back into session on Monday, and stay in session through Thursday. The Senate will come back into session on Monday, and stay in session through Friday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House began its week on Monday, with nine bills on the Suspension Calendar, and three bills brought…

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Former Senate Budget Committee Chairman: ‘It is still possible to stabilize our debt … so long as we fix our fiscal policy’

Former New Hampshire Governor and former U.S. Senator Judd Gregg in a recent column notes our national debt keeps ticking up, more than doubling from $8 trillion 10 years ago to now more than $18 trillion, and the number will continue to climb with disastrous effect unless our political leaders take decisive action and start…

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Tea Party Patriots in Pennsylvania rally opposition to President Obama’s liberal Supreme Court nominee

Members of Tea Party Patriots Field Team made a trip to the Keystone State last week, where they recruited local tea partyers to urge Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to preserve former Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy on the Supreme Court and continue rejecting President Obama’s liberal, anti-Second-Amendment Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. “With lifetime tenure, the…

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Tea Party Patriots are fired up over Supreme Court case United States v. Texas

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today in regards to the Supreme Court case United States v. Texas.   “President Obama is the only president in history to have publicly admitted to abandoning his oath to faithfully preserve, protect and defend the Constitution by pushing executive…

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WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan calls for impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are demanding Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) act to impeach President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for “obstructing a congressional investigation into the agency’s conduct.” The Daily Signal has the details: As most…

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VA supervisors instructed employees at facilities in seven states to falsify veteran wait times

Veterans Affairs supervisors told employees at facilities in seven states to  falsify veteran wait times, according to 70 reports investigating the agency. USA Today has the inside story: Overall, those reports — released after multiple inquiries and a Freedom of Information Act request — reveal for the first time specifics of widespread scheduling manipulation. Employees…

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