Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 7/31/17

CALENDAR: The House has left for its August recess, and will not return until Tuesday, September 5. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote set for 5:30 PM. The Senate will remain in session through Thursday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House returned on Monday, and took up H.R. 3180,…

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Women are getting concealed gun permits in record numbers

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According to John Lott’s Crime Prevention Center, the number of approved concealed carry permits has surged under President Trump and now there are more than 16.36 million concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. In recent years, the number of women attaining a concealed carry permit has jumped nearly 93 percent! The Washington Examiner has…

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We Support Jeff Sessions

We support Attorney General Jeff Sessions and believe he is the right man, and the best man, to lead the Justice Department at this time. Senator and now Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been a loyal, highly visible, and early supporter of President Trump and his policy agenda.  He is a principled conservative leader who…

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Moderates Stand in the Way of ObamaCare Repeal, Time for President Trump to End the Congressional Exemption

Washington, D.C. — Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today, reacting to the failure of the Senate to pass an ObamaCare repeal bill. “The Senate’s failure last night to advance a bill that will eventually repeal ObamaCare is a failure only for this week. What last night’s vote proved is…

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GOP ‘Skinny’ Obamacare repeal fails to keep long-standing promise of full repeal

After seven GOP Senators betrayed their constituents and voted against ‘clean’ repeal of Obamacare this week, reports indicate the GOP leadership is considering what they are calling  ‘skinny’ repeal of Obamacare. A ‘skinny’ repeal would strip some mandates requiring people to have health insurance while keeping many other provisions of Obamacare provisions intact. The Washington…

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Sanctuary cities place more importance on ‘relationships with illegal immigrant communities” than the safety of citizens

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On Tuesday, the Justice Department issued a new warning to sanctuary cities telling them to cooperate fully with federal immigration agents in order to receive federal law enforcement grant money. The Justice Department hopes enforcing these requirements will help them crack down on MS-13 and other violent transnational gangs. The Washington Times has the details:…

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