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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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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Treasury: March 2016 marks biggest March deficit in four years

The federal budget deficit spiked in March – driving the nation closer to economic disaster. ABC News has the story: The Treasury Department says the deficit for March totaled $108.0 billion. That marks the biggest March deficit in four years and was more than double the imbalance in March 2015. The large jump from a…

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Tea Party Patriots Thank Sen. Portman for Standing Up to the Left’s Campaign to Force the Senate to Confirm a Liberal Judge to the Supreme Court

ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today following Senator Portman’s meeting with Merrick Garland.   “Senator Portman has earned the gratitude of grassroots activists for standing up to President Obama and his allies’ relentless campaign to force the Senate to confirm Merrick Garland, a liberal…

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