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Senator: ‘Sanctuary city policies impose a very real cost’
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) Wednesday on the Senate floor introduced an amendment that would discipline local officials that don’t collaborate with federal immigration officials when it comes to sharing information about illegal immigrants – an enforcement breakdown that for good reason has many Americans bemoaning our failed immigration system. The Morning Call has the details: The…
Read MoreFollow Rep. Roskam’s lead in protecting the First Amendment and demand his IRS legislation gets a vote!
The “Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act” (H.R. 5053), which would prohibit the IRS from demanding those who donate to nonprofit charities reveal their identities in annual returns, was introduced in April by Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) but needs a floor vote in the House of Representatives. “In the…
Read MoreObamacare enrollee: “It’s going to be a monopoly, basically: ‘Here’s the price; take it or leave it’”
The Wall Street Journal recently published a story highlighting the departure of health-insurance companies from the imploding Obamacare marketplace. This to the detriment of the Obamacare-marketplace enrollees left behind in rural areas who – in many cases – have only a single option for their health-insurance carrier. Breitbart has the details: “The entire states of…
Read MoreTea 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…
Read MoreFBI director rebuffs Hillary Clinton’s assertion the bureau is conducting mere ‘inquiry’
Former Senator Hillary Clinton for months has been making light of an FBI investigation into her use of a private email server to transmit confidential national secrets when she was secretary of state on President Obama’s watch. FBI Director James Comey, however, isn’t sugarcoating the scrutiny with which he and his team are scouring her…
Read MoreJenny Beth Martin: President Obama isn’t interested in whether ‘Iran lives up to its end of the deal’
Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin in her latest column for The Washington Times highlights a New York Times interview with former CIA Director Leon Panetta in which the former defense secretary says President Obama was so hell-bent on getting a signed Iran nuclear deal that the commander in chief didn’t care about cost,…
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