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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 9/11/16
CALENDAR: The House will return on Monday, with no votes scheduled before 6:30 PM, and will stay in session through Friday, with no votes scheduled after 3 PM. The Senate will return on Monday, September 12, with the first vote scheduled for 5:30 PM on a substitute amendment offered by GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe to…Read More
Conservative congressman says IRS commissioner’s plea against impeachment a ‘charade’
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen this week visited with members of the Tuesday Group, an organization of moderate House Republicans, as part of an effort to stop impeachment proceedings against himself. One member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which is pushing for the commissioner’s swift removal after persistent IRS targeting of Americans for their political…Read More
House panel subpoenas VA over pricey hospital, art
Those at the Department of Veterans Affairs had better he sweating bullets over a subpoena they’ve been issued by the House Veterans Affairs Committee demanding the VA produce documentation showing why the construction at the Denver, Colo. VA ran waaaay over budget. McClatchy D.C. has the story: Demanding explanations for a $1 billion cost overrun,…Read More
Tea Party Patriots on the Passing of Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly
ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today after the passing of Phyllis Schlafly. “Everyone at Tea Party Patriots is saddened by the passing of Phyllis Schlafly, a leader and icon we consider to be a charter member of the Tea Party movement. Decades before the Tea…Read More
District judge orders State Department to release Clinton, White House emails from Benghazi attack
A U.S. district judge in Florida has ordered the State Department to hand over by Sept. 13 any emails exchanged between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama’s White House during the days of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012. Fortune has the scoop: The order came after the Federal…Read More
Study: More women, minorities applying for concealed-carry permits
More and more people are applying for and being issued concealed-carry permits but especially women and minorities, according to a recent study from the Crime Prevention Research Center. The Daily Signal has the story: “In eight states where we have data by gender, since 2012 the number of permits has increased by 161 percent for…Read More