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Tea 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 MoreTea Party Patriots React to House Judiciary Committee Calling Hearings to Examine Misconduct of IRS Commissioner
ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots co-founder and CEO Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today reacting to news the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings to examine the misconduct of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. “On behalf of the Tea Party Patriots, which was targeted by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents and has…
Read MoreNational Association of Home Builders: Government regulation over last five years has driven price of single-family homes up 30 percent
Owning a home for many American millennials faced with student-loan debt and skyrocketing real estate has become a distant dream while older homeowners struggle to keep up with mortgage payments and property taxes year after year. These difficulties aren’t alleviated by big-government regulations that push dreams of home ownership even farther out of reach. How…
Read MoreCalifornia border-patrol agent: ‘We don’t know who we’re releasing’
A surge of Central American illegal-immigrant children and families, as well as nearly 500,000 visa overstays, is making some border-patrol agents question public safety. Why are they concerned? Because there is so great a backlog of illegal immigrants that it’s making it difficult for officials to conduct timely background checks on everyone that comes through…
Read MoreWow — You’ll never believe what Sen. Harry Reid said 11 years ago – we even agree!
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is in hot water for apparently flip-flopping regarding his position on the role of the U.S. Senate in considering presidential nominees. “The duties of the United States Senate are set out in the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give…
Read MoreVA whistleblower slams former U.S. senator for ignoring memo outlining ‘veteran harm’
Former Veterans Affairs employee Ryan Honl is criticizing former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold for allegedly sitting on a memo in 2009 documenting veteran abuses at a Wisconsin-area VA. WKOW has the story: Ryan Honl, a former Tomah VA employee who filed a complaint about the opiate prescription problem and other issues with the Office of…
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