Under a new Biden administration rule, private companies seeking government contracts must reveal their โgreenhouse gasโ emissions, and a plan to eliminate them, to a foreign organization run by a secretive Democrat Party donor. U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas has sent a letter to Bidenโs Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, regarding concerns the new rule, which demands disclosure to a group with several disturbing ties and is accused of manipulating climate data itself. The Committee โfirst raised concerns in March with a proposed rule by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council…
Author: Donny Ferguson
Citing a practice in which the FBI illicitly spies on Americans by buying consumer data to collect information it canโt get through a legally-required warrant, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators are now looking to rein in rogue agents. In response, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) reintroduced the โFourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act,โ following the billโs unanimous passage in the House Judiciary Committee. First introduced in 2021, the bill blocks the government from purchasing information about Americans that would otherwise require a warrant. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Mike Lee…
President Joe Biden announced plans to possibly ban guns under a national emergency declaration. The Washington Post reports Bidenโs new โOffice of Gun Violence Preventionโ will declare โa national gun violence public health emergencyโ as part of a plan by Biden to go around Congress and impose anti-gun measures through Executive Orders.The Post reports the anti-gun office will be run by a โhigh-profile activist from the Community Justice Action Fund.โ The CJAF is a notorious โDefund The Policeโ organization that supports gun confiscation and funneling billions of tax dollars to political activists to work as โviolence interrupters.โ Bidenโs plan mirrors…
The United States Senate Banking Committee will meet this week to discuss the โSAFER Banking Act,โ a bill by Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) that stops the Biden administration from pressuring banks to close the accounts of law-abiding Americans engaged in businesses that offend liberals.Daines pointed to โOperation Chokepoint,โ an Obama-era Treasury Department program to close the bank accounts of legal gun sellers, current Biden administration efforts to cut off access to banks by legal cannabis retailers, and proposed plans to shut off bank accounts of so-called โclimate offendersโ or otherwise do not comply with so-called โenvironmental and social guidanceโ rules…
Citing increased public awareness and massive audiences for โSound of Freedom,โ a film based on the actual efforts of a federal agent to stop child trafficking, a group of U.S. senators is demanding to know why Democrats refuse to hold hearings on the crisis. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) led the entire Senate Republican conference in sending a letter to Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Richard Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary; Gary Peters (D-MI), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the…
Congressional investigators may soon have and could reveal to the public, hidden government documents showing how then-Vice President Joe Biden used his office and taxpayer funds to boost his familyโs alleged influence-peddling business. U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is demanding the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) turn over records regarding how Bidenโs activities as Vice President coincided with his middle-aged son Hunterโs activities in Ukraine.ย โComer is requesting all unredacted documents and communications in which then-Vice President Joe Biden used a pseudonym; Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer is copied; and all…
Congressional investigators looking into alleged Biden family corruption have released more documents outlining payments to Biden family members from figures in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) released a third bank records memorandum detailing โnew information obtained in the Committeeโs investigation into the Biden familyโs influence-peddling schemes.โ โThe memorandum outlines how the Bidens and their business associates received millions from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine during Joe Bidenโs vice presidency,โ a statement from Comer reveals. โAfter Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in payments, then-Vice President Joe Biden dined with…
The person who paid as much as six figures for โartworkโ by an untrained painter also received a prestigious government appointment from the artistโs father, President Joe Biden. Now congressional investigators want to know if Bidenโs decision to name Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of Americaโs Heritage Abroad was in any way related to her purchase of artwork by Hunter Biden, a middle-aged man who paints as a hobby. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is now asking Naftali and White House Counsel Stuart Delery to answer questions as to whether…
Amid reports that leading liberal political groups may be receiving hidden cash from the Russian and Chinese governments, congressional investigators are now demanding these tax-exempt organizations make their records transparent. The U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means is โconducting an examination into whether entities that qualify as tax-exempt under Section 501 of the U.S. Code are abiding by the statutory and regulatory prohibitions against certain activities and whether foreign sources of funding are being funneled through such organizations to influence Americaโs elections,โ the Committee announced in a statement. Under Section 501(c) of the federal tax code, groups that engage…
A federal law written to help new mothers transition back to work is being misused by the Biden administration to force employers to support abortion. In response, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is calling out the Biden administration for defying the clear language of the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) to force employers to accommodate abortion. Cassidy was the lead Republican cosponsor of PWFA, which โallowed access to reasonable workplace accommodations for pregnant workers or those affected with medical conditions related to childbirth.โ But under a…