The amount of crude oil stockpiled in America’s strategic reserve is at its lowest level since 1987. That development follows President Joe Biden’s decision to tap the U.S. emergency oil reserve in March. Meanwhile, House Republicans want answers on how the Biden administration will address concerns about a supply crunch and are pushing the Department of Energy for specifics. A May 26 press release from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee explains: Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Congressman Fred Keller (R-Pa.), and Oversight Committee Republicans pushed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer…
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Donny Ferguson
Donny Ferguson is a professional fundraiser and organizational manager. Born and raised in Texas, he has lived in Washington, D.C. for 16 years. Ferguson also served as Senior Communications and Policy Adviser in the United States House of Representatives, operating one of Capitol Hill's most effective media operations.
Ted Cruz is leading the charge to restore America’s energy independence with two new pieces of legislation in the U.S. Senate. The Texas senator promptly took action after investigators announced that the Russian government was bankrolling efforts by environmental groups to shut down U.S. oil and gas production. The Kremlin reportedly uses offshore shell companies to send “tens of millions” of dollars to groups like the Sierra Club to advance anti-American energy policies. A press release from Sen. Cruz’s office has more on his plan to increase U.S. energy production: U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with John Barrasso (R-Wyo.),…
Following the recent mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a flurry of executive orders, including one expanding her state’s unconstitutional red flag law. So-called red flag laws allow individuals or police to petition state courts to disarm people. The only recourse they have is to go to court and prove they’re not a danger to themselves or others. Gun Owners of America (GOA) Northeast Regional Director Michael Csencsits made a salient point following Hochul’s latest moves out of Albany: Authorities could’ve stopped the gunman a year before last weekend’s shooting. Csencsits issued the…
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that as COVID-19 spread like wildfire in April 2020, American Dr. James W. Le Duc delivered a warning to Chinese researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Despite the known threat that COVID posed and the fear of the unknown so prevalent at that stage of the pandemic, Duc, the director of a prominent biocontainment laboratory, took time out of his vital work to warn the Chinese about calls for investigations into the pandemic’s origins and collaborate with them to best prepare for likely questions from Congress. A press release from Judicial Watch explains:…
Following the latest examples of U.S. taxpayer dollars helping to fund China’s global ambitions, Republican senators are taking action. Their solution comes in a bill to shield domestic technology research from being shared with the Chinese communist party. (RELATED: Senate Democrats Unanimously Vote With China to Downsize US Economy) A press release from the office of U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) explains what the senator and her colleagues hope to accomplish: U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) along with Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the Preventing…
Two powerful Republicans are demanding transparency into the Justice Department’s efforts to prevent political interference with Hunter Biden’s tax investigation. CBS News reported last month that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware requested all documents “regarding [Hunter] Biden’s income, assets, debts, obligations, and financial transactions… and all personal and business expenditures.” Impartial observers have called the developments “serious as a heart attack.” However, a top Justice Department official and Delaware state officials recently recused themselves from the investigation, prompting Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to call for transparency over potential conflicts of interest. In a press release from Grassley’s…
Newly-released documents show that the CDC used data from tens of millions of Americans’ cell phones to monitor compliance with lockdown protocols. The CDC purchased the location data to determine if citizens followed curfew and tracked their movements to schools and churches. The agency also used it to closely scrutinize the effectiveness of lockdown policies on people living in the Navajo Nation. Location data tracks your cell phone’s location, revealing where you live, work and travel. Motherboard, Vice News’ tech reporting section, obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. In response, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is leading…
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is arguably the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbent. Political prognosticators rate her chances of getting reelection as a toss-up, at best. Of course, in a wave election, highly competitive races can quickly morph into landslides once undecided voters break. One ominous sign that things aren’t going well for Cortez Masto came this week when Nevada’s law enforcement groups rescinded their endorsements for the floundering senator. Perhaps they have had enough of her party’s anti-law enforcement agenda, which she’s not so secretly embraced. Once again, another powerful Democrat was too clever by half. Per the NRSC: It…
Every Senate Democrat, including so-called moderates like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, voted against a measure proposed by South Carolina Republican Tim Scott that would have nullified regulations for greenhouse gas emissions unless they were enacted by China as well. Despite China’s unsustainable levels of pollution, the Senate Democratic Caucus was unmoved, as the NRSC explains: However, vulnerable Democrat Senators like Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan, Raphael Warnock, and Catherine Cortez Masto voted AGAINST the Scott provision. Not only are these votes completely unjustifiable, but they amount to a massive appeasement to China and Russia.Statement from NRSC Spokesman T.W. Arrighi: “If you support…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is demanding answers from the highest levels of the government today over the continued fallout from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Blackburn’s quest for transparency follows reports that the Taliban has seized abandoned U.S. biometric devices and has used them to find and execute Afghan citizens who helped the U.S. during the war. Last August, the Taliban seized the devices, formally known as Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE). Each unit contains iris scans and fingerprints belonging to Afghan informants. It’s unclear how much of the U.S. military’s biometric data in Afghanistan was lost. However, what…