Members of the United States Senate are demanding to see President Joe Bidenโs plans to comply with a United States Supreme Court ruling striking down a massive Environmental Protection Agency power grab โ after the Biden administration already attempted to defy a 2021 Court ruling curbing his claimed powers to stop tenant evictions. U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and U.S. Reps. Sam Graves (R-MO) and David Rouzer (R-NC), have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in a written letter, for โinformation on how the Biden administration plans…
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Ahead of reports that President Joe Biden may grant Iran โsanctions reliefโ in exchange for promises of denuclearization, members of the U.S. Senate are moving to ensure no deal moves ahead without congressional review. In response, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are reintroducing the Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act (ISRRA).The ISRRA requires the president to submit any sanctions relief relating to Iran to Congress for review.ย โThe legislation would provide a backstop if the Executive Branch attempts to evade the…
Members of Congress want to know if one of Americaโs most powerful liberal political groups is evading federal laws requiring them to report lobbying on behalf of foreign billionaires. U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) want League of Conservation Voters (LCV) President Gene Karpinski to answer questions about LCV’s fundraising, lobbying, and political activities, and whether it is complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The League of Conservation Voters, a radical environmentalist group, is one of the nationโs most powerful political organizations. OpenSecrets reports the…
A Virginia mother charged with lying about her drug use when purchasing a handgun, which her six-year-old son took to school and used to wound a teacher, is asking a federal court for leniency โ citing the light sentence given to President Joe Bidenโs adult son Hunter for the same crime. โDeja Taylor, 25โฆhas pleaded guilty to lying about her marijuana use when she applied for a gun purchase. Her 6-year-old son used the 9 mm semi-automatic pistol on Jan. 6 to shoot his elementary school teacher in Newport News, Virginia, in a case that has received massive media coverage,โ…
President Joe Biden has defied a federal law, which he signed, requiring him to declassify all government documents on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, including intelligence on leaks from Communist Chinaโs Wuhan Institute of Virology. And, as U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) notes, Bidenโs failure to release the documents under a mandated 90-day deadline came on the same day his administration met with Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. โThe White House is now overdue to declassify their COVID lab leak intel, and there is no โSecretary of State is meeting with Xi Jinpingโ exception in the law President Biden…
With allegations of corruption growing against President Joe Biden, as well as questions about the political bias of the Justice Department, calls are mounting in Congress to appoint a special counsel to investigate the swirling scandal. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Mike Braun (R-IN) issued a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on him โto appoint a special counsel to investigate any wrongdoing by President Biden and his family in their business dealings,โ a statement from Blackburnโs office announced. The senators pointed out that while the Biden administration has eagerly turned federal agents on President…
A California university known as one of the most liberal in America took nearly a quarter-billion dollars in unreported funds from Communist China, then gave its government officials a private tour of a US government nuclear facility. In response, U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Research & Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Collins (R-GA) sent a letter to the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding the University of California, Berkeleyโs (UC Berkeley) failure to disclose $240 million in funds from China. After taking the nearly quarter-billion dollars, UC Berkeley officials then gave Communist Chinese official access…
Amid reports of accounting โerrorsโ amounting to billions of dollars in US taxpayer-funded aid to Ukraine, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is demanding the Pentagon explain how money appears to be vanishing. โRecent reporting suggested that the Pentagon had inconsistently calculated the value of the military equipment sent to Ukraine, resulting in a $3 billion accounting โerror,โโ Rubio reveals. โNow, there are concerns that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials are actually undervaluing the equipment sent to Ukraine under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA). Undervaluing the equipment means it will be more expensive for the American taxpayer to replace in…
The federal government could no longer use taxpayer-funded retirement accounts to push companies to adopt leftist political policies, under a new bill from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. The move counters a recent strategy by leftist radicals to gain control over the voting shares of publicly-held corporations, then vote in radical leftist policies that push โwokeโ social goals and divert billions in cash to activist groups. One of the biggest shareholders in many corporations are retirement funds held by and managed for federal employees by BlackRock, a far-left, multinational hedge fund. Cruz has introduced the Stop TSP ESG Act, which โwill…
A coalition of over 6,000 U.S. military veterans have issued a letter to Congress demanding action to overturn a new Biden administration rule outlawing a common gun accessory popular with disabled Americans, including veterans. Gun Owners of America organized the letter to Congressional leadership, signed by 6,721 servicemen and veterans, urging the legislative repeal of Bidenโs new ban on pistol braces. {RELATED: House Votes To Buck New ATF Pistol Brace Rule} Pistol braces, which make it easier to handle a pistol by bracing it against the arm, were first designed to allow disabled American veterans in shooting firearms without assistance.…