Some things changed in politics in Washington, DC when on Wednesday Republican United States senators via a secret ballot vote selected Sen John Thune (R-SD) to become Senate Republican leader, replacing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the position. One of the things...
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The US House of Representatives, where Only the Ending of the Afghanistan War is Condemned
by Adam Dick | Oct 11, 2024 | Congress Alert
A majority of United States House of Representatives members voted on September 25 to approve a resolution (H.Res. 1469) condemning 15 members of the executive branch “for their role in the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and noncombatant...
Old Lies Behind Israel’s War Live On in Senate Resolution
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2024 | Congress Alert
We are now a year into the Israel government’s military action devastating the people and infrastructure of Gaza and since expanded into escalating violence against countries including Lebanon and Iran. Yet, even today, United States Senate members are repeating...
Congressional Incompetence in Its Trump-Shooting Investigation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 24, 2024 | Congress Alert
Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears...
The Bogus Rise in Antisemitic Incidents on College Campuses Statistic in a US House Resolution Being Voted On This Week
by Adam Dick | Jun 3, 2024 | Congress Alert
This week, the members of the United States House of Representatives are scheduled to vote on H.Res. 1215, a resolution “Calling on elected officials and civil society leaders to join in efforts to educate the public on the contributions of the Jewish-American...
The Republican US House Leadership Loves the Nanny State
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2024 | Congress Alert
Republicans have developed a reputation for ridiculing nanny state policies of the United States government that regulate an array of activities and products as if Americans are all infants or toddlers unable to look out for their own best interests. Nonetheless, the...
No Part of the Constitution is Safe from the US Congress
by Adam Dick | May 7, 2024 | Congress Alert
Most members of the United Sates Congress repeatedly and, it seems, without a second thought vote for legislation that violates the restraints imposed by the US Constitution. It has been this way for many years. That situation has helped a government of limited,...
Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2024 | Congress Alert
United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has turned out to be an uber warmonger. He put this attitude on display in a Wednesday press conference in which he declared “I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys” as support for...
Eight Senators Urge President Biden to End Offensive Military Aid to Israel if Israel Keeps Blocking US Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
by Adam Dick | Mar 12, 2024 | Congress Alert
We are five months into Israel’s devastating attacks on Gaza that President Joe Biden’s administration has continuously supported with the provision of weapons and intelligence essential to the war effort despite Congress not appropriating money for such. All the...
Sen. Rand Paul Legislation Could Uncover Regulatory Corruption
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2024 | Congress Alert
Regulatory capture is a phrase used to describe when a government agency charged with placing limits on businesses becomes influenced or directed by some of the very businesses it is tasked with restraining. As a result, the businesses that do the capturing can obtain...
U.S. Senate Votes To Send More Billions Down Ukrainian Rathole
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 28, 2024 | Congress Alert
The U.S. Senate passed a major foreign aid bill recently by a vote of 70-29. This bill will require spending $95.3 billion that we do not have. We have a national debt that is approaching $35 trillion, a figure so huge that no one can humanly comprehend how much that...
He Was One of Six Republican House Members to Vote Against the Iraq War in 2002, Now He is Running to Regain His Old House Seat, Promising to Oppose the Ukraine War.
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2024 | Congress Alert
War fever was running high in America, and especially among Republicans, on October 10, 2002. That is when the United States House of Representatives voted on H.J.Res. 114, a resolution sponsored by House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert and demanded by President George W....
House Bills Seek to End Remaining US Government Coronavirus Shots Mandates
by Adam Dick | Jan 22, 2024 | Congress Alert
Coronavirus shots mandates imposed by the United States government have largely been jettisoned as the coronavirus scare has receded, legal challenges have been pursued, and the experimental “vaccine” shots have fallen far short of meeting their often repeated “safe...
Rep. Nancy Mace’s ‘White Privilege’ Nonsense
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2024 | Congress Alert
During a Wednesday United States House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting regarding whether President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden should be found in contempt for failing to show up to answer questions after receiving a House subpoena,...
The US House’s Weekly Expansion of the Definition of Antisemitism
by Adam Dick | Dec 6, 2023 | Congress Alert
Last week, the United States House of Representatives declared via H.Res. 888 that “denying Israel’s right to exist” is antisemitism — an interpretation divergent from the common meaning of the word that relates to making certain judgments based on the perceived...
House Resolution Calls Criticism of Israel Antisemitism
by Adam Dick | Nov 28, 2023 | Congress Alert
One thing didn’t change among the United States congressional top leaders, Democrat and Republican, after the election of a new US House of Representatives Speaker — their unanimous over-the-top commitment to the US government supporting Israel unconditionally. Thus,...
While Americans Increasingly Oppose US Involvement in the Ukraine War, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Remains All-in
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2023 | Congress Alert
“Defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.” That was the pitch of United States Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in a Fox News interview when he was asked about newly released...
New House Resolution Says US Should Stop Sending Money and Weapons to Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Feb 9, 2023 | Congress Alert
Enough is enough; the United States should stop aiding Ukraine financially and militarily. That is the stand of eleven House members who are the original backers of the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution in the United States House of Representatives. The resolution,...
The Outrageous Removing of Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee
by Adam Dick | Feb 2, 2023 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives approved on Thursday a resolution (H. Res. 76) that removes Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. The resolution passed by a party-line vote, with Republican members casting all the votes for...
Rep. Thomas Massie Is Now a Subcommittee Chairman
by Adam Dick | Jan 27, 2023 | Congress Alert
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is now a subcommittee chairman in the new Congress. On Friday, House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced the new chairmen of the Judiciary Committee’s six subcommittees. Included is Massie as...
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