President Barack Obama is encountering no opposition from the top four Democrat and Republican leaders in the House and Senate as he escalates US military action in Iraq with new bombings. US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen not to comment...
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No Dissent Heard as House and Senate Quickly Approve $225 million for Israel War
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2014 | Congress Alert
On Friday, the last day before the annual congressional August recess, new legislation (H.J.Res. 76) was introduced on the US Senate floor and rushed to passage in both the Senate and US House. The legislation gives the Israel government another $225 million dollars...
Eric Cantor Leaving US House for Wall Street Millions?
by Adam Dick | Aug 3, 2014 | Congress Alert
Did former US House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announce his resignation from the House so he can speed up private negotiations to make the big bucks in the financial industry? That is the suggestion of a new Politico article. The Politico...
Former Commission Heads Endorse Rep. Walter Jones’ 9/11 Declassification Bill
by Adam Dick | Jul 31, 2014 | Congress Alert
Answering an audience member’s question at a July 22 Washington, DC event, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton — who were, respectively, the chair and vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission that published its report ten years ago this month—spoke in favor of making public...
Congress to Vote to Give Obama Control of Economy During ‘National Emergencies’
by Norman Singleton | Jul 28, 2014 | Congress Alert
Tomorrow, the House will consider HR 4809, legislation reauthorizing the Defense Production Act. The Defense Production Act is a cold-war era law that gives the President dictatorial control over the economy in times of war or “national emergencies.” Specifically, the...
Senate Approves Transfer Of Additional $351 Million To Israel To Fund Its Iron Dome Missile Defense System
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee just approved the transfer of $351 million to Israel for the Iron Dome missile defense system — that will bring the appropriations this week for Israel to $621 million. There has been virtually no debate about such...
House Procedure in Action: Pro-Drug War Amendment OK, Pro-Gun Rights Amendment Prohibited
by Adam Dick | Jul 17, 2014 | Congress Alert
US House of Representatives rules were strictly enforced Tuesday to prevent a full House vote on a pro-gun rights amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) despite the earlier incorporation into the bill of a pro-drug war amendment that would also appear to be...
Resolution Requiring US Military Withdrawal from Iraq on the Fast Track to US House Vote
by Adam Dick | Jul 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
A resolution requiring the removal from Iraq of all US military troops who are not protecting diplomatic facilities and personnel that was introduced Friday in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) is on the fast track to a debate and vote in the...
House to Vote on ‘Expedited and Dignified’ TSA Screenings for Some People, Sometimes
by Adam Dick | Jul 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to consider on Tuesday the Honor Flight Act (HR 4812) that would require the Transportation Security Administration to work with a non-profit organization to establish a process for providing “expedited and dignified...
Rep. Thomas Massie: ‘Declassify 9/11 Report to Prevent the Next 9/11’
by Adam Dick | Jul 1, 2014 | Congress Alert
In a new discussion at the YouTube channel of Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) the effort to declassify 28 pages of a joint House of Representatives and Senate Intelligence Committees report. The...
US House Rejects by 355 to 62 Vote Amendment to Limit Transfer of Military Weapons and Equipment to Local Police
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Congress Alert
By a vote of 355 “no” votes to 62 “yes” votes the United States House of Representatives voted down Thursday night an amendment offered by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (HR 4870) that would have curtailed the transfer of US...
Rep. John Duncan: ‘Stop Trying to Take Care of the Whole World and Start Taking Care of Our Own Country’
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) brought one minute of hard-hitting reality to the United States House of Representatives on May 30, remarking that the United States government, with its over $17 trillion debt, is only escaping — for now — Detroit-style bankruptcy by...
US House Votes to Respect States’ Medical Marijuana and Hemp Legalization
by Adam Dick | May 31, 2014 | Congress Alert
An appropriations bill passed Friday in the United States House of Representatives and on its way to the US Senate contains provisions calling for the United States government to stop treading on states’ efforts to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp.The...
Sen. Ron Wyden: House-Passed USA FREEDOM Act is ‘Reform in Name Only’
by Adam Dick | May 29, 2014 | Congress Alert
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking Wednesday in his home state of Oregon, declared that the “Status Quo Caucus” including “intelligence leadership, their friends in the House of Representatives, [and] their allies in academia” had successfully transformed the USA FREEDOM...
Rep. Zoe Lofgren: USA FREEDOM Act Secretly ‘Altered in Worrisome Ways’
by Adam Dick | May 23, 2014 | Congress Alert
On Wednesday — the day before the United States House of Representatives voted to approve the USA FREEDOM Act (HR 3361) — Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) explained on the House floor that back room machinations changed the bill between the votes approving it in the House...
US House Considers Gold Medal for Shimon Peres, Bill Touts US-Israel “Unbreakable Bond”
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2014 | Congress Alert
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor with Shimon Peres The United States House of Representatives is scheduled to consider today awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to Israel President Shimon Peres. Notably, the short bill, HR 2939, that authorizes the creation of the...
Rep. John Fleming’s Marijuana and Libertarians Disinformation Campaign
by Adam Dick | May 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) presented his absurd and deceptive campaign against all marijuana use in his opening statement for a hearing regarding marijuana laws held by a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the morning of May 9. In the...
Following Bundy Ranch Raid, Congress Moves to Transfer Tortoise Habitat to US Military
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2014 | Congress Alert
With the US House of Representatives back in session this week after the standoff between the US Bureau of Land Management on one side and the Bundy family and protestors on the other, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing regarding the BLM. What did...
Rep. John Duncan’s Plea for US Non-Intervention in Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) on March 13 presented on the floor of the United States House of Representatives a brief and insightful plea against the US government “sending billions” of dollars to Ukraine and escalating US intervention to cause “some type of...
Rep. Thomas Massie Bills Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
by Adam Dick | Apr 3, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced legislation last year to eliminate the US government’s ban on growing hemp in accordance with state laws, last week introduced two bills that would remove US government restrictions on the sale of raw milk and raw milk...
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