Apparently trying to one-up President Barack Obama, who last month twisted American history and logic to equate US government mass spying with Paul Revere and other revolutionaries’ actions to protect Americans from an oppressive government, House of Representatives...
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Congress Votes to Bring Ukraine to Heel
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2014 | Congress Alert
Not to be outdone by the hyper-interventionist State Department of John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to jump head first into the Ukraine crisis. By an overwhelming...
Sanity Emerges: US to Legalize Some Hemp Growing
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2014 | Congress Alert
Researchers in several states soon should be able to legally grow hemp for the first time in decades because of legislation approved today in the US Senate. While the new exception to the US law prohibiting growing hemp will be limited and will not affect US...
Sen. Wyden Slams Intelligence Officials Over ‘Culture of Misinformation’
by Adam Dick | Jan 29, 2014 | Congress Alert
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today, presents succinctly and forcefully the case that senior officials overseeing the US government’s mass spying program have relied on “secret interpretations of the law” and “years of misleading...
McCain and Graham Go To Work Against Iran Agreement
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continue to pull out all stops in attempt to scuttle the six-month interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. The agreement is meant to provide some space for negotiations to continue between the two sides while...
Eric Cantor Girds His Iran War Loins
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2014 | Congress Alert
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is leading the counter-attack against the Administration's opening door to a peaceful agreement with Iran. His strategy to scuttle any permanent rapprochement with Iran on behalf of his neocon and Israel/Saudi lobby benefactors...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Exposes Bloated Military and Intelligence Spending
by Adam Dick | Dec 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a US Senate floor speech Thursday explaining his “no” vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 3304), exposes “wasteful, inefficient, and often fraudulent” Department of Defense spending. Sanders also addresses the bloated nature of...
Rep. Jim McGovern: ‘It is Time to Get Out of Afghanistan’
by Adam Dick | Dec 14, 2013 | Congress Alert
Speaking on the United States House of Representatives floor Thursday, Rep. Jim McGovern delivered a comprehensive speech urging Congress to stop wasting $80 billion a year and Americans’ lives in US military action in Afghanistan. “It is time to get out of...
New House Resolution Calls for Declassifying Secret Portion of 9/11 Report
by Adam Dick | Dec 5, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced a resolution this week in the House of Representatives urging President Barack Obama to declassify 28 pages of a joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee report that includes information concerning foreign governments'...
House ‘Improves’ TSA Instead of Ending It
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2013 | Congress Alert
Following another Thanksgiving travel period with the Transportation Security Administration subjecting travelers to infuriating harassment, the House of Representatives leadership has scheduled for House floor consideration Tuesday three bills that will tinker with...
Rep. Walter Jones: Congress Should Decide if US Military Stays in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, speaking on the US House of Representatives floor yesterday morning, called on Congress to exercise its constitutional power over US military policy in Afghanistan. In particular, Jones insisted that Congress debate and vote on the matter instead of...
Your Congressional Guide for the Week, Nov. 18
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2013 | Congress Alert
Do you follow Congress? Let us make it easier for you. Here is your guide to House and Senate hearings and mark-ups of interest to RPI readers for the week beginning Nov. 18, 2013.House of Representatives: Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee Hearing: Crisis in the...
Rep. Walter Jones: Stop Wasting American Money and Lives in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 4, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, presented last week on the House floor a short, powerful speech calling for ending US military action in, and the flow of Americans' tax money to, Afghanistan. Jones's speech focuses on continued US government spending...
House Republicans’ Hollow ‘Local Control of Education’ Rhetoric
by Adam Dick | Oct 25, 2013 | Congress Alert
By guiding HR 2083, the Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act, to the Floor Tuesday for passage by a voice vote, the House Republican leadership demonstrated the hollowness of the praise it heaped on local control of education when HR 5, the...
Remember ‘Kony’?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 19, 2013 | Congress Alert
Remember the bizarre "Kony 2012" video last year that was supposed to mobilize us all to fight the really bad guys in Uganda? (Or at least get behind the State Department and AFRICOM's efforts to fight the "really bad guys" in Uganda)? The video was supposedly viewed...
Sen. Ron Wyden Warns of Fake Surveillance Reform and the Economic Harm of US Mass Spying
by Adam Dick | Oct 13, 2013 | Congress Alert
US Sen. Ron Wyden, in a Guardian article he wrote based on his speech at a Cato Institute event this week, reinforces RPI's warnings that efforts to reform the US government mass spying program "provide an excellent opportunity to make bad legislation worse" and that...
Back From Middle East, US Reps Freak Out About Iran
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 8, 2013 | Congress Alert
As Ron Paul wrote this week in his weekly column (free subscription here), the recent slight thaw in US/Iranian relations is reason for optimism. But, he warned, it should be very cautious optimism. He wrote that the danger from the neocons may even be greater when...
NSA Wolves in Reformers’ Clothing
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2013 | Congress Alert
There is nothing so dangerous as when Washington starts "reforming" something. Usually it means that despite best obfuscation efforts the administration or Congress has been caught doing something -- or not doing something -- sufficiently outrageous to create a public...
Did Sen. Reid Let Slip Secret Plan to Use Navy Yard Killings as Excuse for New Medical Privacy Violations?
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2013 | Congress Alert
There is reason for concern that the US Congress and the National Rifle Association may soon work together to use the Washington, DC Navy Yard killings earlier this week as an excuse to expand a US government database of all Americans' private medical information.The...
Ron Paul on Larry King’s Politicking Program
by Ron Paul | Aug 24, 2013 | Congress Alert
Ron Paul interviewed by Larry King yesterday -- don't miss it! Unfortunately at this point it is audio only, but please do not let that discourage you from listening to this excellent and informative video:
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