Sen. John McCain is promoting the so-called immigration bill (S.744) in the United States Senate by emphasizing it will create "the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall." Apparently, McCain believes this argument will convince other senators to...
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Breaking! Rep. Massie to Introduce Bill Blocking Syria Rebel Military Aid
by Rep. Thomas Massie | Jun 24, 2013 | Congress Alert
House sources tell RPI that Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) is preparing to introduce legislation to forbid the president from providing military assistance to any of the combatant groups in the current Syrian conflict. Absent a Congressional declaration of war,...
Major Drug War Expansion on Senate Agenda This Week
by Adam Dick | Jun 24, 2013 | Congress Alert
The so-called immigration bill the United States Senate is considering this week (S.744) is about much more than immigration laws. As Ted Hesson explains at ABC News, the bill would significantly expand the US Border Patrol's already large role in the US government's...
Farm Freedom: US House Votes for Pro-Hemp Amendment
by Adam Dick | Jun 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives voted 225-220 on Thursday to remove the US government prohibition on colleges and universities growing industrial hemp for research purposes in compliance with state laws. The vote was taken on an amendment offered by Rep....
House Intel Committee’s Sham Hearing on Mass Spying
by RPI Staff | Jun 18, 2013 | Congress Alert
Today the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the United States House of Representatives is holding a hearing designed to cheer the US government's secret mass spying programs. The committee leadership's one-sided agenda is highlighted by the title of this...
Potential US House Amendment Would Help Edward Snowden
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2013 | Congress Alert
Roll Call reports that Reps. Justin Amash and Thomas Massie are considering introducing an amendment in the United States House of Representatives as early as this week that would protect National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden from prosecution. Snowden...
Bipartisan Agreement: Anti-TSA Amendment Disqualifies Rep. Broun from Winning Senate Race
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Congress Alert
United States Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, who is running for US Senate, struck a nerve when he offered an amendment to eliminate funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during consideration of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act...
No Hemp Legalization Vote in US Senate
by RPI Staff | Jun 9, 2013 | Congress Alert
The United States Senate is preparing to end consideration of the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act (S. 954) without any vote on Sen. Ron Wyden's amendment that would eliminate the Controlled Substances Act prohibition on growing hemp. Ryan Grim at the Huffington...
New 3 June: Industrial Hemp Bill This Week?
by RPI Staff | Jun 3, 2013 | Congress Alert
The United States Senate may vote this week on an amendment that would eliminate the Controlled Substances Act prohibition on growing industrial hemp. Sen. Ron Wyden has introduced in the Senate his Industrial Hemp Farming Act as Amendment 952 to the Agriculture...
Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | May 1, 2013 | Congress Alert
The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all Americans, and indeed to people all over the...
Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sequester – Trust?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | May 1, 2013 | Congress Alert
Syria: So now we have the emergence of supposed proof of Assad's government being in violation of the self assigned "red line" of poison gas use against the rebels. Let's see the proof. Let's see and hear something beyond Andrea Mitchell beating her drum for war. This...
Oh That Smell: CISPA Returns from the Dead
by RPI Staff | Apr 16, 2013 | Congress Alert
A new and much unimproved CISPA bill heads for the House Floor for a vote this week. The new measure strips what little privacy measures and makes it even more mandatory that the private company you trust with your business be forced by the government to spy on you....
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