Leave it to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to take a stand for freedom and liberty! In open defiance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) rule imposing a fine of $500 (second offense $2,500) for any Member appearing on the House Floor without a face mask, Rep. Massie has...
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Congress Is Still Unfit to Govern
by James Bovard | May 6, 2021 | Congress Alert
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon is reputed to have said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated last December by approving a 5593-page bill without reading it. Plenty of activists and...
Steny Hoyer: Hypocrite of the Decade
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 15, 2021 | Congress Alert
If you could mash-up all that is disgusting, evil, hypocritical, and idiotic in the US Congress, the resulting conglomeration would look a lot like House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). His entire career has been spent gorging himself at the trough of the US...
National Marijuana Legalization May Become a Special Interests Buffet
by Adam Dick | Mar 24, 2021 | Congress Alert
Special interests already elbowed their way into including government subsidies for businesses and racial preference requirements in national marijuana legalization legislation in the form of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (the MORE Act)...
Rep. Thomas Massie Discusses the Donald Trump Impeachment ‘Farce’
by Adam Dick | Feb 9, 2021 | Congress Alert
“This is a farce; it’s a sham.” That is how Rep. Thomas Massie, in a Monday interview with host Kennedy at Fox Business, concluded his assessment of the expedited impeachment of President Donald Trump in the United States House of Representatives before Trump’s...
The US House of Representatives is Voting on Stripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Her Committee Memberships because … Whatever. Who Needs a Reason Anyway?
by Adam Dick | Feb 4, 2021 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives is having a floor vote this week on H.Res. 72, a resolution to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of her committee memberships. This is a novel and severe punishment for a House floor vote to impose on a House member....
The Drug Policy Alliance Claims It Drafted the MORE Act
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2021 | Congress Alert
It is outside the routine to hear an interest group publicly claim it drafted legislation that has been passed on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. An interest group may let it be known that it worked with the sponsoring representative on...
The US House of Representatives’ Ridiculous 25th Amendment Resolution
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2021 | Congress Alert
When you do not have a good case supporting taking an action, one tried-and-true strategy of persuasion is to pile up a mountain of trivial and ridiculous assertions and point to it as proof that you are right. If someone diligently digs through the mountain, he will...
Rep. Thomas Massie: Hey Democrats, if you Want Legal Marijuana, Drop the ‘Politicized’ MORE Act, and Have a Vote on a ‘Straight Up Clean’ Bill
by Adam Dick | Oct 22, 2020 | Congress Alert
Two years back, when Republicans held the majority in the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Thomas Massie was criticizing the failure of the House Republican leadership to allow a vote of the House membership on ending the US government’s marijuana...
Delay of MORE Act Vote Could Mean Sooner National Marijuana Legalization
by Adam Dick | Sep 18, 2020 | Congress Alert
Earlier this month, I wrote about a bill including marijuana legalization that United States House of Representatives Democratic leadership had planned to bring to the House floor for a vote this month. The bill — the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement...
MORE Act Sole Republican Cosponsor Says the Bill Is Not the Way to Legalize Marijuana Now
by Adam Dick | Sep 5, 2020 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives appears set to have a floor vote this month on the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act (HR 3884). The bill would legalize marijuana at the national level, but, as I pointed out in a July article, the...
Interest Groups Tell Congress Members to Legalize Marijuana Via the MORE Act. But, if You Want Legalization Soon, Less is Likely More.
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2020 | Congress Alert
If you would like the United States government to legalize marijuana soon, I have some good news and some bad news for you. First, the good news: A group of fourteen organizations calling themselves the Marijuana Justice Coalition on Tuesday sent a letter to United...
House Democratic Leadership Teams Up With Republicans To Keep US Troops in Afghanistan
by Eric Garris | Jul 21, 2020 | Congress Alert
By a vote of 284-129, the House of Representatives soundly defeated an amendment to establish a plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. A slight plurality of Democrats supported the measure, with most of the leadership opposing. All Republicans except two voted...
‘Anti-American’? House Members Move To Condemn Rep. Omar In Resolution
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 17, 2020 | Congress Alert
I have recently been highly critical of reports that Rep. Iihan Omar (D-MN) has given up to one million dollars in campaign funds to her own husband’s company, one of the long-standing loopholes for corruption in Washington. Omar has been highly controversial for her...
In Defense of Congressman Thomas Massie
by John R. Lott Jr. | Mar 30, 2020 | Congress Alert
For a while last week, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the most hated man on Capitol Hill. His sin? He tried to prevent a “voice vote” whereby none of his colleagues would have gone on the record. He wanted his fellow members of Congress to have to formally cast...
Draft Women Too, Concludes Congressionally Mandated Commission
by Adam Dick | Mar 24, 2020 | Congress Alert
A soon-to-be-released 255-page report from a congressionally mandated commission recommends that women, in addition to men, be subject to a United States military draft, should one be imposed. So reported Lara Seligman at Politico on Tuesday based on a review of the...
Rep. Thomas Massie Rebukes House Leadership for Pushing Lobbyists-and-Deep State-Drafted PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Bill
by Adam Dick | Mar 11, 2020 | Congress Alert
Speaking today on the United States House of Representatives floor, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) discussed how a committee markup of legislation dealing with reauthorization of USA PATRIOT Act provisions was terminated so the final bill could be drafted in a “backroom”...
That US House-Passed Resolution Supposedly Opposing War Against Iran
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2020 | Congress Alert
Last week there was much media coverage of the United Sates House of Representatives voting to approve a resolution (H. Con. Res. 83) commonly described as seeking to prevent the Trump administration from engaging in war against Iran. However, take a look at the...
Congress Unlikely to Significantly Restrain US Intervention in the Middle East
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2020 | Congress Alert
Decade after decade, United States presidents order intervention, by the military and otherwise, across the Middle East. And, decade after decade, the US House of Representatives and Senate provide the funding for the intervention to continue, as well as pass bills...
The Absurdity of Today’s Impeachment Vote Captured in One Tweet
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2019 | Congress Alert
On the United States House of Representatives floor today, representatives have lined up to speak in solemn tones about how they are fulfilling of their oaths of office and defending America from grave danger by voting to impeach President Donald Trump.Over at Twitter...
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