Rebecca Kheel reports in the Hill that the US House Rules Committee Rules Committee on Monday removed from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which the House Armed Services Committee approved last month, a provision requiring women to register with the...
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Senate Committee Moves US One Step Closer to Drafting Women into Military
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2016 | Congress Alert
Last month the Armed Services Committee of the United States House of Representatives voted to require women to register with the Selective Service System, as men are currently required, to facilitate women being drafted into the US military. The women draft provision...
House Armed Services Committee Approves Requiring Women to Register for Military Draft
by Adam Dick | Apr 28, 2016 | Congress Alert
Wednesday night the US House Armed Services Committee passed an amendment to require women to register for a potential military draft via the Selective Service system. The requirement already applies to men. The amendment is part the National Defense Authorization Act...
Congressman Says His Local Politicians Would be in Jail if They Did What US House Members Do
by Adam Dick | Apr 21, 2016 | Congress Alert
Last week Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) demanded on the House floor a roll-call vote on a billion-dollar foreign aid bill. Only due to this action are people able to see how House members voted on the legislation. Otherwise, the bill would have been passed by a voice vote...
This Week in Congress: Foreign Aid and Tyranny
by Norman Singleton | Apr 12, 2016 | Congress Alert
This week the House returns from "spring break." Today and Wednesday the House will consider "suspensions." One of the suspension bills of particular interest is HR 4509. This legislation requires states or "high-risk urban areas" receiving Homeland Security funds to...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Sen. Richard Burr is ’Ultimate Protector’ of CIA Torture Criminals
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 2016 | Congress Alert
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) is “the ultimate protector” of United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture criminals, writes College of William & Marry Professor Lawrence Wilkerson in a powerful Thursday editorial in The...
CIA’s Brennan to Senate: I’m Not Sorry I Spied on You
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 9, 2016 | Congress Alert
CIA director John Brennan lost his cool at Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-OR) in a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee today when the Oregon Senator suggested the spy chief should apologize for spying on the Senate. The event in question took place back in 2014. The...
Sen. Ted Cruz Muddies Constitution to Push Treason Charge for Ed Snowden
by Adam Dick | Jan 15, 2016 | Congress Alert
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted in the New York Times on Wednesday, says that whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who revealed the extraordinary scope of the United States government’s mass surveillance program, is a traitor who should be tried in court for the treasonous act...
‘Leaders’ McConnell and Ryan Support Unlimited War Power for Obama and Next President
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2015 | Congress Alert
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) like to portray themselves as strong leaders who act to protect congressional authority against Obama Administration power grabs. But, in regard to the ISIS War, both congressional...
Do You Owe Taxes? Congress Wants to Take Your Passport!
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2015 | Congress Alert
In July, Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams warned that “[b]uried inside the US highways funding bill is a provision to revoke or deny issuance of a US passport to anyone who has a large outstanding tax debt to the US Internal Revenue Service.” This...
US House Resolution Calls For NATO Article 5 in Response to Paris Killings
by Adam Dick | Nov 17, 2015 | Congress Alert
On Monday, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced in the United States House of Representatives a resolution (H.Res. 525) calling on President Barack Obama “to work closely with other North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] members to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic...
35 House Members Ask Speaker Paul Ryan for ISIS War AUMF Vote
by Adam Dick | Nov 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
A group of 35 US House of Representatives members, led by Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Peter Welch (D-VT), and John Lewis (D-GA), sent a letter on Friday to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressing that it “is...
Ron Paul: New House Speaker Paul Ryan is ‘Almost the Opposite of a Libertarian’
by Adam Dick | Nov 4, 2015 | Congress Alert
Speaking this week with host Kennedy on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute Chairman Ron Paul ridiculed the suggestion that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who became Speaker of the House of Representatives last week, may advance libertarian goals in the House. Instead, Paul...
Rep. Peter Welch’s Short and Direct Answer to Obama Sending Combat Troops to Syria
by Adam Dick | Oct 31, 2015 | Congress Alert
In a short and direct statement Friday, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) presented the case for Congress debating and voting on the United States military intervention in the Middle East that the Obama administration has now escalated with the announced insertion of US special...
Don’t Get Too Excited about Bernie Sanders’ Marijuana Legalization Proposal
by Adam Dick | Oct 29, 2015 | Congress Alert
Many marijuana legalization proponents are excited by the Wednesday announcement that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will introduce legislation in the United States Senate that would remove marijuana from the list of banned drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. Many...
US House Resolution Seeks New Conflict in Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 19, 2015 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives, which never ceases sticking its nose in other people's business, is tomorrow scheduled to take up H. Res. 348, a bill "Supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future." The bill...
Rep. Jim McGovern: ‘Long Past Time’ for Congress to Stop Deferring to Obama on Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Oct 15, 2015 | Congress Alert
In response to President Barack Obama announcing on Thursday that he will “maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) issued a statement the same day calling on Congress to “take responsibility for...
Senate Criminal Justice Reform Bill Would Create New Mandatory Minimum Sentences
by Adam Dick | Oct 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
No wonder Americans have such disdain for Congress. On Thursday, a bipartisan group of nine United States senators joined together to introduce the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. In a press release heralding the bill’s introduction, sponsor Sen. Chuck Grassley...
Draft Ron Paul – A Modest Proposal
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 26, 2015 | Congress Alert, The Liberty Report
Writes Lew Rockwell on his Political Theater blog: Draft Ron Paul! He doesn’t need to be a Member of Congress to be Speaker of the House, points out expert Daniel McAdams, and he could do most of it from Texas and his TV studio. The real outsider, the authentic...
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Dresses Down Drug War ‘Bitter-Enders’
by Adam Dick | Sep 23, 2015 | Congress Alert
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States government’s war on drugs, and especially its war on marijuana, is being torn down by state and local governments choosing to move in a less punitive direction. But, drug warriors, in and out of government,...
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