Congress is currently working on the end-of-the-year spending package. We should hold them accountable for how they allocate our taxpayer money. Contact your Congressman and Senators!
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December 11, 2017 Recently, the American people have learned of yet another gross misuse of their taxpayer money. Numerous Congressmen have given “hush money,” funded
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October 20, 2017 Tax reform has been one of President Trump’s promises to accomplish before the end of this year. So far, the White House
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Eagle Forum Applauds Trump Administration for Eliminating Business-Killing Regulation September 4, 2017 Alton, IL – “As the nation celebrates Labor Day, Eagle Forum applauds President
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September 3, 2017 Summer Break is Over As the summer recess comes to a close, here are a few major pieces of legislation we can
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August 11, 2017 To the forefront . . . Even though the House and Senate are currently in recess, President Trump continues to bring the
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The “climate change” agenda pushed by the United Nations is clearly an attack on American workers and jobs and our American standard of living. The Paris Accord is not in American economic interests, plus nothing in that Accord will matter to planet Earth.
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June 25, 2017 In April of this year, President Trump issued an executive order for Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to conduct a
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Going Back to Work: Rebuilding the American Economy / Putting Americans Back to Work: A Future Worker’s Perspective
Continue reading →Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is taking a “tough love” approach by warning that government assistance programs should not be “too comfortable” or they will fail.
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America’s economic growth is our key to prosperity. In spite of a few hiccups along the way, the U.S. economy is showing some good signs of growth, with a 3.5 percent increase in the third quarter of 2016 in the Gross Domestic Product (U.S. Economy at a Glance, 2016).
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The first question asked of the presidential candidates at the most recent Republican debate, hosted by CNN in Miami on March 10, was “whether trade deals have been good for the American workers.”
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The first question asked of the presidential candidates at the most recent Republican debate, hosted by CNN in Miami on March 10, was “whether trade deals have been good for the American workers.”
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When I heard that the Omnibus spending bill that President Obama signed a week before Christmas includes a provision allowing more foreign guest workers, my first reaction was disbelief.
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The latest international Climate Change Conference COP21 opened in Paris, France, November 30, with an unprecedented 150 heads of state attending and speaking the first day. This included President Obama.
Continue reading →Defying the wishes of the American people, President Obama remains determined to import tens of thousands of poorly screened Muslims as refugees from the civil war in Syria, and scatter them in communities across America. Taxpayer-funded agencies are ready to help the refugees gain access to welfare programs and enroll their children in local public schools.
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For weeks, Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders have been negotiating a two-year budget deal and debt-limit increase with President Obama. This monstrosity not only allows the federal government to take on new debt, but it also gives away the only clear conservative victory from the last six years – the budget caps that have curbed federal discretionary spending.
Continue reading →On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
Continue reading →Today the Senate voted 60-37 to invoke cloture on TPA. Five Republicans joined 32 Democrats in voting against the measure. A final vote on TPA is expected on June 24.
Continue reading →House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced there will be a vote on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), H.R.1314, also called fast-track, THIS FRIDAY. Fast-track authority is essential for the future passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive international trade deal involving twelve countries.
Continue reading →President Obama and Republican leaders continue to twist arms in the House of Representatives in an effort to pass trade promotion authority (TPA), or fast-track. American Action Forum, a group close to House Speaker John Boehner, will spend $900,000 to pressure GOP congressmen into voting for fast-track. A vote on the measure could take place by the end of this week.
Continue reading →The House of Representatives continues to weigh giving President Obama trade promotion authority (TPA), or “fast track,” which has already passed the Senate. It will set the table for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive agreement involving twelve countries, and enables the President to bring a trade agreement to Congress for an up-or-down, simple majority vote.
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Since the costs will come due only after Obama has left the White House, I guess he doesn’t care how high are those costs. But the costs are horrendous, as added up by our country’s foremost authority on such things, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation.
Continue reading →Last night, by a vote of 62-37, H.R. 1314, the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or fast-track bill, passed through the Senate. (Note: the Senate used a House-passed tax bill as the vehicle for moving the bill because TPA is under the jurisdiction of House Ways and Means Committee, but the bill has NOT passed the House yet.)
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