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Urge Your Senators to Vote NO on Hagel!

President Obama’s nomination of former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is an outrage and a threat to national security. We need you to contact your Senators and urge them to oppose Hagel by voting NO on Cloture and to encourage their colleagues to do likewise.

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Stop so-called Filibuster Reform!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is resorting to more dirty tricks to silence conservative opposition to his liberal agenda. This time, he convinced a few Republicans to go along with an alleged compromise on so-called “filibuster reform,” but the result will be the same – conservatives will be shut out of the process of legislating.

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Filibuster reform!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled the U.S. Senate with an iron fist since Democrats took the Senate majority after the 2006 election. He obstructed almost all of then-President George W. Bush’s nominees by refusing to schedule confirmation votes even for non-controversial nominees to important positions.

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Disabilities Treaty Defeated!

Yesterday the Senate, by a vote of 61-38, failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which would have done nothing to help persons with disabilities, but would have diminished U.S. sovereignty by giving the United Nations unprecedented authority over American businesses.

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Thank Your Senator for Standing Up to Obama!

Although you won’t hear much about it in the mainstream media, we are thrilled to report that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 41 other Senators filed an amicus brief yesterday in a case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging President Obama’s non-recess recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in January.

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End Work Waivers for Welfare!

The 1996 welfare reform, enacted on a widely bipartisan basis and signed by President Clinton was a monumental success that helped more than 3 million Americans achieve independence and break out of a cycle of government dependence and poverty.

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