Capitol Hill Reports

Paycheck Protection Program

Congress Makes Tweaks to COVID-19 Small Business Loans

06/04/2020

This past week, the House of Representatives came back to D.C. to vote via proxy voting. As you may recall, proxy voting is a change in the House’s rules that allows a member to vote for up to 10 other colleagues on any Coronavirus related legislation to ensure members are able to work from home.

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Planned Parenthood & Nancy Pelosi

Planned Parenthood STOLE Your Money

05/22/2020

While the country is shut down, the abortion industry and its supporters haven’t been shy about their desire to maintain a culture of abortion-on-demand. In March, Eagle Forum tracked the Capitol Hill fight to prevent Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from creating a $1 billion funding stream for reimbursing laboratory costs that were exempt from the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer money from being used to pay for abortions.

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Capitol

Swamp Shows Reluctance to Hand Over Power

05/15/2020

This Tuesday, May 12th, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing entitled, “COVID-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School.” Like the rest of the country conducting business over the web, the Senate held the hearing in a manner to comply with social distancing. Some participants used video conference, while others were actually in the hearing room.

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Closed sign

Open the Economy!

04/24/2020

In March, state bureaucrats and elected officials set long-term shelter in place mandates. Little was known then, and even now, about the virus’s long-term effects and how we can best combat it. In the past, traditional quarantine entailed isolating those that are sick, not whole populations, and in doing so, the economy wasn’t shut down overnight.

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virus protection

Good News from D.C.!

04/10/2020

As efforts are underway to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, state and federal governments have waived nearly 200 regulations to provide relief to businesses and personnel. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is keeping a running list of the various easements.

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Stimulus Package

Lone Congressman Defends our Constitution

04/03/2020

Late last week, the House passed “phase three” of the Coronavirus economic relief package, but not without some turmoil. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) came to an agreement, the Senate passed the CARES Act (H.R. 748) unanimously.

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Senate $2 Trillion economic stimulus

Coronavirus Congressional Chaos

03/26/2020

Just when you thought Republicans and Democrats were working together, all comradery flew out the window over the weekend. Many House and Senate Republicans were willing to pass the first two phases of an economic stimulus package drafted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

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Coronavirus Response

Don’t Say “Chinese Virus”

03/19/2020

Pointing out the geographic origins of the disease is not racist or prejudiced; it is a fact. Instead of allowing China and the woke-Left to make the Wuhan Coronavirus politically correct, we must all have the response that President Trump gave a reporter at a White House briefing who asked why he refers to the virus as the “Chinese virus.”

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HR 6201 House vote

Corona Spending Update

03/14/2020

Throughout the end of this past legislative week, Eagle Forum tracked the second Coronavirus supplemental’s negotiations on Capitol Hill. While Twitter started to announce that a deal was reached, Republicans quickly denounced it. In the meantime, President Trump declared a national emergency and invoked the Stafford Act, a request that came from Washington state’s Governor Jay Inslee, which freed up $42 billion to use against Corona.

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coronavirus

Democrat Pork in Corona

03/12/2020

While the White House had asked for $2.5 billion, the legislation totaled about $8.3 billion to combat the coronavirus. Specifically, more than $4 billion was allotted for diagnostic tests, treatments, and to help develop and disseminate a vaccine. The Centers for Disease Controls (CDC) was given $2.2 billion to help prevent, prepare, and respond to the disease.

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Joe Biden

Super Tuesday’s Surprise

03/05/2020

Democrats were in for a surprise shake-up this week as 14 states and territories cast their votes for Presidential nominees. Just over a week ago, seven of the Democrat candidates lined up on the debate stage in South Carolina to defend their ambition to become the next President of the United States. Little did we know that shortly after, 4 candidates would drop out, and most would endorse Joe Biden.

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Teen Smoking

Curbing Youth Tobacco Use & “Sin” Tax

02/27/2020

The Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 (H.R. 2339) seeks to curb tobacco use by minors. For many years, the tobacco industry has made a huge impact on the nation’s youth. In doing so, they have self-inflicted a lifetime tax on themselves in the form of addiction.

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