House Calls Needed: NO on TPA!
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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The Real Immigration Issue Is Jobs
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 →Fast Track Passes Senate
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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Time to Question Presidential Candidates
The 2016 presidential campaign is in full swing, but candidates have already demonstrated they are “not ready for prime time” to answer questions from the voters and the press. The leading Republican candidate, Jeb Bush, stumbled all over himself with conflicting answers to a question about whether we should have gone to war in Iraq, while the leading Democrat, Hillary Clinton, continues to ignore fair questions about her missing emails, her foundation’s foreign fundraising, and her checkered career in and out of government.
Continue reading →Let’s Get On a Pro-American Track
Congress, led by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), is preparing to betray American workers, and the grassroots should rise up and say “No, you don’t.” The secretive underhanded deal is called Fast Track, and that’s an appropriate title because, indeed, it puts Americans on a fast track to lower wages and fewer available jobs.
Continue reading →URGENT: Tell Your Senator to Stop ObamaTrade!
Update: While the Senate’s attention is still on the Iran deal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the first procedural step towards a vote on granting fast-track authority (TPA) to President Obama. There could be a vote to proceed to TPA as early as next week.
Continue reading →TAKE ACTION! Sen. Sessions Warns Congress on Fast Track
As Congress weighs granting President Obama more power through Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, also called fast-track), Eagle Forum has been warning about its risks. Now Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is listing his top five concerns with TPA:
Continue reading →The Real Immigration Issue Is Jobs
The argument that immigrants do jobs that Americans won’t do is as phony as a three-dollar bill. As Thomas Sowell pointed out, “Virtually every kind of ‘work that Americans will not do’ is in fact work that Americans have done for generations,” and “most of the people doing that work today are Americans.”
Continue reading →PLEASE CALL: GOP to give Obama MORE power!
Your elected representatives in the House and Senate need to hear from you. Last week, the House of Representatives and the Senate marked up their versions of the Fast Track bill that paves the way for President Obama to close the trade deal he has been negotiating over the last 6 years.
Continue reading →Tell Congress: Don’t Put Obama’s Trade Deal on “Fast Track”
Congress is currently striking a deal that will cede more U.S. sovereignty to international authorities and send more American jobs overseas. This week, the House of Representatives and the Senate will each mark up their versions of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, otherwise known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or Fast Track Authority. This authority will be the last hurdle for the President to clear before finalizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a deal he has been negotiating in secret over the last six years.
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The Costly Asylum Racket
We’ve had a lot of media comment about the bad effects of Obama’s executive orders admitting millions (yes, millions) of illegal immigrants and giving them welfare, Social Security, driver’s licenses, and a path to citizenship. Like many Americans,
Continue reading →Fuzzy Math in Unemployment Statistics
The Department of Labor announced that 252,000 new jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December. The Obama Administration is trying to pander to voters by touting a recent decline in government unemployment figures, but the official unemployment figure is dishonest because it excludes from the count the million unemployed Americans who have given up looking for a job. You don’t count as “unemployed” unless you are actively looking for a job.
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Getting Prepared for the 2016 Election
President Barack Obama proudly announced that his policies would be on the ballot in the November 4 midterm elections. He got his answer loud and clear: the American people said, “No thanks.”
Continue reading →The High Cost of Fast Track
Obama received a thundering rejection to his attempt to make the November Congressional election a referendum on his policies. And the biggest Republican majority elected in more than 60 years promised to bring new life to Congress.
Continue reading →Stop Disease at the Border
Americans against amnesty are not only worried about unemployed Mexicans crossing our southern border illegally to take U.S. jobs. More than ever, we need the fence that Congress voted for and President George W. Bush made a television photo event when he signed it into law.
Continue reading →Faulty Ideas About Marriage, Pre-K, and Feminism
Political junkies will remember how former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was being groomed to run for president in 2012 before he made his foolish statement that the next president should “call a truce on the so-called social issues.” Americans do not want a leader who is unable or unwilling to articulate and lead on important social issues.
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