Our Lips to Bears Ears
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
Going Back to Work: Rebuilding the American Economy / Putting Americans Back to Work: A Future Worker’s Perspective
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Rebuilding the American Economy
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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Putting Americans Back to Work
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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What We Learned From the Debates
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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Candidates Turn Against Trade Deals
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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Omnibus Attack on American Jobs
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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Transformation by ‘Shifting the Trillions’
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 →Governors Say “Not in My State!”
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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CALL: NO to Obama-Boehner Budget Deal!
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 →No Wonder Obama Won’t Let Us Read TPP
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 →Vote on TPA is expected on June 24. Call Senate: NO on TPA
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 →Fast Track: Don’t Give Up Our Sovereignty!
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 →Call Your Congressman: NO on Fast-Track!
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 →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.)
Continue reading →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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