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November 18, 2019
failed to see the light of day in the full Senate and House Chief among our disappointments this year has been the inability to pass appropriation bills With the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1...1 Congress has been compelled to enact temporary spending bills known as continuing resolutions CRs to keep agencies open according to last year s appropriations This practice is wasteful for all agencies...Senate has already approved a defense authorization on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis Now the House needs to set aside politics and come to the table in good faith to debate priorities and funding Sending...
October 5, 2015
Measure Came With the Good Bad and Ugly October 5 2015 On the last day of the fiscal year Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December 11 Such a measure is designed...Amendment which prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions has been attached to appropriations bills for nearly four decades Democrats Reverse Support One bad aspect of the continuing resolution is that...of its primary jobs which is to produce 12 appropriations bills each year The House of Representatives has passed all of its appropriations bills and the Senate has done the same in committee under the leadership...
May 30, 2016
reaching Americans dinner tables The program worked as Congress intended in both the 2008 and 2014 farm bills when it transferred catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration FDA to USDA Under the...rigorous inspection standards I am disappointed that the Senate acting on outdated information recently passed a resolution of disapproval against the new USDA program in favor of returning catfish inspections...important for the public to learn the results of this study before the House of Representatives considers the resolution recently passed by the Senate After all is said and done Americans should be able to...
March 26, 2018
Allowing Websites to Victimize Children March 26 2018 On March 21 the Senate followed the House of Representatives in passing legislation that would crack down on the use of the internet by sex traffickers and...exploitation The bill titled the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act would mark a significant milestone in the fight against trafficking To stop trafficking online the bill would close...criminal activity making millions of dollars as the vehicles through which predators sell children Bill Would Expose Online Hiding Places for Predators The 1996 communications policy was designed to help...
February 13, 2017
Administration and now have an opportunity to help overturn them House Votes to Repeal Obama Overreach Earlier this month the House of Representatives passed a Congressional Review Act resolution striking down an...themselves or others and at the same time protect Americans constitutional rights Bills to Eliminate Unnecessary Red Tape Other bills I am supporting in the Senate are designed to enact sensible measures for law...in other parts of the country so long as the jurisdiction recognizes the permit as lawful Another bill I am cosponsoring would remove unnecessary red tape and the 200 tax stamp on sound suppressors for...
May 24, 2016
regulation restricting low and middle income Americans access to financial advisors The measure was passed by a vote of 56 41 The Administration s latest regulatory assault will make it nearly impossible...fiduciary rule even if portions have already gone into effect The House of Representatives passed companion legislation in April The bill now awaits President Obama s signature to become law Permalink https...
July 29, 2015
Administration s insistence on reaching a deal despite Gen Dempsey s military recommendation to not lift the sanctions imposed on Iran is very troubling It is striking that every political ideology in Israel from right...
March 2, 2017
from doing these things that the rule does And this isn t a trivial matter The whole issue around the bill fixing No Child Left Behind was to reverse the trend to a national school board and restore to states...100 000 public schools So this rule which contravenes the law specifically goes to the heart of the bill fixing No Child Left Behind which received 85 votes in the United States Senate Senate Majority Leader...accountability regulation that flies in the face of this bipartisan legislation that overwhelmingly passed Congress As such I am proud to join Senator Alexander and in introducing a resolution of disapproval...
August 3, 2015
obtained from abortions I share their outrage In the coming days the Senate is expected to consider a bill S 1881 introduced by Sen Joni Ernst R Iowa that would redirect Planned Parenthood s federal funding...cosponsor of the legislation to redirect Planned Parenthood s funding I reject the suggestion that the bill is an attack on women s health as Planned Parenthood advocates assert Instead it is a safeguard against...appropriations bills In February I introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act to replace this piecemeal approach with a comprehensive across the board law banning public funds for abortion My bill would...
October 26, 2015
loopholes in federal immigration law On October 20 I voted in favor of debating a sanctuary cities bill introduced by Sen David Vitter R La Known as the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act...maximum prison sentence for those who reenter the country illegally The House of Representatives has already passed a similar bill and law enforcement groups and organizations like The Remembrance Project...Project and America First Latinos have expressed support The Senate bill however was filibustered by Democrats In 2013 I sponsored a similar effort against sanctuary cities with an amendment to the Border...
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