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September 25, 2023
Home News Op Eds The Border Is a National Security Issue Let s Treat It Like One Senate Passed National Defense Bill and That Should Help Make Biden Fix the Border September 25 2023 President Joe Biden apparently...on passing legislation that would treat the border like the national security crisis it has become As the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee I led other legislators as we passed this...this year s national defense bill through the Senate In it we successfully included several measures that would strengthen our position on the border One measure is called the FINISH It Act which would resume...
May 26, 2016
Newsletter Signup Op Eds Home News Op Eds American Catfish Consumers Deserve Better A resolution passed by the U S Senate would deny Americans protection from illegal carcinogens May 26 2016 Regarding...American consumers deserve protection from catfish containing illegal carcinogens but a resolution passed by the Senate would deny this protection Critics have targeted the new catfish inspection program...
June 6, 2022
economic sanctions didn t deter Vladimir Putin from launching an all out invasion This offers a warning for Taiwan the U S and their allies as threats from China loom The long history of sanctions embargoes...trigger market forces that eventually override them Benefits flow to countries that don t enforce the sanctions The enforcement challenges grow significantly if the economy of the targeted nation is large and...deterrent effect of threatening sanctions loses credibility Since the Chinese economy one sixth of the world s economy is 10 times as large as the Russian economy effective sanctions would be virtually impossible...
March 29, 2018
works to advance international human rights we are encouraged by the release of the first ever sanctions list under the Global Magnitsky Act late last year We ask that the administration put those responsible...death would have their U S assets frozen and any travel to the U S denied The Global Magnitsky Act passed four years later broadens America s response to human rights offenders around the world We have refused...
December 21, 2021
enduring value as a pillar of European security Fourth to show he is serious President Biden should sanction Russian officials associated with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline This pipeline is a direct attack on...administration should ratchet up sanctions on Putin and his inner circle There is now growing bipartisan appetite in Congress to tighten the financial screws on the Kremlin Serious sanctions would send Putin a sobering...
January 15, 2013
readiness and puts more than one million American jobs on the line Doubts that Congress and the White House can reach an agreement have already prompted the Pentagon to order cutbacks including a hiring freeze...dangerous threat in a volatile Middle East During his time in the Senate Hagel opposed unilateral sanctions to curb Iran s nuclear program He voted against designating Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
February 18, 2022
have been encouraging He has positioned more U S troops into NATO countries and prepared heavy sanctions on Kremlin officials and their families should Russia invade The problem is that these moves have...once again amassing on Ukraine s border President Biden should redouble his efforts by imposing sanctions as punishment for the chaos Russia has already caused Senate Republicans have introduced bold legislation...
March 23, 2011
into law a massive 2 700 page health care bill that Democrats rammed through Congress A year later this law still remains as unpopular as it was when it passed and for good reason The health care takeover...Mississippians out of their current coverage Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously told a grassroots group We need to hurry up and pass the bill so you can find out what is in it But rather than discovering...discovering benefits the American people continue to find new things in the bill that they do not like These consequences of the President s health care law are particularly harmful to Mississippians Increased...
February 16, 2014
to America s veterans without adding to the national debt On Wednesday the Senate passed a bill approved by the House of Representatives to repeal the widely unpopular cuts to military pensions included...military retirees proved this to be true Before the final vote however a different military pension bill was under consideration in the Senate It failed to include an offset ultimately ignoring the budget...never have become law if the bipartisan conference tasked to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate budget resolutions had been allowed to find a less harmful replacement Instead the budget...
May 8, 2013
Department of Defense DOD budget are jeopardizing our military s readiness The Budget Control Act which passed in 2011 required immediate cuts and established the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to...administration s incompetent handling of the sequestration and disregard for military readiness House Republicans have passed legislation to replace sequestration with reasonable alternatives Similar Republican proposals...horizon starting with the Senate Armed Services Committee markup of the 2014 Defense Authorization Bill The bill contains many provisions reflecting Congress support of the Defense Department s top strategic...
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