There was a recent move to cut a pittance out of the federal budget and the Republicans in Congress couldn’t even get that done. The GOP talks a good game when it’s not in power. For eight years, Republicans promised they were going to repeal Obamacare. After controlling both houses of Congress and the White…
"This is a flagrant disregard for the Constitution’s separation of powers by “basically letting the president declare war on a person or group or country or government”
Yesterday, the imperial “House of Representatives” continued its attack on the 10th Amendment and the entire Constitutional structure by easily passing the “protect and serve act.” Overall, just 35 House members voted against the bill (H.R. 5698). Using a dangerously expansive view of the “interstate commerce clause,” they created a new federal crime. If passed,…
Deb Fischer has been Nebraska’s U.S. Senator for six years now and is running for a second term. Actually, she's running in the primary seeking the right to run for that second term. She didn't draw a "bye" in the primary, unlike U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry. On the contrary, she's being primaried by a total […]
The Senate committee members’ grilling of Zuckerberg put on full display what seems intuitive: that there is no way a legislative body can have adequate knowledge to manage every element of a society of 325,000,000 people (let alone the entire world). These people are comparably ignorant of any particular issue or “policy area” that comes…
Coming in at over 2200 pages, votes are already starting on a budget that no one in congress has actually read.
While some people are saying this is a positive first step against this kind of unconstitutional war, I call it what it is, a cop-out.
With the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to repeal Obamacare flaming out, not even getting a vote, one might wonder whether it was a lousy bill or if something else were amiss. As the bill seemed like pretty decent legislation, its failure to get a vote may be due to what the U.S. Senate has become. Today’s…
Congress can't be trusted to do the right thing, so states should help push things in the Constitutional direction.
We should not wait for Congress to act.