Archive for June 2016
Study: These social-security benefits are going to run dry in two decades
It’s no surprise social security is in trouble but the severity of the situation can’t be stressed enough: The well that is social security benefits – specifically, old-age, survivors’ and social-security disability insurance benefits – is going to run dry within two decades if Congress doesn’t step in and take action. The Daily Signal has…
Read MoreReps. Jordan, Pompeo: ‘The administration misled the public about the events in Benghazi’
House Benghazi Committee members Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) today released an addendum to the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s final report, as the two congressman believe the report released isn’t as hard-hitting as it ought to be. “Officials at the State Department, including Secretary Clinton, learned almost in real time that the attack in…
Read MoreFormer IRS exec Lois Learner broke the law in a major way, documents suggest
Disgraced IRS executive Lois Lerner, who resigned after it came to light she was the driving force behind the agency’s targeting of Americans for their political beliefs, may have illegally handed over more than a million pages of Americans’ confidential tax returns. National Review has the scoop: Recently obtained documents raise new questions about Lois…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Launches TV Ad Campaign About State Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s Tax-Hiking, Big-Spending, Client-Over-Constituent-Favoring Record
ATLANTA, Ga. – Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder and CEO Jenny Beth Martin today released the following statement in conjunction with the release of a television ad to run across the state of Missouri regarding big-spending politician Kurt Schaefer: “For too long, Missouri state Sen. Kurt Schaefer has put his own and his private law firm…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots: It is up to the American people to hold Sec. Clinton accountable after the release of Benghazi report
ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today after the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their final report on the terror attack in Benghazi. “Thanks to the House Select Committee on Benghazi — and especially committee members Mike Pompeo and Jim Jordan — we now…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 6/24/16
CALENDAR: The House is in recess for the Fourth of July break, and will not return until Tuesday, July 5. The Senate will be back at work on Monday, June 27. LAST TWO WEEKS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House came back into session on Monday, June 13. They took up seven bills on the…
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