September 16, 2024
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By: Shawn Gremminger and Bret Jackson
Many Americans consider their local hospitals pillars of their communities. Hospitals are often the largest employers in a community, sponsors of little league teams, and deliver generations of children for families.
September 16, 2024
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By: Rep. Paul Torkelson
As American citizens, there is nothing more sacred to us than our right to vote. In order to be able to cast a ballot, common sense would dictate that if you are not a legal citizen, there is no chance you will be able to vote.
September 16, 2024
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By: Attorney General Dave Yost
It's not who, it's how many. Springfield, Ohio — a small city in the state where I serve as attorney general — is groaning under the weight of Haitian immigrants numbering as many as a third of its population in the last census.
September 16, 2024
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D., Mich.) office in Washington, D.C. seems to be closed, despite session resuming last week. At around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, September 9,, her office was “closed” and “locked” with the “lights off,” a labor union watchdog told the Washington Reporter.
September 16, 2024
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A bipartisan national security coalition is urging Congress to embrace the “whole of society” approach America took to winning the Cold War, and to “align around policies that both counter China’s ambitions and accelerate innovation here at home,” following the House’s week of legislation designed to counter the Chinese Communist Party.
September 16, 2024
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House and Senate staffers have received invitations from an anti-Israel organization to participate in a Leadership Learning Mission (LLM 9.0) that will visit “Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Amman.”
September 16, 2024
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September 13, 2024
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Prior to this weekend’s Washington Post hit piece on the 13 Gold Star families, whose loved ones were killed during Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and their primary organizer, Marlon Bateman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) told the Washington Reporter that its premise is off base. Bateman, he said, is “a hero.”
September 13, 2024
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“The American Dream is in decline,” the president of a center-right think tank warned, after releasing an alarming report showing that almost no Americans believe that the American Dream is “much more” attainable than it was just ten years ago.
September 12, 2024
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Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) told the Washington Reporter this summer that “the bottom line … is we’re not going to finish [appropriation negotiations] by September 30.”
September 9, 2024
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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris would devastate North Carolina’s agriculture industry and put thousands of jobs at risk with her expected menthol cigarette ban, Rep. Richard Hudson (R., N.C.) told the Washington Reporter.
September 9, 2024
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This week’s debate between President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris “could be one of the most consequential presidential political debates in American history,” according to Brett O’Donnell, who is one of the GOP’s top debate consultants.
September 9, 2024
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September 9, 2024
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Illegal immigrants “know” that the southern border is open, some told the Washington Reporter last week, as House Republicans conducted a field hearing near the U.S.-Mexico border by San Diego.
September 9, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris has been invited to meet with all of the Gold Star families whose loved ones were killed during President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, something she has not yet done before.
September 9, 2024
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By: Sen. Jordan Rasmusson
Since 2022, Minnesota has experienced a stunning scale of fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars directly tied to failures of Gov. Tim Walz’s administration.
September 9, 2024
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Kamala Harris has a glaring conflict as she prepares for her high-stakes debate against Donald Trump this week.
September 3, 2024
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By: Maj. Derrick Anderson
Almost three years ago, in the midst of a shocking foreign policy failure, 13 American servicemembers were killed in action and many were wounded during the Abbey Gate terrorist attack, which occurred in the midst of the chaos of President Joe Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
September 3, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris owes the American people a simple answer: does she still want to prosecute Americans for the "crime" of smoking menthol cigarettes, thereby causing havoc in the black community and imposing a massive new burden on law enforcement? Or, as with some of her other positions, has she conveniently flip-flopped just weeks before the election?
September 3, 2024
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Months before President Donald Trump rolled out his “no tax on tips” policy, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law that would impact customers who tip using credit cards; small business owners across the state tell the Washington Reporter that they’re concerned about being “guinea pigs” while bigger businesses will be able to sort through the chaos.