No Money, No Consent
Apr 22, 2016
Today at United Nations Headquarters in New York City Secretary of State John Kerry and representatives of over 130 nations will sign the Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement that was negotiated in Paris last December.
Moving Toward a Pro-Family, Pro-Growth Tax System
Apr 22, 2016
The most dreaded day of the year is, once again, behind us. Tax Day is more than a bureaucratic filing deadline, it is an ignominious monument to our dysfunctional tax code – everyone’s annual, visceral reminder that our tax code is too costly and too complex, and that complexity is itself a cost.
Obama’s Violating the Constitution by Not Submitting Climate Treaty to Senate
Apr 22, 2016
"If Congress fails to specifically prohibit taxpayer money from being spent implementing the Paris Climate Agreement, then they will be complicit in President Obama’s subversion of the Constitution."
Lee, Klobuchar Urge Careful Consideration of Proposed SABMiller, Anheuser-Busch InBev Merger
Apr 21, 2016
Last December, Lee and Klobuchar held an Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on Anheuser-Busch InBev’s proposal to purchase SABMiller for over $103 billion; the hearing examined how the proposed merger of the world’s two biggest beer producers would impact competition and consumers across the country
Judiciary Committee Senators Call For Investigation Of The U.S. Cattle Market
Apr 20, 2016
WASHINGTON – The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as well as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), sent a letter today to Government Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro calling for an investigation of the fed cattle market.
Lee, Klobuchar Press FTC On Contact Lens Market
Apr 18, 2016
WASHINGTON—Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, sent a letter today to the Federal Trade Commission urging the agency to maintain vigilance over competition in the market for contact lenses.
Obama broke the law with DAPA. Will the Supreme Court stop him?
Apr 18, 2016
One of the most fundamental challenges facing the United States today is the deep and growing distrust between the American people and their political system in Washington, D.C. And the inconvenient truth — rarely acknowledged by Washington elites — is that the American people’s distrust of their public institutions is totally justified.
United States v. Texas
Apr 15, 2016
Next week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Texas, the case challenging President Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program (DAPA). This is the program the president created through executive action in 2014 to suspend federal immigration law for more than four million aliens living in the United States illegally, granting them “lawful presence,” work authorization, and access to a host of government benefits.
A Teaching Moment
Apr 15, 2016
More than seven years into the Obama administration, one would hope that Congress would have come to grips with the president’s will-to-power approach to politics.
Bipartisan Email Privacy Act Moving Forward
Apr 13, 2016
This bill has unprecedented support from all corners of Congress and for good reason: It ensures that the same privacy protections that apply to documents stored in our homes extend to our emails, photos, and information stored in the cloud. These critical updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will bring that law into the 21st century. The broad, bipartisan coalition that cuts across industry, civil society, and academia deserves credit for their members’ tireless work to move this bill.
