Congress

Taylor Swift, Super Bowl Invoked to Tackle ‘Zuckerbucks’

Impartial referees are just as important in the big election in November as in the big game this Sunday, a lawmaker argued Wednesday during a congressional hearing on private funding for administering elections.  “The millions of private dollars being funneled to local offices raises serious questions about the conditions placed on their use,” House Administration […]

Arizona’s Election Chief on When Voters Have to Prove Citizenship

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes contends that his state’s “bifurcated ballot system” requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, but not federal ones, has worked effectively. An oath of legal eligibility taken by voters for federal elections for Congress and president is entirely sufficient, Fontes says.  “We have the strictest regime in the […]

Border Bill Fails in Senate

The Senate’s $118 billion spending bill failed to advance past a procedural vote on the Senate floor Wednesday.   The bill included funding for border-related measures, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The bill fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to keep moving forward in the Senate.   If the bill had passed in the […]

Noncitizens Should Be Barred From Census

The open border has enabled the Left to amass more political power. Democratic-controlled states have gained congressional seats by welcoming and harboring illegal aliens. As president, Donald Trump tried to halt this wrongdoing by ordering the census to exclude all noncitizens from apportionment. But one of President Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to reverse this policy as […]

House Vote to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Fails

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening 214 to 216 against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The vote on two articles of impeachment largely was along party lines, with Republicans holding 219 seats in the House and Democrats having 212 seats, plus four vacancies. (House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was scheduled to be […]