Tag: Congressman

Pete McCloskey dies at 96; GOP congressman once challenged Richard Nixon

FRESNO, Calif. — Pete McCloskey – a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day – has died. He was 96. A fourth-generation Republican “in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt,” he often said, McCloskey represented the 12th Congressional District for 15 years, running for president against an incumbent Richard […]

Democrat Congressman Joins Pro-Hamas Protesters at UT-Austin – HotAir

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) conflated segregation and the fight for civil rights in the 1960s with the pro-Hamas protests happening now on college campuses, including the University of Texas-Austin. He joined protesters on Thursday to spew forth with his nonsense to the crowd. US Congressman @GregCasar joins the protest, calls for ceasefire “My message to the university […]

GOP congressman Jim Banks introduces bill to defund taxpayer-backed NPR

Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks has introduced a bill aimed at withdrawing federal funding from National Public Radio. The proposal, known as the Defund NPR Act, seeks to halt any government financial support to the organization. The move comes after  NPR’s editorial stance and staff political affiliation became public. Recent reports, including one from former NPR […]

Congressman Introduces Bill to Ban Earmarks

Rep. Ralph Norman reintroduced a bill Wednesday aimed at stopping a form of federal spending known as earmarks.   “I’ve always said that earmarks are evil,” Norman, R-N.C. told The Daily Signal. “They are sneaky in the way that they get tacked onto big, important spending packages to be automatically passed by the ‘uniparty’ with […]