Senate

• Paul Amendment to Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Fails
  WASHINGTON, D.C – On May 16, the U.S. Senate voted on a series of amendments to the Export-Import Reauthorization bill [...]
• Lee offers Amendment to End Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered a speech on the Senate floor yesterday regarding his amendment to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization [...]
• Lee Introduces Budget Proposal
  WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Lee introduced a budget resolution that puts the country on a sustainable economic path, fixes [...]
• DeMint: Government Shouldn’t Tilt the Field for Anyone
  When people ask me if I’m pro-business or pro-labor, I say I’m neither: I’m pro-freedom. Freedom is the only political principle [...]
• Sen. Rubio’s Foreign Policy Address
  AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY: RUBIO REMARKS AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Senator Marco Rubio Prepared Remarks for Brookings Institution Speech April 25, 2012 Thank [...]
• ‘Flexibility’ . . . to Do What?
  As you may have heard, earlier this week President Obama was caught on an open mike asking outgoing Russian President [...]
• EPA’s regulatory shell-game harms Americans’ jobs, health
  Last week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., lobbed two anti-baloney missiles into the armored underbelly of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Invokes The Constitution In Iran Sanctions Debate
  From RT: On Tuesday Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) summoned the US Constitution in an attempt to block even harsher sanction [...]
• Does the federal government know better than you?
  President Barack Obama and his liberal cronies are trying to turn America into communist China – where the only way [...]
• Time for a Cut, Cap & Balance Budget
  The most important policy imperative in the world today is for the United States to balance its budget. Though [...]
• Recalled Author of Arizona Immigration Law Seeks Senate Seat Again
  The architect of Arizona’s tough immigration law SB1070, Russell Pearce, is running for the state Senate again. The Republican’s announcement about [...]
• A new champion for property rights movement
  What should be done about wetlands that aren’t wet and navigable waters that aren’t navigable? These improbable conditions have become key [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Is A New Property Rights Champion – Let’s Help Him!
  Earlier today I received an email from my friend Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise; [...]
• Sen. Paul Questions Energy Secretary on Solyndra Loans
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Below is video and transcript of yesterday’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on oversight of [...]
• Harry Reid Claims Dems will Keep the Senate
  After speaking with CNN about the state of American military affairs in the Middle East, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
• Sen. Paul Unveils FY2013 Budget: A Platform to Revitalize America
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul yesterday unveiled his FY2013 budget, “A Platform to Revitalize America,” a plan that [...]
• DeMint signals he may not support Ryan budget
  Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., unveiled a plan to balance the budget in five [...]
• Sen. Reid Says Democrats Have Enough Votes to Defeat Pipeline Measure
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said he has the votes to defeat an attempt by Republican lawmakers [...]
• Sen. Lee Speaks In Opposition of Antitrust Railroad Amendment
  WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) took to the Senate floor in opposition of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) railroad antitrust [...]
• Cutting Spending is Possible
  Lawmakers in Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey and South Carolina are advancing legislation to scale [...]
• As Presidential Contenders Cite Fiscal Ratings from Citizen Groups, National Taxpayers Union Offers Clarification on Its Scorecard Results
  (Alexandria, VA) – During [the February 22] debate among Republican Presidential candidates, several citizen groups’ congressional scorecards entered the spotlight [...]
• It’s Time For An Honest Budget
  Every year, Presidents and Congress produce budgets that fail to put forth a credible plan to save our country and [...]
• Rand Paul Blocks Synthetic Drug Bans
  The Drug War Chronicle reports that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has placed a “hold” on bills aimed at banning fake [...]
• Lee Introduces Pain-Capable Abortion Restriction in DC
  Washington – On Tuesday, Senator Mike Lee introduced legislation that would prohibit abortions in Washington, D.C. after the 20th week [...]
• Sen. Paul Continues to Push for the Elimination of Foreign Aid to Egypt
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the U.S. Senate voted to limit debate on the 2013 highway bill. In its [...]
• Obama’s Federal Pay Raise Includes Tax Cheats
  Do you believe the government does a good job…at anything? Even though the federal government bungles almost everything it touches, [...]
• Arsenic-Armed, Insect-Sized Predator Drones
  When I was in high school 1984 was required reading. These days I doubt they want kids that well [...]
• Politics Q&A: Senator Rand Paul
  Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, is the more politically savvy heir to his father’s legacy of libertarian-tinged conservatism. [...]
• LEE: President’s Budget ‘Irresponsible and Shameful’
  WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Senator Mike Lee responded to the release of President Obama’s budget outline: “President Obama’s budget outline is irresponsible [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to end Foreign Aid to Egypt
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today took to the Senate floor to announce his intention an introduce an [...]
• McConnell: The First Amendment Rights of the American People Must Be Protected
  Washington, D.C.– U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement on the Senate floor Tuesday [...]
• Sen. DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
  “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A [...]
• Our Future in the Hands of the Senate?
  There are currently 27 jobs bills waiting in the Senate for action. Now that Congress is back in session, it’s time [...]
• Sen. Paul Joins Lawsuit Against President Obama’s Recess Appointments
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Rand Paul announced he will submit an amicus brief supporting a recent lawsuit filed [...]
• PAUL: TSA’s intrusions undermine security
  Senator or not, we’re all stripped of our freedom and dignity Today, while en route to Washington to speak [...]
• Sen. Paul 2012 March for Life Remarks
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul was scheduled to speak at the 2012 March for Life [...]
• Lee Reaffirms Opposition to PROTECT IP Act
  WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee reaffirmed his opposition to the PROTECT IP Act, flawed legislation that would unduly burden [...]
• Rand Paul blocked at airport after refusing TSA pat-down
  Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, was blocked at Nashville airport Monday [...]
• Lee Highlights Democrats’ 1000 Days of Failure
  WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, President Obama will give his State of the Union address on the 1,000th day since the Democrat-controlled [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Opposes and Will Filibuster PIPA Legislation
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the past several months, Sen. Rand Paul has opposed and led the charge against both [...]
• 25 Sens Oppose PIPA Legislation
  Conservative Action Alerts yesterday released another alert regarding certain ‘anti-piracy’ bills, an important issue we have been covering since the [...]
• There is Still time to Stop SOPA, Internet Censorship Bills
  CONGRESS STILL PUSHING FOR INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA; we must act now to protect a free and open internet. The powerful [...]
• Reid on bipartisanship: Republicans, drop the Tea Party ‘extremism’
  Saying it’s time to rebuild America by working together to create jobs, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday prepared [...]
• Sen. Paul Announces Taxpayer Savings at Louisville Press Conference
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Rand Paul today announced that he is returning $500,000 to the United States [...]
• Boehner demands Senate cancel its vacation
  Racing to meet an end-of-year deadline, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday the House will insist on a full-year [...]
• House, Senate Pass Reconciled DoD ‘Indefinite Detainment’ Bill
  Conservative Action Alerts has been sounding the alarm over the recently reconciled and passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal [...]
• Sen. Paul Starts Petition to Save the Internet
  Kill SOPA. In light of the recent legislative attacks on internet freedom, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has launched a website petition [...]
• The Great Firewall of America Coming
  While you are busy with your holiday shopping and family plans, Congress is working to END INTERNET FREEDOM in [...]
• Caitlin Halligan blocked by Senate GOP
  Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked confirmation of Caitlin J. Halligan, a prominent New York lawyer, to be a federal [...]
• S. 1867 ‘Indefinite Detention’ Defense Bill Passes Senate
  It’s official: the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, S. 1867, passed the Senate yesterday, December 1. The Upper [...]
• Unconstitutional Defense Bill faces final vote Today
  The liberty-destroying Department of Defense Bill S. 1867 is up for final vote today. Earlier this week, Conservative Action Alerts reported [...]
• Update: Unconstitutional Bill declares US a ‘battlefield for the military’
  Habeas Corpus and the right to trial — in other words, the right to fair treatment by government. These constitutionally-protected [...]
• Super-Committee Hikes?
  Liberal organizations like MoveOn.org are demanding that members of the super committee force Americans to pay $1 trillion in [...]
• Boehner, Obama talk jobs as Senate GOP offers plan
  House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama talked about jobs legislation in a 10-minute phone call Thursday, [...]
• Senate Democrats add millionaire tax to jobs bill
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to deliver the big jobs package proposed by President Barack [...]
• Senate Democrats rewrite Obama’s jobs bill
  WASHINGTON  — Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, even as Obama tries [...]
• Tea Party Rand Paul vs. the Senate
  Republican Senator Rand Paul is so opposed to federal regulation that he is now the only lawmaker keeping legislation [...]
• Jim DeMint: Venture Socialism
  A year ago, President Obama jetted off to Solyndra’s California headquarters to sing its praises and tout other green [...]
• Unconstitutional ‘Super Congress’ ready themselves to get ‘serious’ about spending
  After two public meetings filled with introductory courtesies and little spark, members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction [...]
• California State Senate Approves Dream Act
  The state Senate on Wednesday approved the second half of contentious legislation that would allow students who are [...]
• House passes debt-deal, Senate next
  Today the House of Representatives voted on the debt-ceiling measure passing it 269-161: 95 Democrats voted for the deal, [...]
• Deficit ‘deal’ favored in Senate
  WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional leaders worked Monday to align lawmakers from both parties behind their formula [...]
• Boehner, Reid both back at drawing board
  Senate Democratic leaders said Wednesday they, too, will have to go back and rewrite their debt-increase plan, meaning that [...]
• Tea Party Rejects Boehner Debt Deal Proposal
  A coalition of Tea Party chapters and conservative lawmakers on Monday rejected yet another debt solution offering by House Speaker [...]
• Senate rejects House GOP budget-cutting plan
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner searched on Friday [...]
• McConnell: Give Obama new powers on debt limit
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With compromise talks at a vituperative standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered [...]
• $814 Billion Stimulus Failed, Democrats Ask For Another
  Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday called on Vice President Joe Biden to include new economic [...]