Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-scoring-the-senates-vote-a-rama
Washington - For the first time in four years, the Senate is engaged in a full-fledged budget debate on the floor. Because the rules governing the Senate's budget debate are complex, amendment votes often occur without notice. As a result, Heritage Action will not release key votes in advance of...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-for-america-joins-digital-4th-to-reform-online-privacy
Heritage Action for America unites with ATR, CDT and ACLU in the effort to reform ECPA WASHINGTON, D.C.-Digital 4th, a pro-Internet-privacy reform group, today announced Heritage Action for America joined Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/leahy-schumer-reid-gun-bill-disrupting-legal-gun-use
Let's cut through the Washington spin: Senators who vote in favor of the Leahy-Schumer-Reid gun bill (S.649) next week will be voting to fundamentally disrupt and alter the behavior of legal gun owners and users. In addition to allowing the beginnings of a national gun registry, Leahy-Schumer-Reid gun bill's universal...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/leahy-schumer-reid-gun-bill-unprecedented-criminalization
Next week, dozens of United States Senators are likely to vote in favor of the Leahy-Schumer-Reid gun bill (S.649). When they do, they'll be voting in favor of unprecedented criminalization of law-abiding American citizens. In what appears to be a first, the Leahy-Schumer-Reid gun bill would criminalize innocent acts and...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/senators-wont-get-pass-from-heritage-action-on-gun-bill
Washington - This morning, Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) will officially announce a deal on gun control legislation. Heritage Action released the following statement from CEO Michael A. Needham: Americans are tired of backroom deals. Legislation drafted behind closed doors and rushed to the...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/no-pass-on-toomey-schumer-manchin-gun-bill
Although latest gun bill was by Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), it is actually the Toomey-Schumer-Manchin bill. According to the Wall Street Journal, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) "helped negotiate the final bill." Even more interesting is this Roll Call report: ...Toomey's public support for the bill hinged...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/the-conservative-fight-on-guns
What is the conservative fight? Conservatives are fighting for freedom and limited government -- the Founders' vision for a country where We the People have inalienable rights not granted to us by government. Take the gun debate, for example. Underlying the gun debate is a coercive, top down vision for...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/conservatives-deal-devastating-blow-to-universal-background-checks
Washington - This afternoon, the Senate defeated the Schumer-Toomey-Manchin Amendment. Heritage Action released the following statement from CEO Michael A. Needham: Today, the American people dealt a devastating blow to the left's attempt to undermine the Second Amendment. The Schumer-Toomey-Manchin Amendment was an ineffective Washington solution crafted behind closed doors...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/10-awful-things-about-the-internet-sales-tax
1. Shop China. According to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), "the way this bill is going to work, people are going to end up calling it the shop Canada bill or maybe the shop Mexico bill or, what is even more ominous, the shop China bill." 2. Taxation without Representation. As...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/46-tax-audits-from-hell
Nothing strikes more fear in heart of employers and employees alike than the dreaded audit. Under a bill working its way through the Senate, audits could become commonplace for many small, online businesses. With the way the bill is going to work, people are going to end up calling it...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/senate-committee-passes-ecpa-reform
Washington - This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 (S.607). The bill, sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT), would amend a 1986 law to improve provisions relating to the privacy of electronic communications. Heritage Action released the following...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/internet-sales-tax-would-be-crushing-to-budding-businesses
May 6 may be a somber day for budding businesses and for some of the fastest growing industries in the country. That is the day the Senate is expected to vote the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act, which would require a myriad of online businesses to collect and remit the applicable...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/senate-gang-of-8-legislation-amnesty-now-citizenship-later-without-border-security
Background: The Senate will soon consider the so-called "Gang of 8 bill," a comprehensive package of reforms to the nation's immigration system. The legislation (S. 744) provides amnesty to roughly 11 million illegal aliens within six months of enactment by granting them temporary legalized status. The Heritage Foundation defines amnesty...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/is-the-marketplace-fairness-act-really-in-the-best-interest-of-brick-and-mortar-retailers
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices," Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations One of the main justifications made by the proponents of the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-for-america-and-conservative-leaders-oppose-the-internet-sales-tax
Heritage Action joins the Conservative Action Project, chaired by former AG Edwin Meese, as well as the CEO's of over 100 organizations representing all major elements of the conservative movement to oppose the Internet Sales Tax and to call on Congress to reject the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. Washington, D.C...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/rep-salmon-introduces-ecpa-reform
Washington - Today, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) introduced the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 (H.R. 1847), which would amend a 1986 law to improve provisions relating to the privacy of electronic communications. The bill is identical to the Leahy-Lee bill (S.607), which recently passed the Senate Judiciary...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/reps-yoder-and-graves-introduce-ecpa-reform
Washington - Yesterday, Reps. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Tom Graves (R-GA) introduced the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 1852), which would amend a 1986 law to improve provisions relating to the privacy of electronic communications. Heritage Action released the following statement from communications director Dan Holler: "Momentum is growing to protect...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/the-forgotten-obamacare-implementation-battle
While some in Congress are spending their days figuring out how to bailout the Obamacare federal high risk pools by shuffling money between accounts, there is an ongoing battle over the implementation of the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion in which conservatives can actually score some real wins. Governors and state legislatures...
Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/what-every-taxpayer-needs-to-know-about-the-farm-bill
"We will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with 'must-pass' legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time," GOP Pledge to America Both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees passed legislation to reauthorize federal farm and food...
Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-and-conservative-coalition-oppose-the-farm-bill
Washington's Farm Policy is a nearly trillion dollar tangle of agriculture subsidies, welfare payments and environmental patronage. There is tremendous need for reform. Current subsidy programs are rooted in the 1930s, when prices for crops and livestock bottomed out and farm families were desperate for income. Agriculture today could not...