Laphonza Butler
Senate Democrats are attempting to rewrite Senate rules, undermining all individual senators’ ability to withhold consent – for any reason – on a group of military nominations. S. Res. 444 aims to reshape the Senate by creating a new path for senators to proceed to a group of nominations en masse under one cloture vote as opposed to individual cloture votes for each nomination.
WASHINGTON – Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with 2 million grassroots activists, today announced a key vote ‘NO’ of the Senate’s consideration of the Standing Order Resolution providing for en bloc military nominations (S.Res. 444). Heritage Action President Dr. Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “Coach Tommy Tuberville remains steadfast in his promise to protect life, so Senate Democrats are attempting to rewrite the rules to get around his...
*Last updated January 09, 2025 President Biden has been peddling student loan “forgiveness” since he was a presidential candidate. While the initial student loan cancellation scheme Biden announced in August 2022 was found unlawful by the Supreme Court, Biden and his administration do not give up easily in their fight to use unconstitutional executive overreach and your money to pay off voters in an election year.The administration has launched repeated...
WASHINGTON— Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, released a statement Tuesday responding to the House’s passage of a short-term, two-step continuing resolution: “House conservatives must stick to their commitments on government spending. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand: No more continuing resolutions at the bloated fiscal year 2023 spending level. This continuing resolution has bought two months of time in...
WASHINGTON – Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, including thousands of Michiganders, released the following statement from Executive Vice President Ryan Walker condemning Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signing of a radical pro-abortion bill package that would repeal widely supported abortion regulations. “In another display of the Left’s dangerous contempt for women and unborn children, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law her most radical pro-abortion bill...
WASHINGTON – Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with 2 million grassroots activists, released the following statement from President Dr. Kevin Roberts opposing a Senate working group border proposal that removes key provisions from H.R. 2. “The Biden administration willfully opened the door for illegal aliens and potential terrorists to enter our country, putting American lives in danger and threatening national security. Since Biden took office, over 7.9 million inadmissible...
WASHINGTON – Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, including thousands of Michiganders, released the following statement from Executive Vice President Ryan Walker condemning Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signing of SB 271, an extreme “blackout bill” that forces Michigan to adopt a carbon-free energy portfolio. “Governor Whitmer has pushed disastrous state-level Green New Deal policies onto Michiganders by signing SB 271. This extreme 'blackout bill' will have...
WASHINGTON—Heritage Action President Dr. Kevin Roberts released the following statement Wednesday as Congress finalizes its annual defense bill. “Congress must seize opportunities in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to counter threats from Communist China and deliver for the American people. Reports that the House of Representatives may abandon efforts to track the billions of dollars of U.S. capital flowing into China, including into sanctioned Chinese military and technology...
The FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should provide our Armed Forces with the tools and resources needed to deter conflict and require the Department of Defense (DoD) to focus solely on its fundamental mission of safeguarding our nation's security. The FY24 NDAA conference report fails to adequately fulfill these responsibilities and further undermines the integrity of our military.
The FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should provide our Armed Forces with the tools and resources needed to deter conflict and require the Department of Defense (DoD) to focus solely on its fundamental mission of safeguarding our nation's security. The FY24 NDAA conference report fails to adequately fulfill these responsibilities and further undermines the integrity of our military.
WASHINGTON—Heritage Action President Dr. Kevin Roberts will announce and explain new conservative policy guidelines for the future of Ukraine aid and President Biden’s supplemental spending request during a conference call tomorrow, Dec. 5, 2023, at 11 a.m. ET. The announcement from Dr. Roberts and Heritage Action, one of the nation’s largest grassroots organizations representing millions of conservatives, comes as House Speaker Mike Johnson considers President Biden’s $106 billion supplemental spending...
WASHINGTON—For ten months, Sen. Tommy Tuberville protested the Biden administration’s illegal order directing the military to subsidize abortion travel. During that time, Tuberville withheld unanimous consent, a fast-track way to approve hundreds of military promotions at once. Yesterday, Sen. Tuberville announced his decision to drop most of those holds after a bipartisan group of lawmakers threatened to change Senate rules to force promotions through. Heritage Action President Dr. Kevin Roberts...
WASHINGTON—Ahead of the first procedural vote expected in the Senate on legislation fulfilling President Joe Biden’s bloated supplemental spending request, Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker released the following statement: “Conservatives cannot support the Senate’s unserious, unaccountable, unrelated supplemental spending package. This legislation, crafted entirely by the chamber’s far-Left majority, sticks taxpayers with another $110.5 billion in reckless spending, most of which will be shipped overseas with zero accountability...
The FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should provide our Armed Forces with the tools and resources needed to deter conflict and require the Department of Defense (DoD) to focus solely on its fundamental mission of safeguarding our nation's security. The FY24 NDAA conference report fails to adequately fulfill these responsibilities and further undermines the integrity of our military.
The FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should provide our Armed Forces with the tools and resources needed to deter conflict and require the Department of Defense (DoD) to focus solely on its fundamental mission of safeguarding our nation's security. The FY24 NDAA conference report fails to adequately fulfill these responsibilities and further undermines the integrity of our military.
WASHINGTON—Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with 2 million grassroots activists, today announced a key vote in opposition of the Conference Report to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (H.R. 2670). Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker released the following statement: “Americans agree that maintaining a strong national defense involves having a mission-driven military that prioritizes restoring strength at home and ensuring peace abroad. Instead, the...
WASHINGTON—Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage Action—a conservative grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, including thousands of Ohioans—today released the following statement expressing disappointment in Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and urging state lawmakers to override his “unacceptable” veto of legislation to protect women and children: “Gov. DeWine’s capitulation to radical gender ideology is outrageous and unacceptable. We all have a duty to protect children and female athletes from irreversible...
WASHINGTON—Heritage Action opposes the topline spending deal announced over the weekend, which fails to make necessary spending cuts or commit to ending the border crisis by passing H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act. Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker sent the following statement to conservative lawmakers today:“The American people are begging Congress to secure the border and rein in the unprecedented government spending and woke policies that are...