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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 are making decisions right now as to whether they're going to accept massive amounts of federal spending, as well as...

"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 stamp programs-these bills will soon be considered by the full House and Senate. These so-called "farm" bills were considered in...

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 be more different. Farmers are pulling in record-high levels of income and carrying record-low levels of debt. Technology has eliminated...

"NO" on the Water Resources Development Act of 2013

The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of the House H-232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Eric Cantor House Majority Leader H-329, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor: For the first time, the activities of the Obama administration are receiving a sustained public vetting. Americans' outrage over Benghazi is amplified by the Internal Revenue Service's intimidation of conservative grassroots organizations and a cascade of negative...

"YES" on Full Repeal of Obamacare

Last week, the Senate approved the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act, more commonly known as the Internet sales tax. Proponents tried to paint the vote as evidence of overwhelming support for the bill. That is simply not the case, though. As you dig deeper in to the numbers, it becomes apparent the push from big government and big government special interests was losing momentum. On the final vote, a majority of...

Advocates of the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), more commonly known as the Internet sales tax, claim that it would "level the playing field" for "mom-and-pop, brick-and-mortar stores." They claim that online retailers have an "unfair" advantage and state: If Congress is serious about supporting small businesses and creating jobs on Main Street, they should pass the Marketplace Fairness Act without hesitation. But it is not really the small brick-and-mortar...

Washington - Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved S.744, the immigration bill drafted by the Gang of Eight. Heritage Action released the following statement from CEO Michael A. Needham: Yesterday's vote is further evidence that some in Washington seem intent on repeating the mistakes of the past. In 1986, Congress granted amnesty to three million people with the promise of enforcement and border security. Since then the population of illegal...

"NO" on Senate Amnesty Bill

THE BIGGEST FOOD & FARM WELFARE BILL EVER SHOULD BE PUT OUT TO PASTURE OR SENT TO THE GLUE FACTORY! RE: The Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 (AKA: the Farm Bill) is working its way to the House floor for a vote. The total estimated cost of the bill is almost a trillion dollars! In 2008 a similar bill cost $604 billion-over a 50% increase in just...

"YES" on Keystone XL Pipeline Approval

Introduced by Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA), the bill would revise existing laws and policies regarding the development of oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) by: 1) directing the Department of the Interior (DOI) to adopt a new leasing plan for the 2015-2020 period; 2) requiring auctions of leases in certain areas in the Atlantic and Pacific OCS; 3) reducing the department’s discretion regarding which regions would...

The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744) act would put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.

Schumer-Corker-Hoeven fails to solve the enforcement problems in the underlying bill because Registered Provisional Immigrant (RPI) status (i.e., amnesty) is not made conditional on enforcement and security.

Amendment #101 offered by Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) creates additional work requirements for SNAP recipients and raises the total reduction in spending to $31 billion.

Amendment #47 offered by Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) limits premium subsidies to those producers with an adjusted gross income under $250,000 and limits per person premium subsidies to $50,000. It caps crop insurance providers’ reimbursement of administrative and operating at $900 million and reduces their rate of return to 12%.

Amendment #98 offered by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) reforms the Federal sugar program: 1) repeals unnecessary trade restrictions; 2) eliminates higher price support levels; 3) reforms domestic supply restrictions to provide more flexibility to USDA; and 4) provides flexibility to USDA in administering quotas.

Commonly referred to as the Farm Bill but more accurately described as the Food Stamp and Farm Bill. Despite claims of reform, the bill continues to spend nearly $1 trillion on a variety of programs, including crop subsidies, conservation programs and food stamps.

Amendment 73, offered by Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY), amends Section 1021 of the FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act to eliminate indefinite military detention of any person belonging to al Qaeda, the Taliban, or other forces belonging to those “organizations” as authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) authority in the United States.