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Washington - Today, House leadership announced votes on amendments to the Senate-passed Continuing Appropriations Resolution (H.J.Res.59). Heritage Action for America released the following statement: Over the past few months, conservatives around the country have focused on the need to defund Obamacare during the upcoming CR, primarily to prevent the law's massive new entitlements from taking effect. The Blackburn Amendment presented by House Republicans is a delay of Obamacare's provisions but...

Washington - Moments ago, the Democrat-controlled Senate voted to table (i.e., kill) the House-passed amendments to H.J.Res.59, including an amendment that would have delayed the implementation of Obamacare for one year. Heritage Action released the following statement from CEO Michael A. Needham: "Harry Reid and his colleagues just punched the American people in the gut. Fifty-four Senators voted to protect Obamacare, which is already separating patients from their doctors and...

Washington -- Today, House leadership announced it would vote to add a one year delay of the individual mandate and language to block taxpayer subsidies for federal employees participating in the Obamacare exchanges to the Continuing Appropriations Resolution (H.J.Res.59). Heritage Action released the following statement: "Congress should not spend another dime of taxpayer money on this unworkable, unaffordable law. Unfortunately, a delay of the individual mandate and correction of the...

Tomorrow, a partial government shutdown may occur if President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) continue to risk a government shutdown to protect Obamacare. The House has already passed two pieces of legislation to fund the government while stopping Obamacare. It is prideful, pompous, and shameful that the Left is willing to shutdown the government just to keep this failed law - a law opposed by 57 percent...

Vote to end debate and eventually confirm Mel Watt as the new director for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

The proposed deal compiled by the Senate to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, that would do nothing to stop Obamacare from harming the American people.

The proposed deal compiled by the Senate to reopen the government, raise the debt ceiling, and will do nothing to stop Obamacare from harming the American people.

Washington - This evening, the Republican-controlled House will pass five bills to reopen portions of the federal government. Heritage Action released the following statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham: "President Obama, Harry Reid and congressional Democrats need to stop playing politics. They are opposing bills and policies they support in order to prolong a shutdown of their own creation. This cynical political strategy may play well at Democrat...

Washington - Today, Heritage Action for America announced a $400,000 "Defund Obamacare" ad campaign. The digital campaign targets Mark Begich (Alaska), Mark Pryor (Arkansas), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) and Kay Hagan (North Carolina). Heritage Action released the following statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham: "Three days into the Democrats' government shutdown, Senators Begich, Pryor, Landrieu and Hagan have a decision to make: stand with President Obama to protect a...

Washington - Multiple reports suggest President Obama and some in Congress are hoping to leverage the government shutdown to engineer a grand bargain. Heritage Action released the following statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham: "Washington has a notoriously short attention span. The reason the federal government is shut down is because President Obama and his allies continue to protect a failed law that is hurting the country. Their...

Conventional wisdom in Washington is that our nation's government was shut down by a group of uncompromising tea party extremists. While this is demonstrably untrue - the House of Representatives has now compromised on its position twice while Senate Democrats have refused to budge an inch - it masks a more important debate. That debate is over what type of democracy we want to live in: A real one or...

Remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" interactive fiction stories from your childhood or your children's childhood? The books took place in a variety of settings, and, as the name suggests, there were a variety of possible endings to the stories. Well, imagine a Choose Your Own Adventure Farm Bill Edition! There is a variety of possible outcomes that could result from a farm bill conference between the House and Senate...

It is disturbing that some Senators are refusing to engage with their constituents on an issue as catastrophic as Obamacare. It's vital that our representatives hear our voices. It's bad enough that President Obama and Sen. Reid have chosen to shut down the government to preserve Obamacare; Senators' decision to shut out their constituents' voices adds insult to injury. Heritage Action has an ongoing ad campaign to tell Sen. Mark...

Senate Democrats promised to represent you. Instead they are working for Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Barack Obama, helping them shut down the government to save Obamacare. Which is more important: working for you or standing with Harry Reid and Barack Obama to save Obamacare? Here's what our CEO, Michael Needham, had to say when announcing the ads this morning: Three days into the Democrats' government shutdown, Senators Begich, Pryor...

Washington - According to press reports, House Leadership will unveil a clean, six-week extension of America's debt ceiling later today. Heritage Action for America released the following statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham: "Ten days into their government shutdown, President Obama and Harry Reid refuse to acknowledge Obamacare is already wreaking havoc on hard-working Americans. Heritage Action remains committed to fighting this unworkable, unaffordable and unfair law. We...

"NO" on House Spending and Debt Deal

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, remarked during an interview on the Frank Beckmann Show Wednesday that Congress cannot wait until 2017 to stop Obamacare; they should defund or delay the law to prevent further damage to the American people. When asked whether he was "resigned to the fact that you're going to have to let it just go forward in its current form and fall apart," (i.e...

"NO" on Senate-Negotiated Spending and Debt Deal

Mark Pryor is in serious trouble. According to the 2013 Arkansas Poll, Pryor's approval rating plummeted from 52-percent in 2012 to just 34-percent this year. By comparison, former President George W. Bush's lowest favorable rating, according to Gallup, was 32-percent. Bush's mark came in April 2008 "as the economy was in recession and gas prices were headed toward record highs in the U.S." That's bad, but even more alarming for...

"NO" on the nomination of Mel Watt for Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)