By Robert Romano 87 to 9 . That was the vote in the U.S. Senate on an amendment to the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that blocks funds from being “used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake specific changes to existing […]

By Rick Manning The Senate is voting on whether to rein in President Obama’s outlandish regulation that uses $3 billion community development block grant money to coerce 1,200 recipient cities and counties nationwide to submit local zoning plans to the Department of Housing and Urbana Development (HUD) to redress imagined discrimination based upon neighborhoods’ racial and income make-up. Sen. Mike […]

By Natalia Castro A simple Google search of “won’t vote for Hillary petition” reveals at least 5 petitions with about 10,000 signatures each of individuals swearing to never vote for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. But these are not angry Republicans or Independents, they are Democrats […]

By Sen. Mike Lee Adapted from Senate floor remarks on May 18, 2016. Mr. President, in a piece of legislation of this size, there is always much to praise — and, unfortunately, even more to criticize. I rise today, specifically, to correct one major mistake […]

By Nathan Mehrens As originally published at http://www.investors.com/politics/perspective/why-does-labor-dept-limit-access-to-lawyers/ Kill all employment lawyers and advisors, or at least the services they provide. This seems to be the mantra of the U.S. Department of Labor as it engages in mission creep, doing its best to reduce the availability […]

By Natalia Castro There is a well-coordinated prison break going on in your city, planned by politicians and disguised as S.2123 or the so-called Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 . Under the term “criminal justice reform” Senators want you to believe our justice system is being changed, in reality the problem is being released […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/280079-obamazoning-can-be-stopped-in-senate-this-week Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is leading an effort this week in the Senate to protect local zoning authority from one of President Obama’s most ambitious power grabs (which comes under the guise of fair housing). The Lee amendment to the Transportation-Housing and […]

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By Robert Romano Article 27 of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact could be the beginnings of a Pacific Union — a governing body for implementing the trade agreement styled after the European Commission. Entitled, “Administrative and Institutional Provisions,” it establishes the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission that will have the power […]