By Author "Norm Singleton"
Ron Paul: Stand with Rand and Repeal the HIPAA Unique Patient Identifier
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul issued the following statement in support of legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to repeal the section of the law authorizing the creation of a Unique Patient Identifier: “The COVID [...]
This Week in Congress
The House and Senate are in all week and may consider the traditional infrastructure bill and the “Build Bigger and Broker Government" bill. This assumes a deal is reached, is acceptable to all sides, and can be put into legislative text by [...]
This week in Congress
The big event in the U.S. Senate this week is the cloture vote on S. 2747, the “Freedom to Vote Act.” This is the latest version of H.R. 1/S. 1. Like its predecessors, this bill nationalizes elections. It also imposes new regulations on [...]
Congress update
The U.S. House and Senate will not be voting on legislation until mid-September, but committees in both chambers are holding hearings and drafting legislation. Their major focus is drafting the “human infrastructure” spending bill. The bill [...]
House update: everything I don’t like is racist, everything I like is infrastructure
The U.S. House was in session on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, they were scheduled to vote on a rule providing for floor consideration of the $1.2 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure bill and H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement [...]
This week in Congress
The U.S. House may vote as early as today on two pending spending bills -- H.R. 3684, the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” which has already passed the U.S. Senate, and the “Build Back Better Act,” also known as the [...]
This Week in Congress
It’s going to be a busy week on the Hill. On Thursday, the House will likely consider H.R. 3684, the $1.2 trillion “traditional” infrastructure bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had planned a vote on H.R. 3684 yesterday, but it was [...]
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money
With the multiple crises of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hurricane Ida, and continued COVID authoritarianism, it may seem understandable that the latest report from the Medicare and Social Security Trustees was largely ignored even by [...]
Congress needs to cut up its credit cards
Congress will soon have to consider whether or not to increase the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the government’s credit limit, so once it is reached, the government cannot legally borrow any more money. The Treasury can continue to pay [...]
Ron Paul 2011: We’ll be in Afghanistan another decade
“Ron Paul was right” trended on Twitter yesterday as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan refocused attention on a 2011 speech Congressman Paul made in favor of a congressional resolution ordering the withdrawal of U.S. troops from [...]