CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS m06/18/2013

Thune Amendment for Border Fence vote Today  he United States Senate will consider the Thune border amendment today at 3:00 p.m. along with the Landrieu, Vitter, and Tester amendments #1222, #1228, and #1198 respectively. Each amendment is subject to a 60 vote threshold. Read More

Boehner selectively prescribes Hastert Rule  Speaker of the House John Boehner says that the Hastert Rule will determine whether or not the Senate Immigration Bill will see the light of day in the lower chamber of Congress. Boehner told reporters today, “I don’t see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn’t have a majority support of Republicans.” While this is good news — seeing that the terrible GO8 bill fails to secure the border and endangers our liberties — Boehner needs to more consistently prescribe this rule. So far he hasn’t. Read More

Gun Control: Blumenthal, Murphy Optimistic About Second Vote On Background Checks  U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy said they may have lost the first vote on expanding background checks to all gun purchases, but they’re going to win the last vote. Connecticut’s two Senators returned to Hartford Friday — the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook School shooting — to talk about building momentum for a rare second vote on gun control. Read More

Rep. Kelly statement on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty  On June 13, Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) introduced an amendment to H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (NDAA), to prohibit federal funding for the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) for one year. The amendment was adopted unanimously by the House of Representatives by a voice vote and included in the final passage of the NDAA, which Rep. Kelly voted to support. Read More

Orwell Revisited: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance  There’s a reason George Orwell’s 1984 is a predominant theme in my new book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State (available now on Amazon.com and in stores on June 25). It’s the same reason Orwell’s dystopian thriller about a futuristic surveillance society has skyrocketed to the top of book charts in the wake of recent revelations by former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden that the nefarious spy agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers, with the complete blessing of the Obama administration. Read More

25 Signs That Veterans Are Being Treated Like Trash Under The Obama Administration  Why does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human garbage? Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day. In the United States today, there are well over half a million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their benefit claims processed. Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus. Meanwhile, conditions at VA facilities all over the country are absolutely abysmal, and many veterans have to wait more than half a year just to get an appointment at one of those facilities.  Read More