1. Walls Closing in on ObamaCare Lawlessness - via Forbes
The Obama Administration is unlawfully diverting billions of dollars from taxpayers to insurance companies that sell Obamacare policies.
That is the conclusion reached in a legal opinion letter released today by former Ambassador and White House Counsel Boyden Gray.
Mr. Gray’s letter reinforces the conclusion of legal experts at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service who found that the administration’s actions “would appear to be in conflict with the plain text” of the Obamacare statute. Read more here...
2. Impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
3. GOP Wants Answers on ObamaCare - via The Washington Examiner
Republican lawmakers are using a major legal victory to press for answers from the Obama administration on Obamacare payments to insurers.
Leaders from two influential House committees wrote to several agencies that the administration has no excuse for delaying giving them documents about the source of funding for cost-sharing reduction payments. The letters come a few weeks after the House won a major lawsuit that said the administration bypassed Congress to give the cost-sharing payments to insurers.
The cost-sharing reductions are meant to help insurers pay down deductibles and copays for low-income Obamacare patients. However, a federal judge ruled on May 12 that the payments were illegal because they were never appropriated by Congress. Read more here...
4. The Democrats Just Don't Understand the Sharing Economy - via Reason
Add Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to the growing number of Democrats who have declared war on the sharing economy—specifically, ridesharing.
At a speech at the New America Foundation's annual conference on May 19, Warren argued, "For many, the gig economy is simply the next step in a losing effort to build some economic security in a world where all the benefits are floating to the top 10 percent."
Warren is the latest in the long line of Washington Democrats who cannot hide their distaste for the independent, flexible work that many workers prefer—especially working mothers and millennials. While much of this opposition is led by labor unions that desperately want to unionize sharing-economy workers, another reason is the utter lack of understanding of why someone would want to drive for a ridesharing company. Read more here...
5. Today at 10 AM EST, Watch the House's Investigation of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
At the hearing, members of the House Judiciary Committee will examine the findings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation of IRS Commissioner Koskinen. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has investigated the targeting of conservative groups for several years and many of the Committee’s members have found that Commissioner Koskinen failed to comply with a congressional subpoena which resulted in destruction of key evidence, made false statements during his sworn congressional testimony, and did not notify Congress that Lois Lerner’s emails were missing. Watch here...
6. House Republican Leaders Once Again Block Conservative Amendments - by Neil Siefring
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is at it again.
He is using a House procedure to try and pass major legislation in a way that minimizes debate and prevents conservative amendments from being introduced and debated. Last month the majority leader did this to authorize $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for a global food security bill. FreedomWorks drew attention to the bill on our blog.
Today, Majority Leader McCarthy has scheduled H.R. 5077, the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017, for a vote in the House under the same expedited procedure, called suspension of the rules. This procedure is customarily reserved for non-controversial legislation. This bill is anything but non-controversial. It is scheduled for only 40 minutes of debate, as opposed to an hour of debate, which is the norm for bills considered under a rule. Amendments cannot be offered, and the bill can be voice-voted, allowing members to avoid being put on the record with a recorded vote. Read more here...
7. Little Middle Ground on Capitol Hill Over Rep. Jim Jordan - via The Columbus Dispatch
It’s confrontational. It’s full of interruptions. It’s equal parts question and accusation.
During his decade in Congress, the Urbana Republican has gotten a reputation as someone you either love or loathe.
Tea party conservatives adore him, viewing him as the face of a conservative revolution. Some of his more moderate colleagues, meanwhile, see him as, at least, an ideological splinter under their fingernails and, at most, a leader of the very dissension that has ripped the Republican Party into shreds. Read more here...
Jason Pye
Communications Director, FreedomWorks
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