Sunshine Protection Act

Trump posts Sen. Tom Cotton’s phone number as daylight saving bill sits stalled

President Trump shared Sen. Tom Cotton’s phone number on Truth Social and told Arkansas voters to lean on him after the senator blocked a bipartisan bill to end twice-yearly clock changes.

Speaking with reporters at the White House on Saturday before boarding Marine One for Ohio, President Donald Trump again pressed Congress to scrap the twice-a-year clock switch and lock in permanent daylight saving time. He said Americans are tired of the ritual and want evening light without the hassle.

The push came with a sharper move online. On Truth Social, Trump called out Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., for stopping the Sunshine Protection Act and posted a phone number tied to Cotton, telling Arkansans to contact him and “GET IT DONE.”

Fox News Digital reported that the number was associated with a Dardanelle, Arkansas area code. The outlet called it and did not reach Cotton. The White House was also contacted for comment.

House already passed the bill by a wide margin. The House approved its version of the measure in July by a 308, 117 vote, with bipartisan backing. The bill then went to a Senate committee and has not moved.

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Ratepayer Protection Act fails in Senate due to Schumer

Schumer and Senate Democrats sink bill to shift AI data center power costs off households

Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats blocked a near-unanimous House bill that would have pressed states to make AI data centers cover more of their own power costs, leaving ordinary ratepayers exposed.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday refused to advance the Ratepayer Protection Act, falling short on a 57-43 vote that failed to clear the 60-vote procedural hurdle needed to move forward.

Only four Democrats backed the measure. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority, yet could not break the Democratic wall against a bill aimed at easing household electricity burdens tied to surging data-center demand.

The legislation would have required state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including AI data centers, should pay the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them. The point was straightforward: stop shifting those costs onto families.

Weeks earlier, the House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on Sept. 16 by a 417-3 vote. That lopsided result showed broad bipartisan support for putting the cost question in front of state regulators.

When a 417-3 House bill dies in the Senate over “not enough,” working families learn who has time for purity tests, and who is left paying the freight.

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Protecting parents who reject gender ideology

Sen. Eric Schmitt introduces bill to protect parents who reject gender ideology in child welfare cases

It's ridiculous that a bill has to pass about this

The measure would bar agencies that receive federal child welfare funds from penalizing parents for raising a child according to his or her sex.

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., a Catholic, is introducing a bill that would stop child welfare agencies that receive federal funds from taking action against parents because they raise their child according to his or her sex.

Under the Yaeli Martinez Child Protection Act, an agency could not use that parental decision as a factor in determining whether to investigate the family, remove the child from the parents’ custody, limit parental visits, or deny a foster or adoptive placement, according to the bill text shared with Zeale News.

The bill would also bar those agencies from providing or helping children in their care to obtain “sex-rejecting interventions,” including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.

Agencies that break the rules could lose federal funding or have to repay money they received. Parents, guardians, caregivers, and children could also sue in federal court, according to the bill’s text. If an agency’s records cite a parent’s decision to raise a child according to his or her sex as a concern, the agency would have to provide strong evidence that the decision played no part in its action.

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Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passes Senate

Senate advances Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill hours after his funeral

The U.S. Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act with an 86, 12 vote, just hours after lawmakers attended the late senator's funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

Senators filed from the cathedral to the Capitol on Tuesday and did something rare in modern Washington: they voted overwhelmingly, across party lines, to advance a sweeping sanctions package that the late South Carolina Republican had spent his final days pushing toward the finish line.

The 86, 12 tally was not close. It was a statement.

The bill bearing Graham's name targets Russian oil and gas exports, extends existing sanctions on Iran's energy and weapons sectors, and hands President Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest purchasers of Russian crude, a provision aimed squarely at China and India.

It also imposes primary and secondary sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, Russian banks, and the so-called Russian Shadow Fleet of tankers used to skirt existing restrictions.

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Housing Act Passes in Congress

House clears landmark housing bill banning institutional investors from single-family homes

Trump set to sign at Capitol

The House of Representatives passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Tuesday by a vote of 358, 32, sending to President Trump's desk the most significant housing legislation in years, one that bars institutional investors from snapping up single-family homes and aims to ease a nationwide affordability crisis that has squeezed working families for half a decade.

Trump is expected to sign the bill into law during a visit to the Capitol Building on Wednesday. The Senate cleared the same measure a day earlier, 85, 5, in a rare show of bipartisan agreement that drew support from both Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) and the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

The final tally, 358 votes in the House, 85 in the Senate, makes this one of the most lopsided legislative victories of the current Congress. And the core provision is one that ordinary Americans have demanded for years: stopping Wall Street-backed firms from outbidding families for starter homes in neighborhoods across the country.

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Thank God for John Fetterman

Senate blocks Democratic push to curb Trump's Iran war powers in one-vote defeat

The Senate on Tuesday rejected a Democratic-led effort to force President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, falling one vote short in a 47-to-48 tally that landed the same day Trump was promoting a framework agreement with Tehran.

The motion would have discharged Sen. Raphael Warnock's war powers resolution from committee and brought it to the full chamber for debate. Four Republicans crossed the aisle to support it. One Democrat, Pennsylvania's John Fetterman, voted no.

Tuesday's vote was the latest in a string of failed attempts to reassert congressional authority over the Iran conflict. CBS News reported that the Senate had tried and failed seven times before it finally advanced a war powers resolution last month, when senators approved a separate motion to discharge a resolution from committee by a 50-to-47 vote. Three Republican members were absent for that earlier tally.

This time, all senators appeared to be present, and the math worked against the resolution's backers. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky sided with nearly every Democrat. But Fetterman's defection, the only one in his caucus, made the difference.

The resolution itself, Senate Joint Resolution 172, would direct the president to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran unless Congress explicitly authorized the use of force through a declaration of war or a specific statutory authorization.

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Immigration bill heads to Trump's desk

House sends $70 billion immigration enforcement bill to Trump after razor-thin 214-212 vote

House Republicans muscled a nearly $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill to President Donald Trump's desk on Tuesday, clearing the chamber on a 214-212 vote that required near-total party unity and zero Democratic support.

The legislation funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol for three years, a timeline designed to take the fight off the table through the next election cycle and beyond.

Not a single Democrat voted yes. One Republican, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, sided with the opposition. Every other GOP member held the line.

The bill caps a monthslong standoff in Congress that began when Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans responded by using a procedural maneuver to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass the package without a single vote from across the aisle.

The Senate cleared its version last week during an overnight session, 52-47, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska the only Republican to break ranks. Now the bill heads to the president, as the Associated Press reported, for what is expected to be a swift signature.

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Republican bill moves forward

Senate Republicans advance $72 billion immigration bill after scrapping White House ballroom funds

Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to move forward with a massive reconciliation package funding the Department of Homeland Security's immigration agencies, clearing a key procedural hurdle on a 53-to-46 party-line vote after weeks of intraparty friction over a controversial Justice Department fund and a billion-dollar Secret Service line item that included money for a White House ballroom renovation.

The vote sets up a marathon amendment session, the dreaded "vote-a-rama", that could stretch into Thursday, with Democrats vowing to force Republicans into difficult votes on the DOJ fund and other provisions they oppose.

But the real story is what Republicans had to strip out of the bill to get here, and what remains unresolved even after the acting attorney general told Congress the disputed fund is dead.

A revised version of one section of the package, released Wednesday, dropped language that would have provided $1 billion in security funding for the Secret Service. That line item had drawn scrutiny because it included money for President Trump's planned East Wing renovation, where he intends to build a large ballroom.

The original $72 billion package, unveiled last month by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, funds DHS immigration agencies through fiscal year 2029. Republicans have moved it through the budget reconciliation process, which sidesteps the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the Senate.

That procedural path is the only realistic route for a Republican-only bill in a chamber where Democrats have spent months opposing funding for immigration enforcement agencies.

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BLAST Act - bill by Rick Scott and Elizabeth Warren

Sens. Rick Scott, Elizabeth Warren Introduce Bill to Permanently Ban Members of Congress from Lobbying

On May 14, Senators Rick Scott and Elizabeth Warren introduced the Banning Lobbying and Safeguarding Trust (BLAST) Act, to permanently ban former members of the House of Representatives and Senate from lobbying Congress after leaving office.

Senator Rick Scott said, “When politicians use their time in public office to cash in after they leave government, the American people lose. Trust in our institutions is at an all-time low, and the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street is a big part of that.

We need to restore the American people’s trust in their government, and that’s why I’m proud to introduce this bipartisan bill to put government clearly back on the side of the people.

Our founders never intended public service to become a training ground for a lifetime of lobbying. Senator Warren and I are working to end this practice once and for all.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren said, “It’s simple: Members of Congress should spend their time in Washington serving the American people, not preparing to cash in big time with a cushy lobbying career after they leave office.

It’s long past time to close the revolving door that’s corrupted our government and destroyed public trust in elected officials. This bipartisan bill is a no-brainer that Congress should pass now.”

The BLAST Act prohibits two types of activity — lobbyist registration and conduct.

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No vote, no proposal, no problem. Just a flight to Bavaria.

Congress jets off to Munich as the DHS shutdown kicked in at midnight Friday

The Department of Homeland Security shut down at midnight Friday after Congress failed to pass either a full-year funding bill or even a two-week temporary extension. And where were your elected representatives when the lights went out?

Fox News reported that eleven senators were on their way to Germany for the Munich Security Conference — a beer-friendly gathering about European defense — while the actual defense of the United States went unfunded.

The optics alone would be devastating for any institution that still cared about optics. But Congress long ago stopped pretending.

At least a handful of House Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also made the trip. House rules technically prohibit official congressional delegations during a shutdown — a detail that apparently troubled no one enough to stay home.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole didn't mince words during a hearing on the shutdown's impact:

"I'm sure Munich is a great place. I've been there many times. The beer is outstanding. But we don't need to go to a defense conference someplace in Europe when we're not taking care of the defense of the United States of America."

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The Democratic playbook here followed a familiar rhythm: block the Republican-led solution, blame Republicans for the result, then leave town before anyone can ask follow-up questions.

And Slimy Newscum is there as well and bad-mouthing Trump and America...such a cool guy.

Voter ID

The SAVE ACT / SAVE AMERICA ACT

passed the house and we have 48 US Senators supporting the bill to require photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote in US elections

RINO Globalist Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has come out against the bill (DC # (202) 224-6665 ) and really needs a strong GOP primary challenger in 2028!

Our current hurdle is the 60-vote filibuster rule, where 60 Senators must vote for cloture for the bill to advance, and then 51 votes are needed to send the bill to President Trump's desk, where he has indicated he wants to sign it.

The filibuster rule in the past helped us defeat Amnesty legislation 8 times in DC that would have already added 10+ million illegals to the Democrats' voter base, making today's efforts to save the nation and Trump's election wins impossible. [ALIPAC]

Funding Fight Sparks Political Standoff

White House stands firm on DHS funding amid shutdown threat

Washington is bracing for a potential partial government shutdown as a bitter funding dispute over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intensifies.

The White House has rejected Senate Democrats’ demands to remove DHS funding from a major federal spending package, while Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), threaten to oppose the bill unless it’s renegotiated, with a critical vote expected this week and a shutdown deadline looming on Jan. 30.

The issue has sparked heated debate over priorities and principles in the nation’s capital.

So why the holdup? Perhaps it’s less about reform at DHS and more about scoring points against Trump’s immigration stance.

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Defense gets a big win in the Senate despite Chuckie

Senate approves $901B defense package amid boat strike, airspace debates

The Senate just pushed through a massive defense bill that’s got more drama than a reality TV finale.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 77-20 in a bipartisan show of force to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, a whopping $901 billion package, sending it straight to President Donald Trump for his signature, as Fox News reports.

This annual bill, typically a snooze-fest of routine funding for defense priorities, hit some serious turbulence this year with contentious provisions sparking heated debates in both the House and Senate.

One sticking point was a provision rolling back safety measures in Washington, D.C., airspace, especially contentious after a tragic collision earlier this year between a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which claimed 67 lives.

Chuck Schumer wasn't the least bit happy. Is he ever?

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Years back, Obama vetoed this Act.

Genius Act

Trump signs historic GENIUS Act into law

To follow-up on an earlier blog, President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to transform America into the world’s crypto capital when he signed the GENIUS Act into law on Friday at the White House.

The landmark legislation establishes the first-ever federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, a rapidly growing segment of the cryptocurrency market worth over $250 billion.

"This could be, perhaps, the greatest revolution in financial technology since the birth of the Internet itself. A lot of people are saying that," Trump declared during the signing ceremony in the East Room.

The President surrounded himself with Republican lawmakers and top executives from major crypto firms including Robinhood, Tether, and Gemini to celebrate what he called a "hell of an act."

Trump couldn’t resist joking about the legislation’s name during the ceremony.

"We worked hard. It’s a very important act, the GENIUS Act. They named it after me," he quipped to laughter from the crowd.

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Cutting Government Fraud and Waste - bill passes in Senate

Senate Advances Trump’s $9 Billion Spending Cut Bill as Vance Casts Tie-Breaking Vote

Vice President JD Vance cast a vote to break the 50–50 tie on the package

Vice President JD Vance on July 15 cast a tie-breaking vote to advance a package that would rescind $9 billion in funding for the federal government, a trimmed-down version of President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion rescissions request.

Lawmakers advanced the bill past a key procedural hurdle in a 51–50 vote. Three Republicans, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted against advancing the legislation. The vote was held open for nearly half an hour after Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-Pa.) “Yes” vote brought the legislation to 50–50 before Vance arrived.

It’s a big win for Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) after weeks of negotiation and infighting over the rescissions package, which is utilizing the process laid out in the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Responding to reports that the Senate would cut PEPFAR funding, (global AIDS relief program)  Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times, “I think the Senate should take up the bill as we wrote it in the House. You know what we’re doing is really just codifying waste, fraud and abuse [cuts] that the DOGE team found.”

Gill added that “large portions” of funding to USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “are either fraudulent or just deliberately wasteful.”

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Republicans leading effort to cut Red Tape

Sen. Rick Scott Leads Legislation to Cut Unnecessary Government Red Tape

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson and James Lankford announced the introduction of the Regulatory Decimation Act.

This will rein in the administrative state by requiring federal agencies to repeal ten existing regulations prior to issuing a new one and ensuring the cost of any new regulation does not exceed the ones repealed. Congressman Dave Taylor is leading the legislation in the House of Representatives.

Senator Rick Scott said, “The federal government has grown exponentially during the four years of the Biden administration, with hundreds of thousands of federal regulations costing Americans $1.9 TRILLION.

President Trump and DOGE are committed to streamlining government to make it work better for the American people, and every agency should follow suit and cut waste and red tape within their own walls.

It’s time to refocus our federal government and its agencies to be good stewards of American tax dollars and working better for the American people by passing the Regulatory Decimation Act to hold agencies accountable.”

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H.R. 710

Now Democrats are trying to screw Veterans?

Democratic lawmaker lambastes omnibus bill as ‘harmful’ attempt to privatize veterans health care

An omnibus bill, H.R. 8371, to increase community services for disabled and aging veterans and their caretakers was attacked by the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee as a thinly veiled attempt to privatize health services and drain dollars from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“House Republicans have hijacked a historically bipartisan, bicameral process for veterans’ packages, to push their main priority of privatizing VA health care,” Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said about the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act.

Sponsored by Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., a member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, the bill has 21 Republican co-sponsors. No Democrats have signed onto the bill.

But Takano said the scope of the new legislation needs to be scaled back or it will lead to further erosion of support for traditional VA programs.

The bill has received support from veterans organizations, including the Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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The bill

The Fake Border bill will fail again

After Schumer Tries to Pull Border Trick – Republicans Send Chuck the Stunning Result

For years Republicans have called on the Biden administration to take action and stop the migrant invasion at the U.S. southern border.

The president could easily stop the overflow of illegal immigrants by forcing federal agencies under his authority to follow the law.

Biden and his Democrat allies don’t have the character to admit what they’ve done wrong and correct the problem. Instead, Democrats have tried to pin the problem on Republicans.

The latest liberal spin on the issue has the Democrat-controlled Senate trying to push through a bill that won’t solve the border crisis.

Democrats hold a slim majority in the upper house and were hit with a dose of political reality when leadership tried to revive a dead border security bill. Republicans said the bill is dead before it reaches a vote.

Schumer bill will make border worse

Illegals will be counted in National Census

Hagerty’s Senate Bill Fails In Senate

Democrats have unanimously voted against Senate Bill 407, also known as the Equal Representation Act, proposed by Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), which aimed to bar illegal immigrants from being counted in the national census.

The bill was defeated by a vote of 45-51 on March 8th, with no Democratic support. This news comes as President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to determine the population of each state in the United States without regard to immigration status.

The amendment, if passed, would have required the Census Bureau to include a citizenship question in the census, and exclude anyone who is not a U.S. citizen, including those with temporary visas, from the ballot for congressional district and Electoral College apportionments.

This proposal was attached to a $460 billion government spending package passed by the Senate on Saturday.

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J.D. Vance Uncovers Anti-Trump ‘Kill Switch’ Hidden In Funding Bill

Republicans need to be aware that this bill, supported by Mitch McConnell and almost all of Senate GOP leadership, sets in motion the next hyper-partisan Trump impeachment (before he’s even elected!)

J.D. Vance sent the following letter to every one of his Republican colleagues in Congress--

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