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Fellow Conservatives: I am proud to announce the second Senate Conservatives Fund endorsement of the 2010 cycle. Today, we are endorsing former Congressman Pat Toomey who is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania against Senator Arlen Specter...
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) was appointed to the Senate after Ken Salazar left to head the Interior Department. Bennet was a big Obama supporter who got handsomely rewarded with a Senate seat. We’ll review Bennet’s short, yet extremely liberal record in the Senate later...
If you watched the President’s prime time news conference Wednesday night, you probably heard him claim that the stimulus plan has already “saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” Right. Thankfully, FactCheck.org blew the whistle on him. Fantasy Jobs...
Justice David Souter is retiring and Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) is no longer pretending to be a Republican. This leaves Senate Republicans with an important question: who will be the next ranking member on the Judiciary committee...
Please vote in the Specter vs. Toomey online poll and post a comment. www.spectervstoomey.com
The Senate confirmed Kathleen Sebelius last night by a vote of 65-31 despite her radical support for the abortion industry. No Democrats voted against her. But the following 9 Republicans voted for her. Note that Specter is no longer a Republican so it’s really only 8 Republicans now...
Take a moment to read through this list of events during President Obama’s first 100 days and ask yourself if freedom is important enough to fight back. With the support of a Democrat Congress and liberals in the media, the President is moving quickly to consolidate power...
Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) — honorary chairman of the Senate Conservatives Fund — decided to back Pat Toomey in the GOP primary in Pennsylvania against five-term Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). Today, Sen. Specter switched parties...
Stimulus program’s $38 billion spending for transportation projects has only “created or sustained” 1,288 jobs … MORE Obama pushed to dedicate $38 billion of the plan’s $787 billion funding to capital projects that could be started immediately in the hopes of allaying painfully high...
Last night, the Senate approved a motion offered by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), which called for the federal budget to include restrictions against any health care legislation that socializes medicine. The vote was fun to watch as Democrats wrestled with the question...
General Motors, surviving on a $13.4 billion government bail out, spent $2.8 million lobbying during the first three months of 2009 … MORE General Motors Corp., surviving on $13.4 billion in government aid, spent $2.8 million on lobbying during the first three months of 2009, according to...
House Homeland Security chairman seeks millions of dollars of earmarks for small Mississippi college that he attended, although the school can not explain what the earmarks are for and does not have the capacity to provide the services for which it would receive the funding … MORE The money...
Isolated airport sees half as many travelers as it once did, but continues to receive millions of dollars in earmarks from local congressman; Taxpayers pay $147 per passenger to subsidize flights… MORE The airport’s passenger count has fallen by more than half in the past 10 years...
Louisiana school administrators spent $90,000 of federal funds intended for low-income students on junkets to Las Vegas, Walt Disney World, and elsewhere … MORE The money to pay for the trips, which included six administrators’ stay at The Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia and an $884 plane ticket...
Congressional pork projects cost taxpayers $19.6 billion in 2009 MORE For the record: The 10,160 projects - valued at $19.6 billion - represent a 14 percent increase in the cost to taxpayers over last year’s spending on “pork.” That’s even though the number of projects went down 12.5...
Foster care agency used taxpayer dollars to pay for X-rated cable TV, gambling, luxury cars, psychic hotlines, jewelry, parties, lottery tickets, alcohol, vacations, artwork, and even a cremation MORE Nearly six years after audits found private foster care agency officials were enjoying lives of...
Taxpayers get the bill for relocation service for federal employees MORE A chief pharmacist at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Clark enrolled in a program that enabled doctors and others transferring within the VA system to sell their homes to a relocation company if they couldn’t find a...
Massachusetts will spend $3 million of federal stimulus funds to repave two taxiways for corporate jets MORE The federal stimulus package has landed at Hanscom Field with $3 million to repave two taxiways for corporate jets...
Nantucket, MA applies for $2 million in stimulus cash to monitor scallops. MORE State of WA seeking $101 million in stimulus cash for 52 projects related to salmon and marine habitat...
Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) offered an amendment today to the budget resolution, which would have stopped the distribution of the remaining TARP funds to bail out bad banks. The amendment was defeated by a 28-70 vote, despite the public’s strong opposition to these bailouts...
On Monday, President Obama will announce plans to give the auto industry even more bailout money. As part of the deal, GM CEO Rick Wagoner will be shown the door. In the president’s appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he said his plan will require sacrifices from all parties...
For all their rhetoric about “green energy” and the need to “restructure our economy” so it runs on renewables, liberals may not be willing to actually let it happen. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sen...
The Senate voted tonight to cut off debate and pass the $410 billion omnibus spending bill. The measure, which needed 60 votes, was passed on a 62-35 vote. Eight Republicans crossed the aisle to help pass the bill and secure their pet projects. All but one sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee...
Here are the 2008 SCF Senate Ratings. This scorecard will be a factor in determining endorsements for incumbents seeking reelection in 2010 and beyond...
The Senate passed a bill today called the “Serve America Act,” which borrows another $6 billion to nationalize charity and undermine our civil society...
Congressional Democrats have convinced President Obama to violate his campaign promise and sign over 9,000 earmarks into law as part of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill. However, it requires 60 votes in the Senate and several Democrats have announced they will oppose the bill...
The stock market closed at 6,763.29 today, dropping below 7,000 for the first time since 1997. Americans are beginning to wonder what is going on in Washington. Many are starting to realize that Democrats in Washington are doing more harm to our economy than good. The numbers prove the point...
President Obama will try to convince the American people on Tuesday night that he is going to “cut” the deficit in half while he actually increases it...
Last week, we objected to a deal cut between President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to airdrop $8 billion into the economic stimulus bill, which can be used to fund one of the most wasteful earmarks in years — a high-speed maglev (magnetic levitation) train between Los Angeles, CA...
Just two days after President Obama told the American people the economic stimulus bill will have “no earmarks”, the Associated Press reports that Sen...
If expanding the health entitlement program for children wasn’t enough, now Democrats have added a provision to the $1.2 trillion stimulus bill representing yet another backdoor effort to socialize medicine...
Newsweek reports on what we all know to be true: America is sliding quickly toward socialism...
The Wall Street Journal has this to say about they failed economic theory now embraced by President Obama and congressional Democrats: Speaking to a House Democratic retreat on Thursday night, Mr. Obama took on those critics...
Here is the summary of the Nelson-Collins stimulus agreement. Note that once the provisions passed by the Senate are added, the cost of the bill still exceed that which passed the House...
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