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The AFL-CIO has declared its opposition to the Green New Deal. Radio America’s Christian Whittle reports.

The national debt just eclipsed $22 trillion, so wasting $100 billion per year seems small in comparison, but a government watchdog says federal agencies are wasting huge sums of money to ensure they keep getting even more. It's called "use it or lose it" spending.  Agencies get a certain amount of money allotted each year in federal spending, and as the fiscal year draws to a close, the spending...

Lawmakers in New York and Vermont passed sweeping legislation removing abortion restrictions and are trying to do the same in Illinois, Rhode Island, and New Mexico.  Similar efforts failed in Virginia.  Even an infanticide ban failed to advance in the U.S. Senate. But why is this push happening now and do conservatives see a win coming anywhere?  We ask Patrina Mosley of the Family Research Counc...

House Democrats are now formally pushing the "Medicare for All Act of 2019," which would put an end to private health insurance, but a leading health policy expert is warning that government-run health care is more of a nightmare than a dream come true when it comes to your health care options and access to prompt care. Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner says this is the Democrats' versi...

The climate debate is intensifying again as Democrats try to build support for the Green New Deal while opponents push back on efforts to overhaul the U.S. economy.  Behind the urgency for the green new deal is a government report showing a climate tipping point around 2030 unless drastic action is taken.  Behind that report is a mountain of climate data, much of which is compiled by the National...

This week, the House of Representatives passed legislation requiring universal background checks for any gun purchase, but one of the leading defenders of the second amendment says there a whole lot more in the bill than meets the eye. Universal background checks sound simple.  The idea is that if you want to buy a firearm, you must go through a background check to make sure you don't have a crimi...

After winning the popular vote but losing the presidency twice in 16 years, Democrats are determined to make a majority of the Electoral College contingent on which candidate wins the popular vote, but one expert says we might want to remember why the founders set things up this way before we change them. This week, Colorado became the twelfth state to enact legislation requiring it's electoral vo...

The House of Representatives have passed a resolution of disapproval on the National Emergency declaration that President Trump issued February 15. The vote sends the measure to the Senate where it's fate remains unclear. Radio America's Christian Whittle reports.

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen savaged the president as a "racist, a con man, and a cheat," but also may have provided important evidence that Trump did not conspire with Russians during the 2016 campaign. While slamming Trump as a corrupt businessman who broke campaign finance laws, cheated on his wife, lied about a Trump project in Moscow, and treated his presidential bid like an infomercia...

Pro-life activists are deeply upset that Democrats derailed legislation to protect babies who are delivered after attempted abortions, but they say the silver lining is that there is no doubt where Democrats now stand on infanticide. "It's actually immensely helpful.  It reveals with such clarity what the abortion lobby wants, which is a right to a dead child no matter what," said Susan B. Anthony...

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is expected to be charged with solicitation of a sex act at a Florida massage parlor, and the story highlights once again the scourge of sex trafficking in the United States. Kraft was identified, along with many other people, as part of a prostitution and sex trafficking investigation.  He denies the allegations.   Several libertarian voices suggest there o...

Democrats are pushing the Green New Deal as the urgent response needed to the climate change crisis facing our planet, but a respected Cold War scholar says there's nothing new about what Democrats want to do with this legislation because it's the same power-grabbing agenda socialists have advanced for a century. Dr. Paul Kengor teaches political science at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He s...

Campaign season is revving up in Virginia with all legislative seats on the ballot this year and a prominent Republican challenger is warning Virginia of what Democratic control of the commonwealth would look like while blasting state leaders for their current racism scandals. Over the past three weeks, all three of Virginia's statewide elected leaders found themselves mired in scandal.  Gov. Ralp...

A new Family Research Council report alleges that nine different Trump administration nominees have been the subject of unconstitutional questioning because Senate Democrats are concerned that the strong faith of the nominees makes them unfit for service as a judge or in some executive branch capacity. The final paragraph of Article VI in the Constitution reads: "The Senators and Representatives b...

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel is speaking out on the crisis in Venezuela and the Trump administration's response. Engel blames President Nicholas Maduro for the chaos there but warned against military intervention. Engel instead highlighted the plight of refugees, calling on the US to accept more Venezuelan’s into the country to relieve the humanitarian crisis. Radio America...

This week, friends and colleagues paid their final respects to two men who left their mark on the House of Representatives: former Michigan Rep. John Dingell and North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones. Dingell is the longest-serving member of Congress in American history, holding his Dearborn-based seat for nearly 60 years. He proved to be one of the most powerful lawmakers in Washington for decades whi...

President Trump says he will sign the bipartisan budget bill providing almost $1.4 billion for border security but he will also declare a national emergency to give himself greater latitude for addressing the issue. The legislation is expected to pass both chambers of Congress as very few lawmakers have a stomach for another government shutdown, but some of the president's strongest allies are not...

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says there were meetings at the Justice Department in the days after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey over whether to invoke the 25th amendment against Trump. According to McCabe's new book and his interview with Scott Pelley of '60 Minutes," department officials surmised which cabinet officials would support Trump and which would deem him unf...

Some Americans are shocked to discover that their tax refunds are lower than before the Trump tax cuts, leading certain politicians and media outlets to question whether the middle class really got hit with a tax hike. California Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, was among those to push the narrative. "The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let...

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is vowing to press forward on a federal ban on infanticide, says opposition is rooted in the big dollars of the abortion industry, and believes many critics are convincing themselves that active killing of newborns is wrong but passively killing them is not. Last week, the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act by unanimous consent.  Was...

Regardless of the shifting contents of the Green New Deal, a former Texas lawmaker and energy policy expert says the agenda would greatly increase the cost of living for Americans and hides the fact that renewable technologies like wind and solar create large amounts of radioactive waste. "It's a massive grab for government.  The plans keep changing .  You see papers getting pulled off of websites...

Longtime North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones died on Sunday and is being remembered for his fidelity to God, his constituents, and the Constitution. Jones was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution, but just two years after unsuccessfully running as a Democrat. Mainstream media outlets are summing up Jones as the member who once wanted to renam...

Virginia Republicans passed a tax relief bill in the House of Delegates Monday, the latest major development in a year already full of fierce debate in the legislature and massive scandal for the three statewide elected leaders. Republican Del. Nick Freitas talked about all of these major issues with us.  Freitas is cheering the legislation passed Monday that is aimed at making sure some Virginia...

American energy is booming at levels virtually unthinkable a decade ago, but will the good times continue or get derailed by the Green New Deal? American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers explains how the U.S. grew from energy dependence to a net exporter of energy in recent years and who deserves the credit. He also tells us why the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico could help the en...

President Trump never mentioned the national debt, the federal deficit. or wasteful spending in his State of the Union message, and Democrats also dodged the issues in their response.  A leading fiscal watchdog says that was a big mistake. "I really think the president missed an opportunity here to take his own party to task on spending," said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of OpentheBooks.com...