By: Sarah Rumpf-Whitten | Fox Business
After the Pentagon, once again, failed a comprehensive financial audit, a group of bipartisan legislatures are introducing a bill to incentivize government spending transparency by imposing a penalty for any part of the department that fails to undergo a clean audit.
The audit, completed in November 2022, is the fifth comprehensive review… Read more »
By: Neil Munro | Breitbart News
GOP Texas Rep. Michael Burgess has drafted a bill to help his fellow GOP legislators vote against President Joe Biden’s shocking transfer of indebted foreign teenagers into low-wage jobs throughout the United States. “Our immigration system … has become astonishingly cruel because of the open-border policies of the Biden administration,” Burgess told… Read more »
By: Sandhya Raman & Ariel Cohen | Roll Call News
A patchwork of state laws in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion, combined with pandemic-related burnout and low reimbursement rates, could exacerbate an already looming national shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, experts say.
Medical students say that given the Dobbs v. Jackson… Read more »
By: Samantha Flom | The Epoch Times
Legislative efforts to enable Americans to sue the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the COVID-19 pandemic have been renewed on Capitol Hill by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas).
Under legislation the congressmen introduced on March 10, the Chinese communist regime could be held legally liable for misrepresenting… Read more »
By: Kristina Wong | Breitbart News
Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and and Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) unveiled a bill last week that would give Americans the right to sue the Chinese Communist Party for damages after it allowed the coronavirus to spread around the world.
“With people finally recognizing that COVID-19 more than likely came from the Wuhan lab — something I raised… Read more »
By: Mike Lillis | Fox 56
The coming battles over the nation’s safety-net programs are beginning with an early clash over a thorny question of semantics: What constitutes a cut?
In the eyes of many Democrats, any change to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security that erodes benefits provided under current law would be considered a cut — and therefore stands as a nonstarter with liberals… Read more »
By: Julianna Russ, Anna Wiernicki, Robert Sims | KXAN News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — The Texas Rangers started protecting the Lone Star State even before Texas joined the union.
“They captured bandits and burglars solve some of the most complicated criminal cases to ever exist,” Texas Republican Congressman Brian Babin said.
Babin joined his colleagues on the steps of the U.S.… Read more »
By: Rachel Frazin | The Hill
The House on Tuesday approved a resolution that would repeal a Biden administration rule for retirement investments, marking the latest flashpoint in Republicans’ crusade against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution was approved 216-204, with Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)… Read more »
By: Naomi Lim | The Washington Examiner
Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, are reeling from a train derailment and chemical spill that poisoned their water, soil, and air.
But President Joe Biden and his administration's uneven response to the health, environmental, and economic disaster may have undermined the president's reputation for compassion and competence.
The… Read more »
By: Ripon Advance News Service
A bipartisan bill sponsored on Feb. 10 by U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) would repeal the ban on new physician-owned hospitals under the Affordable Care Act.
“Physicians understand more than anyone the importance of quality, efficient, and cost-effective patient care,” said Rep. Burgess, vice chairman of the U.S. House Rules Committee. “That is why… Read more »
