SPRINGFIELD, Virginia – Today, Campaign for Liberty came out strongly against the inaptly named “USA Freedom Act” and endorsed the Surveillance State Repeal Act.
The USA Freedom Act, sponsored by Rep. Sensenbrenner, would extend and amend […]
Writing at Just Security, Patrick Eddington of the CATO Institute explains why opponents of unconstitutional government surveillance should not support the USA Freedom Act and instead support the Surveillance State Repeal Act (HR 1466). Read the […]
Writing at Just Security, Patrick Eddington of the CATO Institute explains why opponents of unconstitutional government surveillance should not support the USA Freedom Act and instead support the Surveillance State Repeal Act (HR 1466). Read the […]
In the 111th Congress, every Republican in the House cosponsored Audit the Fed.
In the 112th and 113th Congress, every Republican but one voted for Audit the Fed.
Rep. Thomas Massie’s H.R. 24 currently has 184 cosponsors, but in order to […]
In the 113th Congress, a majority of House Democrats, 106 to be exact, voted to pass Audit the Fed, H.R. 24.
Despite this broad display of bipartisan support in the past, Democrats have been slow to cosponsor Rep. Thomas Massie’s H.R. 24, the […]
Rep. Thomas Massie’s H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015, currently has 197 cosponsors and momentum continues to build for the bill to hit 218 for the fourth Congress in a row.
While a full list of cosponsors is available […]
Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up a new version of the USA Freedom Act. Sadly, like last year’s version, the new (and not improved) USA Freedom Act will do little or nothing to protect our freedom.
If Congress was serious […]
Yes and the reason will surprise you….
The week the Senate is debating HR 1191, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act. This legislation requires the President to submit any agreement with Iran to the Senate for […]
Watch C4L Chairman Ron Paul talk about the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism and the Future of Freedom Foundation’s event in Austin, Texas.
Andrew McCarthy, writing at National Review, has a must-read piece on the Senate leadership’s cave-in on Loretta Lynch. Read the whole thing here, with excerpts below:
On Thursday morning, top Republican strategist Karl Rove proclaimed, “The […]
Campaign for Liberty has joined a broad-based collation on a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee asking that the committee ”open” the mark-up of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Opening this mark-up will allow the […]
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare […]
The Hill reports that the Senate leadership whipped Republican Senators to make sure Loretta Lynch received over 60 votes on cloture. The reason they did was that if Lynch received less than 60 votes a Senator could have raised a point of order […]
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of fiscally conservative organizations on a letter to the House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price and Senate Committee Chairman Mike Enzi requesting that the final House-Senate budget […]
Tomorrow morning the US Senate will vote on “cloture” on Loretta Lynch’s nomination for Attorney General. As detailed here Lynch is a strong support of “civil asset” theft, where the government takes people’s property without granting them due […]