No Safe Spaces Movie - Nov. 2019

Ever since President John Kennedy stepped up to the podium at Rice University in 1962 and challenged America to do the impossible, we have been enamored with space. Seven years later, America had landed men on the moon and established supremacy in the Space Race. The year 1981 saw the first flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, ferrying crew and cargo on numerous important missions. In 1998, we saw the blossoming of international relations in space with the launch of the first segment of the International Space Station (ISS).

Welcome to FreedomWorks Foundation’s twenty-second regulatory review of 2019! Our Regulatory Action Center proudly updates you with our favorite tidbits from the swamp. We want to smash barriers between bureaucracy and the American people by delivering regulatory news straight to FreedomWorks activists. Check back in two weeks for the next edition.

Concerning the impeachment of President Trump, James Piereson, a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, published in the New Criterion “Break the Wrong Ground.” Piereson writes, “The subject of impeachment has always been accompanied by solemn pronouncements that it must be invoked sparingly, never for narrow partisan or political purposes, and used in extreme cases to preserve the Constitution and the rule of law against a president who has violated his oath of office.” This was also the view of Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz as reported in my FreedomWorks Blog, “The Framers of the Constitution Warned Against a Partisan Impeachment Process” “A partisan impeachment vote is exactly what the Framers feared,” Dershowitz wrote. “Impeachment is an extraordinary tool to be used only when the constitutional criteria are met. These criteria are limited and include only ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The House and Senate are in session this week.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor the Organ Procurement Optimization Act, S. 2063. Introduced by Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), the Organ Procurement Optimization Act would require organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to use performance metrics that are objective, verifiable, and not subject to OPO interpretation.