Reopen America - April 2020

The House will be in session for two days this week. The Senate is in recess.

In the coming days, perhaps as soon as this week, the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee could consider SB 3. This bill reforms Ohio’s sentencing laws for low-level, nonviolent offenses and focuses limited prison resources and severe, mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers. FreedomWorks supports this approach. States like Georgia and Texas have shown that a focus on recidivism reduction and drug treatment programs while reserving prison space for the worst offenders enhances public safety.

On March 15, the authority for Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act formally expired. This is one of the provisions that spawned the Edward Snowden leaks back in 2013 and drew the American people’s attention to the scope of abuses perpetrated by the intelligence community. Though some reforms have been made, many in Congress still stand by the program despite the revelations.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to support the Bring Entrepreneurial Advancements To Consumers Here In North America (BEAT CHINA) Act, H.R. 6690. Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the BEAT CHINA Act would provide tax incentives to medical and pharmaceutical companies to bring their manufacturing operations to the United States.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor the Right to Test Act, S. 3769, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). This bill would let states approve coronavirus testing to be used in their state without the interference of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).