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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the passage of the minibus spending package today by the Senate and the House, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
Washington, DC- FreedomWorks applauds the House of Representatives today for passing the Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act, H.R. 3. The passage of this bill is a step in the right direction to revive the rescissions process as a useful tool for beginning to reign in Congress’ profligate spending habits.
In 2015, Congressman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) started a movement to remove then-Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio), from his position. Of this effort, Meadows said, "It's really more about trying to have a conversation on making this place work, where everybody's voice matters, where there's not a punitive culture. Hopefully, we'll have some discussion about that in the days and weeks to come."
On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote NO on H.Res. 796 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R. 1625. H.Res. 796 is the rule governing the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The underlying bill is a consolidated appropriations bill packed with unrelated legislative items that Congress has not been able to pass. We oppose the rule governing the underlying bill because of process by which leadership wrote the bill. We oppose the omnibus both because of the process and because it appropriates at the spending levels under the Bipartisan Budget Act.
FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for March 2018 is the Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act, H.R. 5046, introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.).
There are no longer any convenient ways of avoiding the issue. Social Security is going bankrupt. In order to ensure that it doesn’t take the rest of the country down with the ship, Congress is going to have to grit its teeth, swallow hard, and grab a firm hold of the proverbial third rail of American politics. It is time.
...or rather the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has a thing or two to learn from the failures of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) as it moves forward with expanding the questionable Lifeline program to broadband.