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July 1, 2020

Sen. Thom Tillis: Democrat majority in Senate — goodbye filibuster and hello radical, socialist agenda

It’s time for Senate Democrats to come clean about their plan to fundamentally transform America through one simple procedural vote. 

June 30, 2020

House Dems turn to 'environmental justice' with massive climate change blueprint

House Democrats on Tuesday released a 547-page blueprint on how to combat climate change, in which they called for “environmental justice” to be put at the heart of environmental and climate change policy in the coming years.

June 21, 2020

Daniel Turner: Carbon tax is a bad idea that would hurt our economy and destroy jobs

The absolute last thing our country needs is a new tax that would slow our economic recovery and hiring. But environmental zealots have never let facts get in the way of their radical polices to restructure our entire economy to be “green.”

June 21, 2020

James Baker, George Shultz, Ted Halstead: Carbon fee needed to combat climate change

We support a revenue-neutral national carbon fee that cuts U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2035 and returns all the revenues raised directly to all Americans.

June 17, 2020

Hero from Paris train attack running to unseat liberal Oregon Democrat: 'He votes with AOC 96 percent of the time'

A veteran who helped stop a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 is now running for Congress in Oregon, telling "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday that liberal Democrat Peter DeFazio "doesn't represent" the rural district anymore. 

June 8, 2020

Justin Haskins: This Biden team member's multi-trillion-dollar jobs plan a bad deal for US

A paper published in April called on lawmakers to use the COVID-19 crisis to implement the largest federal jobs program since the Roosevelt administration attempted (and failed) to use similar policies to alleviate the economic destruction of the Great Depression. 

June 5, 2020

President Trump ridicules Green New Deal as 'baby talk' that 'would kill our country'

President Trump derided Democrats' Green New Deal on Friday, suggesting it was unrealistic "baby talk" advanced by congressional Democrats.

May 14, 2020

AOC says Green New Deal 'costs us $0 if passed' because it's just a 'non-binding resolution of values'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued Thursday that the Green New Deal actually “costs us $0 if passed” because it is just a “non-binding resolution of values.” 

April 23, 2020

Sarah Sanders takes on AOC's 'mind-blowing' comments on Americans going back to work

Progressive New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's call for a work boycott is "mind-blowing," former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Sarah Sanders said Thursday.

April 16, 2020

NY Democrat cautions party leaders: No Green New Deal, other 'random' items in stimulus bills

This is "not the time" for Democratic leadership to insert partisan politically-motivated provisions into emergency coronavirus-related stimulus packages, New York Democratic Congressman Max Rose warned Thursday.