In 2016, Americans spent nearly $330 billion on retail prescription drugs. $45 billion of those expenses were out of pocket. A bipartisan group of Senators led by Susan Collins (R-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) have introduced two bills to make sure that patients actually have the opportunity […]

Iziah Thompson is back on This Week in Congress, keeping you up to date about what’s happening in Washington. He talks a big “Farm Bill”, Net-Neutrality, and possible punishment for American citizens boycotting?!?. Click below to view, share, and comment on these bills!

Trade Deals: What’s the plan? US stock markets have suffered significant declines in recent weeks as rising trade tensions and worries about tariffs consume multiple industries. And that is just the domestic response. Abroad, President Trump’s new trade policies are being referred to as a “trade war.” They have leaders […]

Naomi Wolf interviews Republican grassroots Congressional candidate Jonathan Dozier, who served in various roles in the US Military and now works in the insurance industry. A father of four, Dozier expresses his reasons for wanting to run for Congress to represent his community, Fayetteville, NC; he says that it is […]

Congress was back on break, taking advantage of their district work period. That means that your Representative was in an office near you. This was your chance to call or set up a meeting with congress people; they may be holding town halls as well. Remember to stay tuned to […]

Both Democratic and Republican Senators spent all day this past Sunday haggling over a deal to reopen the government. But the shutdown nonetheless went into a third day of deliberation. It was on Monday that both chambers of Congress passed the continuing resolution to fund the Government until February 8th. […]

While, we are sure everyone noticed that the Government shutdown, something happen last week that may have flown “under the radar”. Last week, the Senate followed the House in passing the reauthorization of FISA. On Friday, the president signed the bill. He then tweeted: Just signed 702 Bill to reauthorize […]

Via WND A convergence of weather patterns created the nor’easter that brought frigid temperatures and snow to the eastern U.S. from Mississippi to Maine. That “bomb cyclone” also exposed a perfect storm of President Obama’s failed energy policies that threatens disastrous consequences for the nation. Brutal cold strained the electric […]

This week the two houses of Congress are meeting to bring their respective tax bills together. These meetings are called “Conference Committees”; leaders from the Senate and House are working to melt two complicated documents into one. Republicans hope to have the bill on the president’s desk before Christmas, but […]

Via WND The federal government’s mandate to burn ethanol is supposed to make our nation’s air cleaner. But while smog has gotten worse in Los Angeles over the last two years, ethanol has lifted the partisan smog that’s divided our nation’s capital. A bipartisan coalition is forcing Washington to fix […]

President Trump , along with Congressional Republicans, are determined to pass a tax reform bill before the year ends. What this prospective bill will look like is still a mystery. The Senate is likely to. make major changes to what’s is now being called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” […]

India and China are rivals, with disputes over borders, the Dalai Lama and matters of cultural and national pride. But the world’s largest democracy has found something to emulate in the world’s largest communist dictatorship: predatory trade practices. Americans usually associate India with outsourced call centers and IT workers who […]