The Leader Board
Biden’s State Of The Union Preview: We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This
President Biden Keeps Announcing Task Forces To Search High And Low For The Cause Of High Prices Frustrating Voters “Biden’s approval ratings on the economy have been dragged down by voters’ concerns about the rising cost of living …” (“White House Turns To Health Care In Biden’s Latest Move Against ‘Corporate Greed,’” Politico, 3/04/2024) “The White House is launching a multi-agency ‘strike force’ on Tuesday in an effort to curb unfair and illegal pricing across the economy, according to Lael… Continue Reading
03.04.24
Congressional Republicans Secure Important Spending & Policy Wins In Appropriations
From Cutting Wasteful Spending To Blocking Far-Left Policy Riders And Enhancing America’s National Security, House And Senate Republicans Significantly Improved The First Six Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Bills SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR SUSAN COLLINS (R-ME): “From supporting America’s veterans, servicemembers, farmers, and rural areas to improving our infrastructure, energy independence, and housing and workforce opportunities, these bills will make a real difference in commu… Continue Reading
02.28.24
Joe Biden’s Desperate Attempt To Use Taxpayer Money To Buy Votes Continues
Desperate To Buy Votes In An Election Year, President Biden Continues To Unapologetically Transfer Taxpayer Money To Young Voters Who, Polls Show, Have Turned Their Back On His Failed Policies SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Beginning with a failure to launch last fall, the Department of Education was slow to post the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online. Now, months behind schedule, prospective students and parents are stuck with incomplete information on t… Continue Reading
02.26.24
Polls Keep Showing Americans Are ‘Furious’ As They Continue To Pay For The High Inflation Of Bidenomics
January’s Inflation Report Showed Inflation Still Hasn’t Returned To Normal Levels, Leaving Americans Paying More For Everything And Voicing Their Frustrations To Pollsters SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Since President Biden took office, consumer prices have risen 17.9%. On his watch, our economy has seen inflation grow at its fastest rate in four decades. As prices soared, wages failed to keep up. Paychecks have risen just 14.5%. In other words, the Biden economy has effec… Continue Reading
02.05.24
The Senate Has A Once-In-A-Generation Opportunity To Finally Change The Status Quo On America’s Borders
This Agreement Secures Unprecedented Conservative Policy Changes To At Last Tackle Biden’s Border Crisis, Including Reforms To Our Broken Asylum System, Halting Abuses Of Parole, And Surging Enforcement To The Border, All Without Any Concessions To Democrat Amnesty Demands SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “For three years, the American people have endured both a border crisis and the open-borders agenda that caused it. President Biden’s campaign promise to welcome illegal alien… Continue Reading
01.26.24
Desperate To Appease Climate Zealots, Biden’s Blinkered LNG Policy Throws National Security And American Jobs Under The Bus
Caving To The Demands Of Far-Left Climate Activists, The Biden Administration Is Stalling Permits For Crucial Liquified Natural Gas Exports, Placing Climate Virtue Signaling Over The Energy Security Of Our European Allies And Jobs For Americans SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “When President Biden took office, the average approval time for liquefied natural gas (LNG) permits was about seven weeks. Right now, it’s about eleven months. But soon, wait times could actually become i… Continue Reading
01.16.24
As Iran’s Terror Proxies Attack Israelis And Americans, Senate Democrats Are Focused On Condemning Israel
While Hamas Still Holds Hostages, Bernie Sanders And Senate Democrats Focus The Majority Of Their Ire On Israel’s Fight For Self-Defense SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “This afternoon, the Senate must take it upon ourselves to reject an attempt to degrade our nation’s credibility even further. The resolution brought forward by Senator Sanders is little more than performative left wing politics. It is not, as our colleague would suggest, about authorizing a report on aid to Is… Continue Reading
01.11.24
Keeping Pace With Russian And Chinese Military Buildups And Defending American Interests Requires Congress To Urgently Approve Crucial Security Funding
As Russia Re-Arms And Continues Its Assault On Ukraine And China Boosts Weapons Production, America’s Ability To Respond To Threats And Protect Ourselves And Our Allies Depends On Congress Appropriating More Funding For National Security SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Here’s the truth: threats to U.S. national security are growing, and the Biden Administration’s habit of proposing real-dollar cuts to defense funding is a streak that must end at three. With its forthcoming bud… Continue Reading
01.10.24
Iran And Its Proxies Have Attacked American Forces And International Commerce With Impunity For Three Months
In The Middle East, Time And Time Again, The Only Thing The Biden Administration Has Managed To Deter Is Itself As Iran And Its Proxies Brazenly Continue Attacking U.S. Bases And Maritime Trade SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “[T]he reality of facing interconnected threats isn’t unique to Israel. Around the world, our adversaries are colluding in new and aggressive ways…. [T]he best way we can help our friends is to restore our own credibility in the region, and take bolder ste… Continue Reading
12.20.23
Border Crisis Escalates Because Of Biden’s Disastrous Policies
With Record Numbers Of Illegal Aliens Entering The Country, CBP Is Overwhelmed And Senate Republicans Are Fighting To Enact Border Security Reforms That Can Begin Restoring Order SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Over the weekend, our colleagues continued to make progress toward an agreement on border security. I’m especially grateful to Senator Lankford for stewarding Senate Republicans’ efforts to produce meaningful policy changes, fix our broken asylum system, and secure the … Continue Reading
12.13.23
‘Bidenomics’ Saddles American Families With Another Expensive Holiday Season
‘Prices For Just About Everything Are Still Higher Than They Were Before The Pandemic’: ‘The Damage Has Been Done After A Long Stretch Of Rising Prices’ Prices Rose Again In November, ‘Still Well Above’ The Fed’s Target Rate “Prices across a broad range of goods and services edged higher in November … The consumer price index, a closely watched inflation gauge, increased 0.1% in November, and was up 3.1% from a year ago, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.” (CNBC, 12/12/2023) “The Nove… Continue Reading
12.12.23
Congress Must Pass This Year’s NDAA So America Can Confront Worldwide Security Challenges
LEADER McCONNELL: ‘The NDAA Is Our Most Significant Opportunity To Set Priorities For Competition With Adversaries Like China And Russia … It’s Our Time To Lay The Groundwork For Robust Investments In Hard Power’ SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “The NDAA is our most significant opportunity to set priorities for competition with adversaries like China and Russia. It’s our chance to keep the Biden Administration focused on critical missions like rebuilding America’s defense indus… Continue Reading
12.05.23
Democrats Still Refuse To Take Biden’s Border Crisis Seriously
Instead Of Working With Republicans To Seriously Address The Biden Administration’s Border Crisis, Democrats Are Dragging Their Feet And Echoing Far-Left Activist Groups Who Want No Border Enforcement At All, Threatening To Tank Bipartisan Border Talks Border security isn’t extraneous to national security - it’s essential. It’s time for Democrats to get serious. pic.twitter.com/X8Nq9eyUpp — Senate Republican Communications Center (@SRCC) December 5, 2023 SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER M… Continue Reading
11.29.23
Americans Are Fed Up With President Biden Gaslighting Their Economic Struggles
President Biden Keeps Trying To Spin Americans’ Economic Reality Of High Prices And High Interest Rates, But Voters Aren’t Having It: ‘It’s A Huge Slap In The Face’ SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “President Biden is on the road today, and he’s facing an uphill battle to convince the American people that ‘Bidenomics’ is working. For months, the President has been touring the country with a rosy assessment of the economy on his watch. He’s been telling working Americans about wh… Continue Reading
11.28.23
Democrats Prefer Conditioning Aid To Israel While Refusing To Address America’s Border Crisis
As More And More Democrats Fall In Line With Far-Left Calls For Conditioning Aid To Israel, Many Of The Same Democrats Reject Including U.S. Border Security In A Supplemental Spending Bill That Simultaneously Addresses Multiple Critical American National Security Challenges SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “America needs to stand with our friends and stand up to aggressors. And Senate Republicans have been working for weeks to ensure that supplemental legislation includes robust… Continue Reading
11.15.23
United Senate Republicans Push To Change Biden’s Disastrous Border Policies
The Biden Administration’s Border Security Failures Are Drawing Record Numbers Of Illegal Aliens From All Over The World, Leaving American Law Enforcement Overwhelmed SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “It is impossible to ignore the crisis at our southern border that’s erupted on Washington Democrats’ watch: Back-to-back record-setting years that saw millions upon millions of illegal arrivals at the border. And historic quantities of fentanyl and other lethal drugs pouring across… Continue Reading
11.14.23
Understandably Angry With Stubbornly High Prices, Americans Heap Scorn On ‘Bidenomics’
Americans’ Frustration With High Prices For Food, Housing, And More Shows Up In Poll After Poll, And Their Disdain For ‘Bidenomics’ Has Even Democrats Desperate To Distance Themselves From The White House’s Insulting Economic Spin As Inflation Remained Higher Than Normal In October SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “This morning’s October inflation report tells a story that has become familiar on President Biden’s watch. Prices remain stubbornly high, and well above the Federal R… Continue Reading
11.08.23
Democrats’ Cynical And Partisan Campaign To Attack The Supreme Court Now Trains Its Fire On Private Citizens
Senate Democrats’ Threats Of Subpoenas For Friends Of Supreme Court Justices And Legal Activists Are Nothing More Than A Partisan Witch Hunt, Driven By Their Anger At The Court’s Refusal To Do Their Political Bidding SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “For the past several months, when they’re not rubber-stamping radical nominees for the federal bench, Senate Democrats have been laser-focused on punishing a co-equal branch of government and bending it to their own political will. … Continue Reading
11.08.23
America Has A Border Security Crisis, Not An Immigration Reform Crisis
Senate Republicans Proposed Badly-Needed Border Security Policy Changes To Address The Southern Border Crisis, But Democrat Leaders Dismissed Them And Substituted Talk Of Unrelated Immigration Reform Measures SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “After three straight years of record-shattering overall border apprehensions, the alarming details of the national security crisis unfolding at the southern border on this Administration’s watch are coming into clearer focus. Last fiscal ye… Continue Reading
11.07.23
Growing Number Of Democrats Cave To Extremist Calls For A Ceasefire
Under Pressure From Loud Voices On The Far Left Of Their Party, President Biden, Members Of His Administration, And Prominent Congressional Democrats Are Beginning To Call On Israel For A Ceasefire In Their War Against Hamas Terrorists SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Headlines are already warning about the indiscernible ‘cycle of violence’ and amplifying morally bankrupt calls for a ceasefire. For anyone who needs a reminder, a ceasefire is what Israel thought it had with Hama… Continue Reading
