congress
Culture
Pentagon says it can’t calculate diversity training costs because Congress defunded DEI offices

(The Daily Signal) – The Pentagon told Congress it could not provide a required accounting of diversity training to Congress because it didn’t have enough people working in diversity, equity,… Read More

May 3, 2024
Culture
Report: China is fueling US fentanyl crisis and U.S. isn’t stopping it

(The Center Square) – The People’s Republic of China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party “is the ultimate geographic source of the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.,” a… Read More

April 22, 2024
Culture
House Democrats vow to codify ‘rights’ to trans surgeries, hormones, puberty blockers

(The Daily Signal) – House Democrats released an agenda Thursday that includes a vow to codify a right to so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. The promise came… Read More

April 19, 2024
Culture
‘Insult to Americans’: Senate majority ‘nuked’ Constitution’s impeachment process in holding no trial for Mayorkas, Schmitt argues

Democrats “diminished the institution of the Senate today and set ablaze the Constitution,” Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said in a statement Wednesday after the chamber’s majority summarily dismissed impeachment charges… Read More

April 18, 2024
Opinion
Missouri, Kansas lawsuits remind Biden that student loans remain Congress’ prerogative

(The Daily Signal) – In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Missouri invites the federal courts to recognize that President Joe Biden’s preoccupation with canceling student loans is part of a pattern. Read More

April 12, 2024
Public Education
Lawmakers blast Bidenbucks in letter to Education Department leader

(The Center Square) – Using Federal Work-Study funds to support the campaign of President Joe Biden is called Bidenbucks and unfair by four members of Congress from North Carolina, Wisconsin,… Read More

March 14, 2024
Legislation
TikTok spying on Americans while trying to ‘buy Congress’ to prevent national ban, Hawley alleges

TikTok is little more than a “spy app” for the Chinese Communist Party and should be banned to protect Americans’ most intimate information, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley has… Read More

March 13, 2024
Legislation
Conservative leaders call on Jordan, Johnson to repeal ‘weaponized’ FACE Act

(The Daily Signal) – Conservative leaders are calling on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to pass the FACE Act Repeal… Read More

February 7, 2024
Culture
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley drags apology out of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for company’s harm to teens, would like to drag him into court

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley took Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a Capitol-sized woodshed Wednesday for the harm his social media sites reportedly cause to teenagers, challenging the Facebook founder in… Read More

February 1, 2024
Public Education
House passes bill to restore whole milk to school lunches after Michelle Obama-inspired law banned it

The U.S. House has passed a bill that would give students the choice to select whole milk with their school lunch after it was banned thanks in part to a… Read More

December 15, 2023
Legislation
Plan to research smartphones in the classroom clears Senate education committee

(The Center Square) – U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, offered two amendments to help better understand the impact smartphones have in the classroom to the Advancing Research in Education Act… Read More

December 14, 2023
Culture
The National Association of Scholars urges Harvard to oust Claudine Gay

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is calling for the removal of Harvard President Claudine Gay following her congressional testimony in which she failed to directly condemn antisemitic speech at… Read More

December 14, 2023
Public Education
Penn president under fire after alum withdraws $100 million donation over antisemitism

The president of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is under fire after a prominent alumnus decided to withdraw a $100 million donation to the school. The loss is directly related… Read More

December 8, 2023
Culture
‘Your opening monologue makes you a misogynist,’ says Riley Gaines to Dem lawmaker accusing others of transphobia in hearing

(The Center Square) – At a Congressional hearing Tuesday, critics of the growth of transgender athletes in women’s sports raised questions of fairness, safety, and privacy for female athletes in… Read More

December 6, 2023
Homeschools
Congressional Award Gold Medal winner: ‘Homeschool fit my specific needs’

One of the latest recipients of the Congressional Award Gold Medal credits her success to homeschooling. “I absolutely wouldn’t be where I am today without homeschool,” Addison Mouser, of Dallas,… Read More

December 5, 2023
Public Education
US House bill to crack down on teachers’ union receives national support as over 30 organizations endorse

The STUDENT Act, a congressional bill seeking to reform and depoliticize the nation’s largest teachers’ union, has accumulated a supportive coalition of over 30 policy organizations… Read More

November 9, 2023
Public Education
Sen. Tim Scott introduces two education funding bills addressing antisemitism, school choice

U.S. Senator Tim Scott introduced two new bills on Thursday seeking to curb antisemitism in higher education and expand charter school options for K-12 students. The first bill – the… Read More

October 23, 2023
Public Education
Tennessee legislators to look into rejecting federal school funding in November

(The Center Square) – With additional COVID-19 federal K-12 school funding winding down, Tennessee continues its look at what school funding would look like without federal dollars, which amounted to… Read More

October 13, 2023
Legislation
Republicans and Democrats collaborate against the Biden admin’s move to cut funding for hunting and archery classes in public schools

Senate Republicans and Democrats sent letters objecting to the Biden administration’s blocking of federal funding for schools with hunting education and archery programs. The effort, led by Sen. John Cornyn,… Read More

September 8, 2023
Legislation
The walls have been breached: Attorneys general from 54 US states and territories call on Congress to restrict AI from creating child porn

Congress must act quickly to prevent the exploitation of children by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. This, according to a letter from attorneys general of 54 U.S. Read More

September 7, 2023