By Elizabeth Elkind , Julia Johnson Spending hawks in Congress are growing antsy about starting discussions on how to fund the government in fiscal year 2025. Congress only recently completed the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024, roughly six months after it began Sept. 30. And, in that time, disagreements over federal funding prompted conservative lawmakers to tank their own party’s bil... Read More »
By Josh Christenson The House narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion federal spending bill on Friday — which the Senate will have to vote through quickly and send to President Biden for his signature before a partial shutdown at midnight. The lower chamber voted 286-134 to approve the 1,012-page bill to fund the State Department, the Pentagon and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Homel... Read More »
By Katherine Fung More than half of the Republican conference voted against GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's omnibus funding bill, rebuking the leader's efforts to avoid a shutdown ahead of Friday's deadline. The House voted on the spending package brokered by Johnson on Friday, passing the bill by a vote of 286 to 134. The bill needed 280 votes to pass. But while the legislation garnered enough b... Read More »
By Mary Lou Masters Conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) members encouraged Republicans to vote against the second appropriations package on Friday that provides $1.2 trillion in funding for the rest of the fiscal year to avert a government shutdown. The 1,012-page legislation funds the agencies for Homeland Security, Defense; Financial Services and General Government; Labor, U.S. Department of... Read More »
By Jennifer Shutt The U.S. House approved a broadly bipartisan $1.2 trillion spending package Friday, sending the legislation to the Senate ahead of a midnight deadline. Senators have just hours to clear the measure for President Joe Biden’s signature, otherwise parts of the federal government will begin a funding lapse early Saturday. Meeting that benchmark will require agreement from all 100 sen... Read More »
By Elizabeth Elkind GOP hardliners are furious that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appears poised to jettison the House GOP Conference’s rule on giving lawmakers 72 hours to review bill text before having to vote on it. Congressional leaders released their 1,012-page, $1.2 trillion spending package just after 3 a.m. ET on Thursday, less than 48 hours before the government funding deadline at midnigh... Read More »
By Mychael Schnell House conservatives are already hammering away at the $1.2 trillion spending package congressional leaders unveiled overnight, airing their grievances as the chamber races to vote on the legislation ahead of Friday’s partial shutdown deadline. In a slew of social media posts and interviews Thursday, hard-liners blasted the six-bill package’s hefty price tag, criticized the dead-... Read More »
By Jim Thomas Pushing through last-minute omnibus bills, such as the $1.2 trillion spending package announced Thursday, is a "cram-down" tactic that undermines accountability, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., told Newsmax. Perry lamented the lack of adherence to constitutional principles in the budgeting process Thursday on "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "We fought hard in January to make sure that we got back to... Read More »
By NTD Video Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) grilled a Biden administration official on Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the president’s lifting of sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party-run Institute of Forensic Science, which has been confirmed by the United Nations to have committed atrocities on Uyghurs in China. In 2020, the Trump administration placed the agency on the U... Read More »
Today, U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10), introduced the Energy Sovereignty Act to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from forcing States to destroy their energy sectors based on the whims of international elitists. “The Energy Sovereignty Act will stop federal bureaucrats from executing environmental power grabs at the behest of those outside our Nation,” said Rep. Scott Perr... Read More »
By Alexander Bolton President Biden and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are risking political blowback from the left and the right on a six-bill spending package that lawmakers are scrambling to pass before the government shuts down Saturday. Congressional aides were still finalizing the text of the deal Tuesday afternoon, but lawmakers say they expect the bill to become public soon and predict it wi... Read More »
By Ian Smith The House of Representatives recently passed legislation designed to motivate agencies to bring federal employees back to in-person work in greater numbers. It now goes to the Senate for consideration. The Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies (USE IT) Act of 2023 (H.R. 6276) was introduced last fall by Congressman Scott Perry (R-PA). The bill requires the General Ser... Read More »
Washington, D.C. – On March 8, U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10), introduced two bills to prevent President Biden and Congressional Democrats from grossly misusing the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA) to advance “green” energy solutions under the auspice of National Security. The Bullets Not Batteries Act (H.R. 7601) and the Planes Not Panels Act (H.R. 7602) will prohibit manipulation of... Read More »
By Eva Fu, The Epoch Times U.S. lawmakers are calling for an investigation into a U.S. customs officer who used Chinese communist hate propaganda in his official capacity against artists belonging to the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. “Espousing Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and coercion and intimidation as an official U.S. government action—that’s exceptional,” Rep. Scott Perry (... Read More »
By Bethany Rodgers A bipartisan majority of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation voted Wednesday in support of a potential ban on the popular social media platform TikTok, with three representatives dissenting. Lawmakers have been exploring restrictions on the video-sharing app because of concerns about how the China-based company could use data harvested from American users. Supporters of a po... Read More »
payments is unacceptable - but this report highlights just how staggering a problem the federal government faces.
Just this year, nearly a QUARTER OF A TRILLION of ...