Defense and National Security

By Gettysburg Connection In a historic decision yesterday, Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania’s 10th District joined his colleagues in a narrow party-line vote of 214-213 to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This landmark vote marks the first impeachment of a cabinet secretary in approximately 150 years, setting a significant precedent in… Read more »

By Cami Mondeaux House conservatives are pushing against the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act unless “significant reforms” are made to rein in the capabilities of the federal government to collect data from U.S. citizens inadvertently.  The House is set to consider a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of FISA, a surveillance… Read more »

By Nick Koutsobinas  Member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who will be interviewing Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski tomorrow, tells Newsmax his committee will seek to establish a record of the meetings held between President Joe Biden and other parties who sought to construct a deal around now defunct Chinese energy company… Read more »

By Rep. Scott Perry and Rep. Claudia Tenney For months, the Houthis have launched unprecedented attacks against international maritime vessels positioned to defend commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Red Sea is one of the world’s busiest supply chain routes, and these attacks jeopardize global maritime trade. President Biden has idly and recklessly watched… Read more »

By Sandy Fitzgerald, NEWSMAX  The Senate's proposed $118 billion bipartisan border security bill, which would also provide aid for Ukraine and Israel, is a "dumpster fire" that will make the situation at the border worse rather than solve it, Rep. Scott Perry said on Newsmax on Tuesday. "What we're all supposed to be working toward, Democrats and Republicans,… Read more »

By Elizabeth Elkind, Fox News FIRST ON FOX: House Freedom Caucus members are urging their conservative Senate colleagues to reject the recently unveiled border security compromise, claiming it does not go far enough to curb the migrant crisis. "It’s clear why Democrats waited until the last minute to drop this dumpster fire of a bill, it’s far worse than we could… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Scott Perry (PA-10) introduced two bills in the House today aimed at saving the lives of Americans left stranded by President Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan and removing the now terrorist-run country from a critical list of allies. House Joint Resolution 57 authorizes the President… Read more »

As published in The Hill. Here’s an incontrovertible fact: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is an aggressive criminal organization, and while it’s taken far too long, Americans are finally waking up to the threat posed by the CCP to the health, security and prosperity of the United States. This year, the Communist state allowed a local outbreak of coronavirus to develop into a… Read more »

Today, U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10) introduced legislation to add the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to the Top International Criminal Organizations Target (TICOT) List and provide the United States law enforcement agencies a strategic directive to target the CCP’s malign activity. The TICOT List is an intragovernmental effort to identify and eliminate the international… Read more »

Congressman Scott Perry (PA-10) offered the following statement today after voting against the House Democrat’s politicized Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. “Protecting our Nation and its freedoms is a core and constitutional function of Congress. For each of the past 59 years, Congress has worked through its differences to pass a National Defense Authorization Act… Read more »