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September 30, 2024

In this edition


[1] Interview: Rep. Brett Guthrie’s priorities and case to chair Energy and
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[2] Heard on the Hill
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[3] “Republicans for [Jon] Tester” is stacked with Democrats
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[4] Ted Cruz slams Kamala’s border visit
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[5] Concern grows from Republicans about Arnold Ventures’s push to weaken
intellectual property
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[6] Op-ed: Sen. Ron Johnson: Make America Healthy Again
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[7] Op-ed: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks: We must enhance mental health care
access for veterans
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[8] Op-ed: Alison Esposito: New Yorkers deserve better leaders than Eric Adams
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[9] Op-ed: Veterans on Duty: Suicide prevention awareness doesn’t end in
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[10] Op-ed: Jim Byron: Nixon now — more than ever
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[11] Op-ed: Daniel Turner: Capitalism and fossil fuels remain essential
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[12] What we’re reading
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A strong national defense is essential to protecting our American way of life.

Veterans On Duty continues the fight back at home, advocating for military and
national security policies that will keep America safe, strong, and free.

In our latest edition, we have an interview with Rep. Brett Guthrie about why
he wants to chair the Energy and Commerce Committee, op-eds from Sen. Ron
Johnson and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a story on how a liberal billionaire
is lobbying to weaken American intellectual property, and more.






[1] Interview: Rep. Brett Guthrie’s case to chair Energy and Commerce
By: Matthew Foldi

Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.), the former longtime chair of the Energy and
Commerce Committee, explained his committee’s jurisdiction by pointing to a map
of the earth: “If it moves, its energy, and if it doesn’t, its commerce,” he
said.

Congressman Brett Guthrie (R., Ky.), who is running to chair the Energy and
Commerce Committee, has a similarly broad vision for the committee, which has
recently acted on wide-ranging legislative topics such as the divestment from
Chinese Communist Party-owned TikTok and divisive child data privacy bills.
“What happens in the House of Representatives affects people in their houses,”
the Kentuckian told theWashington Reporter in an extensive interview.

Several of his priorities build off of his work from this Congress, like
advancing permitting reform, and becoming energy independent, which he says
affects Americans across the nation: “whether it goes across the country on a
truck or arrives the last mile on a truck, every product someone buys makes it
somewhere on diesel fuel, and that just continues to add to the expense,” he
said.

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to read more from Rep. Brett Guthrie about why he is running to chair the
Energy and Commerce Committee, his thoughts on the futures of KOSA and COPPA,
and what he wants to accomplish as chair.

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[2]
Heard on the Hill

What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill – please send
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* “MAGA fans in the deep state”?: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
releaseddata
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on Friday showing a massive number of illegal aliens with violent crime
convictions had been released into the U.S. during the Biden administration.
What was especially noteworthy was that this data was released at all —
especially the same day of Kamala Harris’s border visit. A Senator told us,
“there must be some MAGA fans in the deep state.”
* John Thune’s recess travel: Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.), a top contender to
lead Senate Republicans, is joining a Kari Lake fundraiser in New York City as
a special guest tomorrow morning, per an invitation obtained by theWashington
Reporter. A source familiar with Thune’s travel added that he is also doing
events for Senate candidates Bernie Moreno, Sam Brown, Dave McCormick, and Mike
Rogers while he’s in the Big Apple. Read theReporter’s interview with Sen. Thune
here
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* John Cornyn’s recess travel: Fresh off of announcing that he’s raised
almost half a billion dollars — “$406,874,101 to be exact,” he told donors —
Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas), a top candidate to lead the Senate GOP next year,
plans to “visit multiple battleground states across the country to campaign
with candidates over the October recess and raise valuable hard dollars as he’s
done for the last two decades,” a source familiar with his political operations
told theReporter. Read the Reporter’s interview with Sen. Cornyn here
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* Rescuing the Republic: A Senator, a Christian rock band, several former
presidential candidates, a Hollywood icon, and some of the internet’s
most-banned individuals descended on the National Mall. What sounds like the
beginning of a joke was actually a joint concert and rally, where Sen. Ron
Johnson (R., Wis.) rocked and rallied with Skillet, Rob Schneider, Tulsi
Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a motley crew of mostly to “RESCUE THE
REPUBLIC!” An attendee told theReporter about the “heavily tatted hippies and
libertarians who loved Johnson and treated him like a celebrity.” We have back
stage photos and videosHERE
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[3] Exclusive: “Republicans for [Jon] Tester” is stacked with Democrats
By: Matthew Foldi

Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.)’s campaign
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is relying on an odd strategy in the days leading up to the 2024 election.

Tester recently rolled out a “Republicans for Tester” coalition, which
includes several prominent Republicans, such as former Gov. Marc Racicot (R.,
Mont) — whovoted
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for Joe Biden in 2020 — but several of the other members, including ones
relied on forcampaign ads <[link removed]>, sound,
vote, and donate, like partisan Democrats.

One of the Montanans in Tester’s recent “Republicans for Tester” ad, Bob
Beckley, has donated dozens of times to national and Montana Democrats,
campaign finance recordsreveal
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. Another is state Sen. Terry Vermiere, a Republican legislator — albeit one
whosevoting record
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in the legislature shows that 72 percent of his votes were “cast on side taken
by most Democrats”; the average for Republicans is 57 percent.

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to read more about the last-minute moves by Sen. Jon Tester to gaslight
Montanans into voting for him.

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[4]
Scoop: Ted Cruz on Kamala Harris’s border visit: “Democrats are pretending
they support border security”
By: Matthew Foldi

Vice President Kamala Harris’s first trip to the southern border in over
three years isn’t helping her campaign, her critics told theWashington Reporter.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), who represents over 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico
border, told theWashington Reporter that border problems will plague Democrats
up and down the ticket in November, including his opponent, Rep. Colin Allred
(D., Texas).

“The Biden-Harris administration inherited policies that had resulted in the
lowest level of illegal immigration in 45 years,” Cruz said. “They rolled back
those policies from the very beginning, with the support of the radical
Democrats like my opponent Colin Allred, who said the border wall is racist.
Now, 40 days before an election, Harris, Allred, and other Democrats are
pretending they support border security.”

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to read more about how Kamala Harris’s “photo op” of a border visit isn’t
going to pay off in November.

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[5] Scoop: Concern grows from Republicans about Arnold Ventures’s push to
weaken intellectual property
By: Matthew Foldi

John Arnold’s recent appointment
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to Meta’s board is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill, as Republicans describe
billionaire Arnold as “an energy trading savant,” who “started out as a skeptic
of big government, but now shells out tens of millions to keep it large and in
charge,” a senior Republican staffer told theWashington Reporter.

While lawmakers like Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) said that Arnold’s addition to
the board “should make every patriotic American nervous about Big Tech
interfering in the 2024 presidential election, just like they did last cycle,”
Arnold’s work to undermine American intellectual property has been increasingly
noted in Congress.

A former senior House Judiciary Committee staffer told the Reporter that
“Arnold is more of a sneaky character, because he occasionally throws money to
Republicans. But it is all a front, he has pushed left-wing causes on criminal
justice, intellectual property, and censorship. Conservatives are catching on
to his tactics.” Arnold Venturespartnered
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with Facebook,bankrolling
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liberal groups that focus on “disinformation.”

Click HERE
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to read more about Arnold Ventures’s recent work to undermine American
intellectual property, and how it’s fallen on deaf ears with House Republicans.

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A strong national defense is essential to protecting our American way of life.

Veterans On Duty continues the fight back at home, advocating for military and
national security policies that will keep America safe, strong, and free.


[6] Op-ed: Sen. Ron Johnson: Make America Healthy Again
By: Sen. Ron Johnson

On January 24, 2022, I held a public event in the historic Senate Kennedy
Caucus room titled,Covid-19: A Second Opinion. It was held two years into the
Coronavirus pandemic — a pandemic that was used to frighten and control the
public on a global scale. The result was a stunning loss of life and freedom
for individuals, trillions of dollars of economic devastation, but billions of
dollars of profit, and the accumulation of enormous power by those in control.

Fortunately, what happened during the pandemic opened the eyes of untold
numbers of people around the world to the corruption and capture of government
agencies, the media, medical journals, and the medical establishment by large
corporate interests. Now that our eyes have been opened to that reality, it is
impossible to ignore that the same dynamic has occurred throughout governments
and industries worldwide.

On Monday, September 23rd, I held another event in the same historic room
titled:American Health and Nutrition, A Second Opinion. The purpose of that
event was to ask questions we haven’t been allowed to ask, and to provide a
foundational and historical understanding of the changes that have occurred
over the last century within public sanitation, agricultural, food processing,
and health care industries that impact our current state of national health.

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to read more of Sen. Ron Johnson’s prescription for Making America Healthy
Again.

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[7] Op-ed: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks: We must enhance mental health care
access for veterans
By: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks

As we close out September, and Suicide Prevention Month, I wanted to
highlight the No Wrong Door for Veterans Act, which I introduced with fellow
veterans Reps. Jen Kiggans (R., Va.) and Jack Bergman (R., Mich.).

Our bill reauthorizes the Fox Grant Program
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community-based mental health organizations grant funding to increase access to
mental health care, support, and suicide prevention services for veterans in
the communities where they live.

The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (Fox
Grant Program) was authorized by the passage of theCommander John Scott Hannon
Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019
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The Fox Grant Program aims to provide community-based mental health
organizations grant funding to increase access to mental health care, support,
and suicide prevention services for veterans in the communities where they live.

Click HERE
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to read more from Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks about her legislation to
provide mental health care services to our veterans.


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[8] Op-ed: Alison Esposito: New Yorkers deserve better leaders than Eric Adams
By: Alison Esposito

For over twenty-five years, I proudly put on my uniform every day to protect
and serve the great people of New York. Rising to the rank of Deputy Inspector
and Commanding Officer of the 70th Police Precinct, I dedicated my life to
keeping our city safe. Like my father before me, I joined the force to help
those who could not help themselves, and I spent my career doing exactly that.

I was a member of the Anti-Crime team, a plain clothes unit that worked to
target violent street crime. After taking down some of the worst criminals, I
joined the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit (S.W.A.T. Rescue Team) and served in
various other roles, including as the Commander of Detective Squads, in the
NYPD’s Gang Unit, and as the Commander of a Forensics Unit.

Ultimately, my career culminated as a Precinct Commander. I know first hand
how important it is to create a culture of law and order but even more so, a
culture that instills trust in their police, and that goes for our elected
officials as well.

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to read more from Alison Esposito about why New Yorkers need better
leadership, from City Hall to Washington, D.C.


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[9]
Op-ed: Veterans on Duty: Suicide prevention awareness doesn’t end in September
By: Veterans on Duty

Whether it be directly or indirectly, every veteran knows a brother or sister
in arms who has taken their own life, been impacted by suicide, or who has
struggled themselves with the toll serving in the armed services takes on
mental health. It’s shockingly simple — as veterans, our tour of duty does not
end when we take off the uniform; the weight of battle lingers with us — and
for some, sadly, that weight becomes too much to bear.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA) annual suicide
preventionreport
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from 2023, nearly 17 veterans die by suicide each and every day in America. In
2022, thatnumber
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was 492 Active, Reserve, and National Guard servicemembers who took their own
life.

As veterans of the Global War on Terror, we are particularly alarmed by the
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by Brown University in 2021 that found that at least four times as many active
duty personnel and veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in
combat. This is staggering, unacceptable, and yet, completely preventable.

Click HERE
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to read more from the leadership of Veterans on Duty about the year-round
importance of mental health care for our veterans.

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[10] Op-ed: Jim Byron: Nixon now — more than ever
By: Jim Byron

Just over 30 years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed and many in the West
celebrated the so-called “end of history,” one American strategist was not
jubilant. Richard Nixon, a stalwart practitioner of realpolitik, saw the
situation quite differently. His warnings to America’s leaders then bear even
more relevance now, as the world he envisioned becomes a harsh reality. Such
challenges require the development of a new American grand strategy for the
21st century.

The Richard Nixon Foundation launched the Grand Strategy Summit in 2022, a
platform for senior officials in and out of government, business leaders, and
media influencers to discuss and debate American foreign policy, develop
actionable objectives, and coalesce ideas into a comprehensive grand strategy
for the 21st century.

This year’s summit was held on September 25 at the Ritz Carlton in
Washington, DC. Across four sessions and two one-on-one interviews,
participants discussed strengthening America’s alliances, AI and energy
policies, and the state of great power competition in the world.

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to read more from the Richard Nixon Foundation’s president, Jim Byron, about
how America could benefit from Nixonian foreign policy today.

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[11] Op-ed: Daniel Turner: Capitalism and fossil fuels remain essential, even
if the United Nations disagrees
By: Daniel Turner

Imagine my surprise during an otherwise pleasant day when a youth envoy to
the United Nations’s “Climate Week” startedcalling me names on Twitter.
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In fairness to this youth envoy, I started it. I reposted
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climate, albeit with no commentary. For all she knows, I agreed. But, alas, I
was not given such leniency, as is the case with the left.

Here’s how it started: this U.N. climate envoy, who immigrated to America,
now lives in my home city of New York, whichhosted
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Week.” This gathering is the latest in a long list of glamorous, multi-thousand
attendee conferences held around the globe.

I wrote about this
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, mockingly of course, at the beginning of the year. Climate activists are
extremely well-traveled. Heck, next month the “World Conference on Climate
Change and Sustainability” will be held in Barcelona, followed by the “Global
Summit on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability” in Rome just days
later. Both cities require a lot of carbon emissions to arrive at.

Click HERE
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to read more from Power the Future’s Daniel Turner about how capitalism and
fossil fuels continue to play an essential role in our future, even if the
United Nations may wish otherwise.

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[12] What we're reading

Washington Free Beacon
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: Kamala Makes a Run for the Border — And Away From Her Past, by Andrew Stiles
and Thaleigha Rampersad.

New York Post
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: Jake Sullivan boasted exactly a year ago about how quiet the Middle East was
— as it now sits on cusp of all-out war, by Ryan King.

Washington Examiner
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: House committee requests IRS revoke tax-exempt status of terrorism-linked
groups, by Gabe Kaminsky.

National Review
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: Covid Panel Releases Evidence of Witness Tampering, Obstruction by Andrew
Cuomo, by James Lynch.

Wall Street Journal
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: China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military
Modernization, by Michael Gordon.

Washington Free Beacon
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: Travel, Golf, Campaign Donations: How a Chinese EV Subsidiary Tried To Woo
Local Michigan Officials, by Thomas Catenacci.

The Spectator
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: Israel’s campaign to kill Nasrallah, Hezbollah and Hamas, Charles Lipson.

Washington Examiner
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: Alex Soros’s White House access under Biden hits two dozen visits, by Gabe
Kaminsky.




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