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October 17, 2024

In this edition


[1] Interview: Rep. Burgess Owens’s case to chair Ed and Workforce
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[2] Heard on the Hill
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[3] Exclusive: Wealthy Senate Democrat violated the STOCK Act
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[4] WATCH: Exclusive Washington Reporter coverage cited in debate for
contested congressional district
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[5] Exclusive: Rep. Claudia Tenney bashes "partisan, manipulative, dishonest"
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[6] WATCH: Democrats’ Senate candidates staffers are starting to crack
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[7] Op-Ed: Sen. Scott Brown: Americans must reject Lina Khan’s dangerous
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[8] Op-Ed: Joe Grogan: The Biden administration’s unprecedented attack on
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[9] Op-Ed: Jay Town: Our border crisis is Kamala Harris’s fault
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[10] Op-Ed: Sheriff Mike Eby: Rep. Gabe Vasquez’s allies used me in an ad. I
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[11] 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. Burgess Owens, an
exclusive on a Democratic senator violating the STOCK Act, an op-ed from Sen.
Scott Brown about Lina Khan, and much more!






[1] Interview: Rep. Burgess Owens’s case to chair Ed and Workforce
By: Matthew Foldi

As a former Super Bowl-winning NFL safety, Rep. Burgess Owens (R., Utah)
knows about playing on a winning team. And as a congressman who’s served in the
House majority and minority, he knows that Republicans are most effective when
they win.

After careers in media and professional sports, Owens is now running to chair
the Education and Workforce Committee next Congress. In an interview with the
Washington Reporter, he described his future vision for the committee.

If elected chairman, continuing current chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (R.,
N.C.)’s work to hold colleges accountable for anti-patriotism and anti-Semitism
is at the top of Owens’s agenda. Owens will “hold all Ivy League colleges
accountable right now that have failed us,” he said.

Following the coronavirus pandemic and the rampant displays of anti-Semitism
on college campuses after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, Owens said, “this
is the first time that the Republican Party has had education as a priority. It
is now China, the budget, and education.”

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Workforce Committee next Congress.

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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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* Kamala and Goldman: The Washington Reporter was the first to cover
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Goldman’s effective alliance with the Kamala Harris campaign. Harriscited
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her interview with Bret Baier last night as a validator of her economic
policies. More than one Hill Republican noticed.
* Union troubles: As the Boeing union continued its strike
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, the company is planning on announcing massive layoffs that will hit workers
in multiple states.
* Inside Mar-a-Lago: At President Donald Trump’s latest Florida fundraiser,
he was introduced by RNC co-chair Lara Trump, and he praised Speaker Mike
Johnson (R., La.), Reps. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) and Byron Donalds, along
with Gov. Kristi Noem (R., S.D.) and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), all of whom
were in attendance. Donors present included Adam Kidan, Sean Adams, Scott
Bessent, Pepe Fanjul, Art Fisher, John Phelan, and Bill Powers.
* 99 Chinese spy balloons: Rep. Mike Flood (R., Neb.) released a new ad in
which he shoots down a Chinese spy balloon flying over Nebraska. Watch that ad
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[3] Exclusive: Wealthy Senate Democrat violates the STOCK Act
By: Matthew Foldi

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.), who’s facing a tough reelection next month,
violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose her ownership of up to
$15,000 of stock in Sandoz Group AG (SDZNY) on time.

The SDZNY stock, which was purchased through the Larry and Jacklyn Rosen
Family Trust, did not appear on Rosen’s 2022 financial disclosures, but it did
on her 2023 version. It’s unclear when the purchase was made, because Rosen
failed to file the required Periodic Transition Reporter (PTR), which is
something of a pattern for the Nevada lawmaker.


The STOCK Act requires
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within 45 days of the transaction. Rosen is a habitualviolator
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of the STOCK Act, and is under fire from an ad campaign for her rule-flaunting.

One ad <[link removed]>, called “Above the Law,”
notes that Rosen “failed to disclose thousands of dollars in stock
transactions, and hid her ownership in a family trust worth millions of
dollars.” The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting that message.

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Rosen is facing Republican Sam Brown in next month’s election.

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WATCH: Exclusive Washington Reporter coverage cited in debate for contested
congressional district
By: Matthew Foldi

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R., N.Y.) shouted out the Washington Reporter
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during a debate with his Democratic opponent, Laura Gillen, this week.

“Top House Democrat candidate pays connected Democrats and her husband’s
business partners, reported by theWashington Reporter,” the first-term lawmaker
said <[link removed]> during his debate,
in which Gillen repeatedly found herself on the defensive about issues ranging
from corruption to illegal immigration.

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Gillen.

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[5] Exclusive: Rep. Claudia Tenney bashes "partisan, manipulative, dishonest"
GOTV efforts designed "to tip the scales in a competitive House race"
By: Matthew Foldi

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) sounded the alarm about a liberal group
sending pre-filled out mail-in ballot application forms, “abusing New York’s
weak mail-in voting laws to tip the scales in a competitive House race” in the
process.

At the crux of the issue is the Center for Voter Information (CVI), a group
that is run by a Democratic Party operative wholed
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Campaign Committee (DSCC) during the 2016 cycle. Some of its 2024 efforts,
according to Tenney, are focused in Cayuga County, which is split between her
district and that of Rep. Brandon Williams (R., N.Y.).


However “all of the applications mailed out by CVI and reviewed by the Tenney
Campaign were sent to voters in the 22nd District [Williams’s district],” her
campaign said. “In other words, the CVI only believed voters in the 22nd
District deserved to receive these applications in the mail.”

Tenney’s campaign reviewed hundreds of early mail application forms
pre-filled in by CVI sent to the Cayuga County Board of Elections, and found
that only 0.42 percent were from registered Republicans.

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to read more from Rep. Claudia Tenney on her efforts to sound the alarm on a
liberal group’s “dishonest” GOTV work in New York.

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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] WATCH: Democrats across America are starting to crack
By: Matthew Foldi

Videos obtained by the Washington Reporter show staffers of the Democratic
Party’s preferred Senate candidates snapping across the country.

In one instance, a woman staffing Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee
for Senate in Maryland,grabbed the phone
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Alsobrooks “why [she is] lying to voters about [her] soft-on-crime record?”

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Alsobrooks’s own Senate campaign has a tracker of its own, who follows
Republican Larry Hogan to events ranging from visits at volunteer fire
departments to Orioles playoff games, where the tracker wasspotted
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jersey.


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to read more about the pressure getting to Senate candidates and their staff.

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[7] Op-Ed: Sen. Scott Brown: Americans must reject Lina Khan’s dangerous
worldview
By: Sen. Scott Brown

These days, it’s hard to turn on a television or open a newspaper without
running into a fawning profile of Lina Khan, the embattled chair of the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC). From60 Minutes
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, the legacy media just can’t get enough. With Khan’s term at the FTC
technically expired (although she can stay on indefinitely until replaced),
speculation is rampant about her next move. The most recent thumb sucker
included a suggestion from one observer that Khan has set her sights on higher
goals — perhaps even the Supreme Court.

It may sound laughable to put someone with such extreme views on our highest
court, but don’t dismiss the idea too easily. Unlike other members of today’s
progressive left, Khan softens the edges of her extreme ideas underneath a less
threatening veneer. Her words don’t sound like they came from a Soviet
manifesto, even if her ideas do.

At the core of Khan’s ideology, as well as that of her partner in crime, the
Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust,
Jonathan Kanter, is the idea that successful companies that grow beyond an
arbitrary size automatically warrant intense scrutiny and even intervention
from regulators. In Khan and Kanter’s eyes, success is not the result of
innovation, hard work and ingenuity, but somehow comes from bending — or even
breaking — the rules.

It’s the antithesis of the mentality that made America the global superpower
we are today.

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to read more from Sen. Scott Brown about why Americans need to reject FTC
Chairwoman Lina Khan’s “dangerous” worldview.

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[8]
Op-Ed: Joe Grogan: The Biden administration’s unprecedented attack on Medicare
By: Joe Grogan

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are putting American seniors at risk to help
their political allies and influential government union boss donors.

Democrats are taking seniors for granted — callously indifferent about the
trust they are shredding and true damage they are causing to Medicare. Medicare
premiums are going up and the Biden-Harris administration isusing billions
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in taxpayer money to mask the spike.

I expected this move, and while we elect a new president in under a month,
their most recent misstep is an intentional one that strikes at one of the few
tools seniors have to seek help understanding their Medicare benefits. It
prioritizes powerful special interest donors over everyday Americans.

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to read more of Joe Grogan’s warning about the dangerous precedent the Biden
administration is setting by allowing public sector unions to pay to play with
Medicare policy.

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[9] Op-Ed: Jay Town: Our border crisis is Kamala Harris’s fault, whether or
not she was formally our ‘border czar’
By: Jay Town

Prior to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 20-minute photo-op
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at the southern border on her way to fundraisers in San Francisco and Las
Vegas, sheasked <[link removed]> us to “imagine
what [a mass deportation of illegal aliens] would look like and what that would
be.”

Based on the data recently released by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), it would be a marked improvement over Harris’s maligned border security
record.

The Acting Director of ICE recently released
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“noncitizens on ICE’s docket convicted or charge with a crime.” Timed perfectly
with Harris’s photo op, these numbers are devastating to Harris and further
underscore the Biden-Harris administration’s abysmal record on illegal
immigration.

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to read more from Jay Town, a former U.S. Attorney, about the failures of
Kamala Harris as border czar.

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[10] Op-Ed: Sheriff Mike Eby: Rep. Gabe Vasquez’s allies used me in an ad. I
did not consent to that.
By: Sheriff Mike Eby

As the Sheriff for Luna County, I take great pride in what I do. Protecting
our communities is my greatest honor. However, not everyone in New Mexico acts
with honor.

Recently, Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D., N.M.) and his Washington, D.C. allies used a
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. I did not consent to my photo being used and do not I support Gabe Vasquez
for Congress.


Vasquez is up for re-election in what’s expected to be one of the closest
House districts in the country, and his biggest flaw is that he is an open
borders extremist who has called to defund the police. In D.C., Vasquez has
voted for soft-on-crime policies that make our communities less safe. He is
extreme and out-of-touch with New Mexicans.

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to read more from Sheriff Mike Eby about why he’s backing Rep. Yvette
Herrell’s 2024 campaign, news he broke with this op-ed.

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[11] What we're reading

Wall Street Journal
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: Kamala Harris’s Rural Broadband Flop, by Commissioner Brendan Carr.

Town Hall
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: The UN Gravy Train Rolls on and on While America Pays, by Bonnie Glick.

Daily Caller
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: Dem AG Poised To Sue Oil Companies With Help Of Law Firm Backed By Left-Wing
Behemoths, by Nick Pope.

Washington Free Beacon
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: State Department Stands By Adviser Who Spoke at Pro-Hezbollah Rally Where
Jews Were Told To 'Go Back to Poland,' by Chuck Ross.

Free Press
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: Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public
Schools, by Francesca Block.

Smart Cities Dive
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: Proterra electric buses recalled for potential fire issue, by Dan Zukowski.

Washington Free Beacon
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: 'Anti-Energy Lawfare': Millions in Dark Money Fueling Local Climate Lawsuits
Across the Country, Congressional Investigation Finds, by Thomas Catenacci.





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