October 17, 2024
In this edition
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.”
Click HERE to read more about Rep. Burgess Owens’s case to chair the Education and Workforce Committee next Congress.
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Heard on the Hill
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- Kamala and Goldman: The Washington Reporter was the first to cover Goldman’s effective alliance with the Kamala Harris campaign. Harris cited Goldman Sachs in 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, 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 here.
| | | [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 members of Congress to report stock transactions within 30 days of notice and within 45 days of the transaction. Rosen is a habitual violator of the STOCK Act, and is under fire from an ad campaign for her rule-flaunting.
One ad, 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.
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 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 the Washington Reporter,” the first-term lawmaker said during his debate, in which Gillen repeatedly found herself on the defensive about issues ranging from corruption to illegal immigration.
Click HERE to read more about Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s debate win over Democrat Laura Gillen.
| | | [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 who led the Democratic Senatorial 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.
Click HERE 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 of someone who asked Alsobrooks “why [she is] lying to voters about [her] soft-on-crime record?”
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 was spotted wearing a Nationals jersey.
Click HERE to read more about the pressure getting to Senate candidates and their staff.
| | | | [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). From 60 Minutes to the New York Times to Bloomberg, 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.
Click HERE to read more from Sen. Scott Brown about why Americans need to reject FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan’s “dangerous” worldview. | |
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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 is using billions 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.
Click HERE 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. | | | | [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 at the southern border on her way to fundraisers in San Francisco and Las Vegas, she asked 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 data relating to “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.
Click HERE to read more from Jay Town, a former U.S. Attorney, about the failures of Kamala Harris as border czar.
| | | | | | | [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 photo of me in a political ad. 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.
Click HERE 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. | | | | | |
| [11] | What we're reading
Wall Street Journal: Kamala Harris’s Rural Broadband Flop, by Commissioner Brendan Carr.
Town Hall: The UN Gravy Train Rolls on and on While America Pays, by Bonnie Glick.
Daily Caller: Dem AG Poised To Sue Oil Companies With Help Of Law Firm Backed By Left-Wing Behemoths, by Nick Pope.
Washington Free Beacon: 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: Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools, by Francesca Block.
Smart Cities Dive: Proterra electric buses recalled for potential fire issue, by Dan Zukowski.
Washington Free Beacon: 'Anti-Energy Lawfare': Millions in Dark Money Fueling Local Climate Lawsuits Across the Country, Congressional Investigation Finds, by Thomas Catenacci.
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