Fellow Conservative,

The House and Senate were in recess this week (and will be until Tuesday, October 15), but Heritage Action and our activists were still hard at work, both in DC and in the states.

Answers to your Impeachment Questions

We’ve received a lot of questions, so we released a “toolkit” containing everything you need to know about the impeachment process.

For instance, did you know that Nancy Pelosi did not follow precedent when she unilaterally declared an impeachment inquiry? In both 1973 for Nixon and 1998 for Clinton, the House held a vote to open impeachment inquiries. Pelosi is being blatantly partisan and trying to keep vulnerable Democrats from having to go on record with their position.

Do you have questions about process and procedure? Or how conservatives should be thinking about the issue? Then be sure to read more here.

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Liberals have been calling for President Trump’s impeachment since before he took the oath of office, and Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry is just the latest act of political theatre meant to distract the American people from the issues that really matter:

• Congress has failed to fully fund our government by the Oct 1 deadline.
• Our military is operating under a “continuing resolution,” which hurts their ability to respond to national-security threats.
• Our southern border desperately needs securing.

Action Item: This week, call your member of Congress and tell them to “oppose the impeachment inquiry and focus on the issues that matter.”

Heritage Action Endorses Pro-Life Bill

This week, Heritage Action endorsed the Dignity for Aborted Children Act, introduced by Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.)

The need for this bill, which requires the burial or cremation of every child who dies from abortion, was made apparent after 2,200 fetal remains were found in the home of a former abortion doctor

Pro-abortion legislators have become very desensitized to the cruelties of abortion, as when 44 senators voted against requiring medical practitioners to give medical care to babies born alive during an abortion. Both the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act and Senator Braun’s Dignity for Aborted Children Act address critical failures in current law to respect the sanctity of human life.

Job Automation and Higher Education

Computers and automation continue to threaten many Americans’ livelihoods and way of life. Tim Chapman describes this automation crisis and how it could end millions of blue-collar jobs in Wednesday’s edition of USA Today:

Technological advances will increasingly threaten these jobs. UPS recently experimented with autonomous delivery vehicles between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, as well as a longer route from Phoenix to Dallas. Last month, in Virginia, the auto manufacturer Daimler put self-driving trucks on some public roads. The federal government also gave $15 million to a Virginia group to research how best to incorporate autonomous trucks into the infrastructure system.

A big "thank you" to Brian Bledsoe, an Army veteran and Heritage Action Sentinel, who contributed to the article by sharing his experiences as a truck driver in Texas:

Brian keeps a watchful yet concerned eye on these developments. A free-market conservative who volunteers with Heritage Action, he believes that innovation benefits customers. But he also knows that many of his fellow truck drivers aren’t prepared for a future when their jobs won’t exist, saying that most of them “will be up a creek without a paddle."

Liberals’ answer to economic change continues to be more government control, a economy-crushing “green new deal,” and free money for everyone. These solutions will not work.

The conservative answer is to honor the dignity of work and make sure our educational system is providing ample opportunities for people to learn real skills. The Higher Education Reform and Opportunity (HERO) Act, introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), would combat the rising cost in college tuition while increasing students’ access to vocational schools. This would benefit individuals entering the workforce for the first time as well as those whose jobs are threatened by technology and automation.

Find out more with Heritage Action’s recent poll

> > > If you want to know what more you can do to help, then join with Sentinels like Brian, and be part of a grassroots movement that gets things done.

Thank you for your support and activism!

Tim, Jessica, and the Heritage Action Team

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