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GOP Senators Hold Press Conference on Stopping Biden’s Big Tech Censorship

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and other Republican Senators hold a press conference about stopping the Biden administration’s big tech censorship. A federal judge recently ruled the Biden administration working with social media companies to censor speech was unconstitutional in the Missouri v. Biden case. The Biden administration then filed an injunction to continue censoring Americans, but was…


FBI Director Says He Was ‘Aghast’ at Agency Memo Targeting ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’

FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Wednesday that he was “aghast” when he learned of an internal memo targeting Catholic communities as extremists. In February, a leaked January 2023 memo from the Richmond Field Office in Virginia showed that the agency had taken an interest in traditionalist and Latin Mass Catholic parishes, saying that…


LIVE 2 PM ET: Border Security Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ‘Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl From the Southwest Border’

The House Homeland Security Committee Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl from the Southwest Border” at 2 p.m. ET on July 12. …


LIVE NOW: Border Security Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ‘Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl From the Southwest Border’

The House Homeland Security Committee Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl from the Southwest Border” at 2 p.m. ET on July 12. …


Border Security Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ‘Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl From the Southwest Border’

The House Homeland Security Committee Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl from the Southwest Border” at 2 p.m. ET on July 12. …


NIH Officials Exerted ‘Undue Influence’ in Downplaying COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory: House Report

Officials with the National Institutes of Health exerted “undue influence” in downplaying the theory that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak, according to a report released on July 11 by the Republican majority on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The lengthy report (pdf) is the result of the Select Subcommittee viewing over 8,000…


LIVE NOW: House GOP Leadership Holds Press Conference After Meeting

House GOP leadership, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and other House Republicans hold a post-meeting press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on July 12. …


House GOP Leadership Holds Press Conference After Meeting

House GOP leadership, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and other House Republicans hold a post-meeting press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on July 12. …


LIVE NOW: FBI Director Wray Testifies at House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing

Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, testifies on “the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency” at 10:00 a.m. ET on July 12 to a hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” held by the House Judiciary Committee. …


Rep. Gaetz Leads GOP Effort to Abolish Broad Surveillance Authority

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is leading a Republican effort in the House to abolish a controversial surveillance authority that is due for reauthorization at the end of the year. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was enacted by Congress in 2008 as a post-9/11 measure to bulk up U.S. national security. The provision…