Tag: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

Sen. Rand Paul Proposes Alternative to Debt Limit Agreement

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation on May 30 offering an alternative to the debt limit agreement reached by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. Paul’s proposal would raise the debt ceiling by only $500 billion, compelling Congress to resolve America’s debt problem with a more permanent solution in the near future. In…


Sen. Paul Says Agencies Refusing to Provide Information on US Funding of Gain-of-Function Research in China

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued his quest for information on whether the United States helped fund gain-of-function research in China when he questioned Government Accounting Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro. Paul said he has information that U.S. universities and government agencies have sent money to fund Chinese military research. “We’re actually funding military research….


Sen. Paul Says Agencies Refusing to Provide Information on US Funding of Risky Research in China

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued his quest for information on whether the United States helped fund gain-of-function research in China when he questioned Government Accounting Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro. Paul said he has information that U.S. universities and government agencies have sent money to fund Chinese military research. “We’re actually funding military research….


Rand Paul Storms out of Senate Panel Meeting After Heated Exchange Over Amendments

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) staged a walkout from the Senate Homeland Security Committee during the markup of the Fire Grants and Safety Act following a heated exchange with committee chair Gary Peters (D-Mich.). “If this is the way you’re going to run the committee, I would suggest that Republicans leave. I don’t see why we…


Sen. Paul Blames Rise of Inflation on Biden Administration’s ‘Free Checks’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is blaming the Biden administration for triggering a rise in inflation and warns that more price increases are on the horizon. We are losing “more to inflation” than what the government handed out in the form of free money, Paul said in an interview with Newsmax while responding to a NerdWallet…


GOPers Tee Up New Oversight Probe of Foreign Influence, Political Bias in NSF Grants

Three Republican senators are launching an oversight investigation to determine why measures to bar foreign influences on the hundreds of millions of tax dollars awarded annually by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have not been implemented. The senators—Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Richard Burr of North Carolina—also want answers on NSF…