Tag: Sen. Tom Cotton

State Department Not Measuring Its Greenhouse Gases Despite Biden Executive Order: GAO Report

Four hundred and fifty U.S. diplomatic officials and employees attended two U.N. climate conferences but nobody in the State Department knows how much greenhouse gases were emitted as a result despite President Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order directing the federal government to measure its emissions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office…


Republican Senators Demand DOD Investigate Alleged Spy Balloon Intel Leak That Blurred Biden Critiques

Several Republican senators are urging the Department of Defense’s Inspector General to investigate their claims that a DOD official leaked classified information to shield President Joe Biden from criticism for his response to the Chinese high-altitude balloon that flew over the United States in early February. The Biden administration ordered the suspected spy balloon shot…


Sen. Cotton Fears CDC’s New Vaccine Schedule for Children Will Lead to School Vaccine Mandate

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has commenced an action to see if Congress can block the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new vaccine schedule for children and adolescents, saying he’s concerned that schools will use the guidelines to impose a vaccine mandate. In a May 16 letter (pdf), the lawmaker asked the Government Accountability Office…


Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Punish Beijing for Forced Organ Harvesting

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate is aiming to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for forcibly harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience. S.761, also dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, would authorize the State Department to deny or revoke passports and visas to anyone involved in forced organ harvesting. It would…


Senate Republicans Introduce Legislation Prohibiting IRS From Conducting Financial Surveillance on Private Citizens

Thirty-one of the Senate’s 49 Republicans are co-sponsoring a proposal to nullify a Biden administration proposal by banning the IRS from conducting surveillance on the financial affairs of virtually all individual Americans. The lead co-sponsors of the “Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act” include Sen. John Boozman and Sen. Tom Cotton, both from Arkansas, as well…


GOP Senators Warn Law Firms Against Their Clients Creating Climate Cartel ESG Deals

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) are telling 51 of the nation’s top law firms they should warn their clients to “lawyer up” if they enter environment, social and governance (ESG) agreements that create “climate cartels.” In a blunt Nov. 3 letter to the firms that was made public on Nov. 9,…


GOP Senators Warning Law Firms Against Their Clients Creating Climate Cartel ESG Deals

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) are telling 51 of the nation’s top law firms they should warn their clients to “lawyer up” if they enter Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) agreements that create “climate cartels.” In a blunt Nov. 3 letter to the firms that was made public on Nov. 9,…


‘Hapless’ AG Garland ‘Should Resign’ After Failure to Arrest Protestors Outside Justices’ Homes: Sen. Tom Cotton

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to resign or face impeachment proceedings following inaction after radical demonstrators persisted to break the law by protesting in front of Supreme Court justices’ private residences. Cotton appeared for an interview on Fox News Thursday after the incident where an armed man, later identified as…


Biden Nominees to Federal Retiree Thrift Board Agree to No Investments in Chinese Firms

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced on June 2 that President Joe Biden’s four nominees to serve on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) confirmed in writing their belief that Americans should not invest in Chinese firms or those of any other country that threatens U.S. national security. “We agree that it is unfitting for…


Rubio: Biden Nominees to Federal Retiree Thrift Board Agree to No Investments in Chinese Firms

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced on June 2 that President Joe Biden’s four nominees to serve on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) confirmed in writing their belief that Americans shouldn’t invest in Chinese firms or those of any other country that threatens U.S. national security. “We agree that it is unfitting for Americans…