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Express Lane to Socialism: House Democrats Non-Infrastructure Package Prioritizes the Green New Deal Over the American People

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TOPLINE: House Republicans are focused on rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels, and highways while Democrats want to pass H.R. 3638, the “Green New Deal and Inflation Transportation Act,” a non-infrastructure messaging bill that focuses more on the Green New Deal instead of improving real infrastructure. In order to finance their far-left agenda, the Biden…

The HEAT Report

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The HEAT Report is a weekly newsletter focusing on how members of the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) promote American energy security, and an all-of-the-above energy economy. The Latest: House Democrats have been signaling for weeks they’re ready for the White House to ditch talks with Congressional Republicans on a bipartisan infrastructure proposal in favor of trillions of…

Scalise Presses Dems on Proxy Voting

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 House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) called out House Democrats in today’s colloquy for abusing the proxy voting process and for holding bipartisan infrastructure negotiations hostage. In addition, Whip Scalise slammed President Biden’s weak leadership for resulting in an unprecedented level of crises that are hurting the American people and our allies around the…

Scalise: Unlike Democrats, Republicans Are Trying to Get Answers About COVID-19s Origin

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 House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum this afternoon to discuss the need to investigate the origins of COVID-19. Whip Scalise announced that Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis will lead their own hearing next week to probe COVID-19's origin because Speaker Pelosi is covering…

Scalise: Why Does Pelosi Want to Cover for China?

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 Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and members of the GOP Doctors Caucus to call out Speaker Pelosi for refusing to instruct her committee chairs to join House Republicans in investigating the origins of COVID-19 and examine claims that the coronavirus started in a Chinese lab. In addition, Whip Scalise…

Scalise Announces Republicans Will Hold COVID Origins Hearing

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 House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Republican Leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Republican Leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Committee James Comer (R-Ky.), Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), and Congressman Dan…

Scalise Urges Dems to Keep the Hyde Amendment, Not Use Taxpayer Money for Abortions

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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Leadership and co-chairs of the Pro-Life Caucus on the House Floor last night to lead a series of unanimous consent requests to force House Democrats to vote on H.R. 18, legislation that will ensure that no federal funds pay for abortion. In his latest budget proposal, President Biden removed Hyde protections that would enable…

Select Subcommittee Republicans Announce Expert Witness Forum on COVID-19 Origins

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Forum to be held with expert witnesses on Tuesday, June 29    On Tuesday, June 29 at 12:00 p.m. ET, House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Select Subcommittee Republican lawmakers will hold a forum with expert witnesses to…

Democrats Mount Assault on the Right to Life

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TOPLINE: As the Biden Administration lurches further and further to the left, House Republicans will continue to stand against the Democrats' attack on innocent life. Democrats are wrong to try to end long-standing protections against abortion. The American people deserve to know where lawmakers stand on protecting the sanctity of human life. Biden Avoids Defending the…

Scalise to Question Powell on Soaring Inflation Under Biden

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House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise (R-La.)’s opening statement at today’s Select Subcommittee’s hearing about the Federal Reserve’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic asks Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to address the alarming rising inflation under the Biden Administration.…