President Biden has repeatedly said that on COVID-19 he’d “follow the science.” His Administration’s shifting and contradictory positions on pandemic precautions suggest otherwise.
Let’s look at some of these recent actions.
On April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it would end the use of Title 42. This measure, authorized by the Public Health… Read more »
Easter
During this time of year, Christians look forward to Easter.
As we gather to celebrate Christ’s resurrection from the dead, I look forward to hearing many of the hymns written for the occasion. One of my favorites is “Welcome, Happy Morning!”
Welcome, happy morning!
Age to age shall say:
Hell today is vanquished,
Heaven is won today!
Lo! the Dead is living,
God for… Read more »
On April 6, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled “Gouged at the Gas Station: Big Oil and America’s Pain at the Pump.”
This was the latest venue for an exercise of political theater. The majority called as witnesses executives from the oil and gas industry. It should be noted that Democrats convened their hearing on… Read more »
The Constitution vests the president with the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.”
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I do not have a vote on President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, but I believe the Senate should not vote to confirm her.
My objections to this… Read more »
Supply chains were once far from the mind of the average consumer, but they were nevertheless vital. Behind just about every product, from the food on your table to the clothes you wear to the vehicle you drive, lies a supply chain that can potentially stretch across the globe.
But supply chains cannot be far from mind now. If the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them was not great… Read more »
Recent data on illegal immigration under President Biden remind me of the ancient proverb, “Physician, heal thyself.”
On March 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Members of Congress including me. He asked for more assistance in his country’s war to repel Russian invaders. Later that day, President Biden announced that the United States would deliver $800 million more… Read more »
Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine calls for the United States to respond with the diplomatic and economic tools we have in our hands. One that the Biden Administration has been reluctant to use has been American energy.
As I noted in my last column, the United States imported 200,000 barrels of crude oil and 500,000 barrels of other petroleum products per day from Russia… Read more »
The exigencies of war can lead to unexpected consequences. We are seeing this truth play out as Ukraine fights for its survival against Russian aggression.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a world leader who belongs to a political party on the left called for building a stockpile of coal and natural gas as well as the rapid construction of two liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals to… Read more »
If you’ve bought groceries, paid for gasoline, or bought a car, either used or new, in the past year, you have likely noticed the presence of inflation.
In January, the Consumer Price Index confirmed just how severe the inflationary spiral has been. The index rose by 7.5 percent over the preceding year, the highest rate of inflation since 1982.
The broad-based surge in prices exacts a… Read more »
Washington, D.C. used to be a popular destination for tourists, school groups, and others who want to visit our nation’s capital.
If you visited the city now, you could be able to tour many of its most popular attractions and see the sights. But one prominent American institution remains closed off to the general public: the U.S. Capitol building.
For nearly two years, the symbol of our… Read more »
