Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and will allow the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News…
The JCPA Propaganda Media Cartel Bailout Bill Contains a Massive Loophole for China, Russia and Other Foreign Nations…
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) contains a loophole that would allow foreign news organizations, including Chinese organizations, to influence the flow of information in the United States — even as lawmakers prepare to attach the derided media bailout bill to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a bill to fund national defense…
Mitch McConnell Blocked from Moving Media Cartel Bill JCPA via Hotline…
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell tried to move through the U.S. Senate a highly controversial plan called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) using a procedure called a “hotline,” Breitbart News has learned…
Bill Would Stop Government From Paying Dead People…Not Kidding…
A bill introduced in the Senate last week would stop the federal government from paying dead people. The bipartisan Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, introduced by Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Tom Carper, D-Del., comes in response to several inspector general audits detailing how the Social Security Administration paid more than $40 million […]
Sen. John Kennedy to Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers: ‘Hide your head in a bag every day for the rest of your natural life’…
Senate Approves First Step in Uphill Effort to Restore Net Neutrality…
As noted previously, net neutrality advocates managed to convince Congress to try and use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse the FCC’s misleadingly-named “Restoring Internet Freedom Order.” That order, approved by a 3-2 FCC vote last December, not only kills net neutrality (as of June 11), but eliminates much of the FCC’s authority to […]
Winners and Losers from the WHOPPING $1.3 Trillion Omnibus…
Congress is on the verge of passing a $1.3 trillion omnibus that would fund the government through September and provide the biggest federal spending increase in years. The bill is loaded with provisions given its likely standing as the last legislative train leaving the station before the midterms, and members have been scrambling to compete […]