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big spending pork barrel bill is pulled
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2024 @ 9:54 am
By: John Steed
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Fraudsters used Barbie profile pictures to scam the government.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 9:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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Californians are complaining about barely-clothed prostitutes roaming the streets in broad daylight, an issue heightened by Democratic Gov. Newsom signing Senate Bill 357, local officials say.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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There is a growing push for legislation to bar wealthy foreign billionaires like Switzerland’s Hansjorg Wyss from pouring hundreds of millions of dollars in support of leftist causes in the United States
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 12:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Following the embarrassing accounting blunder that resulted in an additional $6.2 billion being sent to Ukraine, Department of Defense officials announced another $40 billion had been discovered underneath some couch cushions at the Pentagon.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 5:34 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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"I had never met her," Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, said of Cleta Mitchell. "I did not know who she was until after the meeting. They had no influence on the bill whatsoever."
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper intends to veto significant abortion legislation this Saturday. But leading up to that, he is embarking on a tour aimed at pressuring lawmakers to reconsider their stance on abortion, or at least the current bill.
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 10:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A barrage of Russian missiles damaged a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system near Kyiv early Tuesday morning, weeks after the $1 billion system shot a Russian hypersonic missile out of the sky.
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 @ 8:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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State and local governments in North Carolina would be barred from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for employees or students under a bill passed March 21 by the House Health Committee.
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 11:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, tore in President Joe Biden and the Democrats during a Fox News interview on Sunday, saying that Biden trying to pass a multi-trillion dollar partisan social spending bill
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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Biden Admin Sold Nearly 1 Million Barrels Of Oil To Chinese State-Owned Company Tied To Hunter BidenThe Biden administration sold close to one million barrels of oil from the United States’ strategic reserve to a Chinese company that one of his son’s equity companies once bought a $1.7 billion stake in.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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N.C. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed 11 bills into law Thursday, the closely-watched state budget was not one of them.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard criticized President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, during an interview on Wednesday, warning that the bill would increase already-worsening inflation rates.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 11:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two former top economic officials for former President Barack Obama are warning that President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, will increase inflation at a time when rates are already skyrocketing.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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RINOs also support pork
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Steed
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Former President Barack Obama spoke out on Monday to say that he is confidant that the Senate will hold a new vote on the Democratic voting rights bill that Republicans in the upper chamber blocked last week.
Published: Friday, July 2nd, 2021 @ 1:51 am
By: LifeZette
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State Representatives Pat McElraft (R-Carteret) and Dr. Kristin Baker (R-Cabarrus) are calling on Governor Roy Cooper to sign the Human Life Non-Discrimination Act (House Bill 453)
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 8:40 am
By: Governor's Office
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Epstein death’s immediately sparked conspiracy theories after he was found hanging from a cloth in his cell on August 10, 2019.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 4:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Attorney General William Barr officially stepped down as attorney general on Wednesday, praising President Donald Trump in his resignation letter.
Published: Monday, December 28th, 2020 @ 7:02 pm
By: LifeZette
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Attorney General Barr’s resignation amidst a contested presidential election dominated last week’s political airwaves.
Published: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 @ 2:10 am
By: Judicial Watch
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Attorney General William Barr will not appoint a special counsel either to investigate President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud or to take up an ongoing federal investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Published: Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 @ 10:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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President Donald Trump announced late on Monday afternoon that Attorney General William Barr will be stepping down from his position next week.
Published: Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 @ 11:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republican Party of North Carolina Chairman Michael Whatley released the following statement condemning Cooper's Veto of the Bar and Gym Bill
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Cooper needs to stop saying he’s basing all his decisions for keeping our economy shut down on 'science and data.'
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 2:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Small businesses struggling with health-care costs could gain new bargaining power with insurers, after a controversial bill passed the House, 82-32.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, said the state's certificate-of-need law, a major regulatory barrier to reducing costs and competition in health care, would be repealed under a bill working its way through the Senate Health Care Committee
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 4:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory strongly urged President Barack Obama to reconsider his veto threat after the U.S House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill sponsored by North Carolina Representative Richard Hudson to halt the administration's plan to take in thousands of Syrian and...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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State Republican legislative leaders, along with state GOP chairman Hasan Harnett and incoming party executive director Dallas Woodhouse, announced on Tuesday that new provisions in a law allowing legislative caucuses to establish separate fundraising committees would not be exercised during the...
Published: Sunday, October 4th, 2015 @ 8:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislation creating a state Office of Charter Schools and shifting management of those alternative public schools from the Department of Public Instruction to the State Board of Education has cleared the General Assembly and awaits Gov. Pat McCrory's signature.
Published: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 @ 3:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure allowing state government to continue spending money through the end of the month while budget writers from both chambers continue to hammer out a compromise.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gasoline taxes would drop while vehicle use taxes and auto registration fees would rise under a broad House plan aimed at boosting the budget for highway maintenance, bridge repair, and port maintenance.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina voters soon could vote for governor and lieutenant governor as a team under a measure approved Tuesday by the House Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would shift next year's North Carolina presidential preference primary from late February to March 8. That chamber also nixed a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would have required a party's candidates for governor and...
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House on Tuesday narrowly approved a bill that would require appellate judges to win retention elections to hold their seats. If House Bill 222 becomes law, it would apply to the chief justice and other justices on the N.C. Supreme Court as well as all judges on the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 12:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus) has introduced a bill that ought to get some tongues wagging.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Tax reform advocates have found much to like in some key provisions to a broad tax package proposed by three state Senate leaders in March.
Published: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dozens of Triangle-area middle- and high-schoolers and their parents could be looking for another school next year if the State Board of Education closes the Dynamic Community Charter School — a school intended to fill a void for disabled children who have not fit in at traditional public...
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A House education committee on Tuesday gave its OK to House Bill 133, a measure increasing the scholarship amount available to special needs students who attend private schools from $3,000 per semester to $4,000. It also approved a change allowing families receiving those scholarships to collect...
Published: Saturday, March 28th, 2015 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several bills altering the makeup of local governments are working their way through the current General Assembly session, raising charges by liberal advocates and pundits that the GOP-led legislature is maneuvering to give Republicans a foothold in local governments that now are under Democratic...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wikipedia defines "pork barrel" spending as "the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district."
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 2:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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