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A year and a half after Attorney General Merrick Garland's controversial memo directing the FBI and Justice Department's criminal and national security divisions to get involved in nationwide threats against school boards, congressional Republicans are asking what it accomplished other than terrifying parents protesting curriculum choices and COVID-19 policies.  Rep. Cline… Read more »

Congressional Republicans are busy trying to uncover the origin of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1.1 million Americans... Congressional action was swift after a Wall Street Journal report that analysts at both the Department of Energy and the FBI concluded that the pandemic most likely resulted from a lab leak in Wuhan, China... During a… Read more »

FIRST ON FOX: Republicans Rep. Michelle Steel of California and Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas introduced a bill to stop the spread of a popular Chinese Communist Party (CCP) logistics software in America. Steel and Cotton are leading the Securing Maritime Data from Communist China Act in their respective chambers to prevent the Chinese state-owned logistics… Read more »

The road to expanding the deposit safety net is starting to get bumpy. The House Freedom Caucus — the conservative bloc that nearly derailed Kevin McCarthy’s speakership — is coming out swinging against a blanket backstop of uninsured bank deposits... To read more, click here. Read more »

Representative Ben Cline (R-VA): “The [Republican Study Committee] is going to put forward a balanced budget here in the next few weeks that counters the Biden administration’s budget, which is doubling the debt deficits as far as the eye can see.”... To read and watch more, click here. Read more »

Virginia GOP Congressman Ben Cline says that in order for the country to get back on track in terms of finances, the federal bureaucracy needs to shrink and power must go back to the people. "We're going to keep working to make sure that we shrink the bureaucracy and the administrative state by balancing the budget," Cline said on the Tuesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise"… Read more »

Tonight's featured guest will be Virginia GOP Rep. Ben Cline... To read and watch more, click here. Read more »

Rockbridge County High School government students were given the opportunity to hear first-hand accounts of how bills become laws at both the state and federal levels when U.S. Rep. Ben Cline and Del. Ellen Campbell visited students during their government class periods.The students also were able to ask the representatives... To read more click here. Read more »

Severl House Republicans are pushing for a chamber-wide vote on President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, a move that would force Democrats to go on the record about where they stand on the progressive plan he laid out this week. Biden released his plan on Thursday, and some projections say it would result in almost $5 trillion in tax hikes on corporations and wealthy… Read more »

A Congressman representing our area gave his first opening statements as the Subcommittee on Responsiveness and Accountability to Oversight chair. WFIR’s Ian Price has more. Read more here. Read more »