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GOP Rep. Cline: IRS Is Going After Regular People, Theyre Policing $600 Transactions

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “John Bachman Now,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) said that Republicans took up repealing funding for increased IRS agents as their first act in the House majority because... "They wanted to increase taxes on the American people and they want to increase the number of Americans taxed. And so, they’ve increased, by 87,000 staff…

Rep. Cline to chair RSCs Budget & Spending Task Force

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HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Congressmen Ben Cline, a Republican who represents Virginia’s Sixth District containing the Shenandoah Valley, has been appointed to a leadership role on the Republican Study Committee. Cline will chair the committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force. The RSC is the largest caucus within the Republican Conference with 175 members, it promotes a…

Rep. Cline to Newsmax: 'Significant Evidence of a Crime' If Biden Hiding Classified Docs

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Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., told Newsmax on Wednesday that there is "significant evidence of a crime" if President Joe Biden is "somehow taking classified documents, concealing them as personal items, and hiding them. Joe Biden as vice president wasn't even allowed to declassify those types of documents," Cline said... "He wasn't allowed to possess them in private papers or transfer them to a…

Key GOP lawmaker open to Biden administration asylum reform amid migrant surge

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Rep. Ben Cline, new chairman of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, discusses current plans for reducing government spending. The Virginia Congressman also discusses Biden’s first trip “near the Border,” saying Biden “needs to stay down there until he actually gets to see for himself the horrors that are happening at the border…

After 3-Year Shutdown, The Peoples House Reopened To Public Jan. 3

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The iconic US Capitol, which houses the two chambers of Congress, reopened to the public on January 3, 2023. The order to close it to outside visitors came in March 2020 at the behest of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) amid the hurried national lockdown surrounding Covid. In the almost three years since that time, only members of Congress, their staffs, or those on official…

Cline opens constituent services office in downtown Winchester

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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-6th, has opened a constituent services office in downtown Winchester. "You know, we had redistricting last year and an election last year, and we weren't allowed to reach out to folks in the new part of the district until this morning," Cline said at Monday's ribbon cutting at 100 N. Loudoun St., Suite 120. "We want everybody to open their newspapers and see…

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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, who represents Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, voted against the $1.7 trillion government funding bill that passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 24. The bill sought to avoid a partial federal government shutdown and provided an additional $45 billion to the war effort in Ukraine. In a press release, Cline, a Republican, referred to the bill as a…

Cline votes against $1.7T funding bill, calls it a 'spending spree'

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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, who represents Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, voted against the $1.7 trillion government funding bill that passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 24. The bill sought to avoid a partial federal government shutdown and provided an additional $45 billion to the war effort in Ukraine. In a press release, Cline, a Republican, referred to the bill as a…

Virginia Representatives Fall On Both Sides Of $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Budget

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A major responsibility of the US Congress is to create and pass a budget for each upcoming fiscal year. The federal fiscal year ends September 30, and the last time Congress had approved a timely budget by October 1 was in the late 1990s, during the second Clinton administration. Since that time, leadership of both houses of Congress has passed back and forth between both parties. It has…