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Cline appointed to judiciary committee

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Sixth Congressional District Rep. Ben Cline (R-Botetourt) was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee last week as lawmakers receive new committee assignments for the 118th Congress... Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) has said his first investigative priority includes seeking to conduct “an oversight of the Justice Department’s actions” related to President Joe…

Stuarts Draft students get tutorial from Rep. Ben Cline

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STUARTS DRAFT — Senior government students in the class of Stuarts Draft High teacher Noah Fulks got a master lesson in government and heard about the U.S. House of Representatives 2023 agenda on Thursday. The students received a rare visit from their congressman, 6th District Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va. It was a chance to hear about the challenges of working in Washington, D.C., and the…

Rep. Cline talks representing Salem in Congress

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Salem now has a new member of Congress. Rep. Ben Cline, a Republican who represents Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, now represents the city after redistricting moved the boundaries of Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, which is represented by Rep. Morgan Griffith.  Cline won the ability to represent Salem in November’s general election…

Ben Cline on the border crisis, House speaker election, record-breaking inflation

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ROANOKE, Va. – Representative Ben Cline joined 10 News in the studio to discuss several hot topics in politics. On Wednesday, Cline addressed the border crisis, Kevin McCarthy’s election as House speaker, and the record-breaking inflation affecting items like eggs and bacon. You can watch our full conversation with Cline above. To…

Rep. Ben Cline to chair budget and spending task force

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The Republican House leadership has assigned Sixth District Rep. Ben Cline to look for ways to cut excessive spending in the federal budget. Cline, R-Botetourt, announced this week he has been appointed the chairman of the Republican Study Committee’s budget and spending task force... “For decades and across both parties, Congress has failed to pass balanced…

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…