Category: Government Updates
Pro-family Groups Warn Department of Education Not to Ruin Women’s Sports
Twenty-eight pro-family organizations have warned the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in a letter not to re-interpret the federal education law known as Title IX...
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Codify ‘Roe,’ Pass ‘Equality Act,’ President Biden Urges Congress in State of the Union Speech
President Joe Biden delivered his second annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening to a joint session of Congress. The 73-minute address touched...
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Members of Congress Introduce Legislation to Save Girls Sports
February 1, 2023, was National Girls and Women in Sports Day. To celebrate, U.S. Representative Greg Steube reintroduced legislation to save girls and women’s sports....
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Minnesota Governor Signs Radical Abortion Bill into Law
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a radical abortion bill into law, reaffirming that abortion is legal in the state and that every woman has...
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U.S. House Will Investigate the Federal Government’s Censorship of Conservatives
The U.S. House of Representatives now has a Republican majority with new priorities, and one of the first things the House approved in its first...
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EXPLAINER: New U.S. House Rules Package Promises Transparency, Votes on Fiscal and Family Issues
Most people are aware that the U.S. House of Representatives required a nearly unprecedented 15 votes over several days to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,...
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Ron DeSantis Sworn in for Second Term, Says Florida is Where ‘Woke Goes to Die’
Ron DeSantis was sworn in for a second term as the governor of Florida on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. He took his oath of office...
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Proposed HHS Conscience Rule Removes Protections for Healthcare Providers Who Object to Performing Abortions, Sex-Change Surgeries
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule that will eliminate conscience protections contained in its previous 2019 rule...
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Taxpayer Money for Beagle Puppies, Romancing Parrots, and Fighting Hamsters, Oh My!
For eight years running, Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., has released an annual “Festivus Report” chronicling the billions of taxpayer dollars that the federal government wasted...
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Military COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Ended, ‘Draft Women’ Provision Removed From NDAA
In welcome news for the holiday season, the final version of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) came with a couple of unexpected gifts....
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President Signs ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Into Law
President Joe Biden signed the deceptively titled Respect for Marriage Act into law on Tuesday afternoon, officially redefining marriage for the purpose of federal law....
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Breaking: House Passes ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ – Redefines Marriage in Federal Law
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 258 to 169 to pass H.R. 8404, the disingenuously named “Respect for Marriage Act.” The act, which embeds a...
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Defense Bill May End Military Vaccine Mandate With Possible Backpay for Punished Servicemembers
Members of Congress are currently debating whether to end the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in this year’s FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)....
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Focus on the Family President Jim Daly’s Statement on Senate Passage of Same-Sex Marriage Bill
The United States Senate’s passage of H.R. 8404, the deceptively titled “Respect for Marriage Act,” is a blow to religious freedom and should it become...
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Contact Your Senators: Proposed ‘Amendment’ to ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Doesn’t Fix Religious Freedom Concerns
Following the midterms, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is rushing the Senate to pass the falsely named “Respect for Marriage Act,” H.R. 8404, which...
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Lame-Duck Alert: Senate Could Vote on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Before End of Year
Though election results are still being tabulated and the final results for the last remaining U.S. House and Senate races are not fully known, the...
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Tennessee Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Ban ‘Trans’ Procedures on Minors
Tennessee lawmakers have introduced legislation in the Volunteer State to prohibit “sex change” procedures from being performed on minors. Tennessee Majority Leaders William Lamberth and...
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CDC Votes to Add COVID-19 Vaccines to Childhood Immunization Schedule
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to include the COVID-19 vaccines on the...
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Virginia Rep. Introducing Bill to Criminalize Parents Who Don’t Affirm Child’s ‘Gender Identity’
Virginia delegate Elizabeth Guzman is planning to introduce a bill that would criminally penalize parents who refuse to affirm their child’s sexual identity confusion, and...
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Senators Introduce ‘Don’t Draft Our Daughters’ Amendment to Defense Bill
A group of nine Republican senators have introduced an amendment to the fiscal year 2023 (FY 23) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) removing language that...
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California Governor Signs Radical Bill into Law, Making State a Sanctuary for Child ‘Sex Changes’
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a radical bill into law that makes the Golden State a sanctuary for child sex changes. On September 29,...
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Two Lawsuits Filed Against Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
After the president announced an unprecedented student loan forgiveness plan last month, many speculators questioned the program’s constitutionality and wondered whether or not the plan...
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Senator Introduces Bill Promoting ‘Parental Rights’ in Education
U.S. Senator Tim Scott has introduced a bill aimed at protecting parental rights in education. Sen. Scott introduced the Parental Rights Over the Education and...
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New Virginia Rule Requires Parental Consent for Schools to Treat Students as ‘Trans’
The Virginia Department of Education (the Department) has released a new rule requiring schools to obtain written permission from parents before treating their children as...
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