Republicans MUST defund this when we get the majority back. A federal gun registry is illegal in the United States. https://t.co/05SoFN7O6A

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 1, 2022

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“Forbes reported on Tuesday about Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s efforts to end federal prohibition of cannabis through her States Reform Act. The story details how both corporate giant Amazon and Charles Koch’s free market advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, are on board.

The piece also digs into the reasons why Mace thinks legalizing cannabis should be a Republican issue.

Libertarian-leaning Republicans like Mace, Rep. Thomas Massie, Sen. Rand Paul, and others have long tried to demonstrate how ‘big government’ can harm Americans in ways that go beyond taxation and overreaching bureaucracy.

The war on drugs has ruined countless lives for generations, particularly for racial minorities.”

Read the entire story.

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Why won’t Attorney General Merrick Garland answer this question?

How many agents or assets of the federal government were present and encouraging protestors to enter the Capitol on Jan 5th and Jan 6th? AG Garland refused to answer.pic.twitter.com/RHq3Yd2pbu

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 14, 2022

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The Washington Post reports, “A federal judge in Missouri has partially halted another one of the Biden administration’s key vaccine requirements, temporarily blocking the imposition of a rule for certain health-care workers in 10 states.

Federal judge blocks Biden vaccine mandate as “arbitrary and capricious.” Ruling states that “Congress did not clearly authorize [Medicare] to enact this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate…https://t.co/giE84SySS6

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 30, 2021

The Biden administration issued the vaccine mandate, for health-care workers at facilities that received funding from Medicare and Medicaid, in early November through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It was estimated to apply to some 1.7 million workers at 76,000 facilities across the country, including hospitals and nursing homes.

But in a 32-page ruling issued on Monday in St. Louis, U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said that a preliminary injunction to halt the rule was warranted because he believed the arguments made by the plaintiffs — 10 mostly Republican-dominated states — that the CMS lacked authority to implement the requirement, probably had merit.”

Read the entire story.

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Reason’s Jacob Sullum writes, “When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) unveiled a ‘discussion draft’ of a marijuana legalization bill last July, he said he wanted to start a conversation that would eventually produce legislation resolving the longstanding conflict between the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and state laws that allow medical or recreational use of cannabis. But his 163-page Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act was full of unnecessarily contentious provisions that seemed likely to alienate potential Republican allies.

This Republican’s marijuana legalization bill aims to attract bipartisan support for repealing federal prohibition. https://t.co/AfhoE77SLE

— reason (@reason) November 15, 2021

A bill unveiled today by Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.) tries to address that problem by outlining a simpler and less burdensome approach that entails less federal involvement, lower taxes, and greater deference to state policy choices.”

Read the entire story.

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Watch the video.

Just saying.

I just played this video for AG Merrick Garland. He refused to comment on how many agents or assets of the federal government were present in the crowd on Jan 5th and 6th and how many entered the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/lvd9n4mMHK

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 21, 2021

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FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “The national debt is rapidly closing in on $29 trillion. The federal government now owes an astounding $228,999 per taxpayer. All the while, politicians in Washington, DC are bickering over whether to spend $4.5 trillion more or ‘just” $1.5 trillion. Yet almost entirely omitted from the debate over the so-called “infrastructure’ spending bonanza is the fact that the federal government is already running off a fiscal cliff—as a new analysis makes plain.

Everyday Americans will ultimately pay the price for the federal government’s recklessness.

My latest, ft. @Brian_Riedl @ManhattanInst‘s fantastic chart book: 4 Scary Charts Show How Fast the Federal Government is Heading Toward Fiscal Disasterhttps://t.co/md2Ld6vlDN

— Brad Polumbo ?? ?‍? (@brad_polumbo) October 18, 2021

The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl recently released his 2021 Chart Book, and it paints a devastating picture of the federal government’s finances.”

Read the entire column.

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Federalization of state and local crimes is a dangerous trend. DOJ and FBI need to stick to investigating federal crimes and Congress needs to quit inventing new federal crimes. pic.twitter.com/pHxLqJJaPH

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 7, 2021

National Review reports, “Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to investigate alleged threats being made against school board officials by a growing coalition of parents who are outraged by the imposition of racialized curricula and COVID-driven shutdowns and mask mandates in their local classrooms.

The order, announced in a memo released Monday, comes after a group that represents school boards urged the Biden administration to review whether confrontations by outraged parents over COVID restrictions and critical race theory violate the Patriot Act.”

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The federal government should not be bribing states to adopt unconstitutional “red flag” laws that, without due process, deprive individuals of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. pic.twitter.com/8JFaKYkki2

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 15, 2021

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No mandates

U.S. News and World Report reports:

“In just the past two weeks, Biden has forced millions of federal workers to attest to
their vaccination status or face onerous new requirements. He’s met with business leaders at the White House to press them to do the same.

If you don’t fight mask mandates, eventually you will get vaccine mandates. https://t.co/bbFuAOf3hU

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the administration has taken steps toward mandating shots for people traveling into the U.S. from overseas. And the White House is weighing options to be more assertive at the state and local level, including potential support for school districts imposing rules to prevent spread of the virus over the objection of Republican leaders.”

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