The special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election has summoned former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. The development follows months of negotiations between Department of Justice prosecutors and Pence’s legal team. WATCH: Per The Wall Street Journal: The move represents an escalation in the Justice Department investigation and sets […]
NRA, 25 State Attorneys General Sue ATF Over Pistol Brace Rule
The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Thursday a lawsuit against the pistol brace rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) earlier this year. Fox News has reported the following today: “In a federal lawsuit being filed in North Dakota Thursday, the NRA argues that ATF’s new rule is “arbitrary” and vague […]
As Ukraine Resists, Russian Forces Almost Encircle Strategic Eastern City of Bakhmut
ANALYSIS – This small eastern city is the key to Russia achieving its stated goal of seizing the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk by the spring. Capturing Bakhmut will allow them to cut Ukrainian supply lines in Donetsk. These are Ukrainian regions Russia purportedly annexed in September and claims as Russian territory. It would […]
GOP Wants End to Taxpayer-Funded Abortions at VA
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Residents of Host City Defeat Super Bowl Censorship Ordinance
It’s no secret that local governments are willing and eager to give the owners of sports teams huge amounts of taxpayer money to build new stadiums. But Glendale, Arizona, the site of this year’s Super Bowl, took catering to the NFL and its owners to a new level. The city passed an ordinance that gave […]
Boebert Leads the Way, Introduces the Defund Planned Parenthood Act
With federal taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood exploding in recent years, one conservative in Congress is taking a stand to stop a practice most Americans oppose. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) introduced the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which would prohibit federal tax dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, redirecting those funds to community health centers. “The […]
US House Representative Attacked in DC Apartment Building
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was reportedly assaulted in her Washington, D.C. apartment building Thursday morning. The assault, which occurred in the building’s elevator around 7:15 a.m., left her bruised, according to a statement by Rep. Craig’s chief of staff, Nick Coe. “Rep. Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise […]
US Looking to Prototype Hypersonic Missile Defense
Even as the Kremlin grapples with the reality of losing up to 250,000 young men killed and wounded in the past year and Beijing weighs the pros and cons of a full-scale invasion of Taiwan, threats to the U.S. homeland persist. As last week’s Chinese spy balloon saga reaffirmed. At the same time, technological leaps […]
First Hearing on Politicization of Government Kicks Off, Former Twitter Exec Admits Biden Laptop Story Didn’t Violate Policies
Welcome back to Hill Happenings, your source for the most and least talked about stories on and around Capitol Hill. In a nutshell – these are the stories we won’t miss – even if others have. Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Holds First Hearing One great benefit of having Republicans in control […]
Biden Admits China’s ‘Spy Balloon’ Was a ‘Spy Balloon’
DEFENSE ALERT – In what must be a tremendous shock to some in the media, as well as a few ‘experts’ who dismissed or downplayed the intelligence gathering capabilities of China’s recently downed ‘spy balloon,’ turns out that the giant Chinese airship which flew uninterrupted across the entire United States, was, in fact, a ‘spy […]