U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) is one of the strongest conservatives in Congress. In 2012, he challenged and defeated an establishment RINO in the Republican primary. After winning election, he cast his first vote against John Boehner for Speaker and has already helped lead important fights against Obamacare funding and new Internet taxes.
Basic tenets of economics dictate that when you tax something, you get less of it. Thats why its incomprehensible that the U.S. Senate is moving to raise taxes on one of the brightest sectors of our struggling economy.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently thanked grassroots activists for helping conservatives in the Senate defeat the recent gun control legislation, which has sparked criticism from the Republican establishment in Washington.
POLITICO: "Never before had President Barack Obama put the moral force and political muscle of his presidency behind an issue quite this big -- and lost quite this badly."
The Senate voted yesterday to bring Harry Reid's unconstitutional gun control bill to the Senate floor. This was major setback, but this debate is far from over and there is good reason to believe we can win it.