California, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey | October 25, 2021
Nancy Pelosi’s Radical Spending Bill Would Overturn Pro-Life Laws, Force Americans to Fund Abortions
California, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey | October 25, 2021
On Friday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy hosted a roundtable on the Hyde Amendment and taxpayer funding of abortions as part of an ongoing series about the Build Back Better reconciliation bill.
Members of Congress attending the roundtable included House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Representative Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.), and Representative Andy Harris, M.D. (R-Md.).
The following remarks were made by Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee:
Leader McCarthy, Rep. Smith, Rep. Fischbach, Rep. Harris, thank you for this opportunity to highlight the radical abortion-expanding provisions of this multi-trillion-dollar spending spree.
I am Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, the federation of state right-to-life organizations nationwide. Since its inception, NRLC’s organizational mission has been to defend the right to life of innocent human beings. Consistent with that mission, NRLC is opposed to government funding of abortion and government subsidies for health insurance plans that cover abortion…. (Excerpts from LIFENEWS.COM)
District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee | October 7, 2021
Lawmakers Introducing Legislation Targeting Enablers of International Corruption After Pandora Papers Findings
District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee | October 7, 2021
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is set to introduce new legislation aimed at stopping enablers of international corruption in response to the findings highlighted in the Pandora Papers investigation.
The Establishing New Authorities for Business Laundering and Enabling Risks to Security (ENABLERS) Act would make it harder for “kleptocrats” across the globe to launder money in the United States, according to Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).
The bill (pdf) would amend the 51-year-old Bank Secrecy Act by enabling the Treasury Department to impose stronger due diligence requirements on the source of funds for investment advisers, art dealers, attorneys involved in financial activity, company service providers, accountants, PR firms, and third-party payment providers.
Such a due diligence requirement could be something as simple as asking if suspicious funds are the proceeds from a crime…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)