Updates from Senate Republicans and the Senate Republican Conference, led by @SenTomCotton.
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Democrats and the media say these are peaceful student protests—they’re not. They are communist riots.
This is a preview of what the communist Islamist alliance in the Democrat Party has in store for America.
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Big thanks to President Trump for signing our License to Drill Act into law!
American energy producers already pay the fees that fund the processing of their drilling permits. The keeps that industry-funded system in place, giving the Bureau of Land Management the resources to process applications without unnecessary delays.
There’s much more work to do to fix our broken permitting system—we should pass BAAJA as soon as Congress is back in session—but this is another important step toward unleashing American energy and lowering the cost of living for American families.
SIGNED: My bill, the License to Drill Act, has officially been signed into law by @POTUS.
For Utah and communities across the country, this legislation will reduce permitting delays, strengthen American energy production, help improve energy affordability, and support the U.S. in keeping up with growing energy demand.
The future of American energy independence is bright.
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Democrats wanted higher civil monetary penalties enforced by the Justice Department for digital asset violations.
The Clarity Act raises them.
Democrats voted no on the motion to proceed, effectively saying they felt imposing tougher penalties on crypto crime wasn’t even worth a debate, let alone passing.
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Republicans fight 4 law & order
Democrats under Biden DOJ tracked more than half a million Americans who supported Republicans as early as 2005 + ppl who just bought a MAGA hat
The contrast couldnt b clearer
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Modernizing America’s aviation infrastructure means safer, more efficient travel & new opportunities for airports across our country.
I’m working with @SecDuffy to advance the Modern Skies Act & deliver the investments our airports need to keep America moving forward!
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.@ABC21WPTA: "Banks (R) announced that his fifth Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit will be livestreamed on YouTube & X."
"The 2-day summit on Oct 27 & 28 will bring together senior Trump admin officials, military leaders, members of Congress & defense industry executives"
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Too many West Virginia communities depend on rural health care for us to let this opportunity pass us by.
That’s why I voted for the Working Families Tax Cuts, which created the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program. We need to make every dollar count for our state.
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I’m eager to see more of these additional Rural Health Care Transformation Fund resources put to work in Mississippi to strengthen the rural healthcare workforce and expand access to psychiatric emergency services. Improving the availability and quality of healthcare for rural communities in Mississippi and across the nation is critical, and I will keep working to ensure Mississippians have increased access to quality care, no matter where they live.
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The Rural Health Transformation Fund continues to transform hospital services and patient care across Mississippi. Through the program, we are improving patient outcomes by recruiting, educating, and training a highly skilled health care workforce.
Today, I announced 60 Rural Health Transformation Program awards totaling more than $32.6 million.
These investments will help Mississippi train, recruit and retain the health care professionals our rural communities need and help close gaps in mental health care by strengthening our state’s Psychiatric Emergency Services.
We set out to transform health care across our state, and that’s what we’re doing. These investments will help Mississippi families get the care they deserve closer to home and strengthen health care for generations to come.
Thank you to President Trump, Secretary Kennedy and Administrator Oz for their partnership in improving health care for Mississippi and her people.
It’s another great day for Mississippi!
Democratic socialists would go back to amnesty and open borders, inviting more foreign criminals to terrorize our streets.
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It’s clear—The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is backed by immense support!
We need permitting reform NOW to unleash American energy, lower costs for families, and protect our national security. Let’s get this bill passed!
NEWS: 19 FORMER ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS ENDORSE THE BIPARTISAN PERMITTING REFORM BILL
Today, a group of former Cabinet members and White House principals across seven Democratic and Republican administrations sent a letter calling on Congress to pass BAAJA. Here are the signatories:
Janet YELLEN, Michael R. POMPEO, Steven T. MNUCHIN, Leon E. PANETTA, Timothy F. GEITHNER, Henry M. PAULSON, Jr., Robert E. RUBIN, Stephen MIRAN, Jared BERNSTEIN, Tyler GOODSPEED, Jason FURMAN, Glenn HUBBARD, Laura D’Andrea TYSON, Michael J. BOSKIN, Jeffrey ZIENTS, Jake SULLIVAN, Brian DEESE, Larry KUDLOW, Allan B. HUBBARD
Key highlights from the letter:
1. “We are not building infrastructure fast enough to remain globally competitive… The median time for a new power plant to move from an interconnection request to commercial operation has more than doubled, from less than two years for projects built between 2000 and 2007 to more than four years for projects built between 2018 and 2024.
2. China has built more high-voltage transmission in the last fifteen years than the U.S. has built in all of its history... In 2024, China accounted for 31.5% of global knowledge- and technology-intensive manufacturing value added, compared with 20.7% for the United States.
3. Federally funded or permitted projects require NEPA review, but private projects often do not, creating a threat of failure precisely where the government is trying to be proactive, strategic, and engaged.
4. A project that spends years awaiting approval must continue carrying development and financing costs while remaining exposed to rising input costs. The IEA reports that prices for utility-scale transformers increased 26% in 2024, while lead times for some transformers have stretched as long as six years.
5. Mining projects also face tremendous uncertainty: a 2026 study by researchers at the Colorado School of Mines found that permitting for modern mining projects takes an average of 5.5 years, rising to 8.9 years for contested projects. The U.S. currently has the second-longest mine development timeline in the world.
6. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is the most significant bipartisan legislative effort that Congress has undertaken in decades to tackle these challenges.
7. BAAJA addresses key constraints stifling American industry by requiring interregional transmission planning, strengthening the federal backstop for nationally significant transmission lines, and creating a faster, more predictable process for connecting new generation to the grid.
8. BAAJA also makes permits more durable by imposing tighter timelines for litigation and limiting frivolous lawsuits that can halt projects indefinitely, while preserving community input and judicial review of substantive agency decisions.”
The letter was organized by @arnabdatta321 on behalf of @IFP and covered exclusively by the WSJ this morning.
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❌ZERO releases at the border for seventeen straight months
🔽95% fewer border apprehensions compared to the Biden era
🔼63% increase in drug seizures
The most secure southern border in history. That is the Republican agenda in action.
Democrats’ socialist agenda promises everything for “free.”
But in reality, working Americans will be forced to pick up the tab.
Their plan is to nearly triple federal income taxes on working families to pay for wealthy Americans’ healthcare and college tuition.
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We stopped building ships here at home, and as a result, we’ve become too dependent on other countries for our commercial shipping needs. It’s time to build American ships again.
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REPUBLICANS raised references prices/strengthened farm safety net thru Working Families Tax Cuts Act + advanced a Senate Farm Bill
Democrats voted AGAINST BOTH the tax bill & farm bill
Tells u all u need 2 kno abt who Rural America can depend on
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"BAAJA represents substantial positive reforms to our permitting system, maintaining high environmental standards while providing clear rules for getting energy infrastructure built. BAAJA would help significantly increase clean energy deployment and expands our transmission network to deliver new, affordable, reliable electricity to the homes and businesses that rely on it."
Thank you to the leaders at @ACORE, @AdvEnergyUnited, @USCleanPower, @CEBAPower, & @SEIA for your support for these desperately-needed bipartisan reforms.
Scoop: Clean energy trades @CEBAPower, @ACORE, @AdvEnergyUnited, @USCleanPower, & @SEIA are formally endorsing the Senate's bipartisan permitting reform bill in a joint letter to congressional leaders punchbowl.news/baaja-joint-t…
Republicans have made historic progress securing the border. Zero illegal aliens have been released for 17 straight months.
Illegal aliens know Democrats will reverse this the moment they get the chance.
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President Trump has secured the border, and this caravan will be stopped.
Tragically, such caravans are often rife with human trafficking and horrific violence against women and children.
This is why I introduced the Stopping Border Surges Act, which would permanently close loopholes that allowed non-parents to claim an unrelated child as their own and let Joe Biden “lose” tens of thousands of children in our country. It would also remove incentives for parents to bring children with them on the hazardous journey to our borders.
For decades, media, politicians, and institutions tacitly encouraged such desperate attempts to march to the United States, only succeeding in increasing human misery at the expense of American border security.
Never again.