T 2.0

Hüsker Dü said:
I am not rallying behind any of these people disappeared. I’m rallying behind the constitution, the rule of law and judges orders. You are the one rallying behind an asshole.
Click to expand...
"I remember you bashing Biden for ignoring the Constitution." - Sincerely, Nobody

Constitution Day Reminds Us: Biden Tramples on the Constitution​

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print this Page Share by Email
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2023

Yesterday was Constitution Day, reminding us that after 235 years, the Constitution remains the greatest governing charter devised by mankind and republicanism, the greatest form of government. As history notes, Benjamin Franklin departed from the Constitutional Convention shortly after helping draft the Constitution to a crowd outside Independence Hall. There, a woman asks, “What form of government did the delegates create?” To which, he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

“Keeping it” is the duty undertaken by Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, beginning the day they take the Oath of Office. However, that duty is made more difficult by the day as the Biden administration takes aim at our hallowed, constitutionally protected rights. In honor of Constitution Day’s passing, here are a few ways in which the Committee, led by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), is fighting the Biden administration’s efforts to trample on the Constitution:

Separation of Powers
  • Pushing Back on Biden’s COVID-19 Mandates. Committee Republicans pushed back on OSHA’s COVID-19 mandates in the workplace, including a tyrannical vaccination-and-testing mandate and a COVID-19 standard mandating pandemic-related precautions for employers in the health care industry. This included grilling Department officials at Committee hearings, introducing a Congressional Review Act resolution, sending multiple letters, and submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging them to stay the vaccine mandate.
  • Stopping Biden’s SAVE Scheme. Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Biden’s student loan scheme unconstitutional, the Education Department unveiled the Savings on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. It will drastically alter the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program that lets borrowers pay back loans based on how much they earn. Experts estimate the SAVE scheme could leave taxpayers on the hook for as much as $559 billion, making it the costliest regulation in U.S. history. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Chairwoman Virginia Foxx have introduced a CRA resolution to block the administration from enacting this radical IDR scheme.
The First Amendment
  • Protecting Religious Student Organizations’ Rights. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, joined by Reps. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rick Allen (R-GA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Lisa McClain, Mary Miller (R-IL), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), and Erin Houchin (R-IN), sent a comment letter to the Department of Education urging it to withdraw a proposed rule that removes additional protections provided to religious student organizations at public institutions of higher education.
  • Defending Faith-Based Contractors. Under the Biden administration, faith-based contractors are losing invaluable protections which safeguarded their ability to compete for federal government contracts freely and fairly. Religious freedom is a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution by the First Amendment, yet this rule infringes upon that sacred right.
The 14th Amendment
  • Protecting Women’s Sports. Progressive organizations, woke universities, and the Biden administration have been working to undermine women’s rights, particularly athletic opportunities. The House-passed Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 restores the safety, privacy, and opportunities of women and girls in sports. Boys and men should not be allowed to compete in girls’ and women’s sports– a majority of Americans agree.
  • Fighting Race-Based Admissions. President Biden’s race-based college admissions regime hit a major stumbling block in the form of two lawsuits from the Students for Fair Admissions, whereby a Supreme Court ruling stated that the process violates the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act. As the administration scrambles to find legal loopholes in the ruling, the Committee plans on holding colleges, universities, and the federal government funding them, to account.
 
Slobodan said:
"I remember you bashing Biden for ignoring the Constitution." - Sincerely, Nobody

Constitution Day Reminds Us: Biden Tramples on the Constitution​

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print this Page Share by Email
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2023

Yesterday was Constitution Day, reminding us that after 235 years, the Constitution remains the greatest governing charter devised by mankind and republicanism, the greatest form of government. As history notes, Benjamin Franklin departed from the Constitutional Convention shortly after helping draft the Constitution to a crowd outside Independence Hall. There, a woman asks, “What form of government did the delegates create?” To which, he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

“Keeping it” is the duty undertaken by Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, beginning the day they take the Oath of Office. However, that duty is made more difficult by the day as the Biden administration takes aim at our hallowed, constitutionally protected rights. In honor of Constitution Day’s passing, here are a few ways in which the Committee, led by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), is fighting the Biden administration’s efforts to trample on the Constitution:

Separation of Powers
  • Pushing Back on Biden’s COVID-19 Mandates. Committee Republicans pushed back on OSHA’s COVID-19 mandates in the workplace, including a tyrannical vaccination-and-testing mandate and a COVID-19 standard mandating pandemic-related precautions for employers in the health care industry. This included grilling Department officials at Committee hearings, introducing a Congressional Review Act resolution, sending multiple letters, and submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging them to stay the vaccine mandate.
  • Stopping Biden’s SAVE Scheme. Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Biden’s student loan scheme unconstitutional, the Education Department unveiled the Savings on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. It will drastically alter the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program that lets borrowers pay back loans based on how much they earn. Experts estimate the SAVE scheme could leave taxpayers on the hook for as much as $559 billion, making it the costliest regulation in U.S. history. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Chairwoman Virginia Foxx have introduced a CRA resolution to block the administration from enacting this radical IDR scheme.
The First Amendment
  • Protecting Religious Student Organizations’ Rights. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, joined by Reps. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rick Allen (R-GA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Lisa McClain, Mary Miller (R-IL), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), and Erin Houchin (R-IN), sent a comment letter to the Department of Education urging it to withdraw a proposed rule that removes additional protections provided to religious student organizations at public institutions of higher education.
  • Defending Faith-Based Contractors. Under the Biden administration, faith-based contractors are losing invaluable protections which safeguarded their ability to compete for federal government contracts freely and fairly. Religious freedom is a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution by the First Amendment, yet this rule infringes upon that sacred right.
The 14th Amendment
  • Protecting Women’s Sports. Progressive organizations, woke universities, and the Biden administration have been working to undermine women’s rights, particularly athletic opportunities. The House-passed Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 restores the safety, privacy, and opportunities of women and girls in sports. Boys and men should not be allowed to compete in girls’ and women’s sports– a majority of Americans agree.
  • Fighting Race-Based Admissions. President Biden’s race-based college admissions regime hit a major stumbling block in the form of two lawsuits from the Students for Fair Admissions, whereby a Supreme Court ruling stated that the process violates the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act. As the administration scrambles to find legal loopholes in the ruling, the Committee plans on holding colleges, universities, and the federal government funding them, to account.
Click to expand...
Whataboutism.

AKA, what liberals claim when their hypocrisy is pointed out to them.
 
watfly said:
Um, that's only a compounded annual increase of 1.1%, which is only about 1/3 of CPI during the same period.
Click to expand...
I agree with the math, but we were still in Iraq & Afghanistan in 2010. We were pretty much out of Iraq by 2011. There's a clear decline in spending, which is good, and then it ramped up again because ... I'm not sure why TBH. I also do not understand the need to balance the external and internal 51%/49%, that looks very odd to me. Anyway, apparently there is a target of reducing it by 10%, we'll see. The Europeans are ramping up, so we should be able to ramp down. We should also probably close some of the approx. 800 bases we have in 80 countries, do we really need that?
 
watfly said:
Here is a healthy dose of whataboutism. In the same time period, the DOE spending grew from $40b to $268 b, or a compound annual increase of 14.5%. This is while our test scores are falling.

Yes, DOE spending is considerably less than DOD, but DOE is still the 6th biggest spending department in our federal government. Education can be handled by the states, but national defense cannot. I have no doubt, that there is overspending in defense, but its costs are not rising in an out of control manner like other departments.
Click to expand...
The DoE is an odd one. Its budget has remained basically static from 2010, but then jumped ... leaped ... soared way up there ... for 2022 & 2023 and is now back to the same level as 2010 again. I don't understand why we suddenly needed to spend nearly a trillion dollars at the DoE from 2022-23, and I don't buy Covid as the excuse. I am "happy" they have it back to 2010 levels.

1746135775834.png
 
Slobodan said:
Because it's not ignorance. He knows exactly what he's doing. And as I told you before, the democrats created this problem. The same thing happened when Biden announced our borders were open and, 2 months before the next election, blamed Trump for our borders being open after spending 2-3 years saying we didn't have an open border.

Would I have supported this 4-5 years ago? Probably not. But knowing the democrats deliberately brought illegal aliens here, without a pot to piss in, and financially supported them with our tax dollars so they'd vote for democrats... because requiring I.D. is racist... you get to lay in the bed you made.
Click to expand...
You didn't answer the question.
 
watfly said:
That's a load of bullshit, because you're absolutely trying to pretend he'd didn't beat his wife. Regardless, why weren't your rallying behind the rule of law when these migrants came into our country? Convenient that you're all of sudden behind the rule of law because your puppeteers tell you so.
Click to expand...
You are assigning a past stance to me? How convenient for you. Again with the what about the narrative you were fed and believed wholeheartedly. You can’t excuse your current POV because of your assumptions about what think others may have thought in the past. You can try if that’s gonna make you feel better about yourself but don’t push your fiction on me.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
You are assigning a past stance to me? How convenient for you. Again with the what about the narrative you were fed and believed wholeheartedly. You can’t excuse your current POV because of your assumptions about what think others may have thought in the past. You can try if that’s gonna make you feel better about yourself but don’t push your fiction on me.
Click to expand...
Devil talk☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ When the Devil met up with Jesus in the desert to give him the world, he talked just like Du Du......
 
Hüsker Dü said:
There’s something we agree on.
Click to expand...
Well, that makes three of us. I wrote President Trump to make Camp P one of his 10 Freedom cities he's going to build. All the wounded warriors and hero's get beach front land. The kids that have been trafficked also get a place on the beach.
 
espola said:
You didn't answer the question.
Click to expand...
I did. I told you it's not ignorance and I probably wouldn't support what's happening 4-5 years ago, but I support it now because it's a problem democrats created, and I don't support them importing votes from other countries.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top