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The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion. Here's How We Got in This Mess. This is the first time the national debt has ever exceeded $19 trillion. That's more than $58,000 for each person who lives in the U.S. today (including children).  Read More

News Find Out How Your Congressman Voted on a Measure Overriding Obama's Veto of Obamacare Repeal Bill "What we are proving today is if we have a Republican president next year, we will repeal Obamacare and we will replace Obamacare," said House Speaker Paul Ryan.  Read More

News This State Could Soon Become First to Stop Transgender Students From Using Opposite-Sex Bathrooms "Federal bureaucrats are threatening to withhold federal funding from schools that do not allow transgender students full, unrestricted access to facilities of the opposite biological sex," warned the lawmaker behind the bill.  Read More

News Conservatives to Outline Plan to 'Take Back America' Two dozen members of Congress will tackle aspects of "a blueprint to take back America" during Heritage Action's Conservative Policy Summit happening today.  Read More

Commentary Finally, America May Be Catching On to Ethanol Racket The results of the Iowa caucus proved even Iowans—long seen as fervent proponents of ethanol don't view Washington's favoritism to it as necessarily still required.  Read More

Commentary Your Tax Dollars Will Fund the Next Global Bailout Corrupt, oil-cursed countries have caught the whiff of "free" money and are getting in line to seek International Monetary Fund bailouts. Sen. Ben Sasse: Conservatives Don't Need a 'Republican Barack Obama' "The idea that a 'strong man' can save us isn't true," said Sen. Ben Sasse. "What America needs is a constitutional recovery."  Read More News House Freedom Caucus Hits Back at Paul Ryan The House Freedom Caucus rallied against Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday after he suggested the conservative members rein in their goals while Democrats control the executive branch. Read More Commentary Finally, Europe Is Waking Up to Dangers of Multiculturalism When British, French, and German leaders begin to say that immigrants and their children must assimilate and that those who join ISIS may lose their citizenship, it's time to sit up and take notice.  Read More News The New Budget Showdown: Conservatives Want to Disavow Boehner Deal A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projecting trillion-dollar deficit levels by 2022 appears to be persuading more than just the usual suspects to insist on a lower spending level.  Read More News US Bound by Climate Change Deal That Skirts Constitution, House Panel Told "The president's decision to treat the Paris agreement as an executive agreement instead of a treaty is just his latest use of executive power to achieve an end that he knows full well would not pass congressional muster," said The Heritage Foundation's Steven Groves.  Read More News 17 Facts About Football Star Giving Closing Prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast "God is everything. Always keep God first. Always pray. Don't be afraid to pray; he'll always hear your cry," said University of Alabama football player Derrick Henry when accepting the Heisman trophy last year.  Read More