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Sunday, October 9, 2016

FW Newsletter: Harry Reid's Petty Politics

Harry Reid's Petty Politics Block Giving Sick 'Right to Try' Treatments

- Adam Brandon via The Hill

"If they saw what it does to somebody who was a healthy mom with a good career and great friends, and then all of a sudden this different path you can’t come back from, they would all say, 'what can I do to help?'"

That’s what Trickett Wendler, a mother of three young children, told a Milwaukee-based news station in February 2015, roughly a month before she succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Also called "Lou Gehrig's disease," after the legendary New York Yankees first baseman, ALS is a terrible, debilitating neurological disease that cuts short the lives of those it ravages.

Sadly, there is no cure.

Wendler knew her time would be cut short, but she bravely fought for every breath, for her loving husband and children. "At this point in time," she said, "I know I’m drawing closer to the end." Read more here...

FreedomWorks' October Legislative Update

FreedomWorks' Book Club Spotlight: "Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document"

In Our Lost Constitution, Senator Mike Lee tells the dramatic, little-known stories behind six of the Constitution’s most indispensable provisions. He shows their rise. He shows their fall. And he makes vividly clear how nearly every abuse of federal power today is rooted in neglect of this Lost Constitution. Get your copy here...

ObamaCare Rate Hikes: Incompetence or Sabotage?

- by Newt Gingrich via Real Clear Politics

Most Americans have seen the headlines about skyrocketing health-care premiums and insurers fleeing the individual marketplace—but few people understand why these things are happening. When you learn the story behind the trends, however, it’s hard not to wonder whether the Obama administration is deliberately sabotaging Obamacare.

The idea seems absurd until you examine how badly CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has administered a critical part of the law, the so-called premium stabilization programs. These programs were supposed to help the individual marketplace adjust to Obamacare’s new rules, and prevent the market from entering a “death spiral” of increasing premiums and fewer choices. Read more here...

Strings Attached: The One-Sided Relationship Between the FDA and the Media

- by Michael Hall

To the modern American, the word propaganda may conjure up images of World War II, Soviets, or even an Orwellian police state. It just does not sound like something that is encountered in America today. But the truth is that propaganda is still alive and kicking and, as covered by a recent Scientific American article, the FDA utilizes journalists to disseminate propaganda.

Sometimes when there’s a new story coming out of an institution, that institution will invite reporters to a meeting where select journalists will get the story early, but it’s all done under the agreement that the story will not be published until a specified time on a specified date. It’s an old journalistic tool known as an embargo, and before the embargo is lifted, reporters typically seek outside comment on the stories to get the perspective of an expert or some interested party. This is done so that a story is published with a variety of viewpoints in an effort to keep readers informed and to help readers reach their own conclusions. Read more here...

Regulators Target Payday Loans, But Put Borrowers in a Bind

- via Competitive Enterprise Institute

Payday loans are a form of small-dollar, short-term credit used by lower- and middle-income consumers, principally to enable them to withstand expense shocks and to smooth consumption when their income is “lumpy.”

In a report published today by Competitive Enterprise Institute, I explain how the payday-lending policy debate has largely moved on from earlier squabbles over whether lenders earn abnormally high profits, target minorities or, on balance, harm consumers; economic literature now substantially resolves these issues in lenders’ favor. Read more here...

The Austrian Business Cycle

Peter Schiff gives insight on the business cycle, booms and busts, expansions and recessions that are baffling to many economists across the political spectrum. Most people still think that recessions occur randomly or are caused by irrational behavior by consumers. Only the Austrian School of economics has a fully-developed theory to account for the business cycle—that booms and busts are caused by government intervention in markets, sending distorted signals to investors. The resulting malinvestments are the cause of booms and busts. Watch it here...

New Regulations Threaten Innovative Methods of Payment

- by Kenny Stein

On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized new rules on certain types of increasingly popular new payment methods. While primarily aimed at prepaid debit cards, the regulations are so broad that they also include new mobile payment options such as Google Wallet, PayPal, Venmo, and potentially many more. The rules effectively seek to regulate all these financial products in much the same manner that credit cards are currently regulated, with all the paperwork and compliance that entails. The new regulations threaten to crush these flexible payment methods simply because the bureaucrats cannot contemplate that a business activity might be better off beyond the reach of the regulators.

In recent years, payment methods outside of traditional bank accounts and credit cards have grown in popularity. Prepaid cards, for example, allow low-income Americans to receive, store and spend their paychecks in much the same way as checking account-linked debit cards, but for significantly less cost in fees. Apps like Google Wallet, PayPal, and Venmo give a convenient payment option to those Americans, such as young people, that cannot qualify for credit cards. All these products have arisen because of the cost of traditional financial products from banks and credit card companies. Costs that are often created by federal regulations, for example, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Read more here...

The Serious Reality for Kids In Solitary Confinement

- by Christina Herrin

Locking a child up for extended periods of time ranging from several days, weeks, months, and even years without human contact for 23 hours a day causes permanent psychological damage. Children are in the crucial stages of development; it is important to consider that solitary confinement does particularly affect youth physically and emotionally, which can lead to irreversible trauma, psychosis, depression, and even self-harm. Half of all suicides in juvenile facilities occur when youth are in solitary confinement.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has stated that the “isolation of children is dangerous and inconsistent with best practices and that excessive isolation can constitute cruel and unusual punishment.” The U.S. Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence also stated, “Nowhere is the damaging impact of incarceration on vulnerable children more obvious than when it involves solitary confinement.” Read more here...

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Friday, October 7, 2016

Dinner: Obamacare Hurts the Poor -- worsens Medicaid!

Mike Thompson, Chairman/President

9035 Golden Sunset Lane • Springfield, Virginia 22153

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You are cordially invited

To a Jefferson Institute Private Federal Policy Dinner

How Obamacare Has Worsened Medicaid

Brian Blase, Senior Research Fellow

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

6:30 pm cocktails, 7:00 pm dinner

JR's Stockyard's Inn

8130 Watson Street t McLean, VA 22102

$55.00 per person

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Obamacare continues to be an anchor on the legs of American business and is totally restructuring what was the greatest health care system in the world. Read about our speaker and background on this important dinner briefing here.

This is a timely discussion since Hillary Clinton's first foray into national issues was her efforts to foist upon us a program similar to Obamacare when Bill Clinton was our President. I was one of the national spokesmen in the campaign that finally derailed that effort. But now we are faced with the results of a one-vote margin of victory in the Senate that brought us Obamacare.

Please join us on Thursday evening, October 13th.

Thanks to the generous support of the Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation, dinner is only $55, and you can register for this outstanding event by clicking here.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Fw: Hillary Panicking After Video of Bill is Discovered, This is Gross

Fwd: FW: Hey President Obama, that's illegal

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Oct. 4, 2016
The House and the Senate are in recess until Nov. 14 and the vice presidential candidates debate tonight. Here is your weekly insight: The Obama administration is illegally trying to keep Obamacare alive. Congress set in motion a massive spending binge and then left town. Also, a D.C. Council committee is expected to vote on physician-assisted suicide. Take notes, we have the best conservative policy recommendations right here. —Michelle Cordero, Managing Editor, Heritage.org
Hey President Obama, that's illegal. On Friday, the Government Accountability Office—the federal government's watchdog—found that the Obama administration has been breaking the law to keep Obamacare afloat. To keep health insurers from dropping out of Obamacare, the Health and Human Services Department raided $2 billion in taxpayer funds intended to pay down the deficit and dealt it out to health insurers. Paul Winfree, director of Heritage's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Richard F. Aster fellow, said the report confirmed the Obama administration has been "illegally stiffing the American taxpayer in order to prop up the crumbling Obamacare system."
Get ready for a spending binge on Capitol Hill. Before leaving town, Congress passed a bill that funds government until Dec. 9. Their actions set the stage for more out-of-control spending during a lame-duck session, when many members of Congress no longer are accountable to the American people. It is immoral for lawmakers who might be retiring or voted out of office to pass substantive legislation that does not represent the will of the people. Read Heritage's report on the implications of lame-duck sessions.
Liberals want to make the District of Columbia "a place to die with dignity." The D.C. Council's Committee on Health and Human Services is expected to take up a measure Wednesday that would offer the option of assisted suicide to terminally ill adults. Heritage's William E. Simon fellow, Ryan Anderson, has warned that legalizing physician-assisted suicide is a mistake because it has the capacity to endanger the weak and vulnerable, corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor-patient relationship, compromise family and caretaker commitments, and betray human dignity and rights before the law. Read Anderson's powerful report.
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Wednesday at noon, Edwin Meese III, former U.S. attorney general and Heritage's Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow emeritus, and Judge William H. Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will discuss the 30th anniversary of Meese's speech on "The Law of the Constitution," which was part of a series of speeches advancing a jurisprudence of originalism. Watch online here.
Thursday at 11:15 a.m., Mike Needham, CEO of Heritage Action for America, will discuss the state of conservatism on Facebook Live. Watch online here.
Thursday afternoon, Lindsay Burke, Heritage's Will Skillman fellow in education, will talk about education savings accounts at the 24th State Policy Network Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
Friday, Nick Loris, Heritage's Herbert and Joyce Morgan research fellow in energy and environmental policy, will speak at Penn State University on climate change regulations.
POLICY PICTURE This is some good information from the Herriage Foundation. Don't forget the Vice Presidential Candidate Debate tonight and Scroll down for the Heritage email.
Because of unchecked federal spending, publicly held federal debt is at its highest level since World War II and is projected to nearly double in 30 years. Click here for more of the Federal Budget in Pictures.
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Majority Leader Chuck Schumer?

Dear Robert,

This election, the United States Senate is hanging by a thread. And I do NOT want to wake up in November and hear these words: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. I know you don’t either.

So I am working hard to help my colleagues in tough races get re-elected across the country, and we need your help right now making sure Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Rob Portman of Ohio, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania have the resources they need to win re-election.

Can we count on you with a contribution of $250, $100, or even $50 right now? All money raised will be split evenly between these six critical races and go directly toward their campaigns.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. If Democrats take back the Senate we will see an increase in job-killing regulation and legislation, illegal immigration will continue unfettered, new fronts will be opened in the war on oil and gas – and we can forget about repealing Obamacare.

I don’t want to watch the news on November 9th and wonder if there were anything else we could have done to prevent the Senate from being put back in Democratic hands – Chuck Schumer’s hands – and I know you don’t either.

Can I count on you to help protect our Republican majority in the U.S. Senate right now? Whether it is $50, $100, $250, or more, every dollar you contribute right now will go directly to helping senators in some of the toughest races in the nation.

Thank you again for your help!

For Liberty,

Ted Cruz

P.S. You can have an enormous impact – right now – in ensuring Majority Leader Chuck Schumer never becomes a reality. Can we count on your support?

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Majority Leader Chuck Schumer?

Dear Robert,

This election, the United States Senate is hanging by a thread. And I do NOT want to wake up in November and hear these words: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. I know you don’t either.

Can we count on you with a contribution of $250, $100, or even $50 right now? All money raised will be split evenly between these six critical races and go directly toward their campaigns.

Thank you again for your help!

For Liberty,

Ted Cruz

P.S. You can have an enormous impact – right now – in ensuring Majority Leader Chuck Schumer never becomes a reality. Can we count on your support?

PAID FOR BY TED CRUZ FOR SENATE

www.tedcruz.org

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer?

Dear Robert,

This election, the United States Senate is hanging by a thread. And I do NOT want to wake up in November and hear these words: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. I know you don’t either.

Can we count on you with a contribution of $250, $100, or even $50 right now? All money raised will be split evenly between these six critical races and go directly toward their campaigns.

Thank you again for your help!

For Liberty,

Ted Cruz

P.S. You can have an enormous impact – right now – in ensuring Majority Leader Chuck Schumer never becomes a reality. Can we count on your support?

PAID FOR BY TED CRUZ FOR SENATE

www.tedcruz.org