WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Sept. 22, Sen. Rand Paul will travel on Air Force One with President Obama to assay the conditions at the Brent Spence Bridge in Northern Kentucky. “I am looking forward to speaking with the President in my home state to address the express need for attention to our nation’s critical [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Sen. Rand Paul introduced, and the Senate voted on, two amendments to Federal Aviation Administration/Highway Extension bill. His first amendment, to cap the highway authorization level to the amount of revenue in the Highway Trust Fund, was not agreed to, with a final vote of 14-84. Sen. Paul’s second amendment, to [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Sen. Rand Paul introduced, and the Senate voted on, an amendment to offset funding for federal disaster aid through cuts to foreign spending. The amendment was not agreed to, with a final vote of 20-78. “Increasing our national debt at a time when our country is in financial dire straits is [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Obama will award Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer with the highest honor bestowed on military, the Medal of Honor, for his valor and bravery in saving over 30 lives on one day in Afghanistan in 2009. Upon attending Sgt. Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony, Sen. Paul issued the following statement regarding [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the Senate expected to address providing additional funds for disaster aid soon, Sen. Rand Paul is calling for spending offsets from foreign aid to fund increased disaster assistance. Increasing federal funding for disaster assistance should be allocated without increasing our national debt – but rather through equal cuts in foreign spending. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In light of President Obama’s presentation of his so-called jobs plan to Congress this evening, Sen. Rand Paul offered the following statement: “The urgency with which the President is pushing his jobs proposal on Congress is cause for alarm. Much like Obamacare was rammed down the throats of legislators – and to [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the Senate expected to address providing additional disaster aid funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the next few weeks, Sen. Rand Paul has proposed a solution to addressing this need for added funds. Increasing federal funding to FEMA should be allocated without increasing our national debt – but rather [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today introduced legislation and took to the Senate floor to call for a Senate vote of no confidence in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The passage of the motion indicates that the U.S. Congress has no confidence that Secretary Geithner will institute policies that will reverse the downgrade in America’s [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the Obama Administration’s release today of the past month’s job creation statistics from the Department of Labor, Sen. Rand Paul gave the below statement in response: “The Labor Department’s report of zero net job creation in August is dismal news for the millions of Americans looking for a job. But while [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, President Obama nominated Princeton labor economist Alan Krueger to become the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Sen. Rand Paul issued the following statement in response: “Alan Krueger is nothing more than an extreme government interventionist, cut from the same cloth as those who have failed to correctly [...]
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