Latest Ripon Forum Examines How Congress Can Reclaim Its Rightful Role in Government
WASHINGTON, DC – In remarks yesterday morning before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) called on the Biden Administration to explain a $50 million grant the EPA awarded to the Climate Justice Alliance.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) blasted the Biden Administration for its heavy-handed approach to government regulation, saying it is not only driving up costs for American businesses, but driving up prices for hard-working American families who are struggling to make ends meet.
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Congressman Bob Latta (OH-05) will discuss the agenda of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, including his leadership and legislative priorities as Chair of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. French Hill (AR-02), will discuss his leadership of the Committee’s bipartisan Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how AI is impacting the financial services and housing industries.
Congressmen Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) and Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) will discuss how the House GOP Doctors Caucus is working to enact meaningful patient-focused health care policy and their work as members of the Energy & Commerce and Ways & Means Committees to achieve that goal.
“That man is the best American who has in him the American spirit, the American soul.” Speech in New York City March 17, 1905
“As the years roll by, and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel . . . a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men . . . the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln.”…
“Strength should go hand in hand with courtesy, with scrupulous regard in word and deed, not only for the rights, but for the feelings, of other countries.” Speech in Waukesha, Wisconsin April 3, 1903
RIPON FORUM
Volume 58, No. 03
June 2024
Restoring to Congress the Power of the Purse
In today’s partisan environment, Members of Congress who belong to the same party as the President see their role as being adjuncts to the Executive Branch. That has to stop.
Ripon Profile of Laurel Lee
Laurel Lee discusses the one thing she would change about politics today.