Adam Joseph

@CatholicUniv ‘23 | Digital Director @HouseCommerce | Former @HouseSmallBiz | Views are my own

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Americans deserve to know if foreign billionaires or the Chinese Communist Party are funding disinformation campaigns.

But Democrats have an issue when you point that out.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

🚨 BREAKING

@HouseCommerce members are calling for an investigation into China’s efforts to stop the development of American AI and data centers.

The 21st century must be led by America, and @HouseCommerce is ensuring that happens.

Read the letter and more ⬇️
https://t.co/6Fdw8lx9CS

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Thanks to President Trump and the @WHFraudTF, Republicans are finally closing the fraud floodgates the Biden-Harris Administration left wide open.

This work, alongside @HouseCommerce's investigation into Medicaid fraud across the country, is helping protect and maintain Medicaid for America's most vulnerable.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

.@HouseCommerce is proud to have advanced legislation to the House including the Sunshine Protection Act and making Daylight Saving Time permanent.

This bill will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for our economy and put an end to disruptive time changes that needlessly disrupt Americans’ schedule twice a year.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

This ballot language makes a mockery of democracy.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Protecting kids online should be a bipartisan no-brainer. But Democrats walked away from bipartisan discussions.

The KIDS Act holds Big Tech accountable and empowers parents, helping make children and teen's online experience safer than ever before.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

House Republicans are committed to keeping America’s children safe.

That’s why tomorrow, @HouseCommerce is marking up the KIDS Act, requiring safety by default, empowering parents, and holding Big Tech accountable.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

The numbers don’t lie!

The OVERWHELMING majority of voters agree—app stores should have to verify users’ age to prevent minors from downloading apps without parental consent.

It’s not controversial, it’s common sense.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

🚨 MUST READ: @HouseCommerce is investigating the massive sewage spill into the Potomac River in our nation’s capital.

Read how Chairmen @RepGuthrie, @RepJohnJoyce and @USRepGaryPalmer are leading the charge to get answers on this failure ⬇️
https://t.co/XZScFpqGak

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Nine months to fix a sewage spill in DC.

Nine months.

Democrats are failing at the basics of governance.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Republicans' work to lower the cost of health care:

✅ Give every American access to affordable, common prescription drugs
✅ Enact the largest PBM reform in history
✅ Hold fraudsters accountable for abusing Medicaid
✅ Go after massive insurance companies that inflate their profits at the expense of patients

Democrats' 'plan' to lower costs:

❌ Funnel BILLIONS more taxpayer dollars straight to insurance companies

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Congressional Democrats are saying the quiet part out loud.

They would rather middle class Americans pay full price for prescription drugs than give President Trump any credit for MASSIVELY reducing the price of common prescription drugs!

Go to https://t.co/yPAnLHRtbY to see how much you can save 💊

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

JUST UNVEILED: TrumpRx 💊

@POTUS just announced a new measure that will offer discounted prescription drugs directly to American patients.

When it comes to making health care more affordable for all Americans, Republicans are leading the charge 🇺🇸

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

During this week’s hearing on Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes, Democrats were more terrified of using the word "fraud" than the actual crime.

The left is prioritizing semantics while our social services programs are being exploited by criminals.

Watch for yourself ⬇️

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Who does Ranking Member Pallone blame for rising health insurance premiums? Not the big insurance companies who set the prices!

Why? Because House Democrats care more about helping massive insurance companies increase their profits than they do about meaningfully lowering costs for American families.

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Today’s hearing marks the first part of a broader series of Republicans' efforts to make health care more affordable for all Americans.

Today’s @HouseCommerce hearing is putting top health insurance CEOs in the hot seat—it’s time for them to answer to the American People ⬇️
https://t.co/10BmaXiR2c

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

Far left states have spent nearly $2 BILLION American taxpayer dollars on non-emergency health care for illegal immigrants.

Medicaid funds must go to Americans in need—children, pregnant women, seniors, and those with disabilities—NOT illegal immigrants!

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Energy and Commerce Committee @HouseCommerce]

The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act works to address the failures of Obamacare.

As Chairman @RepGuthrie highlights, our legislation reduces health care premiums by 11 percent, while Democrats' plan only reduces premiums by five percent.

It’s time to put the wellbeing of our American patients back at the forefront of our health care system, and that starts with lowering prescription drug prices, lowering health care premiums, and expanding access to more affordable health care through the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act.