With all due respect @ChrisVanHollen you haven’t attended a single meeting to discuss any of this over the last 18 months. Had you bothered to be engaged in actual legislation, as opposed to social media videos, you’d know this bill has the strictest ethics provisions in the history of the US Congress and the first ever legislation to affect the President and Vice President. Without passing the Clarity Act, there are ZERO restrictions to ANY elected official!
As for the “lots of other problems” you basically repeat tired and meaningless statements about illicit finance. Anyone who has watched Latin America destroyed by drug cartels and illegal migration will tell you that cash is the main instrument for illegal activity.
Again, had you bothered to come to a single meeting, or just ask any of us a question, you’d find out that the Clarity Act actually improves law enforcement’s ability to crack down on illicit activity. It’s why national law enforcement groups support this bill!
Finally, the vote on Tuesday just means we move forward to consider the bill. If you have concerns, which is news to those of us working on the bill, let’s get on the bill and then you can offer any amendments you’d like. I know I’m new and you’ve been there for almost a decade, but this is how the Senate should work.
I look forward to you engaging in a constructive way to provide first ever regulation to an industry you claim to need said regulation.
Vote yes on Tuesday, 9/15 at 2:15 pm est! 🇺🇸
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Ohio after a 16-year-old girl who was MISSING FOR 263 DAYS was found hidden inside the home of her 48-year-old FORMER TEACHER...
...who had LIED to police TWICE that she wasn't there... and is now charged with only a MISDEMEANOR and is already OUT ON BOND!!!
Yes, you read that right.
He hid a missing child for nearly 9 months, lied to the cops about it TWICE, and he's NOT in prison.
His name is Jobe Binkley, he's 48 and a former high school science teacher in Springfield, Ohio.
On December 2nd of last year, a 16-year-old girl ran away from Huckleberry House, a youth shelter in Columbus.
Her family searched.
Police searched.
The U.S. Marshals searched... for 263 days.
And the whole time, according to police, she was inside her science teachers home.
Police went to that house TWICE during the search.
Twice, court records say, Binkley told them she wasn't there and refused to let officers in... knowing full well she was a missing child.
Neighbors had heard the rumors for MONTHS. One woman two doors down said she'd seen Facebook posts that the girl might be inside. She kept checking the yard and she never saw her.
On August 21st, officers came back with the Marshals.
This time Binkley admitted it and he called her out of the house himself.
...263 days later
And after the lying, the hiding, and a family's nine months of terror, prosecutors charged him with ONE count of "interference with custody."
A first-degree misdemeanor.
He pleaded not guilty. He posted bond. He went home.
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!!!!!!!!!
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces he's REMOVING ALL TARIFFS on Irish Whiskey, effective immediately
And the crowd's reaction was SO LOUD that it COMPLETELY drowned out his microphone 🤣
"On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs — " (CROWD ROARS)
1986. Georgia farmer Leonard Hill walked out of his house 20 minutes before the bank auctioned his family’s five-generation farm. He never came back.
He took his own life, hoping insurance would cover $300,000 in drought debt. It didn’t. His 66-year-old widow Annabel was left to face the auction alone.
An Atlanta businessman started making calls. One reached a 40-year-old New York developer named Donald Trump.
Trump called the bank himself. When they said the foreclosure was happening, he told them he’d sue for wrongful death if they proceeded. The bank backed down.
Americans sent checks. It still wasn’t enough. Trump and a Texas oilman quietly covered the last $78,000. No press release. No cameras.
Annabel’s family still lives on that farm today.
The media never tells you this side of Trump.
A widow with no lobbyist got a phone call and $78,000 she never had to repay.
Remember that the next time they claim they already know everything about the man.
#Trump #AmericaFirst #Farmers #TheRealTrump #MediaLies
They’re already pushing the narrative that Republicans will drop Sophie Cunningham because her boyfriend is Black.
Raise your hand if you don’t give a single damn who she dates. 🙋🏽♀️
My nephew Michael Hines was born with cerebral palsy. He came into this world with every strike against him, and yet he never had an unhappy day. He was a luminous soul, sent by God to teach us all how to live in gratitude and love.
He died a week before his 21st birthday in May 2024. His organs went to nine recipients and saved two lives, including the mother of an intellectually disabled child. His heart went to a nine-year-old boy.
After a lifetime of giving the gift of love, he died giving the gift of life.
Orlando. April 2024.
Charlie once said we should be building two statues for every statue that they tear down. His instinct was always to build, not to destroy.
They thought a bullet would silence my husband’s voice but it only made it louder. They think spray paint can obscure his legacy, but it will only spread it further. Every attempt to tear down what Charlie built makes us root deeper and work even harder.
And if you think crossing out the name of Jesus Christ will silence Christians, history has already proved you wrong. We know what it costs to stand firm for Christ and we will stand anyway. God will not be mocked.
We’ll put His name right back where it belongs, clean up the mess, restore Charlie's statue, and keep building.
We will never give up and never surrender.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. A jaw-dropping CBS report just found that an American surrogate mother thought she was carrying a child for a “single father” but he’s actually a CHINESE BILLIONAIRE that already had 100+ KIDS
This is EXACTLY the crisis with upholding birthright citizenship! 🤯
His name: Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire with TONS of U.S. citizen children — as many as 300
SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito called it: Our adversaries are GAMING birthright citizenship and exploiting it
Now, all of these Chinese kids could have full allegiance to the CCP, come here FREELY and VOTE to undermine us — or perhaps worse
Congress needs to pass a law ASAP so Trump isn’t trying to close this loophole on his own! 🇺🇸