Jul 16, 2014 | Op-Eds and Blogs
The Senate voted Wednesday on a pointless political exercise – whether to proceed on a bill based on the premise that the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court erodes the right to use contraceptives.The premise is wrong. That’s not just my view –...
Jul 16, 2014 | Miscellaneous, Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Senator Johnson made the following comments on a letter to President Obama encouraging him to help reunite adopted children with their American families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “One hundred sixty-seven...
Jul 11, 2014 | Op-Eds and Blogs
Above: A Customs and Border Patrol agent distributes juice to illegal immigrants at a McAllen, Texas, Border Patrol station. CBP photo by Hector Silva.I said the other day that true compassion to the unaccompanied children wading our southern border means...
Jul 10, 2014 | Op-Eds and Blogs
As I pointed out Wednesday when the Senate Homeland Security committee discussed the sudden new wave of illegal immigrant children, the right question is, “How do we stop the flow?”America is a compassionate country. Naturally, we all want to treat the...
Jul 8, 2014 | Op-Eds and Blogs
Things may be getting better soon for people left without a job: The extended-benefits program for the unemployed expired nationwide Jan. 1 and hasn’t been reinstated. How can this help? Because the evidence from North Carolina shows the kind of improvement in...
