
ClineWatch: Ben Cline votes no on bill to protect big cats
On Friday the House of Representatives approved the Big Cat Public Safety Act to prohibit keeping tigers, lions and other big cat species as pets, and ban direct public contact.

On Friday the House of Representatives approved the Big Cat Public Safety Act to prohibit keeping tigers, lions and other big cat species as pets, and ban direct public contact.

With the Washington Nationals sporting the worst record in baseball, a game at Nationals Park—just two miles from the White House—would be a boon to their flagging attendance.

House Leader Nancy Pelosi seems intent on visiting Taiwan. That might not seem like a big deal to Americans, but these are dangerous times in US-China relations. That makes a Taiwan trip very risky. Here’s why:

The U.S. House voted 217-213 Friday to pass an assault weapons ban that would reinstate the ban on military-style rifles, high capacity magazines, and other assault weapons modeled on firearms designed for use on the battlefield.

The Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act would enact a proposal by President Joe Biden and ensure that households worth more than $100 million pay at least a 20 percent tax rate.

In the half century since the Roe v Wade decision, the Republicans in the state put into place a number of measures designed to make it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion since they could not prohibit it outright.
The U.S. House voted in favor Thursday of getting the United States back into the semiconductor game and back into the global technology competition.
A new Commonwealth Poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University shows respondents are unsupportive of the job President Joseph Biden is doing as president.

The House Natural Resources Committee passed the Environmental Justice for All Act on July 27.

It should come as no surprise that Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline – despite his own COVID diagnosis — was among the 69 Republicans voting NO on this important measure to protect the mental health of thousands of his constituents.