U.S. Legislation

U.S. Legislation & Analysis on TheThinkingConservative.com includes information on bills, acts and more from both the U.S. House and Senate.

List of Tax Hikes in Democrat Reconciliation Bill

$6.5 Billion Natural Gas Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills        The bill imposes a regressive tax on American oil and gas development. The tax...

Pelosi Says Congress Needs to ‘Tighten the Fines’ on Violators of Congressional Stock Trading...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Feb. 9 said she supports increasing restrictions on members of Congress trading stocks. “We have to tighten the fines on those who...

Dianne Feinstein Introduces Bill To Ban All Commonly Owned AR-15s & Magazines Over 10...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do, but based on how they look. In the above video ReasonTV explains...

Californians Rally Against the ‘Infanticide Bill’

SACRAMENTO—On the steps of the California State Capitol over a thousand people gathered in the shadow of the building complex while several California Highway Patrol officers...

Biden Flips on Filibuster Carve Out for Election Bill

President Joe Biden has indicated support for changing or abolishing the filibuster in order to pass election legislation, a substantial shift from his long-touted...
Rahm Emanuel Crisis Quote

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste, # Term Limits for Bureaucrats

In the mid-1940s as the world approached the end of WW II, Winston Churchill is credited with saying “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”...

White House: Multitrillion-Dollar Spending Bill Will Combat Soaring Inflation

Several top Biden administration officials argued on Nov. 14 that the White House-backed social spending package may be a solution to soaring inflation in...
Wisconsin Absentee Ballot

Wisconsin Lawmakers Advance Bill to Stop Election Workers From Fixing Mistakes on Ballots

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are aiming to stop election workers from fixing mistakes on absentee ballots after the state Assembly’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections advanced a plan this...

CBO Released Its Score of Biden’s BBB Bill

CBO released its score of Biden's bill and it finds that, contrary to what the Democrats asserted (and then un-asserted), the bill would not fully pay...
The Pentagon Washington D.C.

Senate Panel Votes to Require Women to Register for Draft

After a lengthy closed-door review of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved language in...

Senate Democrats Near Passage on Health and Climate Bill After Overnight ‘Vote-a-Rama’

Democrats drove their election-year economic package toward Senate approval and debated a smaller measure than one that was proposed by Biden.

Congress Continues Spending Spree With Irresponsible Infrastructure Deal

The Senate’s $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill threatens to further needlessly bankrupt America and drive the U.S. closer to socialism.