Category: Congress

ANOTHER Richard Burr stock market scandal?

Posted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We all know about the stock sales just before the coronavirus lockdown crashed the economy. This time, it apparently involves a Dutch fertilizer company: The chairman

Anger “building” in DC over Burr coronavirus investing

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Some people are dismissing the hubbub as pro-Trump forces paying our senior senator back for giving the Democrats so much help during the Russian collusion hoax. Some are

From the US House to The White House

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The worst kept secret in Washington got let out of the bag today. North Carolina’s Mark Meadows resigned from the US House to take on the position of

Richard Burr, lawyering up.

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Brant Clifton

He’s been hit with all kinds of bad publicity about his stock trades that coincided with special briefings he received as Intelligence Committee chairman. One investor has filed suit

While Tillis panders on “price-gouging,” Locke’s Sanders makes A LOT of sense

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Everybody who has taken an economics class knows that when the supply of something is low, and demand is up, the price generally goes UP. But statists

A spending explosion on Capitol Hill

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Two trillion dollars. That’s the price tag on the coronavirus relief bill that just moved its way through Congress. It’s also roughly equal to HALF of

Tillis getting dragged into Burr mess?

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Believe it or not, the one who appears to be doing the dragging is a Republican congressman known as a solid conservative and rock-solid Trump loyalist on Capitol

Turning up the heat on ‘Tricky Dick’

Posted on March 25, 2020March 26, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Our senior senator — a guy who has survived so many elections by people reassuring / saying to themselves “He’s better than Erskine Bowles / Elaine Marshall /

What IF Richard Burr’s Senate seat were to become vacant?

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Brant Clifton

With various folks in the conservative media calling for our senior senator’s resignation and prosecution for insider trading, all kinds of questions are being raised. One big one for

Tucker Carlson: Richard Burr must resign, face prosecution

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Another powerful voice on the right is expressing disdain and disgust with our senior US senator: Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson called on Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)