Speaking today at The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for Congress to reassert itself in foreign policy.
“Since the Korean War, Congress has ignored its responsibility to restrain the President,” Paul explained to a packed crowd in Heritage’s Allison Auditorium. “Congress has abdicated its role in declaring war.”
He outlined his vision of America’s role in the world: Continue Reading »
The success of school choice reforms in Highland Park, Michigan makes a powerful case for school choice, former Rep. Artur Davis said Thursday at The Heritage Foundation.
Heritage research supports this idea. A Heritage report released this week points out that “school choice allows access to quality education options that best match individual children’s learning needs.”
Before reform, Highland Park’s schools were a mess. One child unable even to spell his own name was considered to have passed the seventh grade, Davis said. Furthermore, the child’s parents were denied the choice of sending him to a school that would teach him to read and write.
The problem with education is not inadequate funding, Davis said: Continue Reading »
The first leg of The Heritage Foundation’s Presidents’ Tour concluded last week after events in New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Heritage President Ed Feulner and President-Elect Jim DeMint visited these five cities to meet Heritage members and explain their vision for the future of the conservative movement.
Be sure watch this video of highlights from the tour:
Heritage President Ed Feulner and President-Elect Jim DeMint share the stage Wednesday before an audience of hundreds in Denver. Photo: Shealah Craighead
“We will take bold, positive ideas to the American people and help show them that our ideas work for them, for all Americans,” Heritage Foundation President-Elect Jim DeMint told Heritage members Wednesday in Denver.
Speaking alongside Heritage President Ed Feulner, DeMint said conservatives need a better way to communicate their proven, principled ideas.
Feulner, welcomed to a standing ovation, said “ideas, individuals and institutions” are critical to future conservative successes.
Denver was the third stop on the ten-city Presidents’ Tour, which serves as the first opportunity for Heritage members to meet DeMint. He and Feulner travel Thursday to San Francisco and Friday to Los Angeles.
Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner, left, and his successor, Sen. Jim DeMint, center, wait before going on-stage before an audience of hundreds of Heritage members in Denver Wednesday. Photo: Shealah Craighead
The Heritage Foundation’s Josh Robbins outlines the Congressional agenda agenda of the first week of the second term from both the House and Senate:
The House focuses this week on a short-term extension of the debt limit, which passed today.
The Senate will be busy discussing the Hurricane Sandy disaster legislation as well as, Robbins reports,
[n]umerous proposals to attempt to reform the rules of debate in the Senate and specifically the filibuster. Liberal senators are eager to limit the ability of the minority to block legislation. These reforms could potentially allow the passage of legislation that conservatives have been strongly opposed to in the past because of weakened minority rights. The $50 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package that contains a fair amount of questionable spending will be on the floor and is likely to pass.
What do you think Congress should prioritize?
Heritage President-Elect Jim DeMint speaks to hundreds of Heritage members in New York Tuesday. Photo: Shealah Craighead
Conservatives need to better articulate their message if they are to prevail in the war of ideas, Heritage President-Elect Jim DeMint told hundreds of Heritage Foundation members and supporters Tuesday in New York.
Speaking without notes, DeMint elaborated on a point he made earlier this month in the Washington Post. “Conservative policies have proved their worth time and time again,” he wrote in the post. “If we’re not communicating in a way that makes that clear, we are doing a disservice to our fellow citizens.”
The audience was very receptive to his message. “What this country needs is leadership, a real leader like George Washington,” a member of the audience said near the end of the event. Pointing at DeMint, he added: “And I think we have found him.”
DeMint joined Heritage President Ed Feulner in New York for the first stop of a nationwide tour. The Presidents’ Tour aims to introduce DeMint to Heritage members and outline a conservative agenda for 2013 and beyond.
Feulner and DeMint will also visit Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles this week to appear at sold-out events. Next month, they will visit Dallas, Atlanta, Palm Beach and Naples, Fla., before returning to Washington for a final event.
At the end of each event, DeMint will take questions from Heritage members. What would you like to ask him? Tell us in the comments.
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Late last year, while conservatives were still coming to terms with the re-election of President Obama, something remarkable happened in Michigan. A state that is synonymous with Big Labor enacted a right-to-work law.
Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) and Republican lawmakers had just witnessed the overwhelming rejection of a union-backed measure at the ballot box in November. Fearing the state was losing jobs to states with more friendly business climates — and workers could also lose freedoms in the workplace — they moved swiftly to make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state in America.
Earlier this week, Heritage hosted Michigan businessman and entrepreneur Dick DeVos, a former candidate for governor and a Heritage member. I sat down with him to talk about how it happened and what lessons conservatives can take away from the victory as they make the case for freedom nationally and in states.
The interview runs about five minutes. It was produced and directed by Patrick Frank. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch more Heritage videos.
Cross-posted from The Foundry.
In a new video, Heritage Foundation President-Elect Jim DeMint explains the lessons he learned while growing up in Greenville, SC.
Raised by a single mother, DeMint says he learned that work is a blessing that teaches self-reliance. Through work, he explained, you learn that “I can do anything I want to do if I just work at it.”