(CNSNews.com) — On the day that Betsy DeVos was confirmed as the Secretary of Education, House Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a short bill to abolish the Department of Education, which was established under the Carter administration in 1980.
Massie's legislation, HR 899, simply states, "The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018."
(CNSNews.com) – A coalition of conservative groups is urging Congress to pass "pro-growth" tax reform in 2017 — sooner rather than later.
In a letter dated Feb. 6, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the coalition says significant progress should be made in the first hundred days of the Trump administration: