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The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is pushing for a “global pandemic treaty” to be ratified at its World Health Assembly, which begins on May 22. The treaty would give W.H.O. tremendous increases in power and funding, transferring much of the authority for pandemic control from member nations to the U.N. agency. 

Several Republican lawmakers are seeking to reinstate service members discharged from the military solely over their non-compliance with the vaccine mandate and prevent further discharges for troops not complying with it.

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) introduced a bill to require military leaders to reinstate service members who were discharged over the coronavirus vaccine mandate.

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) condemned as a “human rights abuse” NJ’s new abortion law that allows abortion even up until the moment of birth.

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) lamented President Joe Biden’s decision to allow the U.S. team to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, calling it “an exceedingly weak gesture in response to a genocidal regime.”

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) has blasted a decision by the U.S. State Department to remove Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC), calling the move “a retreat from the noble and necessary fight to protect victims of religious persecution.”

John Kerry is drawing scrutiny for his downplaying of China’s slave labor of Uyghurs, from which he and his wife may benefit financially.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday announced he is launching an advisory team on Cuba to advise the House Republicans on the “ongoing freedom protests and government atrocities in Cuba.”

House Democrats blocked consideration of a bill Wednesday that would have codified the Hyde Amendment into federal law and banned taxpayer funding of abortion.

Thirty GOP legislators voted for a Democrat farmworker amnesty that would push many Americans out of jobs, push billions of dollars of payroll from rural towns to foreign countries, and slash investment in wealth-creating farm machinery.

Business and ethnic lobby pressure ensured that all Democrats — plus nine GOP members — voted for an huge amnesty bill that provides no offsetting benefits to working Americans.

A significant gun control measure mandating universal background checks passed the Democrat-controlled House Thursday with the help of eight Republicans.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) said the COVID Relief bill provides $400 billion with no protections against its use to fund elective abortions.

China announced sanctions against 11 Americans on Monday to retaliate for U.S. sanctions against 11 Chinese officials involved in the oppression of Hong Kong, including Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes took the stage on Tuesday at the Department of Transportation where he recalled meeting with President Donald Trump not long after the 2016 election about the scourge of human trafficking.

A crowd stretching from 12th Street past the Washington Monument filled the National Mall on Friday for the 47th March for Life.

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan coalition of congressmen and senators, sent a letter to the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday, urging the agency to block imports from Xinjiang, China.

The U.S. Senate passed a bill Wednesday to condemn China’s human rights atrocities against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim ethnic minorities in its western territories, raising national awareness on Beijing’s construction of concentration camps to house millions of its citizens.

Registered nurse Jill Stanek testified before a House committee that she cared for an infant with Down syndrome who had survived an abortion and was left to die in the hospital’s “soiled utility room.”

Pro-life leaders in the House and Senate urged the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to end elective abortion coverage in federal employee health insurance plans.

Jianli Yang still has clear memories of that deadly June day in 1989 when the Chinese Communist government slaughtered anywhere from several hundred to several thousand student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will no longer provide taxpayer funding for research in its programs that uses human fetal tissue derived from the body parts of aborted babies.

WASHINGTON, DC — People gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the student protests at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, which turned into a deadly massacre at the hands of the Chinese Communist government.

A large crowd is expected to take part in a rally in the nation’s capital Tuesday to protest China’s ongoing human rights abuses on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Pro-life members of Congress and activists expressed shock on Tuesday on the failure of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The president of Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that the Trump administration’s new rule to prevent family planning grants from going to groups that provide, promote, or refer abortions would result in women not having access to the procedure, even if it saved their lives.

The Trump administration issued a final rule Friday that underscores that federal taxpayer funds provided for family planning services may not be used to support abortion in any way.

Thousands of pro-life activists will gather on the National Mall on Friday for the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land in 1973.

On Tuesday, 169 members of the House – led by Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey – and 49 senators – led by Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana – sent letters to the president asking him to veto any legislation that weakens federal pro-life policy.

Thousands of people have gathered in Washington, DC, since the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that abortion on demand is the law of the land. And the March for Life mission is unchanged: Overturn Roe v. Wade so that every unborn child has a future.

A bipartisan bill to elevate the status of the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly on Friday.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — announced Monday it would be seeking to find and develop human tissue models that do not rely on the use of aborted fetal tissue.

President Donald Trump signed a law on Tuesday combatting genocide of Christians in the Middle East, legislation supported by the Knights of Columbus and a broad array of faith-based organizations.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced simultaneous bills on Wednesday seeking to condemn and punish the Chinese communist regime for establishing internment camps to torture and subdue the nation’s Muslim Uighur minority, urging sanctions against the officials running the camp experiment.

The Congressional Executive Commission on China published its annual report on the state of affairs in China on Wednesday, condemning the state’s “disregard for human rights and the rule of law.”

A bipartisan group of 17 members of Congress reportedly sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin requesting that they impose sanctions on China in response to the mass arrest and detention of Muslims in western Xinjiang province, where they are subject to torture in “political re-education camps.”