President-elect Joe Biden proposed increasing the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $15 an hour as part of his Coronavirus relief package announced Thursday night. Such a dramatic increase would exacerbate the devastating impact economic lockdowns are having on small businesses, while doing great harm to 10.7 million Americans who are unemployed.

Not since the War of 1812 has our Capitol seen a mass breach by armed combatants. We only begin to scratch the surface this week of understanding how a mob of white supremacists, waving Confederate flags and incited by the sitting president of the United States, was allowed to occupy and ransack one of our most sacred institutions. Years of norm-breaking, rhetoric and lies appealing to our country’s worst racist and xenophobic instincts brought us to this point, against a backdrop of concrete policy changes that have led to historic degrees of inequality. We hope you’ll join us in the coming weeks and months in investigating the question: Where do we go from here?

The EPOCH TIMES Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) on Monday blocked Democrats from introducing a resolution via unanimous consent to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump.

If we learn anything from this week’s events at the Capitol, it should be this: millions of Americans feel forgotten, silenced and dismissed by the country’s ruling elites and they are demanding to be heard.

“America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Senator Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed three bills aimed to restrain the power of government in its response to the Chinese Coronavirus. “It’s time we focus on the core reason for the institution of government — protecting people’s rights,” Dahm said.