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American Conservation Coalition Founder and Chairman Benji Backer encourages Republicans to embrace clean energy sources. “You look at the states that are reducing emissions the most, it’s the states that are able to pair nuclear with natural gas and occasionally hydropower and renewables. It’s going to be a mix and by removing nuclear and natural gas from the conversation, the left is not taking this issue seriously,” he says.

American Conservation Coalition Founder and Chairman Benji Backer says the left doesn’t take into account the costs and environmental impact of renewable energy sources. “We shouldn’t be destroying the environment to save the environment and too many times that’s what’s happening with solar and wind,” he says.

American Conservation Coalition Founder and Chairman Benji Backer explains why the United States should continue to pursue renewable energy, but only as a minority power source. “There’s so many opportunities to have American energy expansion and development for cleaner technologies without just working on renewables,” he says. “And that’s where the left has failed and where the right can really take an opportunity to succeed.”

Tim Parlatore, founder and managing partner at Parlatore Law Group, says former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case has been “hopelessly infected by prosecutorial misconduct” from the start. “I think it really does kind of paint the picture that, regardless of the underlying merits of the documents, this is a case that was badly handled from the beginning and there has to be some accountability for DOJ when they do engage in this kind of behavior,” he says.

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Tim Parlatore, founder and managing partner at Parlatore Law Group, talks about the constitutionality of New York Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order against former President Donald Trump. He says that if Merchan moved to imprison Trump for violating the gag order, the biggest problem he would have is proving to the Appellate Court that the order is constitutional.

Tim Parlatore, founder and managing partner at Parlatore Law Group, says Stormy Daniels’ testimony has nothing to say that is relevant to New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against former President Donald Trump. “This is a case about whether documents were falsified. She didn’t know anything about that,” he says. “And here’s the thing. Under the statute, it doesn’t matter whether anything happened between the two of them because whether her story is true or false, the fact that Michael Cohen was trying to keep it silent—that's the only relevant fact.”

Representative Brian Babin (R-TX) vows to protect women’s sports and fight back against the Biden administration’s Title IX trans-inclusive changes. “Whether they believe they’re women or not, we cannot have males going into the locker rooms, the bathrooms, the changing rooms of females,” he says.

Representative Brian Babin (R-TX) doesn’t expect the Senate to pass House Republicans’ Equal Representation Act, a bill that would add a U.S. citizenship question to the census and require the apportionment of Representatives to be based on U.S. citizens instead of persons. "We have got to get a handle on our border," he says. "We've got to know who's coming in. We've got to make sure that the ones that are coming in are benefiting the United States of America and not just one party."

Representative Brian Babin (R-TX) blasts Democrat lawmakers for supporting legislation that would allow noncitizens to vote in our federal elections. “For heaven’s sakes, they’ve already got the right to vote in the local elections in several states, including California,” he says. Rep. Babin praises Republican members of Congress for introducing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.

Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the United States’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions don’t make economic or environmental sense. “Right now, China's greenhouse gas emissions are about two and a half times that of the U.S. and growing faster,” he says.

Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says he's not optimistic about the future of the House-passed Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act. "[The bill is] not going to be taken up in the Senate and there's no indication that President Biden would ever rethink any of the regulations that his own bureaucrats have come up with,” he says.

LeadingAge South Carolina President and CEO Kassie South says she has called on the House and Senate to stop the Biden administration’ new rule mandating a minimum staffing level in nursing homes. South says the Ensuring Seniors Access’ to Quality Care Act, passed by the House Ways and Means Committee, will help alleviate staffing shortages by allowing nursing homes to offer on-site training.

LeadingAge South Carolina President and CEO Kassie South says the Biden administration’s new rule requiring minimum staffing numbers in nursing homes will create backlogs in hospital systems and shut down nursing homes. “In the first year of implementation, we would need 27,000 additional full-time RNs to meet this mandate and 78,000 additional full-time nurse aids. They are just not there already with staffing shortages,” she says.

Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice says it’s “shocking” to see the Biden administration continue to support gender ideology while countries across Europe start to backtrack on the issue. “People are waking up every day,” she says. “It’s a perfect storm happening, and our kids are caught right in the middle.”

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Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice says children’s free speech rights will be chilled and girls’ spaces will be erased if President Joe Biden’s trans-inclusive Title IX changes are allowed to take effect. “If you’re not willing to change your child’s gender and affirm that want of change of gender, now they can report you for child abuse because the federal government has now given them a mandate to socially transition your child,” she says.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says U.S. taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for illegal immigrants to access free healthcare. The Biden administration’s new rule will allow illegal immigrants protected by the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to access health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says the No Flights for Terrorists Act would deport and revoke pro-Hamas protestors’ student visas, bar American students from federal loans, and place anti-American protestors on the terrorist watchlist and the TSA no-fly list. “I believe if somebody tells you they’re a terrorist, we should believe them,” she says.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano says college protestors are being used by professional agitators to promote communist slogans and anti-American ideology. “The problem is that the education system has failed so much that students aren’t really educated so they’re susceptible to this message,” he says.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano explains how the nationwide anti-Israel protests are the direct result of colleges' DEI push. “If you listen to these student protestors, it really is amazing how little they know about the actual issues," he says.

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Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how U.S. funding to Gaza would legally change if the United Nations General Assembly votes to admit Palestine as a full member. She says regardless of whether the resolution is passed this Friday, the United States needs to cut off funding to the United Nations.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how President Joe Biden has both internal and external forces pushing back against U.S. aid to Israel. “They are in a terrible pickle here because even if they want to fully and robustly fund Israel, they’re being held back by their own people... It’s a total double standard to what President Trump was held to four years ago,” she says.