WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an op-ed published today at Rare, U.S. Senator Rand Paul urged President Trump to reject the neoconservatives' nation-building, perpetual war philosophy by selecting a Deputy Secretary of State that can be trusted to implement the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, in a joint op-ed at FoxNews.com, U.S. Senator Rand Paul and U.S. House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows called on congressional leadership to pass a clean repeal of Obamacare right away and ensure a fair, open replacement process so all...
From my first days representing Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, I pledged to fight back against the Obama administration's war on Kentucky coal, which imposed suffocating regulations on our hardworking miners and their families.While we may have once used words such as...
President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address: "We've defended other nation's borders, while refusing to defend our own." I couldn't agree more. Today, the question is: Will we add yet another commitment to defend yet another foreign country? For...
As presidents and Congresses come and go, the addiction to busting the budget remains; its voraciousness fueled by the same enabler, the Federal Reserve.While it took our nation more than 225 years to accumulate nearly $20 trillion in debt (and much, much more if you...
Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines last month when he criticized civil forfeiture, a notorious police practice that allows law enforcement to confiscate property, even from people who have never been charged with a crime. "This system," he wrote, "has led to...
Real men (as well as pull-no-punches women) cut taxes. The lesser mortals that tend to inhabit Washington wring their hands and get all weak in the knees when it comes to cutting taxes. Rumors are President Trump will propose a real tax cut. I certainly hope so. Once...
The attorney general on Friday made an unfortunate announcement that will impact the lives of millions of Americans: he issued new instructions for prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable offenses, "those that carry the most substantial...
Earlier this month, the House passed its ObamaCare Repeal bill, and there are those on both sides of the aisle not satisfied with the product. Virtually every Republican ran on dismantling the abomination of ObamaCare and fixing our broken health care system. Does the...
It is my duty as a senator to uphold and defend the Constitution. One of my most important responsibilities in this role is to provide advice and consent on treaties, a check and balance on the Executive Branch. It gives us the opportunity to make sure the deals we're...