The importance of elections was declared by President Calvin Coolidge, April 19, 1926: "The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box.”
The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) conducted a study on the U.S. military, finding "no evidence that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate to the number of violent extremists in the United States as a whole."
Republican Senator Tom Cotton (AR) introduced a resolution condemning the widely-used pro-Palestine slogan, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”
The Senate enacted an $886 billion defense spending proposal this week, a measure that includes financing for Ukraine, yearly pay hikes for personnel, and a reauthorization of the the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Republican Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to "immediately restrict travel between the United States and the PRC."