Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Empowers Families
The U.S. House of Representatives took significant steps in achieving DOGE-related promises to cut waste, fraud, and abuse of federal dollars with the passage of H.R. 4 – the Rescissions Act of 2025. The package claws back $9.4 billion in federal funding appropriated to programs supporting initiatives like Iraqi Sesame Street, Palestinian media organizations, and […]
Federal Representatives Unite to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation
President Donald Trump’s signage of the Take It Down Act marked historic, bipartisan progress to empower victims of sexual abuse and protect children from online exploitation. The Act criminalized the exploitation of “deepfakes” and other non-consensual sexual images and requires social media websites to remove these images within 48 hours of notification. The bill passed […]
House Committee Takes Steps Forward for Families, School Choice
After a marathon 18-hour markup session, the House Ways and Means Committee finally passed their portion of text for the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill. The text, which passed by a vote margin of 26-19, includes significant conservative policy goal victories. The next step will be for the Senate to preserve and build upon those […]
House Committee Hearing: “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”
Yesterday, on Capitol Hill, the DOGE subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) held a hearing titled “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” Witnesses include fencer Stephanie Turner, USA Fencing board chair Damien Lehfeldt under subpoena, and former high school volleyball player Payton […]
Texas Whistleblower Testifies in Congress Against Child Mutilation
Dr. Ethan Haim never expected to testify in Congress over hot-button political issues, but in the face of “fraudulent science” that harms children, he knew he couldn’t stay silent. The Texas whistleblower joined Concerned Women for America (CWA) staff on Wednesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing where he told the story of the Biden […]
What is “Budget Reconciliation” and Why it Matters
The hottest phrase on Capitol Hill this year is “budget reconciliation.” Practically every conversation with a member of Congress, administration official, or third-party lobbyist involves mention of the coming reconciliation bill. But what exactly that is, and the process involved, is often unclear – both to D.C. insiders and the everyday American voter. However, such […]
House Seeks to Protect Election Integrity Following Trump Executive Order
UPDATE: No further votes are expected in the House this week. Next votes are expected on Monday, April 7th. This is a change in schedule. The U.S. House of Representatives is at work in the Halls of Congress this week as House Leadership plans to bring another bill to the floor to codify President Trump’s executive […]
Time to Protect Parents’ God-Given Right to Direct the Upbringing of Their Children
President Trump’s allusion to America’s “Golden Age” may mean new opportunities for innovation and growth, but it also means the chance to protect certain fundamental rights from ever being threatened again by a future administration. One bill that aims to do that is the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act (FRRA). The right of parents to […]
Pro Life Victories Set the Stage for the 2025 March for Life
Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers are expected to gather this Friday in the nation’s capital for the annual March for Life. After voting out the most radical pro-abortion president in history, the marchers already have several victories to celebrate coming from Congress and the White House. Former President Joe Biden packed up and left the […]
Senate Tees Up Bill To Protect Women’s Sports
The side of truth and common sense is winning in the gender ideology war. After years of fighting to protect women’s sports at the federal level, a bill will soon be voted out of the Senate and sent to the White House that will finally do just that. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reintroduced the Protection […]
Who Will be the Speaker of the House?
Members are back in town to swear into the 119th Congress. Among the first duties of the position, House members must elect a Speaker of the House to begin legislative business. Republicans hold a slimming majority, so current speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana-4th) must secure nearly every party vote to keep his position. Last Congress former […]
Protect Kids from Explicit Apps
It is common knowledge, and unacceptable, that kids can access explicit material on Instagram, TikTok, and the other mainstream social media apps. But they are also being exposed to adult content through a variety of other lesser known, completely unregulated apps pushed to them through app stores. That’s why Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. […]
Significant Conservative Wins in Final NDAA Strengthen Military
After months of closed-door negotiations, Congress has released the long-awaited final text for the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (FY25 NDAA). Thanks to the work of our allies on the Hill and your many phone calls and emails, the final bill is a win for women, families, and the future of the nation. […]
Members of Congress Tell Mountain West Conference to Protect Female Athletes
The Mountain West Conference refuses to protect its female athletes. So now members of Congress from the Mountain West states are weighing in on the issue. For the past several months, the Mountain West Conference, the governing body for many college sports teams in the western U.S. states, has been in the hot seat. San […]
Concerned Women for America (LAC) Condemns House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Vote
Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved both articles of impeachment against President Trump. Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America LAC, has this to say: The 23 members approving of this malicious partisan impeachment vote have done great damage to our country today. Concerned Women for America (CWA) supporters from around the country […]
Born Alive Social Media Action-Join Us!
Eighty! That’s how many times House Republicans have asked Speaker Pelosi to bring the Born Alive Abortion Survivor’s Protection Act up for a vote on the House floor. #LetUsVote and #EndInfanticide have been the social media rallying cry for supporters seeking to protect the unborn – and the born. This bill, H.R. 962, merely requires, […]
House Minority Forcing Members to go on Record on Anti-Semitism
Support for Israel has been a point of bi-partisan agreement and cooperation, but Democrats in the House are making what normally are straightforward votes difficult. As a result, House Republicans are using procedural maneuvers to get members on the record on legislation combatting the anti-Semitic BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions), since the Majority won’t […]
Another Hard-fought Victory This Week – Sex Trafficking
This week the House passed a sex trafficking bill (H.R. 1865) that would allow state attorneys general and victims to sue websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking. This bill was created to target sites like Backpage.com, which is currently under Senate investigation because of the hosting of ads that promoted the trafficking of minors. The legislation […]
What’s the latest on tax reform?
This week, the Republicans finished up their plan to overhaul the tax code. There is always a lot of work behind the scenes on big issues like this, and CWA has been working with the Senate, the House and the Administration to advocate for a pro-family tax code. Families are the foundation of civil society, […]
House Republicans unveil tax reform
Washington D.C. – Today the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled the Republican tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Job Act. Among many changes, it was revealed that a typical family of four earning $59,000 (median household income) will receive a $1,182 tax cut. The child tax credit will be raised to $1,600 per […]