Atlanta, GA – Today, the comment period for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)’s possible ban on gas stoves ends. Soon after CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested a gas stove ban, Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) launched a “Call to Action” urging its members and supporters to leave comments opposing new gas stove regulations.  As of early Monday afternoon, TPPA helped 4,448 people to leave comments, almost half the total comments that were published. TPPA Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement: “There is no question the Biden administration wants to ban gas stoves, and the only way to stop them is to mobilize public pressure against such a ban. This is part of the administration’s ‘green agenda,’ which, as a practical matter, means making daily life more expensive and more inconvenient for hard-working Americans.  With inflation already out of control as a direct result of the administration’s policies, Biden and his team should be embarrassed to propose new gas stove regulations.   “Shortly after Commissioner Trumka proposed a gas stove ban, Tea Party Patriots Action launched a ‘Call to Action’ urging our members and supporters to leave comments opposing new regulations.  We are proud to have helped generate 4,448 comments opposing new regulations.  We will continue leading this fight, because it’s an outrageous left-wing assault on everyday American life.”   In January, RealClearPolitics published Ms. Martin’s op-ed, They’re Coming for Your Gas Stoves and They’ve Already Started. To read it, click here.

Atlanta, GA – Today, President Biden issued his first veto, blocking a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that would have overturned his administration's new Department of Labor (DOL) rule. The new rule allows private retirement plan fiduciaries to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when making investments. In response, TPPA Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin issued the following statement: "Despite this resolution passing in both the House and Senate, Biden just issued his first veto to prop up his climate agenda and encourage ESG investing for retirement fund fiduciaries. An investment firm is not a SuperPAC or political entity. The funds these firms manage are not political donations. These are retirement funds entrusted to investment firms with one purpose and one purpose only, to produce the maximum return for retiring and retired Americans. It isn't complicated; it's common sense. "The House and Senate both agreed in a bipartisan fashion that fund managers should not play politics with retirees’ money. Biden is wrong to have vetoed this measure. Sadly, it’s no surprise. It’s what we’ve come to expect from Joe Biden and his administration, which politicizes everything it touches.”

Atlanta, GA – Today, the House is expected to vote on legislation to help make public information relating to the origins of COVID-19. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), cleared the Senate by unanimous consent last week. It would require that the director of national intelligence declassify “as much information as possible about the origin of COVID-19,” then make it available to the public.  In response, Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement:"Three years ago, President Trump said the pandemic likely originated in China with a lab leak.  Tea Party Patriots Action said the exact same thing.  So did a small minority of medical and national security experts.  Today, it's becoming increasingly clear that we were right.  “But during the past three years, we took a lot of abuse.  The federal government, led by the Liar-in-Chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci, launched a massive propaganda campaign to convince the public that the lab leak origin was a conservative myth. Dr. Fauci blatantly manipulated the public, as new emails from the House Oversight Committee reveal.  The FBI was eagerly working with Twitter to suppress dissidents, as the 'Twitter Files' make clear to all.  “The public has the right to know everything the government knows about the origins of COVID-19.  This is important for public health, free speech, and national security. The House must pass Senator Hawley's bill to make public information relating to the origin of COVID-19.  There is no legitimate argument against it."

Atlanta, GA – Today, the Senate passed a Republican-led resolution to block Washington, D.C.’s revised criminal code — which weakens penalties for certain violent crimes — from taking effect. In response, Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement: "Since the 'defund the police' movement began three years ago, crime has been exploding in Democrat-run cities all across America. As in other urban areas, crime in Washington, DC is off the charts. Unlike other urban areas, however, Washington, DC, is unique — it is the seat of the federal government. The Constitution recognizes Congress’s authority over the District of Columbia. “The Senate just joined the House in moving to block the ultra-progressive D.C. City Council’s attempt to weaken penalties for violent crimes, a move that is so outrageous even many Democrats in the House and Senate balked. President Biden has said he will not veto the actions of the Congress in this case. “In light of the disastrous effects of the ‘defund the police’ movement, it is time to reverse course and restore the rule of law. Biden needs to take on the left-wing, soft-on-crime elements of his party before they do even more damage to America."

Atlanta, GA – Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet will hold a hearing entitled, “Intellectual Property and Strategic Competition with China: Part I." Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) recently produced a documentary about the weakening U.S. patent system and competition with China entitled, INNOVATION RACE. In response to the subcommittee hearing, TPPA Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin issued the following statement: "Winning the technology race with China is crucially important for America’s national security. While China is strengthening its own patent system and exploiting the weaknesses in ours, the U.S. is falling behind and discouraging inventors with an intellectual property system that works for Big Tech, and Big Tech only. “This issue is so important that Tea Party Patriots Action produced a documentary, INNOVATION RACE, to highlight the need to reform the U.S. patent system to restore U.S. dominance in the areas of invention, technology, and innovation. "In 2011, Big Tech giants lobbied Congress to change the U.S. patent system to benefit them, at the cost of inventors and America's technological competitiveness. What followed was a new bureaucratic kangaroo court that Big Tech uses to easily invalidate new and existing patents, overwhelming the original inventors with massive legal fees needed to challenge their claim to the invention they created. This is just one of many issues that the House subcommittee needs to address to help put America back in the forefront of innovation." The INNOVATION RACE documentary can be streamed through SalemNOW.