Conservative Action Project

Conservatives Oppose The Senate’s Debt Ceiling Trickery

December 9, 2021 Washington, DC Conservatives oppose the deal constructed by Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Chuck Schumer to raise the debt ceiling. It is a needlessly complicated procedural maneuver designed to make it look like Republicans are opposed to raising the debt ceiling when they’re actually setting up a vote to enable it. By […]

The Senate Must Keep Its Commitment to Work Again

August 15, 2018 Washington, DC Signatures updated: 8/20/18 For a large part of 2018, conservatives have been urging the Senate to work harder. As an organization, we have issued multiple memos asking the Senate to stay in session for more than 2.5 days a week, to use the full measure of the Senate’s rules against […]

Senators – Fund the Troops First

June 11, 2018 Washington, DC Signatures updated: 6/12/18 Conservatives want the Senate to work fulltime and overtime starting now until their work is done. Working Americans do this, or they don’t get paid. Eliminating paid leave in August is nice but insufficient. As we have outlined in previous memos, conservatives now call on the Senate’s […]