By U.S. Senator Deb Fischer Fox News Channel Last year, President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed a 56 percent reduction in new vehicle emissions by 2032. The goal of course was to force automakers, and by extension the American public, to adopt electric cars at a breakneck pace: President Biden wanted 60% of new vehicles produced […]
California Is the Only State That Hasn’t Embraced This Climate-Friendly Alternative Fuel By U.S. Senator Deb FischerThe Sacramento Bee Just over a year ago, California unveiled an aggressive new climate strategy. The plan sets ambitious — even unrealistic — targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental pollutants, like a near 50% reduction in […]
By U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) The Hill Last year, Americans were shocked when a Chinese surveillance balloon flew coast-to-coast over the entire United States. The balloon caused a public frenzy of concern about why China was spying and what classified secrets they might have found. But the Chinese Communist […]
In Case You Missed It… America’s Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerously Out of Date By U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) Wall Street Journal For more than 75 years, U.S. nuclear forces have underpinned American power and kept our homeland safe. The Soviets understood our stockpile’s potential, which kept them from moving against us. That stockpile […]
The United States champions the right to free and fair elections around the globe. Wherever political machines are abused to interfere in elections, American administrations have spoken out against those abuses — and the Biden administration is no exception. In 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Venezuela’s Maduro regime for its actions that deprived “Venezuelans yet again […]
The Aug. 10 editorial on sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCM), “The weapon the warriors don’t want,” didn’t provide key information on why a bipartisan coalition in Congress agrees that this program is necessary. The essence of our national defense strategy is deterrence — both conventional and nuclear. The realization by potential adversaries that we have the […]
By U.S. Senator Deb FischerThe Washington Times Last month, President Joe Biden announced that he and Vice President Kamala Harris are running for reelection in 2024 — they’re running to “finish the job.” What job does President Biden want to finish during a second term in the White House? Well, the day he entered office, […]
The American people were rightfully outraged at the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) recent incursion into our airspace with its spy balloon. The spy craft violated our territorial sovereignty in a concerted attempt to gather intelligence — likely about the host of sensitive military facilities it flew over. Recent public reports reveal that the balloon is part of […]
In 1919, the U.S. Army conducted an expedition across the United States. The mission? Evaluate the transportation capabilities of the military and assess the sorry state of the nation’s infrastructure. The trip was difficult. Starting in Washington, D.C., and following the “Lincoln Highway,” the convoy encountered terrible roads, mud, breakdowns and other issues. In fact, […]