House Budget Committee Chairman released his Fiscal Year 2015 budget Tuesday ahead of a potentially difficult vote in the House as he continues to deal with unrest on the right from a deal he struck with Democratic Senate Budget Committee
In the middle of filming the now famous “Squeal” ad on a farm in rural Southwest Iowa, mother nature interrupted. Right next door to the farrowing room where a big-league filming crew had set up shop, a mother cow was
A group of conservative House Republicans put a Medicare “doc fix” bill in mortal peril with their objections – but then acquiesced to a plan from GOP leadership to pass it without a vote. The vote was repeatedly delayed this
Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reimbursed his campaign for nearly $17,000 in payments made in late 2013 to his granddaughter for “holiday gifts.” But new payments are surfacing bringing the total to $31,000. One $9,064 payment in December
Joni Ernst, a Republican candidate in the GOP Senate primary in Iowa, is touting her experience “castrating hogs on an Iowa farm” to underscore how emphatic she will be about ending pork barrel spending in the U.S. Senate. “I’m Joni
One of the top Republican congressional staffers on the Benghazi investigation founded a consulting firm comprised of numerous former Clinton aides and a former CIA director accused of lying to Congress about the attack, Fox News reported Monday. J. Michael
Top Republicans are hoping for a happy beginning to the next, 114th Congress, with the GOPtaking control of the Senate and forcing President Obama on his heels for the last two years of his term. But in the House, the
The GOP brought in the highest profile libertarian Republican in the country to help push just-elected David Jolly over the finish line, but 27-year truck driver with virtually no funding was still able to take nearly 5 percent in the
Sen. Rand Paul continued his aggressive brush back of comments from his usual ally Sen. Ted Cruz suggesting that Paul is positioned at the left, dovish flank of the GOP on foreign policy, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity Cruz
Just as their first significant public conflict as 2016 frontrunners was starting to heat up, Ted Cruz has some nice things to say about his colleague Rand Paul. “Rand Paul is a courageous voice for liberty, and I’m honored to
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland–In a wrap-up speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Al Cardenas, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, said “What a week! What a week!” Some of the staff at the convention hall who see all the
Sen. Rand Paul is helping Florida GOP candidate David Jolly thwart a Libertarian rival polling at four to seven percent, recording a robocall that touts Jolly as someone who wants to “ensure you, not the government, are making decisions for
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the editorial board of the Cincinnati Enquirer he doesn’t believe in global warming. McConnell: ‘I don’t buy’ that climate is changing. In 1970s ‘we were all concerned about the ice age coming.’ — Carl
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland–Over the last year, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has been on the receiving end of criticism from the right in a way he has never been before. Ryan has drawn ire first for pushing immigration reform
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland–Launching the “Uninvited II” summit at a hotel across the street from where the Conservative Political Action Convention is taking place, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey offered a vigorous defense of broad powers for federal authorities to combat
Dr. Milton Wolf, the Republican senate candidate who is challenging Sen. Pat Roberts in the Kansas GOP primary, apologized again for joking about patients’ X-Rays he posted on Facebook but explained that his black humor about gunshot victims was an
Radio and Fox News host Sean Hannity will deliver a dinner “capstone” speech for a major Tea Party event to commemorate the five year anniversary of the beginning of the center-right, anti-establishment movement that swept the GOP into control of
It’ll be a bit easier for Speaker John Boehner to get that famous tan now that he has a place in Florida. The Ohio Republican just bought a condo in tony Marco Island, FL, known for its tropical climate and
The ad opens with a photograph of Sen. Pat Roberts’ home in Alexandria, Virginia and proceeds to a La-Z-Boy recliner in Kansas it says he rents “at a donor’s house. On a golf course.” “Pat Roberts doesn’t live in Kansas,”
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa offered a surprisingly rosy assessment of former-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a new book about Clinton, saying the Benghazi scandal left her basically unscathed as she reportedly prepares to run
The House voted to reverse many of the cuts to veterans’ benefits in a budget deal struck less than two months ago today, offsetting the spending increase with planned “sequester” cuts in 2024 – five election cycles from now. Speaker
Speaker John Boehner will bring a clean debt ceiling bill to the floor Wednesday, marking the end of an era in which House Republicans sought spending cuts and reforms in equal or greater amount to the increase in the debt
UPDATE (2/12/2014 3:52 PM): The Senate passed the “clean” debt ceiling bill, sending the legislation to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law. The bill suspends the debt limit until March 15, 2015. The vote to pass
A draft version of an immigration bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) would give millions of illegal aliens permission to stay in the United States for up to six years, according to a one page outline of the bill. The
Democratic Lousiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is campaigning as the energy industry’s best advocate in Washington, but one of her liberal friends in the Senate said she has other plans in mind. At an energy panel hosted by Politico yesterday, Rhode
