On Thursday, all but two Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee walked out before the parents of two of the victims killed in the Benghazi attacks testified. Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods,
President Barack Obama is reportedly trying to “establish an early narrative” to blame Republicans in case of a government shutdown or another financial crisis. However, Obama also said he would not negotiate with Republicans on raising the debt ceiling. As
On Thursday, while denying that a “stand-down order” was given to Special Forces members ready to help Americans who were under siege at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last September, one of the heads of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) blasted the chairman of an investigative panel on the Benghazi attacks for allowing its report to be leaked to Al Jazeera America before Congress even obtained copies of it. At a Thursday House Oversight and Government
On Thursday, the ranking Democrat on the House Government and Oversight Reform Committee said the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) report that some have called a “cover up” and a “whitewash” for not interviewing then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was
At a House Government and Oversight Reform Committee hearing on the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) on Thursday, Admiral Mike Mullen, who was one of the heads of the ARB, admitted that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually saw a
The U.S. Navy was reportedly warned last month that Aaron Alexis, the Washington Navy Yard gunman authorities say killed 12 people in a 30-minute shootout on Monday, said he had been “hearing voices” and may have had signs of mental
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush echoed the sentiment of others in the Republican establishment when he came out against conservatives who want to defund Obamacare. “I’d just add a little dose of reality,” Bush said at the National Press Club
After Tea Party groups and conservative lawmakers pressured House Republican leaders to defund Obamacare, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday set a vote for Friday on a resolution that would fund the government except for Obamacare. The House Republican
Internal documents from the IRS reveal that the agency specifically flagged Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status that agents deemed were engaging in “anti-Obama” rhetoric. More than 80% of the groups the agency put on its “political advocacy case list”
Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) plan to prohibit the federal government from subsidizing the healthcare premiums of lawmakers in Congress and their staffs has been another instance in which Obamacare has divided Republicans in Congress. Vitter is making a push to
President Barack Obama said his “number-one priority” is signing a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year and called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to bring an immigration bill to the floor. In a Tuesday interview with Jose Diaz-Balart on Telemundo,
On Tuesday, a group of 50 international scientists released a comprehensive new report on the science of climate change that concluded that evidence now leans against global warming resulting from human-related greenhouse gas emissions. The report, which cites thousands of
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may have to turn to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to get the votes for a short-term resolution to fund the government after October 1. After House conservatives refused to support a continuing resolution
More than 300 members of the International Franchise Association will lobby Congress this week to seek changes in Obamacare’s employer mandate. The Obama administration delayed the employer mandate for a year, but starting in 2015, businesses that employ 50 or
IRS workers involved in the targeting of conservatives have turned to high-powered Washington, D.C. lawyers to represent them as Republicans investigate how these officials may have systematically targeted conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status. Three of the most
On Monday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) urged House Republicans to not shut down the federal government. “I hope my colleagues in the House who believe we need to shut down the government will understand that that’s not want the American
The United States government has released nearly 3,000 immigrant sex offenders, some of whom were illegal immigrants, since September 2012. Of those, nearly 3,000, or about 5%, were not even properly registered with local authorities as sex offenders. According to
President Barack Obama again insisted that he will not negotiate on raising the debt ceiling with Republicans in the next round of budget negotiations. “I’m happy to have a conversation with him [House Speaker John Boehner] about how we can
Peter Schweizer, the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), said that on the fifth anniversary of the nation’s financial crisis, the government and political elite still have not learned anything. In an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday on
The spokeswoman for the group that led the historic recall last week of two Colorado state legislators said her group will continue to push the ball down the field to get the laws repealed. The recalled legislators supported the state’s
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the agreement between the United States and Russia to secure Syria’s chemical weapons was a sign of American weakness. They also said that, with the agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin and
On CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said Americans needed to support the Syrian rebels even though mistakes will be made that may lead to arms falling in the hands of the wrong groups. “There’s gonna be mistakes,” Corker said.
On CBS’s Face the Nation, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright claimed that no regime in Syria can be worse than Bashar al-Assad’s. “It’s very hard for me to believe that there could be something worse, frankly,” she said. “I
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted, but the United States had to work with him on Syria. On CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, host Bob Schieffer asked Albright, who served as Secretary
