From ABC News: Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have beensaved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to
An ACORN affiliate that submitted applications totaling over $6 million in federal grant money for broadband projects has been declared ineligible as a result of guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The ACORN Institute, a 501
Today’s Variety: “Shortly after Jon Voight addressed health care protesters on Capitol Hill last week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed the event by saying rather glibly, ‘I’m sure there’s a Jon Voight joke in here somewhere, given he was
Special to Big Government from Helen Rittelmeyer, The Daily Caller: Capitol Police arrested ten people on the second floor of the Cannon House Office Building at a sit-in this afternoon. The demonstrators had crowded into the office of Speaker Nancy
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday into the impact of head injuries on football players. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith both spoke to the committee.
ABC News: “What a pro-active way to be able to help the economy and change the culture in this country around animals,” Robert Davi, a veteran actor (“The Goonies,” “Die Hard,” “License to Kill”) who was a main force behind
ABC News: “What a pro-active way to be able to help the economy and change the culture in this country around animals,” Robert Davi, a veteran actor (“The Goonies,” “Die Hard,” “License to Kill”) who was a main force behind
This past Saturday, my wife Karen, and I had the opportunity to once again take in a U2 show. This one was at Soldier Field in Chicago and kicked off the U.S. leg of the 360 Tour. The tour gets
The New York Times: the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours. Hot Air: ? I’ve seen numbers ranging from 50,000
KMOV: It wasn’t all that long ago that Congress chastised executives of the Big Three automakers for arriving to Capitol Hill in luxury jets to ask for billions of bailout dollars. It now appears Congress, too, likes to travel in
Lunch time on Capitol Hill got a little more interesting Wednesday as PETA hosted its annual veggie dog lunch, turning the heads of vegetarians and meat eaters alike. You see, PETA marked National Veggie Dog Day with two vegetarians who
Rep. John Flemming (R-LA): Under the current draft of the Democrat health care legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill. If Members of Congress
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com AP: The federal judge, who has been keeping up a busy schedule of appointments on Capitol Hill, tripped at New York’s LaGuardia Airport before boarding a flight to Washington and sustained a
Return with me now to the days of yore, when frothing left wing loonies exhibited some semblance of knowledge and didn’t just spew bizarro diatribes, as exhibited in the recent Garofolo rant. I hearken back to an era of bi-polarity
A few weeks ago, I offered my thoughts on the new season of 24, aiming to quell concerns that the show had ‘gone soft’ in the age of Obama. The piece highlighted the contemptible pansiness of a Lefty senator (Kurtwood
I took a tour of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on a recent Saturday afternoon, visiting the graves of several entertainment legends. One of the more recent additions to the grounds is the cenotaph for original punk rocker, Johnny Ramone. Ramone’s
With a few strokes of the (real-life) president’s pen, Guantanamo Bay was ordered shut within a year, enhanced interrogation tactics were banished as relics of a dark past, and secret CIA prisons began dropping off the map in Eastern Europe.
AP: Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to push for quick action on a broad economic stimulus package congressional leaders are saying won’t be ready until mid-February at the earliest. That’s almost a month later than the president-elect wanted.
A fourth grader from Montana joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the official lighting of the 2008 Capitol Hill Christmas Tree. The tree is a subalpine fir from Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest.
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Democratics on Capitol Hill are pressing for quick passage of an auto bailout bill when Congress reconvenes next week. The money would come from the huge Wall Street rescue bill that Congress approved last month.
AP: Democrat Barack Obama returned to Capitol Hill, calling on Congress to pass a $700 billion rescue bill for the financial sector. Obama, who started the day in Wisconsin, broke off the campaign trail to return to Washington and vote
Sen. Joe Lieberman says that John McCain’s presence on Capitol Hill allowed key lawmakers to get to work negotiating the finance bailout bill.
