On Thursday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, subpoenaed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for documents related HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare exchange website that has had numerous malfunctions. The subpoena “requires
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) has introduced a bill to ban personal use of leadership PAC money one week after a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) exposed members of Congress using leadership PACs as “slush
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has been lobbying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Congress to ensure that grocery and convenience stores are subjected to the same uniform menu labeling regulations that requires restaurants, including franchised chains with 20
After President Barack Obama bypassed Congress last year and, by executive fiat, instituted the deferred action program for some illegal immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security has since approved over 80% of applicants for the program. According to the U.S.
A little-known campaign loophole allows members of Congress to make high-interest personal loans to their own campaigns and then never pay them off–a scheme that generates passive streams of profit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The startling revelation comes
Conservatives point to the Obamacare website exploiting a strange loophole in the National Voting Rights Act to question whether the President’s signature healthcare law had a political motive, as well. Several election integrity activists have alleged that the Patient Protection and
By HENRY C. JACKSONAssociated PressWASHINGTONCongress honored Winston Churchill with a bust and a performance by another famous Briton, The Who’s Roger Daltrey. Senate and House leaders, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry, gathered Wednesday to dedicate the Churchill
In a speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama discarded his now-infamous broken promise: “If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.” Instead, he offered a new promise: “You will be getting
President Barack Obama is pressuring Jewish and pro-Israel organizations not to lobby for new sanctions against Iran, which Congress is considering this month. The Obama administration wants to give Iran time prove its good faith in new diplomatic efforts to
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, called the private sale of cheap health individual insurance plans “the worst abuses of the insurance industry” and said that Obamacare would halt
The open Republican-leaning congressional seat in the Tampa Bay area of Florida will be one of the hardest defended seats in recent history. There are group of Republicans thinking about running for the seat, this as former Florida CFO, Democrat
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Fusion TV host Jorge Ramos that President Barack Obama is “absolutely” abusing his power. In an interview that aired on Monday, Ramos mentioned a speech Cruz’s father, Rafael, made in which he compared President Barack Obama
(AP) Sebelius apologizes for health law rollout fiascoBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURIE KELLMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL’-yuhs) says she’s sorry consumers have wasted so much time dealing with technical problems on the Obama administration’s health insurance
Despite evidence that under ObamaCare many health insurance plans will force enrollees to fund abortions, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told members of Congress during testimony on Wednesday that she did not know if she could provide Americans with a list
Justice for Immigrants, a pro-amnesty group with which the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is “closely involved,” has announced Wednesday, November 13th as a National Call-In Day to Congress. SaveTheDate -Wed, Nov. 13, 2013- for a Nat’l Call-In Day
Republican Senator wants better enforcement of immigration laws in the tech sector and more protections for whistleblowers revealing when companies abuse the system to cut costs. In response to reports that the United States federal government is planning to fine
The expensive airport parking fees and costly airline reservation cancellations that bedevil most travelers are of little concern for members of Congress. According to the new book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets,
Activist actor Sean Penn said that President Obama should solve the mental health problem in Congress by committing them by executive order.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave the clearest indication that proponents of comprehensive immigration reform may make their final–and strongest–push to get legislation passed next year after House Republicans make it through their primaries. “I think conventional wisdom is that time
This week, Disney is opening a new front in the culture wars with the launch of Fusion, a news network targeted to hipster, English-speaking Hispanic millennial’s. Yeah, that’s how splintered the cable market has become. To ease the opening of
A year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Eastern U.S. coastline, and thousands of distraught residents still trying to fix their ravaged communities, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie admitted on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that recovery has been slow. What’s more, there
In response to high-pressure lobbying from special interests like left-wing billionaire George Soros and a group of corporate executives pushing House GOP members for amnesty, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Council president Chris Crane warned members of the House that
The liberal segments of Congress and the Big Media are pounding away on the idea that “austerity” due to budget cuts is somehow behind the slow performance of the US economy. Never mind that there is little evidence that the
(AP) Obama admin. lowers health sign-up expectationsBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Obama administration is trying to lower expectations for strong initial enrollments under the president’s historic expansion of health coverage for the medically uninsured. Facing ongoing problems with
(AP) Medicare chief apologizes for ‘Obamacare’ woesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONStressing that improvements are happening daily, the senior Obama official closest to the administration’s malfunctioning health care website apologized Tuesday for problems that have kept Americans from successfully
