Tag: Congress

GOP lawmaker says that if his party’s leadership gives in to Obama, they will have forever altered the checks and balances of the U.S. federal government. On the House floor on Monday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) argued that President Barack

Paul Ryan’s call for fiscal sanity in early 2010 with his “Roadmap for America’s Future” was a rare voice of reason that periodically emanates from the asylum that masquerades as Congress. That he did so when he was barely 40

If congressional negotiators fail to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government, voters will blame House Republicans, but it is the president and fellow Democrats that are behaving like teenagers by wanting to spend irresponsibly. Studies by the non-partisan

Obama’s Debt Default Is on His Shoulders While We Shoulder His Impeachable Offenses Apparently the president thinks he can furlough reality when talking about the debt limit. To suggest that raising the debt limit doesn’t incur more debt is laughably

(AP) Obama meeting with congressional leaders postponedBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe White House says a meeting between Obama and congressional leaders has been postponed to give Senate leaders more time to resolve a standoff over the nation’s debt and the partial

President Barack Obama is demanding a $1.1 trillion “ransom”–or else he will not allow the debt ceiling to be raised. That’s the effective offer on the table from the president and Senate Democrats. They have now refused to pass a

With the 2014 election cycle fast approaching, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly are raising money they can spend supporting gun control in their self-appointed role as the anti-NRA. As Breitbart News reported on October 12th, Giffords and her husband “would

Over the weekend, House and Senate Republican proposals on the fiscal showdown, which largely met previously stated demands from the White House, were summarily rejected by President Obama and Senate Democrats. Having shown that they are desperate to end the

(AP) Furloughed workers pinching pennies, volunteeringBy RUSS BYNUMAssociated PressThey’re experienced research engineers and park rangers still in college, attorneys who enforce environmental regulations and former soldiers who took civilian jobs with the military after coming home from war. And all

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she will travel to Washington, D.C. on Sunday to support and honor the veterans who will be arriving for the “Million Vet March” on the memorials. Speaking at a rally for New Jersey Republican Senate

In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama said the government shutdown needed to end so Congress could work on comprehensive immigration reform.  Obama rejected a House Republican proposal that would have re-opened the government and raised the debt-ceiling for

(AP) Nancy Pelosi, Betty Ford join Women’s Hall of FameBy CAROLYN THOMPSONAssociated PressSENECA FALLS, N.Y.House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, the late former first lady Betty Ford and Title IX advocate Bernice Sandler are among the nine women set to be

(AP) Shutdown impact: Some national parks could reopenBy The Associated PressThe government shutdown continues with some glimmer of hope for those who would like to visit the nation’s national parks: The Obama administration said it would consider offers from the

Despite several Obama Administration officials’ contention that they do not have figures on the number of first-week Obamacare enrollments, the Daily Mail says two Health and Human Services workers have accessed the data and crunched the figures: in the first

On Wednesday, former Gov. Sarah Palin used an appearance by Democrat Anthony Weiner on Fox News’s Hannity and a letter written by a 79-year old American dying of cancer to his Washington senators to assail Washington’s permanent political class.  Palin first

According to John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, President Obama told him that he would never again bargain with Republicans to extend the debt limit. Podesta said that the

Since the beginning of the fiscal showdown, President Obama has stressed that he wouldn’t negotiate over raising the debt ceiling. His top economic advisor Gene Sperling has regularly repeated Obama’s stance, “If you sanction through negotiation the legitimacy of somebody threatening

After House Republicans gave a little breathing room on the debt ceiling, offering a “clean” six-week increase with nothing in return, President Barack Obama rejected their plan. Obama’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to completely reject any offer