Tag: Congress

A new Marist poll of the New York City mayor’s race finds a sharp reversal in support for Anthony Weiner. In the last poll, he led Christine Quinn by five points. Now, he trails by nine, marking a 14 point

While Congress continues to investigate widespread IRS scandals, Senate Democrats are calling to increase the Internal Revenue Service’s budget. According to The Hill, Democrats are using a Financial Services subcommittee bill to push for the changes to take place next

Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the United States. The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is expected to participate in a mayoral candidate forum on women’s issues, hosted by Voces Latinas in Jackson Heights, New York tonight.  Weiner is expected to make remarks about women’s issues along with other New

President Obama is speaking around the country to sell his economic program directly to voters–over the opposition of a reluctant Congress. But it’s all about politics, not economics. The recovery has been painfully slow. Through last fall, growth was only

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency’s secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records Wednesday night after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the government’s efforts to thwart terrorism.

Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA), Steve Stockman (R-TX), and Darryl Issa (R-CA) have each claimed witnesses who planned to testify about the attack on American citizens in Benghazi, Libya have suffered repeated roadblocks in the way of providing such testimony.  Those

Embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner told reporters Wednesday that “some” of the prurient online communications he expected to see used against him have come to the public’s attention. Peppered with questions from reporters about explicit sexting between him

A debate on the protection of the constitutional right to privacy of all Americans’ phone records is happening Wednesday in Congress.  Seldom does Congress conduct a debate on the Bill of Rights, yet today there will be discussion on the

President Barack Obama’s speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois was billed as an address on the economy, the first of a series of economic orations. Yet instead of presenting a policy agenda, Obama launched a partisan attack reminiscent of

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted President Obama’s latest public relations campaign on the economy. Obama is scheduled to speak throughout the week about the state of the economy; on Wednesday, he will speak at Knox College

On Tuesday, the website The Dirty announced that former disgraced Congressman and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner had spent months after his resignation from Congress sexting a 23-year-old woman under the name “Carlos Danger.” When asked about his

A new national poll has found that an all-time high of 57% of Americans would vote to throw out every member of Congress if given the option in the 2014 elections. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released

Before Tuesday’s revelation that Anthony Weiner had continued sending lewd messages and images to strangers online even after his resignation from Congress, he had emerged as the frontrunner in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. A Quinnipiac

First Lady Michelle Obama advocated for Congress to pass an immigration bill during remarks before the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention in New Orleans on Tuesday. During her key note address, which MSNBC’s Erin Delmore characterized as Michelle

Now that San Diego mayor Bob Filner has been exposed as a sexual harasser, and his disgusting treatment of women has gone public, you can just bet that the arch-patron saint of women’s causes, Nancy Pelosi, will jump in with

Amid reports on Tuesday that disgraced former Congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner spent six months after resigning from Congress sexting under the nom de plume Carlos Danger, Weiner took to the podium today in New

Several members of Congress joined representatives of the special forces military veterans and grassroots organizations on Tuesday to launch an effort to force the House to have a thorough, public investigation into the terrorist attack at Benghazi, Libya, on Sept.

(AP) Anthony Weiner admits to more lewd photosBy JONATHAN LEMIREAssociated PressNEW YORK New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted on Tuesday to sending additional explicit photos and texts to a woman he met online — correspondence she says began