Monday while the media was busy covering the terrorist bombing in Boston Obama quietly was striping anti-corruption provisions from the STOCK Act. After a CBS “60 Minutes” report the original STOCK Act was signed by Obama last year in a
(AP) Poll: Public pessimism on economy is increasingBy TOM RAUM and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONFor the third year in a row, the nation’s economic recovery has hit a springtime soft spot. Reflecting that weakness, only 1 in 4 Americans now expects
In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama urged members of Congress to pass the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act, a bill to ban insider trading for members of Congress and their staffs and to
Law enforcement officials from around the country coalesced on Thursday against the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, arguing that it did not solve of the nation’s immigration law problems and railing on the senators involved for not including law
Actress Charlize Theron visited D.C. this week to push the U.S. government to “push forward” to a solution on AIDS. The South African stunner said the fact that one in 10 people in her country live with HIV is “unacceptable,”
In response to They Get It When It’s the First Amendment: Your contrast between the way liberals view majority rule with respect to the First vs. Second Amendment makes me think about the way Obama has been trying to work
One of the most offensive parts of President Barack Obama’s tantrum at the White House after losing the gun control fight today was also one of the most comical. Venting his righteous anger at his opponents, Obama repeatedly scolded them
Celebrities lined up behind President Barack Obama’s attempt to pass stricter gun control legislation in the wake of the Newtown school shooting, using everything from PSA-style videos to nasty musical shorts to curry the public’s favor. Now, despite a new
In response to Grassley-Cruz Unveil Alternative Gun Bill: At the press conference Wednesday morning, Senators Grassley, Cruz, Graham and Coats introduced their alternative gun legislation to prevent gun violence and protect the Second Amendment. Via The Hill: “Rather than restricting the
President Barack Obama’s drug czar toed a strict line on marijuana Wednesday, saying federal laws will prevail regardless of state-level efforts to legalize pot. Gil Kerlikowske said enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 — which ranks marijuana as
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) warned he sees “a huge train wreck coming down” with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, known to its critics as Obamacare. The candid comments came during a Wednesday hearing with Obama’s Health and Human Services
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is the latest celebrity lending his voice to the current gun control chorus. The former Beatle recorded a voice message that’s part of a text-to-call operation Wednesday for Bennett’s Voices Against Violence campaign. McCartney and others
The 844-page immigration reform bill the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” dropped in the dead of night contains a lucrative handout that would give taxpayer-funded free cell phones to some people who live or work near the U.S. border with Mexico.
Obamacare set a nasty precedent in Washington: radical and unpopular legislation is developed behind closed doors and then passed quickly, without time for sufficient public scrutiny. Tragically, this is exactly what is happening on Capitol Hill as the so-called “bi-partisan
The head of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), said on Tuesday that the sequester’s $85 billion slowdown in the rate of federal spending growth is hurting Boston’s ability to respond to Monday’s terrorist attack, which claimed at
The latest poll from Gallup, taken April 4-7, shows that while President Obama and his allies in Congress may think that American minds are focused, laserlike, on gun control and immigration, the truth is precisely the opposite: in listing their
More proof of the mainstream media’s blind commitment to gun control came on April 14, when Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer did a segment on background checks with Mark Kelly and didn’t even ask Kelly to explain the problems
At a Tuesday press conference, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) politicized the Boston Marathon bombings by blaming Monday’s tragedy on the sequester, saying the bombings were “proof” that some of the sequester cuts were “irrational.” Hoyer is the House Minority Whip
The eight Senators negotiating comprehensive immigration reform are scheduled to release the legislative language on Tuesday, ahead of a scheduled hearing on Friday. In advance of the massive bill, the “Gang of 8” have circulated a 17-page memo, detailing the
Representatives of Congress, the FBI, and Boston law enforcement gave conflicting and unclear information about what they knew or did not know–or would reveal–about potential suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing Monday that killed three people and injured at least
Last week, the House and Senate passed a bill that would gut a key provision of the popular STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act that bans congressional insider trading and increases financial transparency for lawmakers, members of the executive
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. Earlier today, I was briefed by my homeland security team on the events in Boston. We’re continuing to monitor and respond to the situation as it unfolds. And I’ve directed the full resources of the
At Monday’s press briefing, Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry asked Jay Carney if President Obama would ask congress for new regulations on abortion clinics in light of the “House of Horrors” murder trial of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. After
In reaction to the reported hunger strikes in the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the President still holds the position that the prison should be closed. Carney blamed Congress for slowing things
The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on immigration reform on Wednesday. The hearing was scheduled the day after a massive bill to reform immigration is set to be unveiled. This sparked concerns that Senators wouldn’t have
Sen. Marco Rubio, elected to Congress in 2010 on a wave of Tea Party support, earned praise Sunday from prominent members of the Republican establishment for leading the party toward support for immigration reform. David Brooks, the New York Times‘ resident
“Comprehensive immigration reform” is shaping up to be the next Obamacare. By negotiating in secret, by drafting an enormously complicated bill, and by rushing passage with almost no time for public debate, the Senators who are pushing immigration reform are
On Saturday, President Obama handed over the camera and teleprompter to the mother of a victim of Sandy Hook Elementary shooter Adam Lanza. Explaining his exploitative choice via email to his entire WhiteHouse.gov email list, Obama explained: Each week, like
Ranking Senate Budget Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said in a Thursday evening statement provided to Breitbart News that the political posturing of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration group, along with Senate Democratic leadership, and their plan to rush
Beyond a raging political battle over limiting gun access is a case that could be heard this year by the US Supreme Court over a New York law limiting the right to carry the weapons in public. The nine US
There is only one certainty surrounding the terroristattack that occurred in Benghazi, Libya last September 11th: seven months later, the American people andthe families of the victims and wounded still do not know all the facts andspecifics that resulted in
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever
The Executive Director of the progressive Super PAC Progress Kentucky, Shawn Reilly, who was accused of being one of the two men who illicitly taped a private meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and aides, is denying that
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says the mother of a Newtown shooting victim will deliver the weekly presidential radio and Internet address.President Barack Obama typically gives the talk, focusing on a topic that’s in the news or a policy
At a Thursday press conference, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said it befuddles ordinary Americans outside the Washington, D.C. beltway why establishment Republicans and Democrats want to grant amnesty or legalization to the at least 11 million illegal immigrants in the country
President Barack Obama’s newly unveiled 2014 budget reveals that his original 2010 deficit projections were off by $1,631,000,000,000–or 43 percent. Obama’s initial deficit projection for 2010 to 2014 was $3.767 trillion. In his latest budget, submitted two months after the
After Robin Kelly was sworn In to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. she did a quick Chicago media interview where she could not remember what she voted on the same day.
On Thursday, in the midst of ongoing national debate over prospective gun control and comprehensive immigration legislation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he didn’t need the approval of a majority of his own party to move forward with
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Thursday pulled together a group of conservative colleagues to fight back against Democratic Party and GOP establishment efforts to grant amnesty to at least 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. King organized an invitation-only
