Rep. Steve King (R-IA) accused U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack of knowing that women and minority farmers fraudulently claimed discrimination to receive taxpayer-funded settlements, and they knowingly initiated more programs to facilitate more of these payments.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a bill to end air-traffic controller furloughs that resulted from across-the-board sequester cuts. The furloughs were blamed for flight delays last week. As The Hill noted, Congress was in such a hurry to pass the bill
(AP) Obama to pitch immigration overhaul in MexicoBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has his domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs
Yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie engaged me on Twitter for much of the day, defending his attack on Congress for delaying relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy, and claiming, wrongly and bizarrely, that “All the pork was stripped out
Secretary Kerry was asked about recent reports of State Department employees who have been threatened or blocked from testifying before Congress over the security failures that led up to the Benghazi attack. Kerry said that there is an “enormous amount
With almost 100 Guantanamo prisoners now on a hunger strike to protest the alleged mistreatment of Korans, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday plans to “re-engage” Congress to fulfill his failed campaign promise of shutting down the terrorist detention facility.
Regardless of planned hearings to continue to investigate the deadly September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the State Department is finding ways to drag its feet in releasing information Congress needs to investigate the assault that took the
Sen. Diane Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum won a construction contract for California’s high-speed rail project, reports the California Political Review. Author Laer Pearce says Perini-Zachary-Parsons, a construction group partially owned by Blum’s investment firm, Blum Capital, and their investors, bagged
In response to Obama: ‘Not Familiar’ with Intimidation of Benghazi Whistleblowers: Well, yeah… a State Dept. spokesman yesterday told reporters that he wasn’t even aware that there were any whistleblowers. So why would the guy who went nighty-night last September
In the dying days of the “climate change” fraud, the political hacks who used to to frighten so much power and money out of the populace have grown absolutely comical in their desperation. The people who used to sneer that
(AP) Soft-spoken Virginian holds sway on immigrationBy ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONDepending on whom you ask, Rep. Bob Goodlatte is either trying to stand in the way of landmark immigration legislation or he illustrates the new face of the GOP trying to
Acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell defended the State Department restricting access to Congress from lower-level staffers directly involved with the Benghazi investigation. Ventrell said that it was “appropriate” for the FBI and the Accountability Review Board to interview the Department
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) vowed Monday night to mount a battle to overturn Congress and President Barack Obama’s roundly criticized recent decision to gut the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. In a joint appearance on CNBC’s Kudlow Report
The State Department on Monday said that Congress should not have the chance to interview lower-level employees of State about Benghazi because the State Department has done their own investigation, and Congress should let it go at that. State Department
Acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Monday that he was unaware of anyone in the State Department, including those that testified before Congress about security failures leading up to the Benghazi attack, of any “whistleblowers” within the Department.
When asked about a letter from Congressman Issa over the stonewalling of Benghazi witnesses and documents, State Department Acting Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell lauded the Department’s “unprecedented” cooperation with Congress. When pressed about access to personnel familiar with the Benghazi
From the beginning, the Obama administration has made the claim that the “selective deportation” scheme it initiated did not apply to dangerous criminals. Only peace-loving, law abiding illegal aliens would be allowed a stay of deportation proceedings, they explained. But
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said Monday on MSNBC that if only Congress approved universal background checks, the massive shootout between Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and police could have been prevented. “Tamerlan, as we know now, was on
On April 27, Attorney General Eric Holder defended a federal judge’s decision to read confessed terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights after only 16 hours of interrogation, saying: “Everything was done appropriately, and we got good leads.” Holder’s statement confirmed earlier reports that he
Speaking from Times Square on April 28, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the FBI “may have messed up” in the way they handled their investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 for possible ties to extremist groups. “They may have messed
(AP) Economic gains may not help Democrats much in 2014By TOM RAUMAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresidents like to take credit for economic recoveries, just as President Barack Obama is angling to do now. He and his allies in Congress have “walked the economy
According to former US Attorney Joe DiGenova, the State Department is standing in the way of lawyers trying to represent whistleblowers in the ongoing investigation into the events at the US Consolate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. DiGenova appeared with
After being featured Tuesday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Breitbart News contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer once again found himself the focus of national media in a 60 Minutes Sunday report highlighting his work uncovering
Steve Kroft’s 2011 report shamed Congress into passing the Stock Act, but earlier this month, Congress quietly repealed parts of the law.
