Tag: Congress

What other license to violate societal norms can the Democratic Party endorse? Now it’s drugs. Texas Democrats have joined with other supporters of legalizing marijuana in urging the federal government to decriminalize the drug. In the party’s platform, the Democrats

To get a sense of John Boehner’s dilemma throughout the Fast & Furious investigation, one needs to look back to the days of the Clinton impeachment. Boehner had a front-row seat as then-Speaker Newt Gingrich aggressively led his caucus to

(AP) WASHINGTONA Republican-run House committee’s vote to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress is part of GOP efforts to suppress votes in the upcoming elections, the top House Democrat said Thursday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the

In my inaugural column in April for the re-vamped Breitbart.com, “The Left’s War on the First Amendment,” I concluded by saying: I am sure in the coming weeks and months you will hear a lot of falsehoods about the Citizens

On Monday, the Department of Justice was forced to once again retractinformation provided to Congress about the Fast and Furious scandal.  OnJune 12th, Attorney General Holder had a heated exchange with Sen.Cornyn during congressional testimony. Senator Cornyn offered a litanyof

(AP) House committee holds AG Holder in contemptBy PETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONA Republican-controlled House committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department documents.The party-line vote was 23-17. The controversy

President Obama’s improper exercise of executive privilege today to protect Attorney General Eric Holder on Fast and Furious is the latest frightening entry in a week-long pattern of presidential centralization of power. Remember when the left labeled George W. Bush

President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Eric Holder from complying with congressional subpoenas on the Operation Fast and Furious fiasco will blow up in the White House’s face. But not for the reasons you’ve heard on

In 2007, then Senator Barack Obama attacked the use of Executive Privilege as something “to hide behind…every time there’s something a little shaky that’s taking place.” And he saw this as especially true when it was used to avoid a

Ten conservative members of Congress will gather on Capitol Hill today at 11:30 a.m. to take your questions about a range of policy issues confronting lawmakers. The monthly event, Conversations with Conservatives, will feature Reps. Raúl Labrador (R-ID), Jeff Landry

Tea party groups across the country are gearing up for the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling, expected within the next week. Along with them, Republicans are readying their response to fit a number of possible scenarios. After massive push-back this spring

Despite pledging to send special interests to the woodshed, President Obama has practiced his own form of crony capitalism, laying out taxpayer funds on businesses that have helped him politically – green energy (Solyndra) being of particular note, but also,

Analysis from Charles Hurt at the Washington Times: There is no honor, it is said, among thieves. The only honor you will find these days, it seems, is among the whores. Take John Edwards, who came frighteningly close to the

When they first rammed ObamaCare through Congress, Democrats predicted that Americans would come to love the new law over time. Nancy Pelosi explained that Congress simply needed to pass the law so we could find out what’s in it. David

Last year, Nancy Pelosi told ABC News that the Democrats had a “very good chance” to win back the House in this Fall’s election. I didn’t really pay much attention to it at the time (it was right in the

(AP) Republicans want food stamps cut in big farm billBy JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe 1,000-page “farm bill” being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it _ roughly $80 billion a year _

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wore Presidential Seal cuff links given to him by President Barack Obama to his Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, sparking speculation that he may have been sending a signal to Democrats on the

Yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union” Senior White House adviser David Plouffe defended President Barack Obama’s decision to halt the deportations of illegal immigrants under 30 years of age. “This is not a political move,” Plouffe said of Obama’s

In 2010 we published a book arguing that Barack Obama was creating an imperial presidency. The past few months prove that prediction was correct. First President Obama’s EPA claimed power to create cap-and-trade through new regulations, rather than Congress passing

President Obama’s new amnesty policy regarding illegal aliens violates the law. But there’s probably no route to trump it either in Congress or in court, so the only recourse is for the American people to trump it by electing a