(AP) Longest-serving Pa. congressman loses in primaryBy KEVIN BEGOS and GENARO C. ARMASAssociated PressPITTSBURGHU.S. Rep. Tim Holden, the longest-serving member of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation, has lost his re-election bid in a Democratic primary race in a newly redrawn district. Personal
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 24 (UPI) — U.S. President Barack Obama said he doesn’t know what the Secret Service agents connected to the misconduct in Colombia were thinking. During the taping of the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” show at
Since the election of a Republican Congress in 2010, Congressional earmarks have been all but dead. Yet, somehow, Democratic members of Congress are securing funding for special projects anyway. How? With a little help from President Obama. As Roll Call
From Chris Chocola, President, Club for Growth: All three received subsidies from the Export-Import Bank…The Export-Import Bank is nothing more than a fund for corporate welfare backed by the American taxpayer. It’s time for Congress to shut down the Export-Import
Cynthia McKinney, the far-left former Georgia congresswoman and presidential candidate in 2008 on the Green Party ticket, is readying an attempt to win back her old congressional seat. She needs 18,860 signatures to get on the ballot, and last week
In a press conference on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney responded to the recent new Keystone pipeline bill passed by Congress earlier this week, as the Washington Examiner reports: “It would be preemptively sacrificing American sovereignty” to approve
(AP) Aging workforce strains Social Security, MedicareBy STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONAn aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government’s two largest benefit programs. Those problems are
According to CNSnews.com, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress announced on Thursday that they have moved to ratify an amendment to the United States Constitution that would give Congress power to control the political speech of corporations, including
(AP) Obama casts GOP as barrier to low-cost educationBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONEager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education, using his Internet and radio address Saturday to preview an argument
Arizona might be going to the U.S. Supreme Court yet again. A federal appeals courtupheld part of the Grand Canyon State’s voter-ID law but struck down another partof Arizona’s law as inconsistent with a 1993 federal law. This might become
Katie Pavlich’s new book, “Fast and Furious,” assembles the devastating evidence thatimplicates the Obama administration for its botched gun-walking operation and ensuing coverup to mislead Congress and the American people. Few journalists have devoted as much time reporting on Fast
The feminist bullies are at it again. Nearly two months after Rush Limbaugh apologized for terming professional activist Sandra Fluke a “slut” after Fluke appeared before Congress and demanded that a Catholic organization pay for her birth control, the National
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien did not do her homework again. O’Brien, who embarrassed herself before the nation when she madeclear she did not know what “critical race theory” was, attempted tohector Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) about West’s claims that members ofthe
American families make and live by a budget. But not the Congress. Thursday marks the 1,086th day since Senate Democrats passed a budget plan, despite the fact that doing so merely requires a simple majority vote. Yet Sen. Harry Reid’s
American families make and live by a budget. But not the Congress. Thursday marks the 1,086th day since Senate Democrats passed a budget plan, despite the fact that doing so merely requires a simple majority vote. Yet Sen. Harry Reid’s
In remarks on the Senate floor today today, Sen. Sessions addressed the Democrat-led Senate’s failure to put forward a budget for the past three years. Sessions argued that no elected official should call for higher taxes until they’re willing to
Old-timer Phil Donahue, who–rumor has it–used to have some sort of TV show back in the previous century, has recently turned up on NPR for some reason. And, like his long past career, he’s dwelling equally in the past with
(AP) GOP ready to push business tax cut through HouseBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are using a House vote on tax cuts for nearly every employer in the country to make an election-year statement that they want to help companies create
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch opponent of foreign aid, says he specifically wants the U.S. to cut off all financial aid to Egypt. Paul, in a letter to President Obama, stated that Egypt has issued arrest warrants against
Republican lawmakers announced Tuesday they were joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments, reviving an election-year row over White House power. Republicans were incensed when Obama defied his congressional foes early this year by naming
Obama was right about the “do-nothing Congress”–at least about the Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretaryof the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than almost any Senate inrecent history. The 2011 Senate spent
She-PAC, a hybrid conservative “Super PAC” formed to help elect conservative women to Congress, has released a video touting its support of five Republican women candidates for Senate, fighting back against the manufactured meme that Republicans are waging a “war
By ALAN CLENDENNINGAP Business WriterMADRIDArgentina’s President Cristina Fernandez is attempting to quell increasing unrest at home and boost her popularity with an “unlawful” bid to nationalize YPF, the Argentine oil unit of Spanish energy firm Repsol, the company’s president claimed
President Obama, apparently frightened by his reelection prospects dimming, attacked “oil speculators” today in an attempt to find someone to blame for high gas prices. He asked Congress for $52 million so the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could clamp
The working assumption, in the modern media, is that Obama simply cannot lose his reelection bid. Obviously, they want “The One” to be around for two. While their ever-present and sometimes intense rooting for him will certainly help Obama, there
