(AP) House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plansBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to
(AP) Witnesses complicate Corzine’s testimony on moneyBy MARCY GORDONAP Business WriterWASHINGTONWitnesses close to MF Global’s collapse will offer details Wednesday about customer money that vanished days before the firm failed. Their testimony could challenge previous statements by former CEO Jon
Since ObamaCare became the law of the land, Americans have been faced with the fearful notion that, ultimately, the health care law will put health insurance companies out of business and make the federal government the “single payer” of health
While yesterday’s oral arguments seemed to make clear the Court’s opposition to the Obamacare individual mandate, today’s oral arguments seem to show the Court backtracking quickly. According to Lyle Denniston at SCOTUS Blog, the Justices seemed uncomfortable with the ramifications
With the recent revelation that the ultimate Washington insider, Jon Corzine, appears to have ordered the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from customers at commodity broker MF Global, you would think crony capitalists would try to keep a
The United States has suspended plans to send food aid to North Korea because it has broken a promise to halt missile launches and cannot be trusted to give the help to those who need it, a Pentagon official said.
Unable to get cap and trade through Congress, President Obama has settledfor just the cap via regulation by the EPA. Today, his EPA will issue newlimits on the amount of CO2 which can be produced by newpower plants — and they
By all accounts, today’s Supreme Court oral arguments were extremely lively. The hearing, which covered the individual mandate, matched the conservative constitutional wing of the Court – and Justice Kennedy – against the liberal wing of the Court, which inserted
The Pentagon said Tuesday it will request funding to expand Israel’s “Iron Dome” short-range air defense system, which helped thwart rocket attacks out of Gaza earlier this month. The United States spent $204 million on the Iron Dome system in
In this March’s “haunting” View from the Capitol, Katherine Amenta and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter sojourn through the darkest recesses of our nation’s Capitol to “myth bust” a Senate ghost, a demon cat and a Rotunda crypt keeper! And you thought
The Solicitor General told the Supreme Court that he didn’t think it was “fair” to apply President Obama’s previous statements to anything that Congress passed.
(AP) Tough Republican budget likely to go back on shelfBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservatives claimed credit Tuesday for forcing House GOP leaders to draft a tougher budget plan than initially planned, even as they pressed an alternative proposal that claims to
Billionaire funder of left-wing causes George Soros, 81, lost his appeal to have his 2002 insider trading conviction overturned. The European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber refused to consider whether France had violated his rights, reports Bloomberg News. Paris
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has invited the parents of killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin to the Hill to testify about Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. As Roll Call reports, “The forum, which will also include other members of the Congressional
President Barack Obama would have fixed everything over the last three years if not for those meddlesome Republicans. So suggests Martin Sheen, the notoriously outspoken liberal actor in a new video meant to support the president’s re-election campaign and flailing
This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case likely to shape our destiny as a nation when it considers whether parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–called the ACA in legal circles and Obamacare to the rest
Last Thursday, CBS News reported that Ecotality, a company that makes chargers for electric cars and received millions from the stimulus bill, is under investigation for insider trading: The company received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission in October of
(AP) With win in hand from La., Santorum eyes Wis.By PHILIP ELLIOTT and KASIE HUNTAssociated PressGREEN BAY, Wis.Another victory in hand but still badly trailing rival Mitt Romney, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum vowed to continue his campaign despite an
UN Watch–an essential human rights watchdog–has attempted to downplay last week’s appearance by the Hamas terrorist group at the UN Human Rights council, apparently to spare the Obama administration embarrassment as Obama seeks continued funding from Congress for UN-related activities.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of a construction and operating license for two new reactors in Georgia last month was excellent news for the future of nuclear energy. After all, it was the first approval of its kind since
(AP) MF Global exec says Corzine ordered $200M transferBy MARCY GORDONAP Business WriterWASHINGTONA former MF Global executive appears to contradict testimony from Jon Corzine, saying the former senator and New Jersey governor ordered the transfer of $200 million last fall
Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and the late Andrew Breitbart spent roughly six months coordinating an effort to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit themselves. On Thursday, their combined efforts came to fruition when the STOCK (Stop
As the Associated Press reports today, the Obama administration told Congress yesterday that it would “wave democracy requirements to release up to $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt despite concerns that the country is backsliding on commitments it made to
When President Obama’s speechwriter chose to include some disparaging comments about former Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes in the president’s Prince George’s Community College talk last week, he assumed few would notice or care. After all, Obama seems to find it irresistible
