(AP) House repeals Medicare cost board on party linesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONDrawing a new election-year fault line between the parties, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-control board that has yet to be named but is called
(AP) Insider trading ban sent to White HouseBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has given final congressional approval to a scaled-down bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information
(AP) Senate set for key vote on insider trading banBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONA key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job.
(AP) Romney faces tough race in LouisianaBy KASIE HUNTAssociated PressBATON ROUGE, La.Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback _ this time in Louisiana. Rival Rick Santorum is pushing for a strong showing in Saturday’s primary, driven largely by the conservative
During a trip through Colorado in December of last year, President Obama spoke of his intention to implement his economic policies with or without the approval of Congress. Said Obama, “And where Congress is not willing to act, we’re going
In yesterday’s Illinois primary, the Tea Party-backed Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) lost to the younger, flashier Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) by a margin of 56 to 44 percent. Because the district has no Democrat running, Kinzinger will by default return
Official Labor Department reports say the nation’s February unemployment rate is still 8.3% – but reality is far worse. Most of that job growth was in business and professional services, and half was temporary. Millions of Americans are working part-time
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is hosting its annual RX Impact Day in Washington, DC this week. Its official, plain vanilla agenda lays out two days full of member events, Capitol Hill briefings and appointments with key Members
(Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service is staffing up with high-powered talent to crack down on companies shifting profits from country to country to lower their tax bills, a hot strategy the agency has targeted before with only limited success.
When Barack Obama took office in 2009 under the guise of “hope and change,” gasoline was about $1.84 a gallon. Since then, he has reduced foreign importation of crude without increasing domestic production rapidly enough to make up for the
Last week was Sunshine Week, the once-a-year celebration of transparency in government. And as The Washington Post noted, this is as good a time as any to focus on the record of the Obama administration, which promised to be the most transparent in history:
(AP) GOP targets new cost-cut board in Obama health lawBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama’s health care law: If they can’t repeal the whole thing, they’ll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a
Our friends at the Daily Caller have obtained video of what Congress of Racial Equality national spokesperson Niger Innis has rightly called “an orchestrated, heinous, and racist ‘Stepin Fetchit’ routine that Mr. Hanks was a part of.” You can watch
(AP) High court has options on health care lawBy MARK SHERMAN and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has several options in ruling on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety.
As Eric Holder’s 1995 speech on how to “change the way in which people think about guns” and make them more accepting of gun control made its rounds, the bald attempt at using Fast and Furious to justify more gun control
The bill that was to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit their private investments has ground to a halt due to inaction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), reports The Hill newspaper: One thing is clear:
(AP) House GOP to unveil budget blueprintBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservative Republicans controlling the House unveiled a budget blueprint Tuesday that combines slashing cuts to safety net programs for the poor with sharply lower tax rates in an election-year manifesto painting
(AP) Illinois: Romney looks to pull away from SantorumBy DAVID ESPO and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressSCHAUMBURG, Ill.Backed by a crushing television ad advantage, Mitt Romney sought a strong Illinois primary victory Tuesday to solidify his lead over Rick Santorum in the
With Friday marking the two year anniversary of the passage of Obamacare, one might think Mr. Obama would be eager to laud his singular legislative achievement. Not so, said White House spokesman Jay Carney during a Monday press conference. When
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney read a statement from President Barack Obama to the press corp on Monday, calling for Congress to pass a job bill meant to improve America’s infrastructure.
Veiled behind procedural gimmickry and proposed jobs legislation, Senate lawmakers are expected to assume deliberation this week of the re-authorization of the federal Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, boosting its lending ceiling by $40 billion for a period of four years. First
Eric Holder’s controversial comments about indoctrinating Americans with regard to gun control may have been a response to the Republican Revolution of 1994. As Kerry Picket of The Washington Times points out this morning: Before Holder spoke to the C-SPAN
Economist Lan T. Pham says she was fired from the Congressional Budget Office for “producing work at odds with Wall Street research favored by her supervisors,” reports the Wall Street Journal. In a letter written to Sen. Charles Grassley, Ms. Pham says that
Matthew Boyle observes that the Eric Holder tape released by Breitbart.com today provides the motive underlying the Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Attorney General apparently gave the go-ahead to an operation that funneled guns to the drug cartels
(AP) 4 Republican justices control fate of health lawBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONHere’s a thought that can’t comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices. His most sweeping domestic achievement could
