Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), an immigration hawk, shredded House Speaker John Boehner’s working group border crisis recommendations in a Wednesday afternoon statement, calling Boehner’s plan an “institutional surrender to the planned illegality” of President Barack
Wednesday at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) would not let IRS Commissioner John Koskinen off the hook over his failure to bring acceptable answers to Congress about
The top line recommendations of Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis working group recommendations do not address President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has been widely cited as a key
As American veterans were languishing on wait lists unable to get critical health care they deserved and needed, Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep. Bruce Braley appears to have spent two years mostly ducking his responsibilities on the Veterans Affairs Committee
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hopes dim for bipartisan action in Congress this summer, President Barack Obama is calling on Republican lawmakers to cooperate while complaining that they have “gone off the rails” and urging Democrats to get over their
The New York Times urged President Barack Obama to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants already in the country and let the illegal immigrant children who are flooding across the border remain in America. Not doing so–enforcing the country’s
George Washington law professor and self-described liberal Jonathan Turley said that he agreed with the D.C. Circuit Court’s ruling against the federal government’s Obamacare subsidies for states that do not have their own exchanges in an appearance on Tuesday’s “The
House Speaker John Boehner is lowering expectations on whether any border bill will pass in the wake of heavy criticism from conservatives like Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and increasingly intransigent Democrats. “Republicans have made clear that
President Obama’s un-Constitutional practice of lawlessly ignoring and rewriting laws to suit his left-wing political agenda has come back to bite his signature domestic achievement. Tuesday morning a federal appeals court dealt what USA Today describes as a “potentially major
On Monday, a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) challenging the Obama administration’s decision that members of Congress and their staffs must secure government-subsidized health insurance through Obamacare exchanges. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach, a
Now that Governor Rick Perry has deployed the Texas National Guard to deal with the deluge of illegal aliens crossing the Rio Grande, two questions arise. First, what will President Barack Obama do about it? And second, will Obama’s reaction
On Monday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that any border bill that Congress considers should deny President Barack Obama funds to grant more work permits to illegal immigrants. Reports indicate that Obama may expand his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that private interviews with a top IRS official who is charged with providing documents to Congress has led him to believe that at least some of Lois Lerner’s emails are probably recoverable.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and a key immigration hawk, took to the Senate floor on Monday afternoon to attack the efforts by President Barack Obama to grant amnesty via executive order to
The President of the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, a group with expertise in IT best practices, posed six questions she thinks lawmakers and the DOJ should ask about the loss of Lois Lerner’s emails. Recall that the
As America’s attention is diverted to foreign affairs and plane crashes, the tale of IRS boss Lois Lerner’s purportedly “missing” emails is still evolving. Now, new testimony seems to show that these “missing” emails may be backed up, a development
On Monday, DREAMers stormed the halls of Congress to stage a “GOP funeral” in front of the offices of Republican senators, some of whom have expressed concerns that President Barack Obama’s unilateral grants of temporary amnesty have caused the current
A new Politico poll finds 57% of likely voters disapprove of Obama’s job performance and essentially split on which party they prefer. Respondents were drawn from areas with competitive House and Senate races this November. The poll also shows that
This past weekend, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the featured speaker at a gathering for Silicon Valley conservatives called Lincoln Labs Reboot 2014. The conferencewas devoted to the question: How can technology and liberty exist side by side? Sen. Paul
The United Nations Relief Works Agency, the organization of the world body dedicated solely to Palestinian ‘refugees,’ announced that the 20 Hamas terror rockets found hidden inside a UNWRA run school on Thursday have been returned to Hamas. In its
On Saturday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was a “down payment” to the Hispanic community before more grants of amnesty for illegal immigrants. Speaking at the National Council of La
An activist group known as Make Them Listen has scheduled a two-day protest this weekend to decry the Obama administration’s failed immigration policy, with events to occur all across the country on July 19 and 20. The organized protest labeled
On Saturday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accused President Barack Obama of knowingly turning America into an “unfunded charity” for illegal immigrants to invade and overrun. Referring to Obama as “the DREAMweaver,” Palin said when Congress declined to pass amnesty
Friday when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke at Netroots Nation, a progressive convention for online activists, she stuck her usual populist tone, arguing, “the game is rigged” in Washington against the little guy and in favor of big banks. The Massachusetts
Hillary Clinton said she may not run for president because the modern American presidency may just be too tough of a job. Acknowledging to PBS’s Charlie Rose that America’s president must be both the head of state and government, Clinton
