Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant, Kay Webber, frequently rents the first floor of the stately Capitol Hill house she owns as a venue for fundraisers, including to Cochran’s campaign. But a high-profile conservative attorney and a leading congressional watchdog
On Thursday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) praised pro-amnesty advocates like Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John McCain as “enlightened Republicans” and slammed Breitbart News for opposing his amnesty agenda. After saying earlier in the week that George W.
A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child. Authors
Wednesday on TVOne’s “News One Now,” host Roland Martin asked the highest-ranking African-American in Congress Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) if he saw any similarities to today and the Jim Crow South. Clyburn said yes and that the Benghazi investigations are
In recent weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services released new regulations that pave the way for a tax-payer bailout for insurance companies that lost money on ObamaCare. Originally, the Obama administration promised its so-called “risk corridors”–a program to
When Big Government screws up, liberals reflexively claim insufficient funding is the problem. If only the mega-State that already gobbles up a few trillion dollars a year, and tops it off by spending hundreds of billions of dollars it doesn’t
On May 20 a gun rights advocate who made a name for himself by interrupting Mark Kelly’s gun control speech before the Oregon legislature won the GOP primary to run for the Oregon legislature. The gun rights advocate, Casey Runyan,
When the founders included the “Speech or Debate” clause in the U.S. Constitution, they wanted to protect members of Congress from the whims of any outside tyrant who might abuse the power of his office to harass, control or destroy
On May 21 Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation designating $10 million a year to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) “to fund research on gun violence prevention and firearms safety.” The funding would take
On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said he was for the “principle” of granting citizenship to DREAMers who serve in the military, but the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was not the place to do it. Cantor also
Two Democratic Congressmen are now the first members of their party to call upon Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) released a statement saying: Unfortunately, this administration has fallen short in providing the kind of
The controversial “Subway to the Sea,” a proposed subway extension in Los Angeles that would run from mid-Wilshire to Westwood, received $1.25 billion in federal money on Wednesday, bringing the total federal funding of the project to $2.1 billion, according
Tuesday night at a debate for the Republican race for lieutenant governor of Texas Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick answered a question about the president’s $1.2 billion plan to combat global warming. Patrick said, “I understand why Obama thinks he
This year, the cheerleaders for big government are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the launching of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. This should be an occasion for mourning, not celebration, because that was the most expensive legislative failure in our
Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law is no comeback kid. On Tuesday, former Rep. Marjorie Margolies (D-PA) lost the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 13th district to state Rep. Brendan Boyle in her attempt to go back to Congress nearly 20 after she was
On Wednesday President Obama is expected to announce that he will bypass the Senate and Congress to create a 600,000 “monument” near the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico. Republican politicians and law enforcement alike have offered sharp criticism of the monument, which in
The White House announced Wednesday morning that President Obama will meet with embattled Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki in the Oval Office Wednesday to receive an update on the growing controversy at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The sudden
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Dollar General CEO David Perdue has advanced to a GOP runoff in Georgia’s hotly contested Senate race that will eventually help determine which party controls Congress. Who Perdue will face in the July 22 runoff has
DENVER (AP) — The Obama administration is pushing Congress to ensure that enough money is available to fight destructive wildfires as California recovers from a spate of blazes and other fire-prone states brace for another hot, dry summer. As part
Clay Aiken, the American Idol runner-up and Democrat who is running for Congress in North Carolina, has not been paying attention to the wait-list scandal at the Veterans Administration even though Fort Bragg is in his district. On Tuesday, NBC’s
First, the Justice Department began targeting them with “Operation Choke Point.” Now a new non-profit group is fighting back. The new group, the United States Consumer Coalition (USCC), has launched a “whistleblower website” asking for the secretive program’s victims to
WASHINGTON–At a press conference featuring undocumented high school students in military garb and in formation, top advocates for a proposal to grant amnesty to illegal alien “DREAMers” who enlist in the military warned that President Obama could move unilaterally to
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who suggested on Monday that “every institution” in America should ignore the nation’s immigration laws until Congress passes amnesty legislation, said President George W. Bush will go down as the last Republican president in history if Congress
With just two weeks remaining until California’s June 3 primary, 33rd District congressional candidate Marianne Williamson is pulling out all the stops. Alanis Morissette performed in support of Williamson on Monday night as part of a campaign rally at the
WASHINGTON–Until House Republicans have confidence that President Obama will implement an immigration reform law as Congress passes it, there is not much to discuss House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday. “We’ve talked about this literally every week for the last
