New filings from Virginia insurance companies reveal that Obamacare will result in premium spikes of up to 16.6% for some customers. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Anthem HealthKeepers Inc plan’s 110,000 Virginia customers can expect an average 8.5%
AP: President Barack Obama met with business leaders Tuesday to highlight his support for pushing a package of comprehensive immigration reform through Congress before the mid-term election. (May 13) Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) suggested to National Public Radio (NPR) he would like to bring earmarks back to Congress. “I think earmarks have gotten a bad name,” Cochran told the national radio outlet for a piece it published on the
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) lives in the basement apartment in a house owned by his executive assistant, Kay Webber, which he has listed as his primary address on official forms. Now public records show Webber accompanied Cochran on dozens of
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith expressed outrage at a new report detailing the 36,007 convicted criminal immigrants released back into the United States last year. “Regardless of one’s position on the
Shortly after the last polls closed across India Monday concluding the longest and biggest democratic election ever held, India’s six largest national polling outfits all released preliminary exit polls pointing to a huge win for India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata
ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina textile entrepreneur locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken has died. The president of the company founded by 71-year-old Keith Crisco says Crisco died at home
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) refused to commit to serving another full term in Congress if he is reelected in the fall and retains his position as Speaker. Speaking to The Texas Tribune‘s Evan Smith at a San Antonio luncheon
Danny Yatom, the retired director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency laughed off a much-hyped story in the ‘new’ Newsweek magazine claiming that Israeli spies trailed Al Gore, America’s former Vice President during a Jerusalem visit in 1998. Yatom responded Saturday
Pressed by dozens of lawmakers from both parties in 2012 to putgreater focus on growing violence by Boko Haram, the Islamistmilitant group that recently kidnapped 200 teenage girls inNigeria, the State Department sent something akin to a formletter in reply.
A new CNN poll finds that just 12% of Americans consider the Obamacare program a “success.” President Barack Obama has pressed fellow Democrats to laud and run on his signature legislative achievement. However, other polls confirm that the law, which
The Hill has a piece desperately trying to perform damage control for the Obama Administration by somehow insisting that the GOP is abandoning its investigation into the IRS scandal in favor of its investigation into the Benghazi scandal. It seems
On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that will authorize a congressional commission to study the possible creation of a National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The bill (H.R. 863), which passed the House
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 9 (UPI) — President Obama took a break from fundraising to give a speech at a Walmart in Mountain View, California on climate change and the need to embrace clean renewable energy Friday. The president said
The white-marble Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington DC, looks like a giant courts building or a central bank, fully intimidating and imposing in its hulking stony blockiness. And the US Congress, of course, is an institution best known
This Sunday, 60 Minutes will re-air an investigative report by award-winning CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer that revealed how members of Congress exploit leadership PAC loopholes to bankroll lavish
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) was the first lawmaker to vote against Speaker John Boehner on the House floor in January 2013. Now the GOP Establishment, and especially allies of Boehner, are looking to take him out. Top GOP power brokers
House Speaker John Boehner has announced the six members of the select Benghazi committee headed up by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. The list: Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Peter Roskam, Rep. Martha Roby, Rep. Susan Brooks, Rep. Mike Pompeo, and Rep.
South Africa’s leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) made historic strides in that country’s national and provincial elections this week, reaching record high of 22% support nationally and nearly 60% in the Western Cape province, where it governs. However,
Since the September 11, 2012, attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, few have worked harder to uncover the truth than Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC). Now the chairman of a select committee to investigate the attacks, here is a
MONTPELIER, Vt., May 8 (UPI) — Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law yesterday a bill that makes Vermont the first state in the country to require the labeling of all GMO foods and prohibiting the use of the terms “natural”
A bill that reauthorized the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which was criticized on the right as unnecessary interference by the federal government in the free market, passed the House in violation of the so-called “Hastert Rule” Thursday. The bill passed
The House voted Wednesday to hold disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the tax agency’s targeting of conservative non-profit groups. While most Republicans said the act was largely symbolic, the chamber technically
With the backdrop of a recent tornado outbreak that caused sever damage in Mississippi and Arkansas, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is criticizing his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, over disaster aid. Pointing to a special session of the state
Unless Congress acts soon, a federal moratorium on taxing internet access will expire before the end of the year, allowing states and localities to tax consumers online access. The ban, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, was passed in 1998, during
