Attorney Gen. Eric Holder while testifying before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Justice Department’s FY2014 budget refused to answer when Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) asked if he knew whether federal agents had monitored the phones of members of Congress.
Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) is not backing down in his public war of words with Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL). Last week, the congressman said, Kirk’s idea to go round up thousands of suspected gangsters in Chicago was an “upper-middle class,
Chicago has been one of the most dangerous places in the country to live for the last several years with gang shootings wracking the city. To address this plague of gangs, Senator Mark Kirk (R, IL) proposed that some 18,000
WGN: Congressman Bobby Rush unleashes criticism on U.S. Senator Mark Kirk over his proposal to crackdown on gangs.
A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen.
Senator Mark Kirk was “uncertain” about supporting Hyatt Hotel heiress and Obama campaign bundler Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary until a few days ago. Ahead of Thursday’s confirmation hearing, Kirk has announced he is joining his Illinois counterpart Dick Durbin
(AP) GOP Sen. Kirk announces support for gay marriageBy SARA BURNETTAssociated PressCHICAGOGOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois on Tuesday became the second sitting Republican senator to endorse gay marriage _ a move that also could shift the political debate over
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Mark Kirk’s welcoming committee when he returns to the U.S. Senate after a stroke includes Vice President Joe Biden and his colleague, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Kirk, R-Ill., plans to walk the 45 steps to
It’s become clear we’re never going to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until we first resolve the fake refugee fiasco. I turned to noted ME scholar and director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Asaf Romirowsky to gain his
Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL) has been missing in action from Congress due to a mysterious medical condition. His state’s senior senator, Dick Durbin (D-IL), said yesterday that Jackson needs to explain his medical situation to the state’s voters “soon,” according
The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington, claiming that a new amendment to a bill before Congress would prevent them from making a peace deal with Israel. The amendment calls for a true accounting of how many Palestinians fled Israel during the Israel’s War
Last week, when Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) sought to examine whether U.S. funds flowing to Palestinian refugees gave Palestinians an advantage over Israelis, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was quick to complain that Republicans were putting the interests of Israel above
The State Department, which has typically stood against Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict, today tried to oppose a Senate measure that would require the State Department to report how many actual Palestinian refugees US aid was helping, as opposed to descendants of
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Mark Kirk, the Republican who won the Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated when he became president, is leaving a medical center where he has been recovering since suffering a major stroke three months ago, his family
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk underwent surgery today at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after suffering a stroke, his office said. “On Saturday, Senator Kirk checked himself into Lake Forest Hospital, where doctors discovered a carotid artery dissection in the right side of
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that Alvin Boutte, Jr., the adviser who encouraged the state to invest in Democrats’ beloved ShoreBank as it was failing, has agreed to pay a fine, to have his securities license suspended, and to work under
Judicial Watch has done it again. It has produced–following a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)–documents that suggest extensive coordination and communications between the DOJ Voting Section and former ACORN affiliate Project
No preconditions, indeed. From Reuters: WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – The Obama administration is urging U.S. lawmakers to soften proposed sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank, Senator Mark Kirk said on Tuesday. Kirk, a Republican, is the co-author along with Democratic
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Naval Intelligence officer and Senator Mark Kirk, of Illinois, elaborates on the situation that would bring the Russians into the U.S. missile defense program and a new proposal that would base radar defense
Sen. Mark Kirk told the Don and Roma Show that Harry Reid is now trying to close Gitmo during the lame-duck session.
Wouldn’t you think it would be a big deal if a Republican president lost his senate seat to a Democrat only two short years after he was elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, don’t you think
Congressman Mark Kirk has won the Senate seat once-held by President Barack Obama. In his acceptance speech, Kirk talked about being a fiscal conservative, social moderate and a national security hawk
AFP: When Barack Obama left the US Senate to become the 44th president of the United States, his seat was given by Illinois’ state governor — in a highly controversial move — to Roland Burris. Now it is being vacated
At some point in the past few weeks, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias was sitting in his million-dollar Chicago condo wondering how he could possibly stop the death spiral of his campaign for the United States Senate. It had all seemed
The Tea Party folks keep getting mad at me for saying that in the end they might prove ineffective in races at levels higher than local because they aren’t organized enough. They puff up their chests proudly proclaiming that they
