Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said on Fox News on Wednesday that the “secret” nature of the budget negotiations between House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) results in things like
The National Journal‘s Major Garrett is out with a new report detailing how House GOP leadership plans to push an immigration bill that would grant amnesty to America’s at least 11 million illegal aliens in 2014, a bill that would
And so it came to pass that the filibuster was dismembered, dishonored, and indefinitely detained. With the end of the filibuster came the end of any semblance of comity and compromise on Capitol Hill. The party that never seemed to
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was blocked in his efforts to offer an amendment that would have restored pensions for military servicemen and women by closing a loophole that has allowed tax welfare payments to be sent to illegal aliens…
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has scrubbed a document to remove a false statement about the budget deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Breitbart News has learned. An original talking point
On Tuesday, Politico reported that the next ObamaCare “time-bomb” will hit in the middle of next year, when millions of small business owners will face skyrocketing health insurance premiums. The announcements of the higher premiums will come just weeks before
The real action is coming soon in the Senate when it votes to confirm the new Fed chairman. The budget deal is disappointing, but small beer. It’s just the same, oft-told tale: we’ll cut spending in the future if you’ll
Conservative talker Mark Levin criticizes the 12 Republicans in the U.S. Senate on his Tuesday night radio show for supporting the budget deal brokered between House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Patty
The military pension cuts in the “bipartisan budget deal” crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murrary (D-WA) do not spare disabled veterans. In fact, disabled veterans who “were previously thought to be exempt from changes to military
On December 17 Democratic senators successfully blocked a Republican attempt to shift spending cuts away from military pensions into a billion-dollar IRS credit sometimes claimed by illegal immigrants. This sets the stage for a final vote on the budget bill
A senior staffer for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said the senator is more seriously considering a class-action lawsuit against the NSA after a ruling from a U.S. District Court judge gave standing to NSA opponents suing the agency over its bulk
(AP) Year-end agreement: Budget heads to final passageBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONYear-end legislation to ease Congress’ chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked
In the days immediately following the release of the budget deal negotiated between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), House Speaker John Boehner launched a preemptive attack on conservative and tea party grass roots activists. Saying these
I’ve been a Republican all my life–a loyal Republican. The problem is, our party has not been loyal to its own principles. That is why I am running for the United States Senate. The Republican Party faces an identity crisis.
Republicans must gain six seats in the upper chamber for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his team to hand over the gavel to the GOP. Three years after the GOP won back the House over backlash to the
The fact that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) double counted savings in their budget deal means that the bill actually increases the deficit by several billion dollars, Breitbart
Tuesday on the Senate floor, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took a swipe at his fellow Republicans who disagreed with him on support of the Ryan-Murray budget deal…
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said on the Senate floor Tuesday that he has discovered double counting accounting tactics were used in the budget deal House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
(AP) Snowden bides for political asylum I BrazilBy BRADLEY BROOKSAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIRONational Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he would be willing to help Brazil investigate NSA spying on its soil, but could not fully participate without being granted
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, who just released his annual “Wastebook,” calls it a “compilation of about $30 billion of stupidity, incompetence, and waste.” This amount of waste is particularly high considering the Ryan-Murray budget could only muster up
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) surprised everyone by coming out hard against the budget deal House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cut with Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). In a statement released early Tuesday afternoon, Corker’s
Andrew Glincher, the managing partner at Nixon Peabody, LLP, the law firm where former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is employed, has confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg News that Brown has sold his primary residence in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Glincher said
(AP) AP survey: US income gap is holding back economyBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONThe growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals. It’s hurting the U.S. economy. So says a majority of more
While 12 Republican Senators voted with Senate Democrats to proceed to a vote of final passage on the budget deal from House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), 33 Senate Republicans stood up
