Next week, the Senate will vote on Obama’s nominee to Chair the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, David Medine. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, followed up the confirmation hearing with a list of
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), who is running for the Senate seat abandoned by Secretary of State John Kerry, has released a new ad attacking his Republican opponent, businessman Gabriel Gomez, who trails by just four percentage points in the latest
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions estimates about 57 million new people, immigrants and people with nonimmigrant visas, will be entering the United States to compete with middle class Americans for their jobs if the “Gang of Eight”
On Friday, Organizing for Action, President Obama’s designated 501(c)4 political action group and permanent campaign apparatus, sent a mass email to its list encouraging members to support gun control … based on a murder in heavily gun-controlled Chicago. The letter,
Among the many little surprises lurking in the Gang of Eight’s “comprehensive immigration reform bill” could be an amendment, proposed by Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT), that would allow “gay Americans to sponsor foreign-born partners for green cards,” according to The
Vice President Joe Biden is ready to move with a new wave of gun control, “planning even more travel, with trips around the country to stump for a renewed push on expanded background checks and gun-trafficking laws that failed to
Two days after the Massachusetts primary election in which Ed Markey won the Democratic nomination and Gabriel Gomez won the Republican nomination, the Emerson College Polling Society released a poll that shows Markey has only a 42% to 36% lead over
In a sign that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is laying the groundwork for a potential 2016 presidential run, his chief of staff is leaving Paul’s Senate office to run his political action committees and organize in the early primary states.
On May 1, the New Hampshire Union Leader stepped into the debate surrounding Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) by opining that she had handled the gun control vote “incredibly” and that the emotionally driven attacks against her are “disgusting.” According to
Speaking from Mexico on May 2, President Obama said the recent defeat of gun control in the U.S. Senate was “just the first round.” “The last time we had major gun legislation, it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get
NBC Bay Area: More than 40,000 guns in California may soon be off the streets. A first of its kind program in the nation will take guns away from people who are not supposed to have them. There are 20,000
A Michigan abortionist whose clinic was shut down in 2012 faces allegations from a doctor who found a severed infant’s head inside the body of one of his patients. In an email read by Michigan state Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R-Lawton),
Several media outlets are now reporting that one of the three men arrested in connection with the Boston terrorist attack is an illegal immigrant. CNN’s Jake Tapper reports that the three alleged accomplices in custody are students. Two of them,
Today, President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Citigroup chief and Obama campaign fundraiser Michael Froman as the next U.S. Trade Representative. Froman, who bundled between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s campaigns, was the former head of CitiAlternatives. In his
When former President Bill Clinton spoke at Georgetown University on April 30, he told Democrats to keep pushing gun control because it’s a winner. This is strange advice coming from a man who watched his party endure a loss of
(AP) Obama to pitch immigration overhaul in MexicoBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has his domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs
A gay rights provision Democrats want to insert in the Senate’s immigration bill may ultimately kill the legislation. According to Politico, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has told gay rights groups that he will introduce an amendment next
After recently saying the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill would not pass the House of Representatives in its current form, group member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) conceded on Wednesday that the bill might not even pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. On
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Boston’s conservative radio host Howie Carr on Wednesday that the political momentum is starting to turn against the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. When Carr asked the senator if this
According to Chuck Todd, gun control advocates are targeting Senators who opposed the Manchin-Toomey “compromise” in much the same way that conservatives focused on politicians who supported Obamacare. The goal of gun control proponents is to stir up emotion and
In a column published on May 1, the Huffington Post blamed the recent defeat of gun control in the Senate on the NRA’s “money and power.” Just months removed from Adam Lanza’s heinous crime in Newtown, and just days before a Senate
Just last week one of the key authors of the Affordable Care Act – Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) – denounced Obamacare as a “huge train wreck” and then promptly announced his retirement. Why is Obamacare a train wreck? Because it
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s magical bullet train may not come to fruition after all. According to reports on Tuesday, Brown’s $100 billion vanity project may meet its demise at the hands of the federal government. So far, the California High-Speed
President Obama is expected to nominate Tom Wheeler, veteran telecom industry exec and lobbyist to Chair the FCC. The FCC has broad regulatory powers over the nation’s telecommunications industry, effecting television, wireless and internet services. Wheeler has headed powerful lobbying
Former Republican Governor, turned Independent, turned Democrat, Charlie Crist , has chimed in on the ongoing healthcare debate in Tallahassee, Florida. Crist stated on his Facebook fan page that if he was Governor, he and the legislature would cut into
