On Wednesday, the House passed legislation that demands President Barack Obama produce a balanced budget or submit a supplemental budget plan by April 1, 2013 that outlines how and in what fiscal year he aims to achieve a balanced budget.
The Senate confirmation hearings for John Brennan to head the CIA Thursday present a rare opportunity for bipartisan unity on Capitol Hill. Each party has its own particular reasons to oppose him: liberals are outraged by his record on interrogation
The hard-nosed architect of the US drone war against Al-Qaeda, John Brennan, will face tough questions about secret assassinations Thursday from senators weighing his nomination to lead the CIA. The confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee promises to focus
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer told Breitbart News that the facts don’t all add up in New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s story when it comes to his reimbursement of flights aboard a Democratic mega-donor’s private jet. Spicer specifically
Chuck Hagel is stonewalling Republican questions about his nomination for Secretary of Defense, refusing to release the details of the foreign funding for corporate and nonprofit organizations in which he has served since 2009 when his Senate term expired. [T]he information you
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, revealed on Wednesday that he will not only vote against the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense but also actively work to defeat the nomination. Inhofe
Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, will be appearingbefore the Senate, Thursday, for his confirmation hearing as the nextCIAdirector. AEI’s Marc Thiessen has provided a list of the top ten national security leaks Brennan needs to explainto the Senate.The curious timing
The nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to Secretary of Defense has been held up due to Hagel’s failure to turn over required documents to the Senate Armed Services Committee, even after a letter prompting him for those documents.
By KEN THOMASAssociated PressWASHINGTONFlorida Sen. Marco Rubio will give the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, providing a direct message to a growing Hispanic electorate that shunned the GOP in last year’s election.
On July 31, 2012, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) pressured a State Department official testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics, which he chairs, to “send a message” to the government of
Rove mentioned that they raised and spent over $300 million. While this is true, when you consider their track record, they wasted the money. Perhaps it is time for Rove’s donors to donate to organizations who can produce a ground game
The Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed its vote on whether to recommend former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the Senate for confirmation as Secretary of Defense. No new date for the vote has yet been given. Rumors of a
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is not providing the Senate any more information about past speeches or funders. Luckily, a few of his former audiences are only too proud to share his remarks with the world. The National Council on
In response to Same Guy Assassinating Americans Without Due Process…: But he says it’s “safe, legal and rare.” Whoops! I mean…..”legal, ethical, and wise.” This WaPo piece was written by Bush’s former speech writer, Marc Thiessen, last May, eight months
Over the past few weeks, many questions have been raised about the relationship between NJ Sen. Bob Menendez and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen. To date, reporters have focused on alleged sex parties with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. Whether
The confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as President Barack Obama’s new Secretary of Defense has hit new snags, according to a story broken by Foreign Policy on Tuesday evening, including an allegation of sexual harassment among staff in
We live in a leaderless country governed, in effect, by two opposition parties: the anti-war movement in the Senate and the Tea Party movement in the House. With a normal government–with a president actually interested in performing his duties rather
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee received the results of a national poll last week that indicates support for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense collapses when voters are aware of his positions on the issues, Breitbart News has
Tuesday night, Karl Rove went on Fox News’ Hannity to deliver a mea culpa for a New York Times article which reported that the “biggest donors in the Republican Party” were working with him and Steven J. Law, president of
The conservative group American Majority Action has a message for GOP strategist Karl Rove: “Thanks for leading GOP to failure, we’ll take it from here.” In a release to the press, AMA’s Ron Meyer said that, “Karl Rove, fresh off
President Barack Obama’s controversial and embattled Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew is coming under increasing scrutiny for having possibly broken federal law by failing to warn Congress about a Medicare funding problem during his tenure as the former director of
In a major policy speech on Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) called to grant citizenship to children of illegal immigrants while outlining policies concerning education, taxes, and flexibility in the workplace that he believed
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) has released a report focusing on the evils of rendition, enhanced interrogation techniques, and, of course, George W. Bush. Regarding rendition and enhanced interrogation techniques, OSF says: 54 foreign governments reportedly participated in these
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made remarks about the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense that indicated he might be leaning toward rejecting the nomination. Graham said: I thought his confirmation hearing was disturbing. We don’t have enough information.
