Tag: Senate

Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify behind closed doors this week in separate appearances before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees about the attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya. The Hill reported late Wednesday that

House Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has rejected President Barack Obama’s demand to raise taxes as part of Obama’s proposal to achieve $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”  Instead, Ryan backed Speaker John

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONBears and budgets top the list as Congress returned Tuesday from a seven-week election break to a long list of unfinished business. Looming large in the lame-duck session is the urgent need for President Barack Obama and

It now seems that CIA Director David Petraeus’ mistress, biographer Paula Broadwell, has classified documents in her possession. According to an ABC News source, Broadwell admitted that she stole the documents from government buildings; the government has searched her home.

(AP) Official: Pelosi to remain as leader of House DemsBy LAURIE KELLMAN and JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONA congressional official said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told her party caucus Wednesday that she will remain as minority leader in the new session

Greenexplored.com has reported that Advanced Equities is going out of business. Who is Advanced Equities? They are the firm that raised money for Bloom Energy, Fisker, and Serious Energy. Yes, there was a company called Serious Energy that lost serious

Republican and Democratic senators called for scandal-plagued CIA ex-director David Petraeus to testify about the deadly September 11 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. In the first congressional work week since the re-election of President Barack Obama, lawmakers

Stryker Corporation has announced that it will close its facility in Orchard Park, New York, eliminating 96 jobs next month. It will also counter the medical device tax in Obamacare by eliminating 5% of their global workforce, an estimated 1,170 positions. Jon

Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that President Obama can talk all he wants about raising taxes, but he hasn’t presented any deficit reduction plans. At all. On the floor of the Senate, McConnell announced that slogans and

Could a global tobacco tax be on the cards if tobacco tax proponents get their way at a key international organization’s meeting this week?  Anti-tax advocates fear that the answer to that question may be “yes” as a conference of

Massachusetts Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, in her first press conference after defeating Sen. Scott Brown, was noticeably curt with reporters asking about her campaign and the issues voters elected her to solve. When reporters asked her about the fiscal cliff, Warren could only

Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is intimating that he might seek to return to his old post, jauntily stating, “It’s not a bad idea. I can go shake up the house a little bit more,

GOP strategist Karl Rove, often referred to as “The Architect” of the George W. Bush election campaigns, is vowing to advance his super PAC, American Crossroads, despite the defeat of Mitt Romney and some GOP Senate candidates. Though Rove predicted

Two days ago, Karen Hughes, communications director for the Bush White House, announced, “If any Republican man makes a comment about rape other than it’s a heinous act, I’ll personally cut out his tongue.” Her comment was made, of course,

The DC GOP and its attendants in the punditry are bent on diminishing the influence of conservatism generally and the tea party specifically. Its been this way for a long time. The DC GOP establishment mobilized all its resources, for