The Hill reports that on Thursday, Senior House and Senate leaders expressed optimism about reaching an agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) that would prevent the government from being shut down before the November elections. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Momentum is building for former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz to pull the biggest upset in the 2012 election cycle by defeating establishment candidate Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Tuesday’s July 31 runoff. When
In a sign that the Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has become the most important non-Presidential contest in the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the fray yesterday by endorsing Scott Brown over
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will campaign in Texas at a get-out-the-vote rally for Ted Cruz on Friday along with other prominent Tea Party leaders like Jim DeMint. Palin will lead a cadre of conservatives, including Texas and National Tea Party
Joel Kotkin is the geographer and writer who first raised the alarm about the Obama administration’s “war against suburbia,” which is the subject of a new and extensive analysis by Stanley Kurtz in a book to be released next week. Kotkin
Al Pires — the Pigford “black famers settlement” attorney made famous when Andrew Breitbart gave him an intellectual beatdown on John Stossel’s Fox News show last year — would like to be the next Senator from Delaware. However, the erstwhile
As Barack Obama attacks “AK-47s,” while his press secretary promises that Obama respects Second Amendment rights, it is worth recalling Obama’s long-running campaign for gun control, dating back more than a decade–a campaign he now seeks to downplay as he heads
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the libertarian crusader against the Federal Reserve who will retire from Congress at the end of this term, got the House to pass his “Audit the Fed” bill on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act passed
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats voted against an extension of the Bush tax cuts. The Republican proposal failed by a 45-54 vote. Instead, Democrats ended up passing a tax increase on incomes above $250,000. The vote passed 51-48, mostly along party
A new jobs training oversight report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) found that a federally-funded Oklahoma Job Corps program spent around $76,000 per person to help youth secure minimum wage jobs. The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability
Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Democrats’ bluff on the 2013 tax cliff. Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell announced that Republicans will allow a 50-vote threshold on Democratic proposals for renewing the Bush tax rates. Democrats have
Democrats in Congress have openly threatened to take the country off the fiscal cliff by raising taxes across the board, allowing all of the Bush tax cuts to expire unless Republicans consent to tax increases. But House Republicans are calling Democrats’
There can be no more epic a FAIL than that which has occurred in Wisconsin. Despite spending millions of dollars (and losing a chunk of members), unions were not only unable to flip Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch out of
On Monday, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at the World Affairs Council that the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information to reporters. Republicans have also alleged senior White
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Democrats’ chief political strategist in the Senate, said on Tuesday Democrats are not planning on introducing gun control measures in the Senate despite pressure to do so by
Missouri’s incumbent Democrat senator and one of President Obama’s most vocal supporters, Senator Claire McCaskill, is in trouble. The latest Rasmussen poll has her trailing every single one of the Missouri senate Republican primary contenders. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday the White House was behind recent national security leaks in part, but would not implicate President Obama on the matter, the Associated Press reports.
Yesterday, speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada, Barack Obama accused Republicans of sacrificing the needs of the military in order to protect tax cuts for the rich: “Now they’re trying to wriggle out of what they agreed
This is the first in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, Cold War historian and professor of political science, who has just released a major book titled The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack
Joining Senator John MCain (R-AZ), Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday said: ”I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks.” USA Today adds, “The leaks
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday said the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information. ”I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming
(AP) Hoots in parliament: France mulls harassment lawBy LORI HINNANTAssociated PressPARISThe hooting and catcalls began as soon as the Cabinet minister stood, wearing a blue and white flowered dress. It did not cease for the entire time she spoke before
You’re watching a cable news show one night and see some of the GOP freshmen House members, part of the 2010 “shellacking” President Obama experienced, telling the audience that the nation needs smaller government, free markets, less spending, and greater
The Republican establishment has long kept Michele Bachmann at arm’s length and the exploitation of her simple inquiry into foreign policy matters (along with Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney, Trent Franks, and Lynn Westmorland) is just another example. What’s worse: they seem eager
Last month, Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV) voted against H.R. 2578, the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, which includes provisions that would allow the City of Yerington, Nevada, to purchase 11,500 acres of federal land at fair market value. The
