Tag: Senate

With the country mired in debt, the Obama administration had until July 16 to submit their mid-session budget review to Congress. And they failed to meet the deadline. According to The Hill, the “document is supposed to contain revised spending,

Last Thursday, House Republicans–with the support of a handful of Democrats, and no support from the White House–passed the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act. The Act is an important first step to getting past the U.S. environmental movement’s

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) raised $25 million to win reelection in 2010 and once referred to then-candidate Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” But on the Senate

Last Thursday, House Republicans–with the support of a handful of Democrats, and no support from the White House–passed the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act. The Act is an important first step to getting past the U.S. environmental movement’s

The Ninth U. S. Circuit Court’s Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski has canceled next year’s scheduled meeting in Monterey, citing budget constraints. The cancellation comes in the wake of serious pressure from Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Sessions of Alabama

The headline in Saturday’s New York Times said it all: “New York Fed Knew of False Barclay’s Reports on Rates.” The article quotes a Barclay’s employee telling a New York Federal Reserve official in April 2008 that “we know we’re

Why on Earth is our government sending billions upon billions of dollars overseas to bail out European banks? That question is at the center of a new Judicial Watch investigation as we continue our effort to force the Obama administration

While Democrats continue to accuse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of being a felon until proven otherwise, it’s useful to remember an apparent felony that was allegedly committed by Barack Obama’s White House in 2009: the attempted bribe of Democrat

A new report from Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform entitled “How Countrywide Used its VIP Program to Influence Washington Policymakers” confirms what Judicial Watch has been arguing for several years – that former Senator Chris

A year ago, President Barack Obama called Republicans “hostage takers” for staying true to their mandate and refusing to agree to tax hikes as part of the debt ceiling deal. Now, the Washington Post reports that Democrats are explicitly threatening to

Missouri redistricting has pitted together Missouri’s two biggest and self-indulgent political dynasties against each other for one epic primary. Russ Carnahan, the one-time golden boy of Missouri Democrats (until he opened his mouth) and Lacy Clay, who dumped his wife

Mitt Romney has only a few days to change the narrative of his campaign. The decisions Romney makes in mid-July are going to determine whether or not he even has a shot to win this November. Forget the VP choice,

Why is John McCain refraining from joining Democrats who are initiating a measure strengthening campaign finance reform? McCain, known as the father of campaign reform, will not join the Democrats; not a single Republican in the Senate will. The bill, called the

A recent CNNMoney survey found that 75% of money managers and investment strategists believe a Mitt Romney victory would lift U.S. markets.  The survey also found that “many are also hoping for the GOP to gain control of both the

When Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Painters Union hall in Henderson, Nevada on Friday, she shrugged aside the serious charges of ethical misconduct being investigated by her colleagues in the House of Representatives.

The Obama tax-the-rich campaign strategy is simply a grand diversion from the nation’s badly sputtering economy and from Obama’s failure to effectively do much about it. It is also an exercise in sophism designed to draw attention away from his

Some of the Senate Democrats running for reelection are torn because they don’t know if they can afford to back Barack Obama’s new plan to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000. Obama had originally favored letting the Bush

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as a former boxer, should know that Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) is on the ropes.  The House Oversight Committee voted unanimously to launch a formal investigation into the myriad of ways Berkley has

Now that the weeping and gnashing of teeth has begun to subside in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Obamacare, conservatives are trying to make sense of the stunning betrayal by Chief Justice John Roberts.  Emerging evidence suggests

Republican Senators Jeff Sessions, Budget Committee Ranking Member and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley have fired off a scathing letter to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The letter pertains to Kozinki’s

President Obama’s “War on Coal” has made it so difficult for electricity producers to use that the percentage of our nation’s electricity coming from coal has plunged from 44% last year to 36% this year.  This forced reduction in a

Yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid both ripped into the US Olympic Committee for outsourcing production of US uniforms to China. “I am so upset. I think the Olympic committee should be ashamed of

Early Wednesday morning, the House Agriculture Committee leadership passed its version of a five-year farm bill to replace the one that expires on September 30, 2012. The bill, which “saves” $35 billion over ten years – $11 billion more than