Tag: Senate

The US Secret Service said three employees will leave their jobs over the sex scandal in a hotel in Colombia which tarnished the elite presidential protection agency’s image. Two leading congressmen meanwhile revealed in a letter to Secret Service chief

Republican lawmakers announced Tuesday they were joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments, reviving an election-year row over White House power. Republicans were incensed when Obama defied his congressional foes early this year by naming

Today, Senate Republicans hired Miguel Estrada, the 2002 judicial nominee for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals filibustered by Senate Democrats, to press a lawsuit against the Obama administration. The lawsuit itself is based on President Obama’s non-recess “recess appointment”

Obama was right about the “do-nothing Congress”–at least about the Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretaryof the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than almost any Senate inrecent history. The 2011 Senate spent

She-PAC, a hybrid conservative “Super PAC” formed to help elect conservative women to Congress, has released a video touting its support of five Republican women candidates for Senate, fighting back against the manufactured meme that Republicans are waging a “war

(AP) GOP derails Senate ‘Buffett rule’ taxes on wealthyBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONSenate Republicans derailed a Democratic “Buffett rule” bill Monday forcing the nation’s top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before

Today, Senate Democrats are attempting to pass the so-called Buffett Rule, which creates a 30% minimum tax on top earners.  The bill isn’t expected to pass, and even some on the Democratic side of the aisle are calling it out

(AP) 4 hearings this week on agency’s spending scandalBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONA culture of wasteful spending by the General Services Administration, the real estate agency for federal buildings, comes under scrutiny at four congressional hearings this week. Two House and

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) —U.S. Rep. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., won’t seek re-election in November, several Democratic officials said. Towns, 77, was expected to face a competitive primary June 26, the date for House and Senate primaries, The Hill reported Sunday.

In the wake of reports today that President Obama has used the White House both to grant access to special large donors and friends like Hilary Rosen, many media figures have suggested that this isn’t anything rare – it’s business

(AP) Long political fights ahead over dueling tax plansBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONDemocrats and Republicans are forcing votes in Congress this coming week on competing tax plans that affect millionaires and smaller businesses, and they know the proposals are doomed from

(AP) 3 years later, what’s become of the tea party?By PAULINE ARRILLAGAAP National WriterSAN ANTONIOThree years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing

By SAMANTHA HENRYAssociated PressNEWARK, N.J.In a smoky stairwell, with embers falling from the ceiling and his neighbor slung over his shoulder, Cory Booker called it his “proverbial come to Jesus moment.” The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city was carrying

The Institute of Medicine (IOM), a federal advisory organization that has provided the Obama administration with considerable medical “cover” for decision-making regarding ObamaCare, has issued a new report which promotes a new tax on medical care to pay for improvements to public

You know it is campaign season when the left starts quoting the Bible, and the Obama campaign is in full Bible-thumping swing. Gone are the unguarded references to those bitter people who cling to their guns and religion. Instead, the

WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) —Social conservative groups refused to back Mitt Romney after Rick Santorum quit the U.S. presidential contest, which Newt Gingrich said was now a two-man race. Romney told the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts in an Oct.

President Obama has decided to interfere in states’ issues once again by stating that he opposes the Minnesota constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The White House news release states: …

Last August, Big Labor attempted to undo Governor Scott Walker’s initiative to cure Wisconsin’s massive debt, incurred as a result of years of Big Labor collective bargaining gone wild. The plan was to recall votes on six state Senate Republicans

WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) —A Senate vote next week on the so-called Buffett Rule on taxing the wealthy opens a door to broader tax reform discussions, a White House spokesman said Monday. It also will mean senators’ position about how

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