Tag: Senate

By and large, politicians are not willing to tackle the unsustainable costs they’ve created.  Consider Illinois public employee pensions. Public employee pensions have been a state expense. Therefore, a big chunk of legacy costs don’t need to be shown on

(AP) House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plansBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to

Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel trailed Democratic senator Sherrod Brown early in the year, but now Rasmussen has them running neck-and-neck. Mandel seems to have enjoyed a bump coming off of his primary victory. The latest telephone survey of Likely Voters

With the recent revelation that the ultimate Washington insider, Jon Corzine, appears to have ordered the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from customers at commodity broker MF Global, you would think crony capitalists would try to keep a

(AP) Tough Republican budget likely to go back on shelfBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservatives claimed credit Tuesday for forcing House GOP leaders to draft a tougher budget plan than initially planned, even as they pressed an alternative proposal that claims to

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of a construction and operating license for two new reactors in Georgia last month was excellent news for the future of nuclear energy.  After all, it was the first approval of its kind since

(AP) House reviewing ethics complaint against BerkleyBy KEVIN FREKINGAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe House Ethics Committee confirmed Friday that it’s looking into allegations made against Democratic U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley of Las Vegas that reportedly revolve around whether she used her office to

(AP) MF Global exec says Corzine ordered $200M transferBy MARCY GORDONAP Business WriterWASHINGTONA former MF Global executive appears to contradict testimony from Jon Corzine, saying the former senator and New Jersey governor ordered the transfer of $200 million last fall

Back in November, Hot Air linked to the Wall Street Journal, pointing out Obama’s lack of shame when it comes to campaigning on the public dime. More than opinion, that determination was based on fact. Actually, it was data that allowed the

Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and the late Andrew Breitbart spent roughly six months coordinating an effort to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit themselves. On Thursday, their combined efforts came to fruition when the STOCK (Stop

(AP) House repeals Medicare cost board on party linesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONDrawing a new election-year fault line between the parties, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-control board that has yet to be named but is called

(AP) Insider trading ban sent to White HouseBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has given final congressional approval to a scaled-down bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information

The Minnesota House passed legislation to require photo ID at the polls. The measure in on the way to the state’s Senate. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A proposal to make Minnesota voters show a photo ID at the polls is

(AP) Senate set for key vote on insider trading banBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONA key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job.

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing.  And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu. 

In March 2011, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) introduced the Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act in the Senate. The Act was designed to grant the U.S. Marshals administrative subpoena power so that they could better investigate sex offenders who had not

When Barack Obama took office in 2009 under the guise of “hope and change,” gasoline was about $1.84 a gallon. Since then, he has reduced foreign importation of crude without increasing domestic production rapidly enough to make up for the

(AP) Santorum raises $9 million in FebruaryWASHINGTONRick Santorum’s presidential campaign has raised more than $9 million in February and has more than $2.6 million on hand for a Republican primary that shows no sign of ending soon. The former senator

(AP) GOP targets new cost-cut board in Obama health lawBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama’s health care law: If they can’t repeal the whole thing, they’ll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a

In a soon to be released book, Professor Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog continues the left’s war against voter ID. What makes his effort different is that Professor Hasen claims to be taking on both the right and the left. While