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The debate in Washington, D.C. over the federal debt continues as the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the “debt ceiling” approaches. Standard & Poor's has already reported that it would cut the U.S. credit rating from AAA to D, the last rung on its scal
“Most people could not show them to you,” Maher said of the more heavily policed television shows’ treatment of Weiner’s sexts. “We are going to read them, verbatim.”
These earmarks, pork projects set aside for a particular Congressional district, are in a newly created special fund called the “Mission Force Enhancement Transfer Fund.” The fund has already hit $1 billion
The defense bill that just passed the House of Representatives includes a back-door fund that lets individual members of Congress funnel millions of dollars into projects of their choosing. This is happening despite a congressional ban on earmarks
Congressional leadership from both houses and both parties today reached a deal on a long-term extension of the PATRIOT Act, exactly as worded and without any of the inconvenient civil rights provisions that the Obama Administration...
Meredith Attwell Baker resigned her post Wednesday as a Federal Communications Commission commissioner to become the top lobbyist for the merged Comcast-NBC, just four months after she approved the deal.
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul said during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Wednesday that those who believe in a right to healthcare actually believe in slavery.
Bush succeeded in establishing that as a wartime commander-in-chief he had the “inherent power” to disobey the laws against torture, spying on Americans without obtaining warrants, and indefinite detention. In addition, Bush used signing statements..
By Susan Hustwick: We have strayed far from the path on our road to fiscal responsibility. It’s not only the journey that got us here, but the ultimate destination that worries me most. The destination of the United States isn’t looking so good.
The FCIC’s press release indicates that the staff met with over 700 witnesses; only “more than 300″ are to be made public, with 213 released initially and the rest added by now, since the FCIC is now officially no more.
Great interview by Paul Ryan - went to great pains to describe what the right is trying to do as far as spending, cuts, entitlements, and what he is seeing coming down the pike from President Obama today.
The problem with this is that "Ms. Smith" is actually the pen name of of Susan Webber, the principal of Aurora Financial Advisors. This is not a major secret. Wikipedia has an entry that mentions her use of the pen name. Apparently the FCIC didn't...
token measures are a tired cliche that don’t work, act to placate voters and buy them back into sleepy time mode. Token gestures are what we have gotten since FDR and what we will continue to get until such time as we absolutely grab someone up and
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) unveiled a bill on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 that would cap all federal spending over a 10-year period. This bill, called Commitment to American Prosperity (CAP) Act, would as Senator C
Now if only SOMEONE in Congress or the Supreme Court will act on this. This is what Obama has spent almost $2M (so far) to hide. Pix at url.
Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) wants to enclose the House Gallery in "a transparent and substantial material" such as Plexiglas, an aide told CBS News.
Adjournment of Congress sine die a Latin term meaning “without [fixed] day”; No day is set for reconvening Seven southern nation States of America walked out of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress on March 27, 1861. In so doing, th
I tried watching the swearing in of the new House for the 112th Congress. I couldn’t stand it. Standing on the steps outside the House, was one of the greatest collections of career liars,thieves and thugs ever publicly assembled, sprinkled with a
If you had a good intention that someone else just disagreed with, but rather than coming up with reasoned debate, the person stood outside your store front and harangued everyone walking by with obnoxious lies about how you were doing business, the
Isn't it time to grow up and be the boxer you claim to have been when you were younger? Isn't it time to really just reach down and find some sort of coherent ability to just discuss things truthfully? Isn't it time to realize that people are waki
Americans' assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performanc
The entire Congress is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors
While the millionaires mount up in Congress and get paid off by lobbyists, we have to survive on 20% of our country's wealth and backbone.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all t
Why is “free trade at any expense” reserved only for multi-national corporations? Why is every other sector of the economy supposed to be allowed to engage in a free-for-all at the entire countries expense, but when it comes to family and independen
A Politician Can Spin Anything! The following is a story about the great-great uncle of Senator Harry Reid. A rose by any other name still smells as sweet. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing som
_____________________________________________ The issue of water, your rights to it as a human necessity for life, are on the verge of being crippled critically and of course our own government and congress are leading the charge; The CLEAR Act (H
Now then; If we the people understand that these agreements are harmful and not in the best interest of moving the nation forward…if we the people know that these agreements are in direct violation of our laws and constitution…… WHY IS CONGRESS EV
"The Capitol Police are fairly jaded about protests, but they get a bit more careful when it comes to pretending to hang a member of Congress," Ambreen Ali noted at Congress.org on Friday.
Under the threat of a veto by President Obama, the committee stripped from the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act a provision that would have clarified the authority of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review U.S. intelligence agencies.
