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Rubio: Leaked WH Immigration Proposal “Dead on Arrival”

During his SOTU address, President Obama touched on broad immigration reform principles and commended the work bipartisan groups in both chambers are doing to draft ...

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Having Added Record $5.9T to Debt, Obama Claims He’s Cut Deficit $2.5T

President Barack Obama claimed today that since he has been president both parties have worked together to cut the federal deficit by $2.5 trillion—despite the ...

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Graham Demands Access to Hagel Archives

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) requested Friday that Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska Senator nominated for Secretary of Defense, give Congress access to his archives at ...

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Pelosi Questions Patriotism Of Republican Army Veteran, Says He’s Not “On...

Class act all the way. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested that the sequestration fight is revealing that some of her colleagues in Congress ...

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Sequestration: When will you feel the pain?

No deal. President Obama said Friday Congressional leaders had failed to reach a compromise to avoid a sweeping set of spending cuts ready to hit ...

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Obama Admin Releases 700 Pages Of New Health Care Regulations

The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act. The four rules, which ...

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Obama trading Keystone XL for a carbon tax?

There must be some fans of The Walking Dead at the White House and the DNC these days, because there are apparently some bad ideas ...

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Email: Obama Regime To Make Sequester As Painful As Promised…

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that ...

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Pelosi: ‘Tax Cuts Are Spending’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said today that the government must cut spending, and then explained that: “Tax cuts are spending.” “Our whole budget ...

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Reid likes idea of budget every two years, not each year

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Congress should consider passing a budget once every two years instead of once a year, as the law now ...

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States to feds: Hands off our guns

A growing number of states are moving forward with legislation to exempt them from new federal gun controls and, in some cases, brand as criminals ...

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House GOP grills top Obama immigration official over release of illegal...

House Republicans grilled the Obama administration’s top immigration official on Tuesday for releasing more than 2,000 illegal immigrants from detention facilities. Republicans accused the...

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US companies seek final approval to start slaughtering horses for food

About eight miles outside of Roswell, N.M., a shuttered cattle farm is getting ready to reopen its doors. Only this time, the Valley Meat Co. ...

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Agriculture disputes threaten new US-EU talks

President Barack Obama used Washington’s grandest stage—the State of the Union speech—to announce negotiations with Europe aimed at creating the world’s largest free trade agreement. ...

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With ban on semi-automatic weapons out, Congress now spars over universal...

Senate Democrats recently removed bans on semi-automatic weapons from pending gun-control legislation in apparent hopes of passing the more politically acceptable universal background checks — ...

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Postal Service may hurt its push for reform by antagonizing Congress

The U.S. Postal Service did itself no favors on Capitol Hill by unveiling its plan to limit Saturday delivery last month, at a time when ...

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D.C. Watch: Debt ceiling, farm bill up next

Congress is on a two week Easter Break after passing a continuing resolution to keep the government running through the end of September. The continuing ...

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State Department Wants To Review FBI’s Notes On Hillary Ahead Of Congress

Will the State Department redact parts of the “unclassified” emails? A Congress with any balls would just say no… you got a problem with that? ...

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