The National Republican Congressional Committee already has its sights set on keeping the House seat once held by Florida GOP Rep. Bill Young. Young passed away at the age of 82 in October and was the longest tenured Republican in
New documents obtained by the Washington D.C. watchdog group Judicial Watch show a State Department official ordered an executive at the security company in charge of protecting the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya not to respond to media inquiries regarding the
A civil lawsuit against members of the House and Congressional staff filed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) was dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Columbia on Wednesday. Rangel sued House Speaker John Boehner and other House members in April over
Kevin Kolbye, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Dallas, served as the on-scene commander for the Benghazi investigation but has not yet testified before Congress about what he knows. Republican Congressman Frank Wolf wants
Reports are showing The U.S. unemployment rate is at a five year low. According to Reuters “U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in November and the jobless rate hit a five-year low of 7.0 percent…” Reuters says the new number could
Are some funerals of certain former world leaders more important to attend than others? President Barack Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama are expected to attend former South African President Nelson Mandela’s funeral service in the African nation, reports USA Today.
The Internal Revenue Service quietly proposed new regulations aimed at 501(c)(4) organizations during the Thanksgiving recess that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, called “a crass political effort by the Administration to get what political advantage
Medical and security sources told Reuters on Thursday that gunmen have killed an American citizen working at an international school in the Libyan city of Benghazi. According to the report, the attackers shot the man, who was a teacher at the
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General released a report on Monday evaluating DHS’ Information Security Program. According to the executive summary, the report identified a number of issues that concerned Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), ranking member of
The U.S. released a top Iranian scientist Mojtaba Atarodi in April as part of the dealings with Iran in Geneva recently, the Times of Israel reported. The secret back channel of negotiations between Iran and the United States, which led to this
Russian law enforcement is holding 15 radical Islamists in Moscow who allegedly belong to a banned branch of the al-Qaida terror network, AFP reports. Members of the over 50-year old Egyptian founded group, Takfir wal-Hijra, were allegedly preparing suicide strikes. Television footage on Russian
Investor’s Business Daily wrote on Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s long time friend Bill Ayers, a former member of the violent organization the Weather Underground, finally confessed that he wrote Obama’s biography, Dreams From My Father. : Obama has always
Days after completing nuclear talks with Iran and striking a deal on uranium enrichment and sanctions, the Obama administration has asked the Islamic Republic to release several American hostages. Criticized for not bringing up the matter during the negotiations, the White House
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter Monday to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Rand Beers demanding more information about the Obama Administration’s plans
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) military sexual assault legislation has hit another snag. According to numerous reports, the bill was blocked: Gillibrand, the junior Democratic senator from New York, believes passage of her bill to shift the decision to prosecute sexual assaults
President Barack Obama’s controversial deal easing sanctions on Iran is causing new rifts among Senate Democrats in a caucus struggling to hold itself together in the wake of the Obamacare fiasco. Democrats in the upper chamber who usually are unified
The Dallas FBI’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kevin, F. Kolbye, served as the On-Scene Commander for the investigation into the deaths of the four Americans killed on September 11, 2012, following the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate and
The moment the polls opened in Virgnia on Tuesday morning, early birds made their way to go vote. In the swing county of Loudoun, where residents were told there was a county-wide connectivity problem causing issues with the electronic validation system,
Problems appear to already be happening on election day in Virginia. Two callers from Loudoun County called into WMAL’s Morning’s on the Mall radio show and told hosts Larry O’Connor and Brian Wilson that the electronic validation system across the county
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made no mention of the Obamacare exchanges in their campaign speeches for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has been pounding away at the issue for last
About 100 Tea Partiers protested President Barack Obama in Arlington on Sunday, as he was set to give his endorsement of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. The Tea Partiers, who held Ken Cuccinelli signs and shouted out questions regarding
Editor’s note: the following is a parody speech and not authored by President Barack Obama. President Obama Joins Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Terry McAuliffe For Celebration Of The Affordable Care Act WASHINGTON – Today, just over a month since the Administration
Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients: FYI last night at the Great
The Washington Post’s piece regarding the Obama administration’s failure to properly roll out the health care exchanges includes a nugget at the end of the piece that illustrates how desperate the situation became one month before the launch of healthcare.gov:
The June 2010 edition of the Federal Register on the 17th of that month shows that the Obama administration was well aware that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would cause private health insurers to halt coverage of millions of Americans
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has been lobbying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Congress to ensure that grocery and convenience stores are subjected to the same uniform menu labeling regulations that requires restaurants, including franchised chains with 20
President Barack Obama made it no secret he was a proponent of a single payer health care system in America when he first came on to the national scene. However, he explained to his supporters over the years that a
Like many other health insurance carriers across the country, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield recently sent letters to thousands of its customers informing them that their insurance coverage was in peril as a result of the implementation of the Obamacare exchanges. According to
Department of Homeland Security internal documents obtained by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) draft final regulation arranged by the Obama Administration that would lift the established ban on Libyans coming to the U.S.
It well known that Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial nominee Robert Sarvis wants same sex marriage to be legal in the Commonwealth like one of his opponents, Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Sarvis’ campaign theme is “Virginia – Open minded and Open for Business.”
On Wednesday, House Democrats renewed their push for an immigration bill to be brought to the floor, and although members from both parties favoring passage for such legislation appear confident a bill will surface in the lower chamber in the near
The Washington Post, whose editorial board limply endorsed Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, gave three Pinocchios to a Mike Bloomberg pac sponsored attack ad going after Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli on the issue of guns. WaPo’s fact checker
Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) appeared surprised by how accommodating leadership PAC funds are to members and their personal spending habits after he saw CBS’s 60 Minutes report on Sunday covering the issue based upon Peter Schweizer’s new book Extortion. “I had
Americans for Tax Reform Tax Policy Director Ryan Ellis found himself at bitter odds with tea party activists after he tweeted out harsh statements about Senator Ted Cruz (R – TX) and tea partiers. In one tweet Ellis remarked that
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) was identified as the lawmaker accused of insulting President Barack Obama during the government shutdown negotiations, while the White House, which already said that no insult happened to begin with, is taking the blame for “miscommunication.”
Senator John McCain (R – AZ) told KFYI host Barry Young he is seriously considering running for re-election in 2016. “I’m seriously thinking about maybe giving another opportunity for you to vote for or against me in a few years from
CBS’s 60 Minutes confronted Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-CA) about $150,000 she loaned to her campaign in 1998 at an astounding 18% interest rate, likening the profit margin to organized crime. The Sunday night news program showed investigative reporter Steve Kroft asking
Many conservatives on Capitol Hill find themselves left out in the cold by the current leadership when it comes to receiving campaign donations from leadership PACs. CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an investigative report on Sunday by Steve Kroft who interviewed
U.S. House stenographer Dianne Reidy was forced off the floor on Wednesday night following the House’s passage of a debt limit resolution package, which would end the government shut down. Reidy, who has worked as a recorder for the House for
Senate Minority leader’s office claims controversial pork spending in debt deal came from a sub-comittee. Kentucky outlet WFPL reported Wednesday that a proposal to end the federal government shutdown and increase the U.S. debt ceiling by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
