Details are emerging about the federal corruption charges the Justice Department is expected to file against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seems to be playing a much larger role in the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point these days. But you wouldn’t know that from the gentle questioning of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on Capitol Hill.
Who’s holding the watchdogs accountable? The head of the CFPB shoots down a Congressmember’s question about his agency’s lavish spending. “Why does that matter to you?”
The Obama Administration’s “Operation Choke Point” is being used to target yet another legal industry: the tobacco industry.
On the day that the House prepared to collapse and pass a DHS bill that funds President Obama’s executive amnesty, some lawmakers are talking tough about the FCC’s “net neutering” actions last week. But they haven’t offered any proposals to push back.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) raised expectations among conservatives in a speech to CPAC on Friday when he promised he will soon unveil a blockbuster new economic proposal. “In the coming weeks, I will propose the largest tax cut in American
After the FCC votes to regulate the internet, an economist gives CPAC a slogan: oppose Net Neutering.
More questions about the architect of ObamaCare. Jonathan Gruber submitted a bill to the state of Vermont at the end of 2014, after he agreed to an amended contract a few weeks earlier.
Republican Governor Charlie Baker, who took office in January, has fired embattled Obamacare architect MIT professor Jonathan Gruber from the Massachusetts Health Connector Board. It’s a blow to Gruber, who played a key role in the establishment of the board
A health care advocacy group in Vermont wants the state to clean house after an auditor’s report found examples of over billing by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber.
A noted evangelical preacher makes a convincing case against President Barack Obama’s presidency.
Two Vermont lawmakers want to follow the money — the $100 million their state has spent on health care since ObamaCare was enacted, without improving access to treatment.
The auditor of the state of Vermont is raising serious questions about Jonathan Gruber’s billing practices. The architect of ObamaCare may have pocked tens of thousands of dollars he said he paid to research assistants.
A state panel in Minnesota was supposed to figure out what went wrong with the state’s launch of MNsure, its ObamaCare-style health program. But the group never bothered to interview Jonathan Gruber, who did modeling for the program, or April Todd-Malmlov, the bureaucrat in charge of Gruber’s work.
Investigators in Minnesota want to learn more about ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber’s billing and modeling processes. But a key former bureaucrat is refusing to help.
Survey says: CNN reports on parts of a poll that seem favorable to Brian Williams, ignores parts that don’t.
A production company is set to release an independent film, Truth, about CBS anchor Dan Rather’s self-destruction. The release is oddly timed, since Rather just stepped to the defense of NBC’s disgraced anchor Brian Williams.
More trouble for NBC’s Brian Williams. In 2012, he told David Letterman: “I flew into Baghdad, invasion plus three days, on a blackout mission at night with elements of SEAL Team Six,” but at that time he was based in, and apparently didn’t leave, Kuwait.
More details are emerging about Brian Williams and his reporting mission in Iraq in 2003. Army vets confirm there were two different missions, and say Williams and his NBC team were on one that did not take fire.
NBC anchor Brian Williams has changed his story about the Iraq war over the years. But he was actually changing it in real time. A review of transcripts shows Williams evolved his version over the course of a day in March, 2003.
A source familiar with the operations of NBC News is defending producer Justin Balding, saying he never told NBC colleagues a chopper he was riding in with Brian Williams was hit by RPGs in Iraq in 2003.
More trouble for NBC’s Brian Williams, as reporters have disproved another detail included in the first (2003) and second (2007) versions of Williams’s story about his 2003 Iraq reporting mission, as well as his Wednesday apology in which he admitted “misremembering” that event.
Breitbart News traces the evolution of Brian Williams story about his 2003 reporting mission to Iraq. We found three distinct versions that have developed over the years.
Tom Brady wants to give the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado truck he won as the MVP of Super Bowl 49 to game-winning hero Malcolm Butler, but the Internal Revenue Service is going to make him pay for that act of gratitude
Readers will finally get to see the follow up to the book To Kill a Mockingbird this summer. But the elderly author, Harper Lee, isn’t a descendant of Robert E. Lee.
There’s no debate. Or is there? New Hampshire’s Democratic Party chair refuses to say whether there’ll be a debate ahead of the state’s primary next year.
Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, may face more questions from the House Oversight Committee.
Nationwide Insurance is taking heat for its Super Bowl ad that featured a dead child who never gets to live his life.
More trouble for Jonathan Gruber. Now activists from the Left want access to his models so they can try to build a single-payer health care plan in Vermont. Gruber also faces questions from state leaders about his billing practices in Vermont.
Politico remains the go-to publication for establishment Republican leaks.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the most recent Republican governor to buy into President Obama’s push to expand Medicaid.
A lawmaker in New Hampshire wants to open up his state’s insurance market by allowing companies from other states to sell policies there.
On Monday Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, told Breitbart News that Gruber may have a “phantom billing” problem. It centers around whether Gruber actually paid $80,000 to assistants. In addition to the state of Vermont, the state of Minnesota, the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee have confirmed and the Inspector General’s Office of the Department of Health and Human Services is considering conducting inquiries into Gruber’s billing practices and consulting contracts.
The odds that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber may face charges for padding invoices are going up. Gruber has been paid $160,000 by the state of Vermont, $80,000 of which is for 800 hours of work he claimed in an invoice was performed by unnamed research assistants. But so far Gruber has failed to provide evidence that these research assistants actually exist and did in fact perform work under the contract.
New Hampshire state legislators are considering two bills—one in the House, the other in the state Senate—that “would allow individuals and some businesses to purchase health insurance from out-of-state companies.”
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy at the Center Immigration Studies calls the border security bill proposed by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) that will be considered by the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday “an empty green suit.” Vaughan noted that McCaul’s bill, “proposes to spend $10 billion of taxpayer money without ensuring that a single illegal alien will be sent home.”
Sold out Tea Party events in South Carolina this weekend and Iowa next weekend demonstrate that the conservative grassroots are prepared to put the time and money needed to back a limited government candidate who can win the Republican Presidential nomination in 2016. Cruz once again called for the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, a call that was also made by Dr. Carson. Carson, who said tax reform was critical, noted that he would support either a fair tax or a flat tax.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has rewarded Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the most well known candidates who challenged him in his successful effort to be re-elected Speaker, with a powerful Subcommittee Chairmanship.
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) confirms that Congress will hold hearings on Operation Choke Point in February. Sources tell Breitbart News that Representative Duffy may not be the only Congressional committee chairman who will hold hearings on the Obama administration’s controversial Operation Choke Point.
The President of Heritage Credit Union is denying that the National Credit Union Administration forced it to shut down a Wisconsin gun dealer’s bank account. But Brian Wise, senior adviser to the United States Consumer Coalition, says the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the National Credit Union Administration and the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point.