Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new bombshell book, Exortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, will debut next week at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) has introduced a bill to ban personal use of leadership PAC money one week after a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) exposed members of Congress using leadership PACs as “slush
With the 2014 midterm elections just a year away, nervous Democrats have begun distancing themselves from what Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius now calls the Obamacare “debacle.” “Our guys are frustrated by Obama’s unforced errors,” a Senate Democrat
A little-known campaign loophole allows members of Congress to make high-interest personal loans to their own campaigns and then never pay them off–a scheme that generates passive streams of profit worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The startling revelation comes
The expensive airport parking fees and costly airline reservation cancellations that bedevil most travelers are of little concern for members of Congress. According to the new book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets,
After months of boldly promising that Obamacare would be a smashing success, New York Times progressive columnist Paul Krugman now concedes that President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhual is a “mess” and that “Obamacare ended up being a big kludge.” Krugman spent
We are going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us. -President Barack Obama, October 2010 The Obama Justice Department has increased Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement
Pension recipients are being asked to pay back pension overpayments that in some cases reach tens of thousands of dollars. Almost 600 retired metal workers belonging to the Sheet Metal Workers Union No. 73 have been notified that their pension
President Barack Obama told a school in Brooklyn that the “obsession with cutting” spending is to blame for the moribund U.S. economy. “Don’t tell me we can afford to shut down the government, which costs our government billions of dollars,
Peter Schweizer argued that Washington’s political establishment creates threatening bills to scare wealthy interests into making big campaign donations and to hire favored lobbyists, similar to the mafia’s tactic of requiring “protection money” on Friday. Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer fired back at House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office on Thursday over disparaging comments Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck made about Schweizer and the revelations in his new book,
An explosive new book alleges Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) collected over $200,000 in donations from executives and companies just days before holding votes on three bills of critical importance to their industries. The new revelations come on the heels of
All sides of the political spectrum, from Gov. Sarah Palin to the New York Times editorial board, are endorsing the new book Extortion by senior Breitbart News editor-at-large Peter Schweizer. In a rare moment of ideological similitude, a Wednesday piece
Members of Congress must pay secret fees known as “party dues” to the Democratic and Republican parties to secure and maintain top committee chairmanships and assignments, newly uncovered internal documents reveal. The never-before-published lists are reprinted inside the new book Extortion:
Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA) has bagged at least $294,245 since 1998 by loaning her congressional campaign money at interest rates up to 18%–a scheme that effectively funneled campaign contributor donations directly into her personal bank account. The self-loan ruse was
On Sunday, a 60 Minutes investigative report by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer revealed how leadership PAC loopholes allow members of Congress to convert campaign cash into lavish lifestyle
Members of Congress and their staffs are on red alert tonight for a CBS 60 Minutes investigation by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer exposing how lawmakers convert campaign donations into lavish
In a blog post titled “Obamacare Success,” progressive New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took a victory lap of sorts after finding and speaking to one person who signed up for Obamacare, now over two weeks into its unveiling. “This
A New York Times investigative article based on two dozen interviews with industry insiders and confidential Obama Administration documents reveals that the catastrophic $500 million Obamacare rollout “has deeply embarrassed the White House” and has the technology companies involved “publicly
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had three-and-a-half years to build the Obamacare exchanges. Now, GOP House members in charge of oversight want answers as to how the online system that cost taxpayers over half-a-billion dollars has failed
Consumer borrowing hit a record $3.04 trillion in the second quarter of 2013, a 22% increase over the last three years. Driving the consumer debt were auto and student loans, which account for $2.19 trillion of the total. Student loans
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is coming under fire to resign in the wake of a two-week Obamacare roll out that CBS News calls “nothing short of disastrous.” In a surprising development, Sebelius’s longtime friend and fellow
Despite several Obama Administration officials’ contention that they do not have figures on the number of first-week Obamacare enrollments, the Daily Mail says two Health and Human Services workers have accessed the data and crunched the figures: in the first
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is rocking the health insurance plans and premiums of Americans nationwide. WSFA 12 News says Alabama Blue Cross Blue Shield is sending out cancellation letters to its customers and has announced it
Not a single resident of President Barack Obama’s home state of Hawaii has signed up for Obamacare, reports CBS’s D.C. affiliate. Hawaii officials say Obamacare’s nationwide website failures have prevented the state’s citizens from accessing even basic premium and healthcare
The company who hired National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden received at least $37,737,550 to work on the Obamacare exchanges, a GAO report reveals. On page 33 of the GAO report, Booz Allen Hamilton is identified as one of
CBS This Morning says the government’s Obamacare launch has been “nothing short of disastrous” and that media outlets “have struggled to find anyone who has actually been successful” in signing up for President Barack Obama’s signature legislative healthcare overhaul. USA
A total of five Iowans have signed up for Obamacare through the state’s healthcare exchange, according to a new report. KCRG-IA reports that state Obamacare officials say, “We cannot say for sure whether anyone has successfully signed up through the
With President Barack Obama’s approval rating now down to just 37% and with CNN showing that only 39% of Americans support Obamacare, the Obama Administration and its allies in the mainstream media are scrambling to rescue the president’s public opinion free
Last week, the New York Times highlighted grassroots conservative journalists’ power in shaping the contours of the budget showdown and described Breitbart News as “one of the most popular conservative Web sites.” Times reporter Jeremy W. Peters said the evolution
After a bruising week of public relations blunders, the Obama Administration announced that its all but inoperable Obamacare website would be temporarily offline for weekend repairs. President Barack Obama claimed that the website failures were the result of massive traffic
Standing before a blue screen dotted with #LetsTalk hashtags, Speaker John Boehner blasted President Barack Obama and Democrats on Friday for playing a game of brinksmanship over the government shutdown and the hitting of the looming debt ceiling. “This isn’t
On Thursday, the government’s official Obamacare Facebook page was riddled with people expressing sticker shock over the government’s high cost premiums after struggling for hours to wade through the technical failures vexing Obamacare exchanges all across the country. “I
A new analysis by University of Chicago professor of economics Casey Mulligan finds that when the Obamacare employer penalty goes into full effect in 2015, the government will confiscate 10% more in taxes from full-time median income workers than it
The Associated Press says the Tea Party’s growing power and influence has unmoored Republican politicians from their traditional alliance with Wall Street in favor of grassroots conservative activists. AP reporters Charles Babington and Jim Kuhnhenn cited the “corporate community’s
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) took to Twitter to brag that his state’s Obamacare online exchange, Access Health CT, received 28,000 visitors on day one–and took just 167 insurance applications. That works out to a 0.59% conversion rate of visitors to
With President Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating down to just 45% after his mishandling of the Syrian crisis, and with CNN reporting that only 39% of Americans support Obamacare, White House officials tell Politico that “Obama doesn’t see any reason
The moribund U.S. economy and the bleak jobs picture have collided to produce the highest college loan default rate in 18 years, according to data released Monday by the Department of Education. “Some colleges are simply masking default problems until
The government’s official Obamacare Facebook page has been inundated with hundreds of questions and complaints from individuals experiencing myriad technical problems while trying to enroll in Obamacare online. One user wrote on the government’s HealthCare.gov Facebook: “Says cannot create account
Maryland’s Obamacare healthcare exchange, Maryland Health Connection, is announcing via its Facebook page that its website and toll-free call center are “presently experiencing unexpected connectivity problems” and that citizens should “please come back and visit the site at noon.”