Speculation about whether Speaker John Boehner will return for the next Congress is prompting secondary discussions on Capitol Hill about the changes that might happen if he left. One of the most interesting scenarios is a potential race for Whip
Admittedly I used a bit of a loaded headline there, but I’m only returning the favor, since National Journal chose to headline their article on the debate over surrendering American oversight of web domains “Republicans Fear Obama Will Let Russia
House Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has called on President Barack Obama to fire John Podesta as his senior adviser in the wake of startling revelations about comments he has made. In an interview with Politico for a
On Thursday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin said the Republican Study Committee (RSC) is now a “joke” under Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who did the bidding of the Republican establishment and fired the conservative Executive Director Paul Teller on
Paul Teller, the conservative Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), was reportedly fired unilaterally by RSC Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who is a close ally of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), much to the shock of some
On Wednesday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin blasted the Republican establishment for purging the conservative wing in the House of Representatives and for lashing out against the grassroots conservatives and blue-collar Americans outside the beltway that listen to his
On Wednesday, the Tea Party Patriots said the firing of Paul Teller, the Executive Director of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC), was a declaration of war against conservatives by the Republican establishment. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin
The Hill reports today that the new GOP strategy with respect to Obamacare is to let it collapse on its own: Republican lawmakers who pushed the government shutdown to stop ObamaCare say their new plan is to sit back and
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has launched an investigation into the Obama administration’s decision to delay the implementation of parts of Obamacare until after the 2014 midterm elections. Committee leaders fired off letters to administration officials, including Department of
Conservatives in the House of Representatives wield the majority of the power in the lower chamber since the beginning of this Congress, a Friday article in The Atlantic suggests. “On a frigid Wednesday afternoon in January, Speaker John Boehner sat
(AP) House to vote to prioritize US debt paymentsBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Republican-controlled House is moving to put U.S. bondholders and people on Social Security at the front of the line to be paid if the government hits its borrowing
On Monday, the House Republican Study Committee unveiled an aggressive plan to balance the federal budget in just four years. The plan, from the internal conservative caucus of the GOP Conference, achieves balance much faster than Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget
In a demonstration of unity, conservatives issued a statement on Thursday morning demanding Republicans in Congress stand up to Obama’s bullying by banding together and refusing to raise the debt limit unless Congress passes, and Obama signs into law, significant spending cuts
A new report out of Pivotal Research Group investment analysts indicates that broadcasting giant CBS could be set to make $1 billion per year in retransmission fees, aided by a pro-broadcaster Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a highly regulated TV marketplace regime that
As the policy debate regarding how best to ameliorate what some style the “spectrum crunch” affecting wireless broadband providers plays out in Washington, D.C., TV broadcasters are trumpeting some new statistics that demonstrate the popularity of broadcast media with the
Back in September, we noted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) were pushing a new scheme under which new cars sold in the U.S. would be given a letter grade assessing their “greenness,” prominently displayed