Apr 7, 2014 – Ryan’s House Budget Committee has a new budget blueprint which promises to eliminate the deficit in decade or so through tax cuts, … Stating, “This budget rejects the President’s cuts to national security,” the proposal actually increases military spending, ratcheting … National Review describes sequestration’s automatic spending cuts, implemented after the 2011 debt-ceiling fight, as one of the GOP…

Apr 6, 2014 – Recently the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) sent out a “2014 Priority Issues Survey.” … and the fundraising requests to “help protect House Democrats against Republican attacks”—there is a section on energy. … The National Highway Traffic Saftey Administration and the Environmental Protection Agencyhave estimated that the average new car will…

Apr 4, 2014 – On Wednesday, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell testified before the House Intelligence Committee regarding the September … A source from the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) told CBS News' Margaret Brennan that ODNI made the edits … In a meeting with Republican Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Morell stated that he believed…

Apr 4, 2014 – He ridiculed and mocked Republican ideas about how to strengthen economic growth, which has slowed to less than 2 percent, and touted … Obama, and his advisers, were also boasting about the average national unemployment rate in the mid-6 percent range. … A state Senate committee voted to slowly phase in his plan to fully raise the minimum wage to over $10 an hour by mid-2018.…

Apr 2, 2014 – The Rye resident recently set up an exploratory committee for a possible run. … If Brown wins the Republican primary, he would face Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in the general election. … Hint: she’s going on the offensive: New Hampshire is as good a bellwether of the national mood as you’re likely…

Apr 2, 2014 – They allowed the bill to quickly come up for a vote, foregoing the usual debates in committee and educational citizen hearings. … Republican for the Governor's seat. … To abolish abortion in our nation, we need both Republican and Democrat support.…

Apr 2, 2014 – John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming. … they blatantly lied about what this law would do, which makes them dishonest," says Brad Dayspring, the chief spokesman for the National … Republican Senatorial Committee.…

Apr 1, 2014 – A quick primer: The Republican "Path to Prosperity:" (1) Balances within ten years. … Last month, CBO projected that current policy would add $7.3 trillion to the national debt by 2024. … Harry Reid doesn't care for the House Republican Budget, which he linked to -- surprise!…

Apr 19, 2014 – Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority staff report about convicted felon and con artist John Beale. … Yet he became the lead official for the nation’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone and Particulate Matter. … Now Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are trying to get to the bottom of the Brenner-Beale-EPA…

Apr 18, 2014 – The next day, the House Government Oversight Committee voted to cite Lerner for contempt of Congress. … The chairman of the Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, also unveiled evidence that staffers for Rep. … Lerner in 2010 to investigate Republican-leaning groups, including Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS.…

Apr 17, 2014 – When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently guested on Bill Bennett’s “Morning in America,” he made what he surely … “The Republican Party has to do a better job of long-term engagement in the black community,” Webb explained. … While liberal persons of color abound in national talk media, including MSNBC’s Rev.…

Apr 17, 2014 – A First Amendment battle is being waged in Texas right now that has national implications. … ), and because the group has decided to engage in independent expenditures, they qualify under state law as a political action committee … In the end, this case isn’t about proving whether or not Empower Texans is a political action committee.…

Apr 16, 2014 – Speaking to the National Action Network the day after a testy but racially irrelevant exchange with Republican members of a House … You look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee. ... … The National Action Network is Al Sharpton's plaything, often providing the shock troops Sharpton needs for rent-a-mob protests,…

Apr 15, 2014 – The Republican National Committee has submitted a lawsuit against the IRS for failing to comply with Freedom Information Requests…

Apr 15, 2014 – The Republican National Committee is suing the IRS. Why?…

Apr 15, 2014 – A Republican-dominated House committee had roughed him up, he thought. … New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel, the party's point man for congressional elections, took a similar line: "The Republican … In chimed Nancy Pelosi: Race had "something to do" with Republican resistance to immigration reform.…

Apr 13, 2014 – Luckily, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation has put out these handy charts to actually compare the top-line numbers of the various … Paul Ryan's budget), the Republican Study Committee budget, President Obama's budget, House Democrats' budget, the Congressional Black…

Apr 30, 2014 – This weekend on "Fox News Sunday," anchor Chris Wallace credited his guest, Republican Indiana Gov. … Mike Pence, with leading the nation as the "first state to fall out of the Common Core national education standards." … Pence's friend Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert also inadvertently spilled the beans on the Rename That Common Core Tune game.…

Apr 22, 2014 – Last week, the Nevada Republican Party had a convention to approve their party platform and endorse a candidate for governor. … The new party platform was proposed by a separate committee and was then approved by a show of hands by convention-goers. … And will this then come up at our next national convention? I guess we will just have to stay tuned.…

May 10, 2014 – His people demanded Republican National Committee members sign some ham-fisted “loyalty pledge” that smacks of a George Orwell plot … Reagan was the Republican Party’s aberration. … He removed the manly parts of the Republican leadership and showed it to them on a national stage.…

May 10, 2014 – That being said, if he had been a Republican in 197I, his quote on Watergate could easily have been as follows: “I don’t think … Every day, we get additional proof that the people in the Beltway are detached from the rest of our national community. … Again, as in 1974, the only way we will find out what really happened is to have a Select Committee.…

May 9, 2014 – Walter Jones was repulsed by his loyal Republican base. … He stands against same-sex marriage, has a 100 percent rating from National Right to Life, and receives a consistent A from the NRA … A national organization opposing illegal immigration gives Jones an A+ for battling to secure America's borders and block amnesty.…

May 9, 2014 – Mitch McConnell is fighting off businessman Matt Bevin for the Republican nomination. … Cotton is a Republican congressman from Arkansas favored by the establishment. … The Republican Establishment and conservatives will continue fighting across the map.…

May 8, 2014 – The Oregonian reported that the bureau held a 90-minute meeting with a former Republican lawmaker who detailed potential wrongdoing … House committee already is probing the Oregon debacle, as is the Government Accountability Office. … *The head of the National Socialist Workers Party finds out he can’t keep his health plan.…

May 7, 2014 – you'll hear the familiar screeching of partisan politics, now that House Speaker John Boehner has decided to convene a select committee … If the past is any guide, you'll hear Republican righteous vindictiveness and Democratic mockery and defensiveness. … The Democratic National Convention had just ended, and the message was: Obama had killed Osama bin Laden, and terrorism had been caged…