What will happen to the missing millions of immigration reform?
By BYRON YORK | 07/09/13 08:30 AM
The Gang of Eight stressed that illegal immigrants must be quickly legalized because their current anonymity presents a continuing legal, and perhaps a security, problem for the United States.
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There are few signs that the feared sequester has hurt job growth
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 07/09/13 06:31 AM
The "meat cleaver" spending cuts required by the so-called sequestration will "hurt our economy," President Obama warned just before the across-the-board budget cuts went into effect on March 1.
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Ted Cruz: GOP did 'weepingly terrible job' defining itself to Hispanics, minorities
By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 07/09/13 06:31 AM
During the July 4 congressional recess, the Washington Examiner spent some time with Sen. Ted Cruz at the offices of The Free Enterprise Institute to discuss his first six months in the Senate and the Republican Party's...
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Rand Paul jokes about Rick Perry presidential rumors on Fox News
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/09/13 06:30 AM
NRO?s Will Allen catches a clip of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., alluding to Texas Gov. Rick Perry?s infamous ?oops moment? when asked whether he thought the three term Texas governor would make a good presidential...
Read More... It?s all Greek (yogurt) to Chuck Schumer
By SEAN LENGELL | 07/08/13 07:10 PM
USDA will subsidize school districts in four states -- including New York -- to buy Greek yogurt for their lunch programs. New York is home to some of the biggest producers of the thick milk byproduct; Schumer had pressed...
Read More... Obama admin 'phoned it in' on Egypt
By ASHE SCHOW | 07/08/13 05:10 PM
Egypt's government crumbled for the second time in two years, and where was Team Obama? Golfing and yachting, among other places.
Read More... GOP tries to drive wedge between Democrats on student loans
By TIM MAK | 07/08/13 05:10 PM
House Republican leadership tried to drive a wedge between Democrats on student loans Monday, criticizing ?internal bickering? in the Senate for allowing rates to rise.
Read More... In quandary, Edward Snowden weighs asylum options
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 07/08/13 04:45 PM
Still stuck in Moscow, the U.S. intelligence leaker is weighing offers from leftist South American countries but may still face several hurdles in escaping U.S. authorities for good.
Read More... Obama teams up with doctor lobby to urge physicians to promote Obamacare
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/08/13 04:45 PM
President Obama?s administration has teamed up with a major health care industry lobby to promote Obamacare to the American people, an effort that involves urging doctors who oppose the law to advocate for it anyway....
Read More... White House projects smaller deficit, slower growth
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 07/08/13 04:25 PM
The White House expects the federal budget to shrink by over $200 billion this fiscal year, the Office of Management and Budget announced Monday.
Read More... SEIU targets 10 House Republicans with immigration ad buy
By SEAN HIGGINS | 07/08/13 04:00 PM
Some western House Republicans will be the targets of Spanish-language ads by the SEIU calling on them to back the Senate immigration reform bill.
Read More... Jon Corzine: No criminal charges for a reckless man
By MICHAEL BARONE | 07/08/13 03:55 PM
Former New Jersey Sen. and Gov. Jon Corzine will not be prosecuted, the New York Post reports today. Corzine, who was CEO of Goldman Sachs in the 1990s and made something like $400 million when the firm went public, was...
Read More... White House: Obamacare delays are ?right thing to do?
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 07/08/13 03:30 PM
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday said pushing off important Obamacare mandates and accountability provisions is the ?right thing to do? and demonstrates the administration?s ?flexibility? when it comes...
Read More... Perry won?t run for fourth term as Texas governor --- Is presidential bid next?
By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 07/08/13 03:15 PM
Three-term Texas Gov. and former presidential candidate Rick Perry announced he will not seek re-election to a fourth term, prompting speculation about a possible second presidential run in 2016.
Read More... Republicans ask CBO for Obamacare score after mandate delay
By CONN CARROLL | 07/08/13 03:15 PM
House Republicans want a new cost estimate of President Obama?s health care law in light of recent changes to regulations.
Read More... Rick Perry: Texas will remain a strong pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom state
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 03:10 PM
After announcing that he would not seek a fourth term as governor, Texas Gov. Rick Perry explained that he would host as many additional legislative sessions as necessary in the remaining days as governor to pass a Texas...
Read More... Reid to Boehner: Pass immigration, ignore 'Hastert rule'
By TIM MAK | 07/08/13 03:05 PM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called on House Speaker John Boehner to pass a bipartisan immigration reform bill that includes a pathway to citizenship.
Read More... Rick Perry done as governor: ?Any future considerations I will announce in due time?
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/08/13 02:30 PM
Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, announced that he will not seek another term as governor in 2014, but hinted that he might run again for president in 2016.
Read More... A huge opening for GOP on Obamacare
By PHILIP KLEIN | 07/08/13 02:30 PM
A Friday announcement by HHS that it would weaken fraud-prevention measures in President Obama?s health care law provides a huge opening for Republicans.
Read More... White House rejects calls to cut off aid to Egypt
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 07/08/13 02:30 PM
The White House is rejecting calls to cut off aid to Egypt while it transitions to a new leader and will not label the ouster of the country?s former President Morsi at coup d'?tat ? at least for now. President...
Read More... NLRB chairman: Our job is to help people unionize
By SEAN HIGGINS | 07/08/13 01:55 PM
National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark Pearce said the board?s mission was to help people form unions.
Read More... Obama team ?will take the time necessary? to decide if military coup took place in Egypt
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/08/13 01:50 PM
President Obama?s spokesman told reporters that the United States has not decided if a coup took place in Egypt last week, when the military forcibly deposed democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi from power in...
Read More... Capitol Hill conflicted over whether to withdraw aid to Egypt
By SEAN LENGELL | 07/08/13 12:35 PM
Congress is divided over what to do with $1.5 billion in aid the U.S. has committed to Egypt as deadly clashes continued Monday.
Read More... VIDEO: Obama: The government is us and we?re doing things right
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 12:20 PM
President Obama explained that Americans should not be cynical about the government inefficiencies, citing several examples of his administration?s effort to develop new technologies to improve government. ?We...
Read More... Recovery woes: America's second-largest employer is a temp agency
By ASHE SCHOW | 07/08/13 11:55 AM
Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.
Read More... White House denies request for recount of 2012 election
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/08/13 11:55 AM
The White House responded to a petition calling for a recount of the 2012 election by denying the request and affirming that ?this election was decided fairly and democratically.?
Read More... After health care delays, Obama presses cabinet to make government ?smarter?
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 07/08/13 11:49 AM
President Obama is directing his cabinet to find more efficient, ?smarter? ways to run government in his second term just two days after his administration opened the door to widespread fraud in the roll out of health...
Read More... To save faltering health care law, Obama hires drug & hospital lobbyist
By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 07/08/13 11:15 AM
Chris Jennings left the Clinton White House and started a lobbying firm. The firm and Jennings lobbied on behalf of drugmakers and hospitals during the Affordable Care Act debates, and then deregistered as a lobbying...
Read More... Eliot Spitzer: I need 'skin as thick as a rhinoceros' to survive sex scandal jokes
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 10:45 AM
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 due to a high-end prostitution scandal, reacted to the jokes that were already surfacing since he announced his intention to run for New York City Comptroller.
Read More... McConnell campaign bugger files FBI complaint accusing GOP of cyber fraud
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/08/13 10:15 AM
Curtis Morrison, the liberal activist who secretly taped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., discussing re-election strategy with his campaign team, filed a complaint yesterday with the FBI?s cybercrime team...
Read More... Timothy Geithner receives $400,000 for three speeches
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 09:50 AM
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has already received about $400,000 for three speeches since leaving the Obama administration in January 2013, according to CNBC. According to the report, Geithner was paid...
Read More... Morning Examiner: Immigration reform is dead and Obamacare implementation killed it
By CONN CARROLL | 07/08/13 09:35 AM
?Let me tell you something else, David,? NBC News?s Chuck Todd told David Gregory on Meet the Press Sunday, ?the White House had been so confident that they were going to sign immigration reform this year. But for...
Read More... Pentagon furloughs begin; Chuck Hagel, spokesman to chip in
By TIM MAK | 07/08/13 09:05 AM
Despite being exempted from furloughs, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will make good on his promise to cut his own paycheck in solidarity with furloughed workers.
Read More... Dodd-Frank revolving door spins quickly
By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 07/08/13 08:50 AM
The ink on Dodd-Frank is barely dry, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau barely out of diapers, and the formidable Promontory Financial Group has already hired up a small platoon of former CFPB officials.
Read More... Andrea Mitchell defends Michelle Obama?s ?prison? comment
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 08:10 AM
MSNBC?s Andrea Mitchell complained that conservative bloggers erroneously reported that First Lady Michelle Obama described the White House as a ?really nice prison,? during a discussion with First Lady Laura Bush...
Read More... The week ahead in economics: Bernanke speaks, student loans, and Detroit
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 07/08/13 07:30 AM
The most closely watched economic development of the week will likely be Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke?s Wednesday speech at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston.
Read More... Eliot Spitzer: Prostitution scandal was ?educational?
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/08/13 07:20 AM
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after the New York Times uncovered a history of patronage of high-end prostitutes, is now running for New York City Comptroller.
Read More... Amid private immigration talks this week, House to vote on jobs and energy bills
By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 07/08/13 05:05 AM
After passing comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate, Democrats this week will pressure House Republican to do the same despite the GOP?s intention to move on to other issues, including energy and jobs.
Read More... House panel to probe fraud in federal employee disability payments
By SEAN HIGGINS | 07/07/13 09:05 PM
The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday morning ??Examining the Labor Department?s proposed reforms to FECA program.? The acronym stands for Federal Employee Compensation...
Read More... Rick Perry: Wendy Davis supporters don?t want to talk about abortion
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/07/13 07:30 PM
On "Fox News Sunday," Texas Governor Rick Perry dismissed critics who suggested that his comments about Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis being a teenage mother were too personal.
Read More... Sen. Bob Menendez: Muslim Brotherhood needs to be part of Egypt?s political future
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/07/13 07:05 PM
The Democratic Senator from New Jersey believes the Brotherhood, backers of the regime that was just deposed due to dictatorial actions by the president, needs to be part of the country?s political future.
Read More... Muslim Brotherhood spokesman threatens more violence
By ASHE SCHOW | 07/07/13 04:50 PM
?We either return [Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi] back to his rightful place or they?re just going to have to shoot us in the streets,? said Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad to ABC?s Byron Pitts.
Read More... Rahm Emanuel?s battle with teachers union souring his political future
By SEAN HIGGINS | 07/07/13 04:38 PM
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been locked in an escalating grudge match with the Chicago Teachers Union over his efforts to close and consolidate several underutilized schools in the city. The CTU has aggressively...
Read More... California prison doctors sterilized women to cut welfare costs
By JOEL GEHRKE | 07/07/13 04:25 PM
California prison doctors sterilized almost 150 women over a four-year period because they didn?t want the state to have to provide welfare funding to any children they might have in the future, one of the top doctors...
Read More... Former Dem representative blames insurance companies for making Obamacare the 'unafforadable care act'
By ASHE SCHOW | 07/07/13 04:23 PM
Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, blamed insurance companies for the increase in premiums since Obamacare became law, saying ?they are helping to transform the Affordable Care Act into the Unaffordable Care Act.?...
Read More... HHS gives up on Obamacare?s anti-fraud measures
By PHILIP KLEIN | 07/07/13 12:05 PM
Obama?s Department of Health and Human Services is throwing up its hands. Just as it did with the employer mandate, the administration has announced it would delay the implementation of these anti-fraud procedures due...
Read More... Venezuela, Nicaragua willing to grant Edward Snowden asylum
By BRIAN HUGHES | 07/05/13 09:30 PM
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said his country would offer asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Read More... John Kerry aboard yacht 'briefly' during Egyptian coup
By SEAN LENGELL | 07/05/13 05:35 PM
As a military coup rocked Egypt, Secretary of State John Kerry spent part of Wednesday aboard his yacht, the State Department said Friday ? backpedaling on an earlier denial.
Read More... VIDEO: John Kerry sings ?I?m On A Boat?
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 07/05/13 05:30 PM
Secretary of State John Kerry has been enjoying life on his boat this Fourth of July weekend while chaos continues to reign in Egypt.
Read More... Former NSA whistleblower calls for new American Revolution against surveillance state
By ASHE SCHOW | 07/05/13 03:40 PM
"I call for a new American Revolution declaring our independence from the surveillance state and government control of information," said Thomas Drake, a former NSA whistleblower.
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