CLICK Flick: King, one busy Irishman
Few politicians are busier on St. Patrick’s Day than Rep. Peter King: He’s a regular stop for any visiting Irish politician. “It’s a working day; I know you have a hard time believing that,”
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CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer eyes Sunday vote
Democrats are lauding a CBO report that found their healthcare package will cut the deficit by $130 billion. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) hailed the figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office during a meeting with a group of reporters on Thursday morning and said the House would vote on Sunday.
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Public Awaits Health Care Bill Release, After Dems Celebrate Cost Estimate
House Democrats were “giddy” Thursday after an estimate from their budget scorekeepers showed the latest health care bill clearing a necessary
Read this story »Obama Tells Fox News ‘Procedural’ Spat Over Health Bill Vote Doesn’t Worry Him
President Obama is not worried
Read this story »Kucinich to vote yes on health, giving a boost to Democrats
Maverick liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced Wednesday he will vote in favor of healthcare reform, handing Democrats a crucial vote. The Ohio lawmaker
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The Slaughter on the Southern Border
At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a “top priority.”
Read this story »Pakistani Court Charges Five Americans With Planning Terror Attacks
A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against
Read this story »The Jihadists Next Door
The arrests of three new homegrown terrorists, including two “Jihad Janes” and an al-Qaida suspect who infiltrated nuclear plants, confirm
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Senate passes job bill
The Senate sent a $18 billion job-creation package to President Barack Obama Wednesday. The bill passed on a 68-29 vote, with nearly all Democrats and
Read this story »The Senate’s proud porkers
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday that he’s taking a “very unpopular
Read this story »Hoyer: We May Turn Capitol Hill Into A Slaughter House
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday that House Democratic leaders expect to pass the Senate health care bill later this
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Immigration status of all O.C. jail inmates will be checked
All inmates booked into Orange County jails will have their immigration status checked through a fingerprint identification program that started Tuesday. Orange
Read this story »Sen. Graham Says President Obama’s Proclaimed ‘Unwavering’ Commitment to Immigration Reform ‘Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test’
On Thursday President Obama met with Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, who are working on a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Afterwards,
Read this story »Lindsey Graham: Immigration reform in peril
A pair of White House meetings Thursday designed to chart a path forward for immigration reform instead spotlighted the daunting obstacles ahead — and
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Conservative News: Brett Baier Questions President Obama on Healthcare, Israel.
Late yesterday President Obama — whose administration has worked diligently to delegitimize Fox News appeared in an interview with Fox News about
Read this story »PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov’t more open with Obama?
Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to
Read this story »Obama to Israel: ‘Drop Dead’
It took a while — fourteen months, to be exact — but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the president’s
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New Jersey Walmart Probes ‘All Black People’ Announcement
Company officials are reviewing security tapes after an announcement was made for “all black people” to leave a southern New Jersey Walmart
Read this story »Big Wage Gap Between Men & Women; Women of Color Suffer Most
The pay gap between female and male workers in this country got a hearing in a Senate committee yesterday. But you wouldn’t even know the hearing happened:
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Justice Stevens Mulls Supreme Court Retirement
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s
Read this story »Pawlenty budget challenge now in the hands of the Supreme Court
The fate of a lawsuit that challenges Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unilateral cuts and shifts of $2.7 billion last summer now rests in the hands of the Minnesota
Read this story »White House Vs. Supreme Court: It’s Getting Ridiculous
For the life of me, I just don’t get why the White House continues to try to pick a fight with the Supreme Court. I’ve suggested before that
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Republicans Battle Pelosi Over Plan to Pass Health Bill Without Traditional Vote
Republicans and Democrats are locked in an unusual battle over how to vote on the
Read this story »Protests greet Mexico’s Calderon after U.S. killings
Crowds of protesters damned President Felipe Calderon’s military crackdown on drug cartels as he flew to Mexico’s most violent city on Tuesday, three days after gunmen killed two Americans
Read this story »House Budget Committee Votes Against Including Stupak Amendment in Health-Care Reconciliation Bill
The House Budget Committee voted 19-17 Monday night against recommending that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment be included in the health-care reconciliation
Read this story »FCC Recommends ‘Robust, Affordable’ Internet for All Americans
High-speed Internet, or broadband, is “a modern necessity of life, not a luxury. It ought to be found in every village, in every home and on every farm in every part of the United States,” the Federal
Read this story »Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health-Care Reform Bill Passes, New England Journal of Medicine Says
Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform
Read this story »Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama’s bill
It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama’s health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it’ll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and
Read this story »ACORN Branches Rebrand After Video Scandal
Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate
Read this story »CBC: W.H. visit ‘frank but cordial’
In a meeting aides described as “frank but cordial,” members of the Congressional Black Caucus told President Barack Obama on Thursday that he has to do more to help African-Americans. Members of the
Read this story »Obama Outlines Sweeping Education Revamp
The Obama administration plans to upend how the government measures
Read this story »International Condemnation of Israel – So What’s New?
The Israeli government is bracing itself for more condemnation from the international community this week, at an upcoming meeting of the Quartet, scheduled for March 19. It's expected that the
Read this story »Jim Inhofe slams Al Gore on climate ‘hoax’
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) attacked former Vice President Al Gore on the Senate floor Monday, calling climate change “the greatest
Read this story »Hope and Change in Iraq
In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of the real
Read this story »House Panel Pushes Forward With Health Care Maneuver
The House Budget Committee Monday initiated the process that will allow the Senate to consider health care reform under special rules which ban Senate filibusters and require a simple majority to approve
Read this story »Israel’s Netanyahu under fire for row with US
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sought to project calm amid a deepening crisis with the United States, seen as the worst rift between the close allies in decades.
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