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June 19, 2013

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  • Sen. Mike Enzi: NSA is ‘not the only federal agency gathering information about you’

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/19/13 03:55 PM

    President Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Board, created by the Dodd-Frank bill and staffed by controversial so-called recess appointments, is “unreasonably searching your records and invading your privacy” to a degree comparable to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) recently...

  • GOP aides: Window may be closing on Gang of Eight bill

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/19/13 03:30 PM

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is in the midst of a last-minute push to garner support for the Gang of Eight bill from conservative critics, but the window to do so may be closing, Republican aides say, in part because of how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is managing the process. Rubio...

  • Judge: Obama accidentally gave two military sexual assault defendants a safety hatch

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/18/13 07:45 PM

    Two service members charged with sexual assault cannot be kicked out of the military, even if they are convicted, because comments made by President Obama about the issue constitute “unlawful command influence,” according to a military judge in Hawaii. “A member of the public would not...

  • White House: We aren’t demanding Taliban cut ties with al Qaeda — yet

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/18/13 11:20 AM

    White House officials announced that the United States and Afghanistan governments will use the negotiating table as the place to ask the Taliban to cut ties with al-Qaeda, a process that can begin now that the Taliban have denounced most other Afghanistan-based terrorist efforts. “[W]e’ve...

  • CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on budget comes out Tuesday

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/17/13 07:10 PM

    Tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office will release its assessment of the Senate immigration bill’s effect on the federal budget, a Senate Budget Committee spokesman told the Washington Examiner. “It will come out tomorrow,” Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.,...

  • Red-state Senate Dem embraces ‘Rockefeller Republican’ label

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/17/13 03:20 PM

    Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is up for reelection next year, likened himself to the Republicans of yesteryear rather than accept an association with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Probably a Rockefeller Republican,” Begich replied when offered a choice between that label...

  • Ted Cruz hopes to reverse SCOTUS ruling on Arizona voter registration law

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/17/13 02:40 PM

    Seven Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justices ruled that federal law prevents Arizona from requiring a proof of citizenship from newly-registering voters, but Sen. Ted Cruz. R-Texas, hopes to change that during the ongoing debate over the Senate immigration bill. “Today #SCOTUS ruled federal...

  • White House factcheck: EPA overstates benefit of new rule based on bad science

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/16/13 08:10 PM

    White House officials concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) significantly overstated the economic benefits of a proposed rule cutting formaldehyde emissions, largely because the agency persisted in relying on scientific claims that federal peer reviewers deemed incredible....

  • Obama taps campaign finance director as ambassador to Denmark

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/14/13 05:00 PM

    President Obama has selected Rufus Gifford, best known to supporters as the guy writing studiously-casual fundraising emails, as his choice to represent the United States in Denmark. “I am just so happy,” Gifford wrote in a fundraising email last May, before he even found out he would be...

  • Obama picks campaign bundler, White House decorator’s partner, as ambassador to Spain

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/14/13 04:45 PM

    President Obama intends to nominate HBO vice president James Costos, a top campaign bundler, as the new ambassador to Spain, the White House Press Office announced today. Costos heads the Global Licensing and Retail division at HBO. “The choice of Costos for an ambassadorship would put a...


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