Sean Higgins
Senior Editorial Writer
Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.
Germany visit showcases a tale of two Obamas
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
Obama thwarted: 'No indication' he will win back House
By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 11:30 AM
Obama dismisses Bush comparisons, defends Syria response
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 10:10 AM
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/18/13 07:05 AM
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
06/17/13 10:35 AM
Federal Reserve meeting begins amid uncertainty over monetary policy
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/18/13 04:00 PM
CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on the budget comes out tomorrow
By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Janet Yellen's ascendancy shows durability of Ben Bernanke's program
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/16/13 04:25 PM
By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 07:30 PM
Only you can prevent terrorists from starting forest fires
06/18/13 06:22 AM
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts up dukes and blunders into Syria
06/17/13 10:35 AM
Examiner Editorial: Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
06/13/13 06:45 PM
06/18/13 07:20 PM
06/10/13 07:15 PM
06/09/13 04:20 PM
06/06/13 05:50 PM
Lawmakers seek credit monitoring for veterans
06/14/13 03:11 PM
UPDATED! Chinese, other nations hacked VA computers, officials can't account for everything stolen
By MARK FLATTEN | 06/04/13 02:40 PM
Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
05/25/13 08:50 PM
Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 07:20 PM
MEMO: Date: June 13, 2013, 5:45 pm To: VJarrett@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov From: POTUS@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov Subject: Proposed draft of nat'l security address Valerie, let me know what you think. I need to get this off of my chest, you know? Barry *** (Applause fades) My fellow Americans, a...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 05:05 PM
Two Indianapolis residents have filed claims with the National Labor Relations Board, stating that despite Indiana’s right to work law, they are still having union dues deducted from their paychecks against their wishes. Right to work laws ban such practices. Indiana adopted one last year, but...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 03:40 PM
No, I’m not trying to pull the wool over your eyes, the federal government really does fund a National Sheep Industry Improvement Center. It is part of the Agriculture Department. You can read a request for grant proposals here. Under the farm bill, the center gets $1 million dollars in...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:40 PM
In a statement released today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that US working families had “no higher legislative priority” for Congress than passing immigration reform. That reform must not not include any “hard triggers” for allowing immigration, the nation’s top union leader...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:30 PM
My column today focuses on the strange bedfellows and ironic situations created by the immigration reform bill. I highlight the case of the Communications Workers of America and its concerns regarding the bill’s increase in H1B visas. CWA, which is the largest telecom worker union in the world...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 12:00 PM
A top Labor Department official told the House Education and Workforce Committee Tuesday that the underlying data they provide to calculate wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act had several limitations and could include “large sampling error(s).” Davis-Bacon is a law that requires...
By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 10:40 AM
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing this morning that the Labor Department expanded the reach of Davis-Bacon Act without public comment earlier this year. Davis-Bacon is a law that requires contractors engaged in any federally-funded...
06/17/13 03:02 PM
Usually it's unions arguing that a guest worker program favors Big Business, but this time an Alabama Republican senator is making the case.
By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 02:40 PM
Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, who is well-connected with Senate Democrats, reports that they now fear the death of 89-year-old New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg earlier this month has undermined their plans to change the Senate’s filibuster rule. The rule requires the assent of 60...
By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 01:45 PM
Roger Pilon, the libertarian Cato Institute’s vice president for legal affairs and director of its Center for Constitutional Studies, has angered many over the years in the intellectual world of free minds and free markets by endorsing the war on terror’s intelligence gathering policies....
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
By Byron York | 06/18/13
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
By Charlie Spiering | 06/17/13
By Mark Flatten | 06/17/13
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The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.
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