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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/19/13 07:52 PM
As talks progressed Wednesday on a compromise border security amendment, Senate negotiators appeared to have hit a crucial sticking point that, if not resolved, could undercut the viability of the "Gang of Eight"...
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By SEAN LENGELL | 06/19/13 07:10 PM
A long-delayed memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed to be built just off the National Mall took a key step forward Wednesday, when a presidentially appointed panel unanimously approved revisions to the Frank...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/19/13 05:55 PM
The Federal Bureau of Investigations employs the use of drones for surveillance on U.S. soil, the agency’s director told lawmakers on Wednesday.
At an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI...
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By STEVE CONTORNO | 06/19/13 05:50 PM
Senate Republicans on Wednesday said that a repeal of the federal estate tax must be a key component of any tax reform proposal, setting up a showdown with President Obama, who hopes to raise the levy to help reduce the...
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By SEAN LENGELL | 06/19/13 02:10 PM
White House opposition to the House’s massive farm bill could leave some Republicans and conservative groups in the awkward position of agreeing with President Obama.
As the House continued...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/19/13 10:15 AM
The Treasury Department has yet to provide Congress with a full list and cost of employee conferences, despite repeated requests from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Treasury officials blame multiple requests from different...
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By MARK FLATTEN | 06/19/13 06:50 AM
Getting federal employees off disability and into retirement while closing off opportunities for fraud has proved all but impossible for President Obama and his immediate predecessor, as well as for Congress. Part three...
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By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 07:30 PM
If the Senate immigration bill becomes law, federal health care spending would increase by $112 billion over the next decade as more people take advantage of Medicaid, Medicare and subsidies from President Obama’s...
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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...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/18/13 02:30 PM
Democratic and Republican senators are in tense discussions over a border-security amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration-reform package that could prove critical to its passage, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 11:30 AM
President Obama's nonstop fundraising for congressional Democrats is building a huge campaign war chest for next fall, but there is little hope that his party will win back control of the House and make Rep. Nancy Pelosi...
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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....
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By BYRON YORK | 06/18/13 10:35 AM
With a new poll showing falling support for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced an accelerated schedule in which the Senate would take a final,...
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By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 09:40 AM
An unnamed staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio has caused the latest stir over the immigration bill by telling the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that, “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/18/13 05:05 AM
The Senate will vote Tuesday on four amendments to the comprehensive immigration reform bill, including one that would require a double-layer, 700-mile fence along the southern border before any of the nation’s...
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By BYRON YORK | 06/17/13 10:25 PM
As the Senate debate over the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill reaches full speed this week, leading Democrats have pronounced the border security amendment proposed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn a...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:40 PM
Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is demanding to know why the U.S. government allegedly has made tens of millions of dollars in cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
Under pressure to demonstrate a renewed commitment to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama has tapped a high-powered Washington attorney as one of two special envoys dedicated to brokering a deal to...
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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...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/17/13 08:00 AM
Lost amid the congressional shouting over immigration reform is a Washington rarity: A freshman Republican with Tea Party roots and scant experience in the national political arena is poised to engineer a legislative feat...
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By CONN CARROLL | 06/17/13 06:35 AM
President Obama told a Democratic fund raising event in April that he wants Nancy Pelosi back as Speaker of the House and vowed to do everything in his power to make that happen in the 2014 congressional election.
"She...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/16/13 11:50 PM
House Speaker John Boehner is not going to bring a comprehensive immigration-reform plan to thefloor if a majority of Republicans don't support it, sources familiar with his plans said.
"No way in hell," is how several...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/16/13 07:45 PM
Anti-abortion female lawmakers and activists, long shouted down by pro-abortion Democrats, are stepping up their efforts to bring their "farm team" of state politicians to Washington and challenge House Minority Leader...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/16/13 06:25 PM
With Democratic frustration boiling over, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is once again threatening to curtail the Republicans' ability to block legislation through use of the filibuster.
Fearful that the Nevada...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/16/13 06:05 PM
Congress this week will tackle immigration reform, farming and abortion, though lawmakers also will continue to focus much of their time on a growing list of scandals surrounding the Obama administration.
Immigration...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 03:05 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Sunday that lawmakers needed to beef up the border-security portions of a Senate immigration bill but that most of the blueprint should obtain bipartisan support.
“I think it’s an...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:55 PM
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., predicted on Sunday that Americans would ultimately support the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance methods once they learn more about the programs....
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| 06/14/13 03:11 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Veterans Affairs Department on Friday to offer credit monitoring to veterans and dependents whose personal information, including...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 06:20 AM
Facing federal warnings that this summer's stink bug invasion will be the worst ever, House lawmakers have OK'd a bill demanding that the Agriculture Department make the bug Public Pest No. 1 and speed efforts to kill it....
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/12/13 09:00 PM
The movement to derail the Frank Gehry design plan for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial took a big step forward Wednesday, when a House subcommittee approved a bill that would begin a new selection process for the...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:55 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Memo to supporters of bipartisan legislation moving to the Senate floor: Make sure you stress that immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally would have to work, learn English, pass a background check...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 05:55 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its support behind federal legislation aimed at boosting energy development in Indian Country by streamlining federal permitting processes and oversight....
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/12/13 05:20 PM
BOSTON - With poll numbers showing a tightening Massachusetts Senate race, President Obama made a stop in the Bay State on Wednesday to raise money and rally the state's powerful Democratic base for Rep. Edward Markey...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/12/13 03:55 PM
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has caused a minor stir with comments that the "Gang of Eight" previously decided to "de-link" border security triggers from the pathway to citizenship.
In other words, the...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/12/13 10:15 AM
Sen. Kelly Ayotte has endured blowback from conservatives disappointed with her decision to back the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill.
Earlier this week, my colleague Byron York published a thoughtful column...
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By ALICIA M. COHN | 06/11/13 04:35 PM
Science and exploration "are the two things that I'm more excited about in the world," according to "Titanic" director James Cameron. "I do those movies to get a little money so I can go do exploration. That's the fun...
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By STEVE DOTY | 06/11/13 03:11 PM
Legislation clears early hurdle in Senate and will be debated on the floor.
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/11/13 01:55 PM
President Obama’s spokesman defended the intelligence official who told Congress that the government does not collect data on the American people, a comment that has proven irritating to lawmakers given the revelation...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/10/13 07:45 PM
Lawmakers are pledging to investigate the National Security Administration's practice of collecting the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans.
Aides to House leaders told The Washington Examiner that...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/10/13 02:35 PM
Doug Scofield was chief of staff to Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat, until 2002. In 2003, Scofield took two consulting jobs:
(1) Taxpayer-funded political consultant for Gutierrez’s office;
(2) State-level...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/09/13 05:45 PM
The Senate this week opens debate a long-awaited, bipartisan immigration reform bill that pairs tighter border security with a 13-year path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
But...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/09/13 04:20 PM
Although it's not yet so bad that congressional observers are likely to see flying monkeys circling the capital dome before they again witness a Democrat and a Republican agree on anything, bipartisanship has become...
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By DAVID M. DRUCKER | 06/07/13 03:10 PM
When the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform package hits the Senate floor next week, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley will be running the debate and amendment process for the Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...
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By BYRON YORK | 06/07/13 02:35 PM
The Senate debate on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill began Friday with Republican Jeff Sessions — the bill’s most outspoken opponent — attacking the secretive process that led to the creation...
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/07/13 02:20 PM
After facing tough questions about his surveillance programs today, President Obama reminded Americans that Congress was in charge of oversight.
According to the transcript, Obama made at least fifteen explicit...
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By STEVE DOTY | 06/07/13 01:35 PM
Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the U.S. Senate, was buried Friday with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/07/13 06:55 AM
Can Democrats gain the 17 seats they need to win control of the House in 2014? Maybe, but the numbers look forbidding. Remember that while Barack Obama was reelected with 332 electoral votes he carried only 209 of the 435...
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By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 06/06/13 07:00 PM
Top Internal Revenue Service officials on Thursday struggled to explain to congressional lawmakers why the agency spent $64,000 on plastic squirting fish and other "swag bag" trinkets during an over-the-top employee...
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By CONN CARROLL | 06/06/13 05:35 PM
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Thursday that he will soon introduce legislation that would have prevented the Justice Department from obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court order directing Verizon to...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/06/13 05:25 PM
One federal agency that exists to subsidize U.S. exports dedicates a huge majority of its financing to subsidizing Boeing jets. It’s classic corporate welfare, in my view. Republicans say they believe in the free...
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