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  • How Chinese investors buy their way into the U.S.

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/18/13 12:45 PM

    Immigration bill enshrines program that lets foreigners get green cards in return for major investments The Senate immigration bill would create a permanent federal program allowing politically connected businessmen to sell visas to Chinese millionaires. ‘I still can't get my head around...

  • Mike Lee and Ted Cruz challenge Obama with new military religious freedom amendments

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 12:45 PM

    Two military religious freedom amendments proposed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas  are challenging the Obama administration after they objected to a similar Amendment proposed in the House. The White House Office of Management and Budget last week criticized a...

  • Patriot Act author: NSA spying on Americans ‘clearly not within the law’

    By Ashe Schow | 06/18/13 12:35 PM

    Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Sean Hannity Monday night that what the Obama administration and the NSA did with the Patriot Act was “clearly not within the law.” Referring to the dragnet collection of American citizens’ phone records and Internet information, Sensenbrenner said that...

  • Will the next new Republican congressman from California be openly gay?

    By Conn Carroll | 06/18/13 12:05 PM

    For almost 20 years, California’s 52nd Congressional District was owned by the Republican Party. Then in 2012, Democrat Scott Peters stole it from them. Now, Republicans want it back. And they have turned to an openly gay former-San Diego city councilman to do it. Since the district was...

  • Labor Department: Wage data used for Davis-Bacon has several limitations

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 12:00 PM

    A top Labor Department official told the House Education and Workforce Committee  today 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...

  • G-8 leaders can’t agree on forcing out Syria’s Bashar Assad

    By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 11:55 AM

    President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad. As expected, Russian President...

  • 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...

  • ‘Skinny’ Chris Christie promises not to wear a Speedo

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 11:05 AM

    On ‘Morning Joe’ this morning, the slightly thinner Gov. Chris Christie R-N.J. dodged 2016 presidential speculation by announcing that he would not wear a Speedo swimsuit on the Fourth of July. “I can announce I’m not wearing the Speedo on the Fourth of July, that’s something I’m...

  • Congressman: Labor Department expanded wage rule without public comment

    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...

  • Support falling in polls, Harry Reid announces rush to pass immigration bill

    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, up-or-down vote on passing the bill by the end of next week. "I’m just telling...


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