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Byron York
Key House chairman: Senate immigration bill repeats mistakes of 1986
Published : 11:35 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will be one of the most important men on Capitol Hill in the fight to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With the Gang of Eight bill looking...
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Byron York
Rubio: ‘I do not have trust in Washington DC’
Published : 10:20 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, whose immigration reform proposal would grant far-reaching powers to the Secretary of Homeland Security and other top administration officials, says he does not trust Washington DC to make...
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Joel Gehrke
DOD ignores judge, cuts physical therapy for soldiers’ disabled children
Published : 6:35 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Defense Department (DOD) officials decided to stop covering a certain form of physical therapy for the disable children of military members, despite an administrative judge’s ruling that the treatment is covered under...
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Michael Barone
Superyacht makers really need lobbyists
Published : 5:50 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
My Washington Examiner colleague Timothy Carney, indefatigable chronicler of K Street, points out http://washingtonexaminer.com/there-is-a-lobbying-organization-for-superyachts/article/2530285 that the United States...
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Susan Ferrechio
Emails show how Treasury delayed alerting Congress to Tea Party targeting
Published : 5:15 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
At Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Chairman Darrell Issa displayed a fascinating string of emails that show his failed efforts to get an update from the Treasury Department inspector...
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Philip Klein
Oklahoma’s Obamacare challenge set for June 20 hearing
Published : 5:15 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
A federal judge has set a June 20 hearing date for a lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma challenging an IRS ruling related to President Obama’s health care law. As I described the suit in March: Under the law, if...
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Michael Barone
No heterosexual white males need apply
Published : 4:50 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
America’s great universities continue to be bastions of intolerance. They profess to prize “diversity,” which in practice means that everybody must believe the same things. The campusreform.org blog has the story of...
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Sean Higgins
Senate committee advances NLRB nominees over GOP objections
Published : 4:45 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee members approved the nominations of the White House’s five picks to run the National Labor Relations Board. Several Republicans objected to two of the nominees...
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David M. Drucker
GOP: House Democrats, White House, endanger immigration reform
Published : 4:20 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Republicans are warning that meddling by the White House and House Democratic leaders could jeopardize prospects for congressional action on immigration reform. The House immigration working group was on the cusp of a...
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Charlie Spiering
London terrorist in chilling video: ‘You people will never be safe’
Updated : 3:00 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
This graphic video from ITV features a man in South London who has just beheaded a man in the street. “You people will never be safe, remove your government, they don’t care about you,” he says to the camera,...
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Conn Carroll
Pro-amnesty Republicans cave on the welfare state
Updated : 2:40 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
“You don’t screw up your policies to fit a stupid government program,” amnesty advocate Grover Norquist recently told National Review in reference to welfare spending on low-skill immigrants, “You reform the...
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Timothy P. Carney
Believe it or not, there’s a lobbying organization for superyachts
Published : 2:35 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Earlier this month, the United States Superyacht Association retained its first K Street lobbyist, the small firm Smith Advocacy. Politico Pro reports: The association described itself as “the only trade association,...
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Charlie Spiering
Jay Carney flatters the press: ‘You are good at your jobs and you're smart’
Published : 1:55 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
After a week of coming under fire from the White House Press Corps, Press Secretary Jay Carney turned to flattery at the beginning of his daily press briefing. Carney explained that in spite of all his preparation for...
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Brian Hughes
Obama to visit storm-ravaged Oklahoma
Published : 1:50 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
President Obama will travel to the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Sunday to view the damage caused by a tornado that killed 24 people, once again playing comforter-in-chief in the wake of a natural disaster.
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Joel Gehrke
Former IRS boss: Congress needs to increase funding to agency
Updated : 1:40 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Douglas Shulman, who served as IRS commissioner when the agency targeted conservative groups for inappropriate questioning, faulted Congress for not giving the agency more funding over the last two years.
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Conn Carroll
Lobbyists love Schumer-Rubio
Updated : 1:20 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
It is still unclear if the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States will be rewarded with amnesty later this year, but the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill that would grant them that amnesty has already...
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Joel Gehrke
Senate Dem tells Tea Partier that he’s acting like a ‘dictator’
Updated : 1:20 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., scolded Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for acting like a “dictator” by demanding that Senate Democrats promise not to raise the debt limit during conference meetings with House...
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Charlie Spiering
IRS official: I do not accept responsibility for actions of IRS employees
Updated : 1:10 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
During a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing today former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman refused to take responsibility for the IRS employees who targeted Tea Party groups under his watch. Shulman was asked by...
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Charlie Spiering
IRS official: I discussed Obamacare during White House visits
Updated : 12:50 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman admitted during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing Wednesday that he visited the White House multiple times and discussed the agency’s role in the implementation of...
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Sean Higgins
AFL-CIO blasts immigration bill deal on high-tech visas, urges Senate to pass bill
Published : 12:50 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued an angry statement yesterday blasting Senate immigration bill negotiators for agreeing to a package of amendments at the behest of the tech industry that expand the H-1B visa...
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