June 19, 2013

Politics: Congress

Coburn: Treasury keeps stalling congressional request for full listing of conference costs

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 Congressional panels, admitting “confusion,” but Coburn isn’t buying it....
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News: Watchdog

Paralysis in Congress keeps federal worker disability fraudsters cashing the checks

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 of a three-part series by the Washington Examiner Watchdog team.
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Politics

House passes ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy

By Susan Ferrechio | 06/18/13 07:20 PM

The Republican-led House Tuesday passed a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, approved by a vote of 228 to 196, comes in the wake of gruesome details that emerged during the trial of late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was...
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Politics: Congress

Obamacare’s tariff on hiring American workers still plagues immigration bill

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 it…There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star...
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Issues: Labor

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...
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Washington Secrets

Obama thwarted: 'No indication' he will win back House

By Paul Bedard | 06/18/13 11:30 AM

President Obama's non-stop 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 speaker again, according to an exhaustive new analysis. But the report...
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