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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/19/13 04:40 PM
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested that Republicans can win significant percentages of the Hispanic electorate while demanding border security take place before any legalization of illegal immigrants, citing his own...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/19/13 03:55 PM
President Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Board, created by the Dodd-Frank bill and staffed by controversial so-called recess appointments, is “unreasonably searching your records and invading your privacy” to...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/19/13 03:30 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is in the midst of a last-minute push to garner support for the Gang of Eight bill from conservative critics, but the window to do so may be closing, Republican aides say, in part because of how...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/18/13 07:45 PM
Two service members charged with sexual assault cannot be kicked out of the military, even if they are convicted, because comments made by President Obama about the issue constitute “unlawful command influence,”...
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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...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office will release its assessment of the Senate immigration bill’s effect on the federal budget, a Senate Budget Committee spokesman told the Washington Examiner.
“It will come...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 03:20 PM
Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is up for reelection next year, likened himself to the Republicans of yesteryear rather than accept an association with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“Probably a...
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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 JOEL GEHRKE | 06/16/13 08:10 PM
White House officials concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) significantly overstated the economic benefits of a proposed rule cutting formaldehyde emissions, largely because the agency persisted in...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/14/13 05:00 PM
President Obama has selected Rufus Gifford, best known to supporters as the guy writing studiously-casual fundraising emails, as his choice to represent the United States in Denmark.
“I am just so happy,” Gifford...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/14/13 04:45 PM
President Obama intends to nominate HBO vice president James Costos, a top campaign bundler, as the new ambassador to Spain, the White House Press Office announced today.
Costos heads the Global Licensing and Retail...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/14/13 01:05 PM
Former President Bill Clinton, while suggesting that another push for gun control legislation might succeed, faulted the National Rifle Association for convincing “country” people that “there’s this big,...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/13/13 04:20 PM
After Booz Allen systems administrator Edward Snowden turned into one of the most prominent leakers in the history of U.S. national security, the defense contractor fired him and posted a job opening for a new systems...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/13/13 03:50 PM
Former President Bill Clinton thinks President Obama risks looking like a “wuss” if he refuses to provide military assistance to the Syrian opposition, especially if that decision seems driven by the American...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/13/13 02:55 PM
Rising costs associated with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has a D.C. restaurant mulling the possibility of making their meals less affordable, less filling, or even cutting costs at the expense of staff....
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/13/13 12:35 PM
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused a reporter of pushing an “agenda” when he asked her to explain the “moral difference” between the murders that Kermit Gosnell was convicted of and elective...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 05:40 PM
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder to suggest that he end “the current jet-set culture” at the Justice Department (DOJ) rather than contemplate furloughing employees in the face of spending...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 05:20 PM
Sarah Murnaghan, a 10 year-old girl whose struggle with cystic fibrosis received national attention during a congressional hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is receiving a long-sought...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 04:45 PM
Top officials in the IRS lied about the scope of the targeting of conservatives at the agency, according to an employee in the Cincinnati office who told investigators that the practice was not limited to a few low-level...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 04:15 PM
Jay Merchant, an employee in the Health and Human Services department (HHS), was named a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau by the queen of the Netherlands in April.
Merchant is an international relations advisor at...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 03:50 PM
Gen. Keith Alexander, who leads the National Security Agency, deferred answering a question about the legal basis for the surveillance of American phone records until a classified briefing with the Senate Intelligence...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 03:35 PM
Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., discouraged colleagues from questioning National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander about the NSA’s surveillance of phone records, despite the...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 01:05 PM
Congressional ignorance about the National Security Agency’s phone record collection exists because lawmakers skipped briefings on the program, according to President Obama’s spokesman, who maintained that the program...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/11/13 04:15 PM
Former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley hopes to repeat Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s success in running for office after leaving President Obama’s side, even though the Democratic Party already holds the...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/11/13 03:55 PM
More Americans remember George W. Bush approvingly than negatively, according to a new survey released with Washington mired in scandals and President Obama under fire for expanding his predecessor’s surveillance of...
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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 JOEL GEHRKE | 06/11/13 11:00 AM
Republican congressional candidate Erika Harold, who won the Miss America contest in 2003 before graduating from Harvard Law School, wasted little time in her new campaign before challenging one of the most cherished of...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/10/13 11:50 AM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., visited House conservatives this week to discuss immigration policy, but his effort to garner support for the Gang of Eight’s Senate bill failed, according to Republican sources — in part,...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/09/13 05:10 PM
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., intends to file a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a National Security Agency (NSA) program that collects phone records and other data from internet companies, according to...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 04:00 PM
Half of the American people believe that senior members of President Obama’s team knew that the IRS was inappropriately targeting conservatives between 2010 and 2012, according to a new Gallup poll that finds most...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 03:50 PM
President Obama’s team is gearing up for a push to pass the minimum wage increase he proposed in this year’s State of the Union address, hosting a “strategy meeting” with ideological allies at the White House last...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 12:40 PM
President Obama defended the government’s internet surveillance as a “modest encroachment” on the privacy of Americans, but he maintained that the programs initiated by George W. Bush help keep Americans safe,...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 10:20 AM
President Obama touted the federal government’s role in supporting Silicon Valley industry, as he reminded California donors that a Defense Department program helped research internet technology.
“The incredible...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 10:00 AM
Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood.
“I have great respect...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/06/13 05:20 PM
Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer when asked if the Justice Department is spying on members of Congress, citing the need for a classified conversation, which lawmakers accepted while asking him to make sure...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/06/13 02:30 PM
Broad surveillance of the American people is constitutional, President Obama’s spokesman said Thursday following a report that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of all Verizon customers....
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