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  • Teachers union vows to oust Chicago mayor

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

    Another epic showdown between a local government leader and a public-sector union? Looks like it will happen. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has vowed to take down Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The historic vote on Wednesday to shutter 50 schools has served...

  • White House renominates NLRB attorney Lafe Solomon

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

    President Obama made the nomination for a four-year term Thursday night. Solomon has been serving as the National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel since June 2010, following a long career as attorney for previous boardmembers. Solomon has never been formally approved as...

  • House Dems push for pre-conference deal on 2014 budget

    David M. Drucker

    Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

    The House minority has minimal power, but it is using the few parliamentary tools it can wield to force Republicans to demand a budget agreement with Senate Democrats as a condition for proceeding to a conference committee. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged in an interview...

  • Heritage and its critics agree: Amnesty is a drain on taxpayers

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    Shortly after the Heritage Foundation released its controversial cost-of-amnesty report, former National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey wrote a highly critical response disputing Heritage’s final $6.3 trillion price tag. Thursday, Heritage’s Vice President, Domestic &...

  • Obama celebrates falling deficits, attacks spending cuts

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

    President Obama called for Congress to end the “foolish” budget cuts required under sequestration, arguing that lawmakers should feel empowered because “deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades.” “I’ll keep fighting to end those foolish across-the-board budget cuts known...

  • Jon Stewart ridicules Obama for persecuting the press

    Charlie Spiering

    Updated: 3 hr ago

    Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart ridiculed President Obama for persecuting the press in the name of national security. “You see, they believe in the freedom of the press — just not freedom of speech for people who might talk to the press,” Stewart said, highlighting the...

  • With amendments, Senate immigration bill soars past 1,000 pages

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 3 hr ago

    After two weeks of amendments, S. 744, the bipartisan immigration reform bill voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday night, is now more than 1,000 pages long, according to a committee aide. When the bill was first submitted to the Senate, it was just 844 pages. And the vast...

  • White House silent about Holder approving Fox News probe

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: 3 hr ago

    The White House on Friday didn’t respond to a report that Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the seizure a Fox News reporter’s phone and email records — and with no daily press briefing scheduled Friday that could mean silence from the administration through the Memorial Day weekend....

  • Zogby's Obama report card: President loses his reelection mandate

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: 4 hr ago

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble pollster from Utica, N.Y. to take a vacation, since my grade will clearly anger half of D.C. As I suggested...