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June 19, 2013

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  • Sen. Mike Enzi: NSA is ‘not the only federal agency gathering information about you’

    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 a degree comparable to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) recently...

  • GOP aides: Window may be closing on Gang of Eight bill

    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 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is managing the process. Rubio...

  • Rand Paul: Anybody want to fire some IRS agents?

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/19/13 02:50 PM

    “Anybody want to fire some IRS agents?” asked Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. this afternoon during a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill. After the crowd roared with approval, Paul continued. “Why don’t we start with the 16,000 IRS agents that are going to implement Obamacare? he asked. Paul was...

  • Fed maintains its bond purchases

    By Joseph Lawler | 06/19/13 02:35 PM

    The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it would maintain its monthly bond purchases and keep interest rates low. The central bank signaled that the economy was improving, but not fast enough for its stimulus program to be downsized without harming growth. The announcement was widely...

  • CBO: Senate bill still allows illegal immigration

    06/19/13 02:32 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions. Supporters of the...

  • Ted Cruz blasts Gang of Eight immigration reform bill on Rush Limbaugh show

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/19/13 02:15 PM

    On Rush Limbaugh’s radio show this afternoon, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, denounced the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, encouraging his audience to call their member of Congress to oppose the bill. Cruz noted there were about 20 Republican Senators that were on the fence about voting for...

  • Cuts to food stamps threaten farm bill

    By Sean Lengell | 06/19/13 02:10 PM

    White House opposition to the House’s massive farm bill could leave some Republicans and conservative groups in the awkward position of agreeing with President Obama. As the House continued debate Wednesday on the five-year measure that includes billions of dollars for crop...

  • Obama’s nuclear plan faces major obstacles in Washington, Russia

    By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 01:15 PM

    President Obama’s call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles by one-third ran into immediate opposition in both Washington and Moscow, with officials from both countries questioning the need for such a sharp cut in their weapons arsenals. Obama’s proposal, which he made...

  • Glenn Beck: John Lennon didn’t teach us about peace, Jesus did

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/19/13 01:10 PM

    During his speech today at a Tea Party rally outside the U.S. Capitol building, conservative media mogul Glenn Beck insisted to the crowd that Martin Luther King Jr. drew his inspiration from God, not progressive liberals. “What they all did was not progressive or new, it was ancient,”...

  • Terry McAuliffe: Virginia’s right-to-work status is not going to change

    By Sean Higgins | 06/19/13 12:05 PM

    Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe told the Washington Post that the Old Dominion’s right to work law was “not going to change”. The Post reporter apparently though he left himself some wiggle room on this though. Here’s the relevant section from today’s...


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