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  • Federal Reserve meeting begins amid uncertainty over monetary policy

    By Joseph Lawler | 06/18/13 04:00 PM

    As the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting to determine monetary policy, there are signs cropping up that the markets are confused about what Chairman Ben Bernanke and company are saying  – or unconvinced that they will follow through with their promises. For the past six months,...

  • Congressman calls for defunding National Sheep Industry Improvement Center

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 03:40 PM

    No, I’m not trying to pull the wool over your eyes, the federal government really does fund a National Sheep Industry Improvement Center. It is part of the Agriculture Department. You can read a request for grant proposals here. Under the farm bill, the center gets $1 million dollars in...

  • AFL-CIO: We oppose any hard triggers in immigration bill

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:40 PM

    In a statement released today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that US working families had “no higher legislative priority” for Congress than passing immigration reform. That reform must not not include any “hard triggers” for allowing immigration, the nation’s top union leader...

  • Telecom union: Immigration bill is bad for our workers, but we support it anyway

    By Sean Higgins | 06/18/13 02:30 PM

    My column today focuses on the strange bedfellows and ironic situations created by the immigration reform bill. I highlight the case of the Communications Workers of America and its concerns regarding the bill’s increase in H1B visas. CWA, which is the largest telecom worker union in the world...

  • NSA says snooping foiled bombing plots

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/18/13 01:25 PM

      The National Security Agency’s power to scrutinize the nation’s telephone records have helped to thwart more than 50 potential terrorist plots, including plans to bomb both the New York City subway system and the New York Stock Exchange, officials said Tuesday as they defended the...

  • Chris Christie booed by students for backing Dallas Cowboys

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 01:20 PM

    Governor Chris Christie elicited boos from students at an elementary school in New Jersey today, after he explained that he was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys – not the New York Jets or the New York Giants. Christie admitted that it probably wasn’t a very popular answer in New Jersey –...

  • G-8 leaders agree to crack down on tax evasion

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 12:55 PM

    World leaders at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland signed off on an agreement aimed at cracking down on tax evasion as part of transatlantic trade negotiations. In still uncertain economic times, U.S. and European leaders want to force large corporations to pay more taxes and...

  • How Chinese investors buy their way into the US

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/18/13 12:45 PM

    Immigration bill enshrines program that lets foreigners get green cards in return for major investments The Senate immigration bill would create a permanent federal program allowing politically connected businessmen to sell visas to Chinese millionaires. ‘I still can't get my head around...

  • Mike Lee and Ted Cruz challenge Obama with new military religious freedom amendments

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/18/13 12:45 PM

    Two military religious freedom amendments proposed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas  are challenging the Obama administration after they objected to a similar Amendment proposed in the House. The White House Office of Management and Budget last week criticized a...

  • Patriot Act author: NSA spying on Americans ‘clearly not within the law’

    By Ashe Schow | 06/18/13 12:35 PM

    Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Sean Hannity Monday night that what the Obama administration and the NSA did with the Patriot Act was “clearly not within the law.” Referring to the dragnet collection of American citizens’ phone records and Internet information, Sensenbrenner said that...


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