Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Singer Kelly Rowland is heading to the District this weekend to be the featured guest at the Park at Fourteenth's Memorial Day fete. The party kicks off with a dinner at 7 p.m. Sunday and carries on until 4 a.m. Monday. Tickets for the event, featuring the former Destiny's Child member, are $20...

Philip Klein

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

As I wrote earlier, California is going to be a major test case for the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Though major insurers have decided to opt out of the state’s subsidized insurance exchange, the authority tasked with managing the program is now touting number of...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

An Obamacare earmark championed by former Sen. John Kerry that raised wage payments to Massachusetts hospitals at the expense of those in the other 49 states is coming under fire in Congress and could die now that the 29-year Senate veteran is gone. Dubbed the "Bay State Boondoggle" by...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

During his foreign policy speech this afternoon, President Obama warned that domestic terrorism would increase in the modern age of the Internet. “[T]his threat is not new,” Obama said. “But technology and the Internet increase its frequency and lethality.” Obama warned Americans...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

During his speech this afternoon, President Obama lectured a protestor for interrupting his foreign policy speech.

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama indicated in his speech Thursday that he will review the Justice Department guidelines for spying on reporters and promised to “convene a group of media organizations” to hear their concerns. Obama indicated that the Justice Department’s spying on reporters was for the...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Thursday objected to the Senate Democrats’ attempt to move the budget bill to conference without assurance that the debt limit increase will not be included in the final report. Lee took the opportunity to explain to critics from both parties why he was doing so.

Sean Higgins

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

John Merline of Investor’s Business Daily highlights the latest news from the American Legislative Exchange Council on which of the 50 states are thriving and which ones are sinking. With Texas far and away leading the economic growth and job creators club, Merline notices a, ahem,...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Congressional Quarterly reports: the American Sugar Alliance, a trade group for the sugar industry, is taking no chances. In a statement, the group said it delivered replicas of 1940s, World War II-era sugar rationing coupons to Senate offices. If you’ve been following sugar policy,...

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he no longer represents the majority of Senate Republicans on the issue of increasing the debt ceiling — and he offered a bet to prove it. “There may be more ‘wacko birds’ in the Senate than is...