by Jane Richey | Jun 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday that the Justice Department will “vigorously use” anti-Jim Crow provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent some southern states from purging ineligible voters from their rolls and...
by Jane Richey | Jun 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
At a town hall-style meeting at the White House on Thursday, Obama administration officials touted the benefits for women’s health afforded by the Affordable Care Act – benefits Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said would “cease to exist” if the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
A late-night debate over whether to drastically shrink federal highway spending in 2013 turned ugly just after 11 p.m., when a House Democrat accused a Republican and former U.S. Marine of hating America. Members were debating a motion to instruct House conferees to...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slammed unions and liberal activists for pushing to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). “I think the people on the Democratic side made a big mistake and the funding thing was a big deal,” Frank told The Hill Wednesday...
by Jane Richey | Jun 7, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The most powerful nation on Earth is run largely by 24-year-olds. High turnover and lack of experience in congressional offices are leaving staffs increasingly without policy and institutional knowledge, a Washington Times analysis of a decade of House and Senate...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Thirteen months after Senate Republicans warned President Obama that a new consumer finance watchdog’s structure gives an overly broad mandate and unchecked powers to its director, that agency is now involved in higher education. In a letter dated May 2, 2011, the...
