The 2010 Congressional Election next November may well be an historic one in terms of the number of incumbents that find themselves in the unemployment line. I expect last Saturday’s eleventh-hour (literally) vote on Healthcare Reform will be one of the deciding factors for many Pennsylvanians on im ...
Does "stupak" mean: "A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe - unnecessarily so - back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill."Or is it: adj: imposing religious beliefs of one group on another, especially through legislation or ...
Paul Singer of Roll Call is reporting: The House ethics committee is likely to exonerate five members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) who were accused of taking an improper trip to the Caribbean, according to sources familiar with the case. If this is true, we are not surprised. When we prov ...
Last week, the cable news networks were blanketing their shows with stories about the leaking of a report from the House Ethics Committtee detailing the nearly 30 lawmakers under investigation by the committee. Despite all of the bombast of cable news anchors over the investigations, the totality of ...
J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC: On Your Hands Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the r ...
And it's just a short walk from the Capitol: No known ghosts -- but the Historic Congressional Cemetery is home to a number of storied Americans, including Abraham Lincoln's most famous photographer; one of the conspirators who was hanged for Lincoln's assassination; the original twentieth-century G ...
Another confidence-booster for the federal government today, as nearly half of the members of the John Murtha-chaired Defense Appropriations Subcommittee are being investigated for ethics violations involving millions of dollars. Turns out that nearly half the members of the Defense Appropriations S ...
Another confidence-booster for the federal government today, as nearly half of the members of the John Murtha-chaired Defense Appropriations Subcommittee are being investigated for ethics violations involving millions of dollars. Turns out that nearly half the members of the Defense Appropriations S ...
From this morning’s Washington Post. Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded ...
