Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement on the pending nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, highlighting his past support of mortgage principal reductions for as many as 10.4 million borrowers who are $628 billion underwater on their mortgages, owing more on their homes than they are worth: “Mel Watts’ [...]

By Robert Romano — “Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in military commissions.” That was White House Press Secretary James Carney on the Obama Administration’s decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an unlawful enemy combatant following the Boston Marathon bombings. What a difference two months can make. Just in February, NBC News famously revealed a Department [...]

Republican Study Committee members sent a scathing letter to members of the Senate asking them to stop the appointment of Thomas Perez to become the Secretary of Labor. Republican Study Committee Anti-Perez Letter

From our friends at the Club for Growth: KEY VOTE ALERT “NO” on PCIP Extension Bill (HR 1549)The Club for Growth urges all House members to vote “NO” on HR 1549, a bill designed to extend an ObamaCare program that has run out of money. Consideration of the bill is expected sometime next week. The vote on this plan will [...]

By Adam Bitely — Another Washington, D.C. gimmick has failed. The “No Budget, No Pay” act aimed to force the Senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years. While successful at doing that, that’s about all this effort accomplished. And the Senate budget has proven to be meaningless in the scheme of things. The whole scheme, [...]

By Rick Manning – Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities of the 50 Democrats who supported it. It was no mistake that the [...]

Due to the sequester, some entrances to Capitol Hill Congressional building have been closed. But in a sign that these entrances are merely being closed for the theater of it all, the closed entrances are still receiving regular maintenance. Odd. Here’s a picture of one of the closed entrances being painted: The closing of the entrances is merely a way [...]

By Robert Romano — Shameless. There is simply no other way to describe the disgraceful “end of the world” proclamations by Democrats describing the effects of budget sequestration. The claims have bordered on the sick and twisted, such as Sen. Harry Reid’s blaming the tragic deaths of seven Marines in Nevada in an accidental explosion on sequestration cuts to “training [...]

By Rick Manning — Thursday’s headlines from Washington, D.C. will likely read that the House of Representatives passed a ten year path to a balanced budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan. While the Ryan budget is a gigantic step in the right direction, a proposal by the House Republican Study Committee that brings the budget into balance in four years [...]

Sen. Harry Reid has abandoned Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assualt weapons ban amendment to a gun control bill moving through the Senate. The reason? Reid could not find many people that supported it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he will not include a renewal of the federal assault weapons ban in a Senate gun control bill because it [...]