In a controversial move President Obama has delayed a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, thereby extending a key review until after November’s mid-term election. The move by the president made for strange bedfellows as Republicans and red-state Democrats who are up for reelection in November chastised the president for the delay. Sen. [...]
This week the President and Vice President traveled to the Community College of Allegheny County in Oakdale, PA, near Pittsburgh, touting job training at community colleges to help student secure jobs. The president plans to use existing funds, in which his plan would call for offering $600 million in grants "to support job-driven training, like [...]
Every American has a favorite holiday, for some it may be Christmas, for others it could be Thanksgiving, but for the government it’s April 15th. This is the day all American’s must file their income taxes. The question we have to ask ourselves is what are we getting for the taxes we pay? In March, [...]
Last week the President unleashed a barrage at Republicans over the controversial issues of equal work for equal pay. The president continued the attack by accusing Republicans of blocking the Paycheck Fairness Act in his weekly radio address. Republicans countered the president’s argument with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers criticizing the president’s lack of transparency on [...]
For the second time in as many years Ft Hood was the scene of a tragic shooting, as a fellow soldier turned his firearm on his comrades and killed three and leaving 16 injured. This tragic scene was reminiscent of the last shooting spree aboard Ft. Hood, when on November 5th, 2009, Nidal Malik Hasan, [...]
A ferocious battle has flared up between U.S. Senators and the CIA after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the top ranking lawmaker of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence accused the agency of spying on congressional staffers. In a scathing address on the Senate floor, Feinstein stated, “the agency may have committed a crime by improperly [...]
Republican David Jolly, in a hotly contested election, defeated Democratic nominee Alex Sink to win the special congressional election in Florida, filling the seat of the late Rep. Bill Young in Congress. This race has been seen as a bellwether for the upcoming congressional mid-term elections this November and with the Affordable Care Act or [...]
President Obama sent to Congress his $3.9 trillion dollar 2015 budget which includes new spending and a plan to reduce the national debt by raising taxes on the wealthy. “Our budget is about choices, it’s about our values,” Obama said during an appearance at Powell Elementary School in the District. “As a country we’ve got [...]