As Congress considers raising the debt ceiling again, the nation must realize that, unlike the Biden administration’s swift response to the student debt crisis and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure, American taxpayers will not receive a bailout from a national debt disaster. Government employees, media […]

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By refusing to bring forward a bill from the municipal government of Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer effectively saw to it that “noncitizens” will be allowed to vote in elections in the nation’s capital city. D.C. Bill 24.300, passed by the D.C. Council […]

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Amidst the hubbub of congressional activity and a presidential budget release, Capitol Hill has been rocked in recent days by news of something much closer to home: a data breach affecting the District of Columbia’s Obamacare Exchange, D.C. Health Link. Because most congressional employees use […]

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Manu Raju is a Democrat activist and CNN reporter who camps out in congressional hallways to ask questions that help advance his party’s political agenda. He’s done it for years. Whether the Democrats are doing their Brett Kavanaugh smear, impeachment shenanigans, Russia-collusion hoax, or anything […]

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The ERA is back. This time it’s in the form of a joint House and Senate resolution to dissolve the expiration date once and for all. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment. Individuals supporting the ERA argue […]

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On Tuesday, the Senate is holding a hearing on passing a resolution in favor of the ERA, or the Equal Rights Amendment. This old feminist favorite — a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that purports to guarantee equal legal treatment for both sexes — […]

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On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its annual analysis of the budget and economic outlook over the coming decade. For anyone with a realistic sense of budgets and fiscal responsibility (i.e., not most Democrats), the lengthy document made for bracing reading. As bad […]

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In a win for election integrity, the House of Representatives voted to overturn a D.C. law that would give noncitizens a right to vote in municipal elections Thursday. “I applaud the House for acting to ensure that foreign spies and illegal immigrants are not voting […]

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Democrats barred minority appointments to their Select Committee on Jan. 6 that was established in June 2020. In their resolution to establish a Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government last month, Republicans welcomed minority appointments. The new committee’s first hearing on Thursday, […]

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Members of Congress seem to be crying a lot more these days. Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib spilled tears all over the floor of the House Thursday because her antisemitic colleague from Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, was about to be kicked off the Foreign Affairs […]

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Earlier this week, Congress held hearings to probe Ticketmaster, which has long been one of the most hated companies in America. Members of Congress were ostensibly there to grill Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation over its “monopoly” power and poor business practices that have led to website crashes, ticket fees, and […]

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President Biden is bringing to bear the full institutional power of the federal government to promote access to dangerous chemical abortion pills. A White House memo released on Sunday directed the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, and Attorney General […]

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When Congress swooped in to avert a railroad strike, it imposed a deal upon four labor unions that had voted against it. Now, a crew size rule is being considered that would be a second blow to the collective bargaining process — imposing by federal […]

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President Biden and his official representatives, whether members of his legal team or part of the White House’s press office, as well as his surrogates in the Democrat Party, find themselves drowning in scandal. With House oversight committees now in the hands of Republicans, the […]

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Fresh off their attacks on Republicans for spending time to debate and negotiate over the leadership of and House rules for the 118th Congress, the corporate media have executed a perfectly synchronized pivot to now assailing Republicans for investigating Hunter Biden. But House Republicans, now […]

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“Republican House Shifting Tech Focus From Antitrust To Censorship, More Investigations.” “More investigations.” That was the headline last week from Sinclair’s National Desk, making it official: The Republicans of the 118th Congress intend to do precisely jack all to effectively rein in the most powerful […]

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While House Democrats’ first act of the 118th Congress was to demand a vote on their unsuccessful abortion up-until-birth in all 50 states legislation, House Republicans, keen to defend the nation’s most vulnerable, committed to using their newfound majority to pass two pro-life measures. Neither of […]

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A recession is coming in 2023, concluded more than two-thirds of the economists at big financial institutions recently surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. Inflation is also likely to remain high. Measuring year-over-year inflation by the U.S. government’s 1980s methodology put it at 15.23 percent […]

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Amid the productive House speaker deliberations this weekend came a bizarre altercation between Matt Gaetz and Mike Rogers, a couple of Republican congressmen on opposites sides of the McCarthy squabble. A C-SPAN peek at the House floor showed a frustrated Kevin McCarthy approaching Gaetz after […]

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Life expectancy in the United States is at its lowest level since 1996. Teen suicide rates spiked nearly 30 percent in the last decade. Though drug overdose deaths declined from a record high in 2021, they remain 50 percent higher than just five years ago. […]

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