Rep. Blake Farenthold discusses profiling packages of the Transportation Security Security Administration.
Rep. Barney Frank Discusses his 'Respect of Marriage Act' proposal.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced that Justice Department officials would begin the gun dialogue this week: “The Department of Justice has reached out to stakeholders on all sides of this issue and they are going to be holding a series of discussions as a first step, and some of those meetings are happening this week,” Carney told reporters.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Obama administration is planning on maintaining “joint” U.S.-Afghan military bases in Afghanistan after 2014 and conducting what Flournoy described as “joint counter-terrorism operations” with the Afghan military after that date.
Enough is enough, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) said in a statement issued on Tuesday: "It's time to take a stand for taxpayers and future generations. I will not vote for the short-term Continuing Resolution," he said.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com today that the health-care law that President Barack Obama signed last March is a “platform” for building a single-payer health care system in the U.S.
In an interview with CNS News' Terry Jeffery, Rep. Steve King of Iowa spoke on a CR and the debt ceiling.
A prominent GOP senator on energy issues accused President Barack Obama Thursday morning of having set an “explicit policy goal” of making energy prices more costly for Americans.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the House Republicans’ proposed cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would hurt biomedical research’s "biblical power to cure."
When asked by CNS News' "Where in the Constitution is the government given the authority to oversee education through a Department of Education? Ehere specifically is that authority granted?" Secretary Duncan replied....
