A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could not tell the House Committee on Financial Services how many Americans are being monitored through the agency’s secretive data collection program Tuesday.
The suburban New York newspaper that created a firestorm earlier this year when it published the names and addresses of gun permit holders has requested more data regarding legal owners of firearms, apparently to determine if handgun ownership patterns have changed in the last six months.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thinks President Obama’s delay of key provisions of Obamacare could force Senate Democrats to defend the unpopular law during the upcoming congressional debate on a new continuing resolution to fund the government through the 2014 election.
There is a clear and present danger to religious liberty within the military, says a coalition of groups who believe the Obama Administration is pushing a secular, anti-religious culture on the nation’s armed forces.
Rush Limbaugh gets it. Barack Obama gets it. Even Samsung and the producers who manage Jay-Z get it.
The text of the Senate’s immigration-reform bill contains a small section that increases by more than threefold the number of Afghans eligible for immigration to the U.S. under a special asylum program.
Gallup’s most recent polling on the issue indicates that more Americans actually regard themselves as “pro-life” than “pro-choice.” See the numbers here.
House Republicans want the IRS to pay for targeting political groups and are pushing legislation that would cut the tax collecting agency’s budget by $3 billion — nearly a quarter of what it received last fiscal year.
Illinois on Tuesday became the last state in the nation to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons, as lawmakers overcame a last-minute attempt by Gov. Pat Quinn to change the legislation.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has no plans to resign following disclosures to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he did not tell Congress the truth about widespread National Security Agency electronic surveillance of Americans.