New Jersey Republican Rep. Scott Garrett plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives Tuesday that would require all legislation to cite an enumerated power in the Constitution that grants authority for the bill’s mandate.
Garrett, founder and chairman of the House Constitution Caucus, told The Daily Caller that the resolution is the direct [...]
Washington (CNN) - Kentucky’s Senator-elect Rand Paul says that if he were already in Congress he would lean against voting for the recently announced tax deal.
In an interview airing on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” Wednesday at 6 p.m ET, Paul expresses strong opinions about the deficit, spending, and the tax deal proposed [...]
Ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the richest 2 percent of Americans. His reasoning: the rich have fared spectacularly well over the past quarter century—incomes of the top 1 percent tripled in real terms—while incomes grew slowly or not at all for [...]
Todd Rokita, Republican of Indiana, is coming to Washington and leaves no doubt that he means business: He got elected to Congress to upend the status quo, to clean up what he sees as a mess of bloated spending and government overreach that is endangering the country’s future.
He says he has a mandate from voters [...]
Reality strikes. President Obama spurned the advice of columnists Paul Krugman and Katrina vanden Heuvel and agreed with Republicans to extend the current income tax rates — the so-called Bush tax cuts — for another two years.
He got a few things in return, primarily extended unemployment benefits for another 13 months, and agreed as well [...]
The Tea Party movement is the fifth major wave of immigration into the modern Republican Party since World War II. It has brought Americans who had never been politically active to the forefront of the political fight against the Obama administration’s agenda and into Republican primaries as voters, and in some cases, as candidates. The [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Thursday, the increasingly divisive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated its 40th anniversary. Unable to pass unpopular and economically destructive regulatory measures through Congress, Democrats have turned to the EPA to enact their controversial agenda.
Over the last decade, the agency has been the origin of increasingly heavy regulations on American infrastructure and technology. The [...]
Things had been looking up for gun-rights activists. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that Washington’s handgun laws were unconstitutional. In the summer of 2010, in McDonald v Chicago, the court expanded that ruling to apply to handgun laws in all 50 states.
Even President Obama seemed relatively open to Second Amendment rights, saying on [...]
A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.
By pre-empting the House’s tax-writing authority, Senate Democrats appear to have touched off a power struggle with members of their own [...]
Borrowing costs for Europe’s most indebted nations are at record highs as Ireland’s capitulation in accepting a bailout of its banking industry stokes concern that other countries also will have to seek aid.
The average yield for 10-year debt from Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy reached 7.57 percent today, a euro- era record. The average [...]
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