Thomas Bleming fought as a mercenary for decades against authoritarian governments, from the jungles of Myanmar and Panama to the shrubland of Zimbabwe. He has now set his sights on a target closer to home: a U.S. Senate seat. And not everyone is happy about it. (more)
Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso claims that Vice President Joe Biden is using “fear tactics” to push Congress to pass a $35 billion stimulus package, which he said shows the “desperation” of the White House. (more)
Democratic staff for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee scheduled a field hearing for next Wednesday in Maui, and the Republican minority will send one GOP staffer to join them. (more)
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has introduced one of the most important pieces of health care legislation of this Congress: the Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2011, which would bar the federal government from using “comparative effectiveness research” — a tool used by socialized health care systems to dictate treatment based on cost rather than effectiveness. Comparative effectiveness research gives bureaucrats the excuse they need to deny coverage of a health care treatment or micromanage the practice of medicine. (more)
Untouchable. That’s the treatment being given to the $23.6 billion being spent right now to implement Obamacare. (more)
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee members sparred Wednesday over whether there existed a consensus in the 1970s that the earth was cooling. (more)
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonpartisan organization of state legislators, released a game plan Tuesday to fight against Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. (more)
Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released his long-awaited draft of legislation to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations on carbon Wednesday evening. Upton was joined by Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky, chair of the Energy and Power subcommittee, and Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, in releasing the proposal. (more)
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming introduced legislation Monday afternoon that would prohibit federal agencies from regulating greenhouse gases without a direct mandate from Congress. (more)
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming plans to introduce legislation Monday to preempt the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to regulate carbon emissions, The Daily Caller has learned. It is the latest move by congressional Republicans who view the agency’s rules as a backdoor attempt to implement a cap and trade system. (more)
Top Republicans in the House and Senate are in the middle of crafting a plan to stop unprecedented regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of carbon dioxide emissions, but confusion abounds the details. (more)
One of the biggest failures of climate science is the fact that the data sets created to justify global warming are not independently reviewed or subject to standardized quality control procedures, such as ISO 9000. The very people who write scientific papers on global warming, lobby Congress to take action, and even get arrested protesting about climate, such as NASA’s Dr. James Hansen, are the same ones who are the keepers of the world’s most-cited climate data. (more)
Senate Republicans removed Lisa Murkowski of Alaska from their party’s leadership on Wednesday and elected John Barrasso of Wyoming to replace her as vice chairman of the Republican conference. (more)
On Monday, The Daily Caller began revealing its Ranking of America’s 50 Best Colleges. We encourage you to check out our methodology and the reasons why our college ranking is uniquely definitive. (more)
The gas station of former President Jimmy Carter’s beer drinking brother will not become a national historic site paid for by taxpayers — at least, not yet. (more)
The fight to shape perceptions of President Obama’s health care overhaul is still in the early stages, but on Wednesday two Republican senators will fire a salvo when they release a 32-page report arguing that the legislation is only exacerbating skyrocketing prices and will cause nearly 100 million Americans to lose their employer-based insurance. (more)
Republican lawmakers pressed President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to El Salvador Wednesday over her former relationship with a Cuban national who may have had ties to Cuban intelligence. (more)
Republicans are upping the pressure on Obama diplomatic nominee Mari Carmen Aponte, demanding to see details of her background investigation conducted by the Administration. (more)
Gautham Nagesh has wrangled two letters to Sen. John Kerry’s office, both asking that the committee hearing for the appointment of Mari Carmen Aponte as Ambassador to El Salvador be delayed (likely because, as Nagesh reported Saturday, Aponte was romantically involved with a man who was an alleged Cuban Intelligence asset). In a letter to Kerry, Senators Jim DeMint, Johnny Isakson, James Inhofe, Bob Corker, John Barrasso, Jim Risch, and Roger Wicker wrote: (more)
The health care summit that transpired at the Blair House Thursday was like most things that go on in Washington, D.C.: it ran late, everyone had party-line “talking points,” and not a trace of bipartisanship could be found. (more)
