November 30th, 2011
Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, declared Wednesday that there will be “no Christmas for Congress” if unemployment benefits are not extended. (more)
August 4th, 2011
Josh Pruyn, a former recruiter for the for-profit online Westwood College, told senators during a pivotal hearing in 2010 about high-pressure sales tactics he said his former employer used to entice potential students to enroll. (more)
July 26th, 2011
Top aides to Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin collaborated with a special interest group and a law firm with a financial stake in the matter to edit the written and oral testimony of a witness at a key investigative hearing last year, documents obtained by The Daily Caller show. (more)
July 21st, 2011
A top aide to Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin supplied an answer last year to a thorny question a friendly witness would face the next day at a pivotal hearing on for-profit colleges, raising questions of witness tampering, an email obtained by The Daily Caller shows. (more)
July 20th, 2011
Democratic senators on Wednesday said that the Republican Cut, Cap and Balance Act isn’t going anywhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate. (more)
July 6th, 2011
It’s a congressional hearing that’s notable for what it’s not addressing. (more)
June 10th, 2011
A growing chorus of Senate Democrats is calling on President Obama to work harder to improve the economy, and some have started to discuss the possibility of a new infrastructure package. (more)
June 7th, 2011
A top administration official told Congress Tuesday that for-profit colleges still have a vital role to play in American education, despite the high default rate on student loans at the schools. (more)
June 2nd, 2011
Top GAO oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa of California continues to investigate the Government Accountability Office’s undercover sting unit, including interviewing the team that produced an error-ridden report on for-profit colleges, staining the agency’s normally unimpeachable reputation. (more)
June 2nd, 2011
Department of Education Sec. Arne Duncan is finalizing a controversial new regulation on for-profit, or “career,” colleges, issuing final rules Wednesday that condition federal aid to students of the schools to numeric thresholds on how much debt they incur or how quickly they repay the loans after attending. (more)
June 1st, 2011
Senate Republicans on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee say they’re boycotting an upcoming hearing announced by Chairman Tom Harkin, citing a growing list of issues with the far left Iowan’s crusade against for-profit colleges. (more)
May 18th, 2011
Rep. John Kline, the GOP chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, says new details reported by The Daily Caller about the GAO’s error-ridden report on for-profit colleges are “deeply troubling” and put the report’s findings in question. (more)
May 17th, 2011
A smoking gun document about an error-ridden GAO report puts the murder weapon in a top Democratic senator’s hands. (more)
March 29th, 2011
Any lawmaker who so much as thinks about tinkering with Social Security anytime in the next decade will have to go through Harry Reid (and a few of his friends) first. (more)
February 4th, 2011
A spokeswoman for the senator who called a Jan. 24 meeting to mobilize hundreds of K Street lobbyists against spending cuts pushed by the GOP says Republicans were at the meeting too. (more)
February 4th, 2011
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, is blasting an effort by hundreds of lobbyists to strategize with top congressional Democrats on how to stop spending cuts pushed by Republicans. (more)
January 27th, 2011
WASHINGTON — Democratic advocates of an overhaul of Senate rules to curb the filibuster abandoned that effort on Wednesday, clearing the way for a bipartisan agreement to institute less sweeping changes to ease procedural gridlock. (more)
December 9th, 2010
Accusations always get more attention than the end result; it’s just the way the world works. Unfortunate as it may be, accusations garner bold headlines and long stories in newspapers, while corrections get a tiny blurb buried in the pages of the A section with the proverbial “we regret the error.” But when the error is made by the government, a correction is rarely forthcoming. Government corrections are released without notice or fanfare. They just appear one day, while the accusation lives on in the media and on the Internet. Never let a good charge go to waste, even when it’s proven to be wrong. Such is the case with the recent attacks by liberal members of Congress, bloggers and the media on for-profit education. (more)
November 30th, 2010
The Senate today approved the Food Safety Modernization Act, a bill that expands the Food and Drug Administration’s ability to regulate the quality of food and expand the agency’s powers to inspect food production facilities. (more)
November 2nd, 2010
The Democrats are in trouble in the United States Senate come November. (more)
