Tag: House of Representatives

The Play Should Be Delay

James Capretta, Jeffrey H. Anderson · September 16, 2013 3:50 pm

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on "The Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Big Brother is here to help but needs your credit card, mortgage data

Hugh Hewitt · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., accused House GOP leaders of "catering to the extremes of their party" over their decision to hold a Wednesday vote on legislation calling for $40 billion in food stamp cuts over 10 years instead of working with the Senate to hammer out a compromise between the two chambers' bills.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Ag Day, John Harrington)

Rep. Collin Peterson: GOP food stamp measure will waylay farm bill

Sean Lengell · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House on Sept. 10. Obama cast his rationale for wanting to take action in Syria in moral terms.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Abortion and Obama’s moral leadership problem

Star Parker · September 14, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2012 file photo, a Food and Drug Administration Agent stands at the doorway of New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., as investigators work inside. House lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday, Sept. 13, 2013, that would bring more federal oversight to large specialty pharmacies like the New England Compounding Center that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)

House unveils bill to police specialty pharmacies

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2013 5:30 pm

Louisiana’s Conservative Alternative to Obamacare

Michael Warren · September 13, 2013 1:01 pm

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday before the House Financial Services Committee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CFPB’s data-mining on consumer credit cards challenged in heated House hearing

Richard Pollock · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

House pages would return if a push to restore the program succeeds. (AP Photo)

New push to restore historic House Page program

Paul Bedard · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

U.S. flags are shown outside of General Motors world headquarters in a Detroit file photo from April 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

General Motors bailout czar downplayed role in Delphi union pension deal

Michal Conger · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., at the Capitol in July. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

On the Rise: Rep. Justin Amash emerges as leading anti-war voice

Sean Lengell · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden, after stipulating that he understands the U.S. House and Senate better than any man alive, described House Republicans as a "Neanderthal crowd" for attempting to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act without any new amendments to the bill. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Joe Biden calls House Republicans ‘Neanderthals’

Joel Gehrke · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Vice President gestures as he addresses a reception to commemorate the 19th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act at the Naval Observatory in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Joe Biden mocks House GOP as ‘Neanderthal crowd’

Brian Hughes · September 13, 2013 4:00 am