Scenes of massive immigration raids in the Iowa communities of Postville and Marshalltown have faded from the public’s collective memory, and current federal officials appear to want to keep it that way.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has officially joined the ranks of Senate Republicans saying they will support Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) plan to place a two-year moratorium on earmarks in today’s Republican Conference vote. His remarks — much like those of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) yesterday — hint at his inherent More…
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) outlined his priorities for next Congress today if he is chosen by his fellow Republicans to assume the chairmanship of the House Natural Resources Committee.
His priorities, according to a written statement, include increasing domestic energy production “through an all-of-the-above energy plan” and ensuring that the More…
Melody Barnes, President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, said today that the Obama administration does not have second thoughts about pushing health care legislation before a cap-and-trade bill. Some have argued that the administration’s aggressive push to pass a health care bill took the wind out of the sails of More…
With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is backing at least one Democrat this year in a pretty public way. In today’s Charleston Gazette, Chamber president Thomas Donohue explained once again More…
The United States has reached an agreement with the Motors Liquidation Co — the part of General Motors that split off during bankruptcy and holds the company’s unwanted assets — to establish a trust to clean up 89 sites (many of which contain hazardous materials) that were abandoned when the More…
The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul pipeline safety.
The proposal, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, lays out a number of potential issues the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, or More…
The Obama administration announced today that it is launching an investigation into China’s green technology trade policies. The investigation is in response to a lengthy petition filed last month by the United Steelworkers.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said today that he would investigate the claims made in the petition More…
Attacks launched by the Obama administration and other Democratic-leaning groups against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS are translating into even more enthusiastic giving to conservative groups, it seems. American Crossroads has announced that it raised more than $13 million in the past week alone and, justifiably More…
The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning.
The moratorium was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, which dumped 4.9 million barrels More…
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