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"...my colleagues propose this rule change because they can get away with it...." -- Sen Barack Obama

"Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster—if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate—then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2005

In the next 31 days—starting today—the budget conference committee will try to accomplish something Congress has failed to do for the past four years....

U.S. candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to foreign rivals....

And the money didn't go to Sandwich Isles Communications!

Obama is now back to beating the broken drum on amnesty....

President Obama boasted last week that he had signed legislation to lift “the twin threats” to our economy....

Visitors spend about $76 million a day in communities near national parks, the National Park Service estimated....

Now that the government is whirring again, President Obama has identified three priorities for the country....

...these soldiers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, will return home this week to a nation that initially refused to pay their families the military death benefit....

There are about 34,000 civilian federal jobs in Hawaii, a fraction of which were deemed essential....

The House has passed a variety of bills that would have reopened portions of the federal government, but the Senate has rejected them....

President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....

Grassroot Institute has been spreading the word about the results of the Reason Foundation’s poll....

...the furor over Washington furloughs will only take you so far in the rest of America....

The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....

Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....

Schatz’s own office has indicated that 25,000 federal workers throughout the state would be left without pay....

Reps Hanabusa and Gabbard voted against funding the Federal Government....

Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American household in just the last four years....

... rather than risk Warren Buffett’s taxpayer-funded benefits decreasing, politicians pretend America’s national budget can handle all the extensive promises they’ve made ....

The Congressional Budget Office just dropped a budget update on Washington, and it’s not good. The U.S. government is spending recklessly—and Obamacare is adding fuel to the fire....

Today, the Constitution turns 226 years old. Let’s not forget it states that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”....

At 10:28 a.m., FDNY lieutenant Mickey Kross was in the third-floor stairwell of the north tower when he heard a “tremendous roar,” and the building began to crumble....

Kia’aina would lead the Department’s efforts to coordinate federal policy for Guam....

Congress gets back to its regularly scheduled work on Monday....

Congress hasn’t passed immigration legislation, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama....

Esther Kiaaina may be the next Assistant Secretary of Interior for Insular Affairs....

A half-century to the minute after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech....

In 2013, federal spending approached $3.5 trillion. Now that’s hard to wrap your brain around. It’s about $27,700 for every American household....

...most major departments have reduced furlough days, or eliminated them altogether....

...the President has shown a distinct contempt for the legal limits on his power....

In 1993, President Clinton's Executive Order 12866 laid out the fundamental requirements that have governed regulatory analysis and review ever since....

MARAD could not provide documentation showing who developed the various port project estimates or explain why they doubled over time....

During the August congressional recess, a pro-amnesty coalition of business and union interests is putting the squeeze on members of the House....

Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested politicians and coercive public employee unions....

1. Obamacare is going great.
2. I cut the deficit in half.
3. Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.

Members of Congress have debated various versions of the DREAM Act more than 30 times over the past dozen years. They’ll do so again today....

More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union bosses have left a once-great American city crippled and deteriorating....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

When Harry Reid gets frustrated, he threatens to change the Senate’s rules to get his way....

It still goes out of its way to tax Christmas trees....

Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate....