Talking Points Memo
- Rubio Endorses Rep. Tom Cotton for Senate
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 05:55 PMSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) endorsed Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for Senate on Tuesday. The endorsement, announced through Rubio's Reclaim America Political Action Committee, is the first one the junior senator from Florida has made this cycle.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Did An AR-15 Enter Reports About The Navy Yard Shooting?
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 05:21 PMValerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington D.C. office, took a few moments during a press conference on Tuesday to address reports about the weapons Aaron Alexis used to kill 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NRSC Hits Pryor As Liberal In Camouflage
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 10:54 AMThe National Republican Senatorial Committee put out a new ad on Tuesday morning cheerfully attacking Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) as a liberal Democrat hiding behind the camouflage of being a moderate.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Powerful Senate Conservatives Fund Expands To Focus On House Races
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 06:00 AMThe Senate Conservatives Fund, an organization that has emerged as a powerful challenger to incumbent Republicans who wade too far to the middle, is expanding its focus to the House of Representatives, creating a new force with deep coffers likely to divide an already ideologically split caucus of Republican lawmakers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Issa's Office: State Department Trying To 'Blame Others' For Lack Of Benghazi Memorial
Monday - 09/16/2013 - 06:30 PMA spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Monday accused the State Department of trying to "blame others" for the fact it did not have an official event commemorating the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Obama To Boehner: No, I Won't Negotiate On The Debt Limit
Monday - 09/16/2013 - 11:08 AMOn Sunday, President Barack Obama rebuffed Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) requests to come to the table and negotiate fiscal reforms in exchange for raising the country's borrowing authority, which is projected to expire in mid-October.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - High-Profile West Virginia Democrat To Jump Into Senate Race
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 02:07 PMWest Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant (D) seems poised to enter the race for outgoing Sen. Jay Rockefeller's (D-WV) Senate seat. Sources close to Tennant say she plans to jump into the race on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post, and will start making stops in key cities around the state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three GOP States Block Same-Sex Spousal Benefits For National Guard
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 12:05 PMThe Obama administration determined this month that married same-sex couples are entitled to spousal military benefits, but three GOP-controlled states -- Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi -- have refused to grant them to members of their National Guards.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Bloomberg Eyes Five More Fronts In The Gun Control Battle
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 06:00 AMNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control group took a beating this week with the recalls of two state senators in Colorado, but officials with the group said Thursday they believe the battle nationwide is far from over.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Grover Norquist Advocates For Marijuana Business Tax Breaks
Thursday - 09/12/2013 - 02:50 PMAnti-tax crusader Grover Norquist threw his weight Thursday behind a congressional effort to allow legal marijuana business to get federal tax breaks. Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, the group that pressed congressional Republicans to sign a strict anti-tax pledge, stood alongside Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Brazil Looks To Break From U.S.-Centric Internet
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 05:09 PMBy BRADLEY BROOKS & FRANK BAJAK 5:11pm ET RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Five Reasons Why The Navy Yard Shooting Probably Won't Revive Gun Control
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 04:24 PMA day after a shooting massacre at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard that left 13 people dead, including the shooter, the gun control debate was suddenly a hot topic again among pundits.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Would Anyone Like To Buy Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Bruce Lee Photos?
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 11:21 AMThe Jesse Jackson Jr. scandal has reached the stage where the government sells the evidence off to the highest bidder. A number of items once owned by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- No Endgame In Sight To Avert A Government Shutdown
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 06:00 AMTwo weeks away from a shutdown, there is no endgame in sight for Congress to continue funding the government and stop many federal services from grinding to a halt. The two parties aren't negotiating; they're sniping at each other.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Meet The Man Who Runs The Koch Brothers' Secret Bank
Monday - 09/16/2013 - 03:23 PMThe current of dark money that has flowed into the U.S. political system over the past three years -- as anonymously-funded outside groups have proliferated -- depends on secrecy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State Department Staffers Forced To Mark Benghazi Anniversary On Their Own
Sunday - 09/15/2013 - 06:35 PMStaffers at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. held their own private ceremony Wednesday to commemorate the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya after finding out the agency would not be organizing a formal, official memorial service.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California Legislature Passes Bill To Develop Earthquake Early Warning System
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 02:22 PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- The California Legislature approved a bill that would require development of an earthquake early warning system similar to what exists in Japan, Mexico and other quake-prone countries.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- House GOP Leaders Furious With Tea Party Senators' Hard Line On Obamacare
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 12:08 PMHouse Republican leadership is furious with ultraconservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) whom they see as hobbling their efforts to secure an achievable spending victory by insisting on threatening a government shutdown over the unachievable goal of defunding Obamacare.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Top Dems To GOP: Dream On, You'll Never Touch Obamacare
Thursday - 09/12/2013 - 02:45 PMWith only a handful of days on the legislative calendar before funding runs out for the federal government, congressional leaders gave no public sign Thursday of being any closer to a deal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Huma Abedin Returns To Hillaryland
Thursday - 09/12/2013 - 01:54 PMAnthony Weiner's political career may be over, but his wife, Huma Abedin, has returned to her position as director of Hillary Clinton's campaign office.
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- Boehner Moves Closer To Threatening Government Shutdown Over Obamacare
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 06:15 PMIn what would be a dramatic change of course, House Republican leaders are considering a strategy of potentially risking a government shutdown at the end of this month if Obamacare isn't defunded.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House GOP Could Splinter Again On Food Stamp Cuts
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 03:55 PMJohn Boehner (R-OH) is about to face another big test of whether fractious House Republicans can get their act together enough to agree among themselves on key legislation. And it's going to be a tough one.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McConnell: Debt Limit Is GOP's 'Leverage' Against Obama
Tuesday - 09/17/2013 - 03:35 PMSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declared Tuesday that Republicans intend to use the debt limit as "leverage" to extract concessions from Democrats, setting up a direct confrontation with President Barack Obama, who has vowed that raising the debt limit is non-negotiable.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Navy Yard Shooting Suspect Once 'Terrified' Neighbor
Monday - 09/16/2013 - 06:12 PMThe Navy Yard shooting in Washington, D.C. Monday wasn't the first time suspect Aaron Alexis was involved in a gun-related incident.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pennsylvania's GOP Governor Accepts Medicaid Expansion
Monday - 09/16/2013 - 05:15 PMRepublican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced Monday that he would agree to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, adding his state to the short but growing list of GOP-controlled states that have signed onto one of the law's key provisions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Conservatives Step Up Push To Undercut GOP On Obamacare
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 06:00 PMObamacare is becoming a huge headache for the Republican Party.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Carolina Republican Looks Likely to Run Against Sen. Kay Hagan
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 04:51 PMNorth Carolina State Sen. Phil Berger (R), the pro tempore president of the Senate, has been weighing a challenge to United States Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) but hasn't officially made any decision yet -- but several things signal that he's ready to jump in the race.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obamacare Furor Stymies The GOP's Spending Goals
Friday - 09/13/2013 - 05:59 AMLet's face it. Republicans are unlikely to defund Obamacare in a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida Takes Obamacare Obstruction To Whole New Level
Thursday - 09/12/2013 - 06:30 PMThe Florida Department of Health took a big step toward obstructing Obamacare outreach this week -- then almost immediately walked it back Thursday, at least in one of the state's biggest counties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Revealed: The Secret Koch Group That Gave Conservatives $236 Million In 2012
Thursday - 09/12/2013 - 12:45 PMAn almost completely unknown group with strong ties to the Koch brothers has identified itself as the secret source of almost a quarter of a billion dollars received by conservative political groups in 2012.
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