Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years 2013-17 describes the “markets monitoring” program […]
House Resolution Tells Robert Mueller: Show Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion Or End the Investigation…
CFPB’s Data-Mining on Consumer Credit Cards Challenged in Heated House Hearing…
U.S. House Introduces Bill to End Support for Saudi’s ‘Horrifying’ War in Yemen…
Citing human rights concerns, a bipartisan committee in the US House of Representatives has called for the US military to stop lending crucial support to the Saudi Arabian war in Yemen. The widely condemned Saudi intervention into the Yemeni Civil War has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, many of them […]
House Passes Budget That Achieves Balance, Increases GDP Growth, and Reforms Tax Code…
Today, the House of Representatives passed the Building A Better America 2018 budget in a 219 to 206 vote. Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said today that the budget will rein in our national debt, strengthen our national defense, help grow the economy, and pave the way for tax reform. “It paves the way for […]
The Agonizing, 8-Page Memo on How to Chauffeur a Congressman…
Empty his trash. Always have hand sanitizer and gum at the ready. And don’t bother with “unnecessary conversation” — the congressman doesn’t have time for your chitchat. Demanding, high-maintenance bosses are notorious on Capitol Hill. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s staff had to walk his dog, poop pick-up and all…
Susan Rice No Longer Expected to Testify Before Lawmakers Tuesday on ‘Unmasking’ Trump Associates…
Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, is no longer expected to testify Tuesday in a closed-door hearing before the House Intelligence Committee on allegations that she requested the identities of “masked” U.S. persons in intelligence reports linked to President Donald Trump’s transition and campaign. Rice was planning to appear before the committee […]
House Passes ‘Kate’s Law’ to Boost Penalties Against Deported Criminal Aliens Who Reenter the U.S…
Lawmakers also passed a bill that would increase penalties against deported immigrants who reenter the country illegally. That bill is a response to the 2015 murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by an immigrant who had been deported five times and was convicted of seven felonies. Republicans have tried to pass Kate’s Law since […]
Trey Gowdy to Lead House Oversight Committee…
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy was appointed as the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday afternoon. Gowdy, R-S.C., was picked by the House Republican Steering Committee as the next chairman of the committee last week and the House ratified that decision Tuesday by accepting a Republican resolution making the change. […]
House Oversight Panel to Investigate Iran Deal…
Citing a POLITICO investigation, Republican leaders of the House oversight committee said Friday they have launched a sweeping investigation into whether the Obama administration, in trying to win support for a nuclear deal and prisoner swap with Tehran last year, undermined an ambitious U.S. counterproliferation effort to thwart Iranian weapons trafficking networks…