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| Good morning from Washington, where President Obama isn't done taking executive actions. Fred Lucas has details. The federal government decides to give up $11,000 it took from an air traveler. Melissa Quinn reports. Does populism link election results in Italy, Britain, and America? Josh Siegel explores. Plus: David Rosenthal on justice for a veteran whose home was ransacked by police, John-Michael Seibler and Paul Larkin on accountability for the EPA, and Rachel del Guidice on the lawmaker who will lead the House's upstart conservative caucus. It's Saint Nicholas Day. |
NewsAfter the Government Seized $11K From Him, He Fought Back. Now, He's Getting His Money Back. The $11,000 seized from then-24-year-old Charles Clarke had come from five years of savings accumulated from different jobs, financial aid, gifts from his family members, and benefits from his mother, who is a disabled veteran. Read More |
NewsObama Administration Not Finished Yet With Executive Actions, Regulations "I'm not going to rule out additional executive actions that the administration may take between now and Jan. 20," says White House press secretary Josh Earnest. Read More |
NewsThe Next Brexit? Italy 'No' Vote Empowers Populist Revolt Against Establishment In a year when Britons voted to leave the European Union and Americans chose Donald Trump as president, the global populist movement claimed its latest victim Sunday when Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after Italian voters rejected constitutional changes backed by his government. Read More |
CommentaryIn Key Decision, DC Court Upholds Fourth Amendment An Iraq War veteran attempted to convince the officers during questioning that he was not attempting suicide, but the officers ignored him and told him they wanted to search his house. Read More |
NewsThis North Carolina Conservative Is the Freedom Caucus' New Leader "The Freedom Caucus will put a great emphasis on doing the tough work and getting the tough votes in the first 100 days for repealing" Obamacare, says Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C. Read More |
CommentaryEPA May Finally Have to Answer for the Animas River Spill Remember when the Environmental Protection Agency caused a discharge of 3 million gallons of toxic water into the Animas River, and no one was held accountable? Now the Supreme Court is getting involved. Read More |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans