May 25, 2016
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Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers continue to rack up debt faster than an irresponsible teen with a new credit card. Phil Wegmann looks at an appropriations bill in the House, and Genevieve Wood details the spending insanity. Melissa Quinn reports that The Daily Signal's favorite dairy farmer, Randy Sowers, is going to Capitol Hill to speak out about civil asset forfeiture. Plus: Nick Loris on "Game of Thrones" and climate change, and Riley Walters doles out advice on how to end the TSA's long lines nightmare. |
CommentaryThanks to GOP, Washington's Summer Spending Spree Has StartedCongress couldn't agree on a budget deal earlier this spring, but that isn't stopping them from passing spending bills at historic levels. Watch the Video |
News'An Abuse of Power': Lawmakers to Face IRS After Thousands Seized From Small Business OwnersIn 2012, two federal agents told dairy farmer Randy Sowers that the Internal Revenue Service was seizing more than $60,000 from his farm's bank account under a subset of civil forfeiture laws governing cash transactions. Read More |
Analysis3 Ways TSA Could Improve Wait TimesOur current airport security process has become a running joke (along with long waits at the DMV or the "simplicity" of doing taxes). Here are a few measures that could increase security at airports while shortening the wait time. Read More |
NewsHouse May Follow Senate, Advance Appropriations Bill That Spends More Than Obama RequestedThe White House has threatened to veto the House's energy and water appropriations bill, which spends more than President Barack Obama requested, but contains provisions that restrict government power. Read More |
CommentaryIs 'Game of Thrones' Secretly About Global Warming?A new video portrays a theory that the hit fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" is actually all about catastrophic manmade global warming. However, a more accurate connection is that both are simply science fiction. 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