Articles



Current News

Mike Lee Thinks the Healthcare Bill Is a Joke

But he'll vote for It under one condition...  Read more

Should the US pull its nuclear weapons out of Turkey?

"Welcome to Incirlik AB, Turkey," reads the big gold letters over one of the entrances to a key staging base for the fight against the Islamic State, strategically located in southern Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border...  Read more

As Washington debates infrastructure, states aren't waiting for help

Congress should focus on reinvestment rather than building new infrastructure because many roads, bridges and other systems across the country are reaching the end of their useful life...  Read more

Senate Republicans can't pass an inoffensive healthcare bill -- they need an effective one

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has overseen the crafting of a bill that does more to rescue Obamacare than reform and repeal it, and many conservatives now realize they cannot expect the "root and branch" removal of the law they were promised...  Read more

James Comey visits the New York Times building for charity event

The Daily Mail originally reported that James Comey had been spotted entering the New York Times office building but the Times' White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, clarified on Twitter that Comey was there for a charity event...  Read more

Senate Bill Sets Up Clash Over Cost-Sharing Reductions

The House eliminated such payments to insurance companies in its version...  Read more

Congress ignores White House pressure to tweak Russia sanctions bill

President Trump has called for more flexibility in how to implement sanctions against Russia approved by Congress...  Read more

Democrats borrow from Trump to criticize Senate healthcare bill

"You can put a lace collar on a Pit Bull, and it's still a mean dog," Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said. "This is still a mean dog."...  Read more

The sharing economy is much bigger than Uber

Though Uber is a great example of how technology is changing the ways that people live and work, the economic trends that enable the sharing economy extend far beyond Uber...  Read more

Republicans face pressure at home to repeal Obamacare quickly

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to unveil a draft of the Senate bill on Thursday, after spending weeks in secret writing an alternative to the House-passed legislation...  Read more

DHS Officials Tell Senators That 21 States Were Targeted by Russian Hackers

A few systems were successfully exploited, but officials stress that no votes or vote counts were changed...  Read more

A principled tax reform allows expensing of all business costs

Is any deduction a tax loophole?...  Read more

Can Mitch McConnell defuse the ticking Obamacare time bomb?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is overseeing the bomb squad as Obamacare ticks away...  Read more

Energized Trump takes victory lap after Republican special election wins

President Trump said Tuesday's Republican special election victories attested to the popularity of his legislative agenda...  Read more

Six Lessons From Georgia's 6th District

What Democrats and Republicans can take away from Karen Handel's Victory Over Jon Ossoff...  Read more

Handel Hangs On in Most Expensive House Race Ever

The Democrats threw millions behind her young challenger, only to watch him lose by 5 percentage points...  Read more

Saudi King Salman upends royal succession, names son as first heir

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession...  Read more

Lost factories and construction pushed Erie County to put its hope in Trump

Todd Sias couldn't wait to show us the photographs...  Read more