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Senate GOPers buck up House Republicans on importance of $100 billion in spending cuts

By: Mark Tapscott 02/05/11 4:23 PM
Eleven GOP senators are appealing to House Speaker John Boehner to insure that Republicans in the lower chamber pass a spending bill that cuts at least $100 billion from the previously approved continuing resolution for the 2011 federal budget in preparation for even deeper reductions in succeeding years. Read More

Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock to challenge Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., in GOP primary?

By: Mark Hemingway 02/03/11 10:14 AM
Ben Smith gets the scoop that Dick Lugar, the moderate Republican senator from Indiana, is likely going to get a primary challenge next year: Read More

Dirty Money Watch: Charles Boustany, R-La.

By: Mark Hemingway 02/01/11 9:05 PM
WHO: Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La. WHAT: Boustany received $2,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. Read More

Sen. John Barasso, R-Wyo., introduces bill to keep EPA from regulating carbon emissions

By: Mark Hemingway 02/01/11 9:29 AM
The Daily Caller reports on Barrasso's legislation, which aims to stop the EPA from from becoming the de facto regulators of the American economy: Read More

Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.

By: c-Dirty Money 01/31/11 9:05 PM
WHO: Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif. WHAT: Becerra received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Zombie internet 'kill switch' bill back to haunt the Senate

By: Andrew Ian Dodge 01/28/11 5:11 PM
Reminding free speech advocates and libertarians that bad bills are like zombies in DC, the “internet kill switch” will be revived in the Senate. Still sponsored by Maine Sen. Collins and Sen. Lieberman, the Sen. Snowe supported bill has been revised and will presented once more. Read More

‘Secret spending’ may soar if Senate doesn’t fix consent rule

By: Tina Korbe 01/25/11 10:51 PM
The frequent use of “unanimous consent” in the Senate is a little-known fact about the upper chamber. It has resulted in a practice of “secret spending” — passing important and expensive bills without debate or even a recorded vote. Over the past 22 years, 93 percent of approved measures did not even receive roll-call votes. Read More

GOP budget cuts hit Democratic campaign cash sources hard

By: Mark Tapscott 01/23/11 6:36 AM
There are at least two ways of looking at the fact the $2.5 trillion in spending cuts proposed last week by leaders of the House Republican Study Committee will hurt one of the biggest sources of Democratic campaign cash. Read More

Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas

By: c-Dirty Money 01/18/11 9:05 PM
WHO: Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas WHAT: Granger received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Congressman spends big on thank-yous

By: Staff report 01/18/11 12:16 AM
WHAT: Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, transferred at least $75,000 in contributions for his abandoned Florida state Senate re-election campaign into an aide-run company to make “thank-you” gifts to supporters of his successful run for Congress. WHAT’S BEING DONE: Rivera’s money-juggling is now under criminal investigation by Miami-Dade County police and prosecutors who have become suspicious of the new congressman’s personal and campaign accounts. Read More

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