BREAKING: HAGEL OUT -- LAMEST LAME-DUCK EVER Iran talks extended.
SESSIONS: WHAT IT MEANS ��� The Wall Street Journals Damian Paletta writes that the battle for the gavel of the Senate Budget Committee could have big implications for the GOP-led Congress and for 2016: ���Messrs... not yet endorsed by GOP leaders.
Political News and Views: RAIN DANCE: GOP LEADERSHIP.
Leaders of the GOP-led Congress that will be sworn in next month are facing a large question: whether or not to defund President Obamas unilateral executive amnesty... Aides to McCauls committee havent responded to a request for comment on whether the House Homeland Security Committee chairman would personally back any DHS funding bill that provides resources to Obama for the executive.. Name That Party: Lawmaker pushes for changes to.
The Obameter: Develop a comprehensive cyber security.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will ensure that his administration develops a Cyber Security Strategy that ensures that we have the ability to identify our attackers and a plan for how to respond that will be measured but effective.. The adoption of the framework is voluntary, but the Department of Homeland Security has established the Critical Infrastructure Cyber Community Voluntary Program, C-Cubed for short, to increase awareness and use of the framework.
Climate change: Conditions worse for Dems than in 2010
The new WSJ/NBC News polls shows that the message of retaining but fixing the law significantly underperforms the Republican ���repeal and replace��� mantra. Among registered voters, about as many respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a .
OBAMA ON OFFENSE ��� GOP mantra: Its Obamas fault.
According to several sources at the Thursday summit in Baltimore, Obama vowed to defend his agenda against Republicans in Congress, promised to stand firm against GOP efforts to dismantle his agenda and called on his Democratic colleagues to help sustain his expected vetoes. --���The president.. says the top priority for the GOP-led Capitol in its 100 days is to do a budget by April, per Wall Street Journals Kristina Peterson: http://goo.gl/Q8T5Ha. THURSDAYS��.
State Of The Union Online: Watch Obamas Annual Address (VIDEO)
President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address at 9 p.m. Tuesday. The speech will be given in front of a joint session of Congress, with many watching from home. Obama will touch on issues like immigration and the economy.
Capital Journal Daybreak: GOP Governors Focus on Welfare
The Journals morning rundown of the biggest news stories and exclusive features from Washington on politics, policy, financial regulation, defense and more.. Sign up for the newsletter: http://on.wsj.com/CapitalJournalSignup.. will include the nomination of Antony Blinken, Mr. Obamas pick to be Deputy Secretary of State, as well as Sarah Saldana to be the assistant secretary in charge of enforcing U.S. immigration law at the Department of Homeland Security.
Ben Shapiro: Republicans Secretly Want Obamas Amnesty.
Republicans could push forward an omnibus spending bill that would completely fund the government through next September, but fund the Department of Homeland Security ��� and Obamas amnesty ���through next March.. the base by bashing President Obama, and at the same time, greenlight Obamas immigration policy ��� which Republican establishment types from the Wall Street Journal to Jeb Bush to the Chamber of Commerce have been pushing relentlessly��.
Wonkbook: How to the fix the VA
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki vowed Thursday to stay in office and pledged to address the allegations of health care mismanagement that have besieged his agency and the Obama administration.. The solution that most members of.
GOP Ads Go On Attack Over Border
In the recent Wall Street Journal poll, 51% said the children should be returned immediately to their home country because allowing them to stay will encourage more illegal immigration and burden public resources. Forty-three percent said the U.S.
McConnell has a confrontational course in mind | U.S..
The Wall Street Journal reported the other day that the Republican-led Congress plans to quickly take up ���legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline,��� which President Obama is likely to reject. ���Such a move.. New York TimesMitch McConnell has no idea how Congress is going to pass a DHS funding billVoxSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says hes going to try to pass the Department of Homeland Security funding bill that the House of��.
While Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Defends.
. action on immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Republican-led House will vote this week to undo President Barack Obamas executive actions on���. 30 end of the 2015 fiscal year. The Department of Homeland Security ��� whose personnel implement Obamas orders to permit more immigrants here illegally to remain in the U.S. ��� may be kept on a shorter leash and be funded only into early 2015 under a plan floated by Boehner.
OBAMA ON OFFENSE GOP mantra: Its Obamas fault ERNST TO GIVE GOP.
GOP STUCK ON DHS FUNDING ��� Burgess has the latest on how Republicans will try to fund Homeland Security while trying to gut Obamas immigration actions: ���Republicans at the partys retreat in Hershey struggled Thursday to describe a resolution to their.
Budget; Policy Issues; Agricultural Economy; and, Biotech
The article noted that, ���The legislation would provide full funding for 11 of the 12 appropriations bills Congress is supposed to pass each year, but it would extend funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction.. Meanwhile, Biman Mukherji and Benoit Faucon reported yesterday at The Wall Street Journal Online that, ���Iran has clamped down on imports of rice to protect the countrys farmers and reduce a stockpile, traders say, sending shivers��.
Obama collapse with young white voters bodes ill for party
Whatever policy set Hillary Clinton ends up embracing among those she has been testing on the campaign trail, she seems an unlikely choice to disaffected liberals who have lost their love for Obamas amid the mire of his second term... Fox News.
Sunburn for 10/21 ��� The morning read of whats hot in Florida politics
Only 36 percent said the country is ���in a good position to meet its economic and national security��� hurdles. The public. Terrorism: Eighty-four percent of voters say the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant poses a ���serious��� threat to the U.S.
House Conservatives Push to Delay Vote on Border.
Some House Republicans are pushing to delay a vote scheduled for Wednesday on a border-security bill, concerned in part over how it might be deployed in the Senate, according to GOP aides.. The House earlier this month approved a bill extending Homeland Security funding through September that also contained provisions rolling back a series of steps Mr. Obama has taken on immigration in recent years. Senate. Sign up for Capital Journal Daybreak��.
Congressional Hearing On Ebola Was Shameful, Janet Napolitano Says
Janet Napolitano on Saturday lambasted Congress for politicizing concerns about the Ebola virus, and drew parallels to the response to 2009s H1N1 flu pandemic, which she oversaw as Homeland Security Secretary. Napolitano criticized. President.
JOSEPH CURL: Mainstream media shocked latest polls show GOP pulling away
The Wall Street Journal last week reported that Republicans ���now hold an 11-point lead among likely voters on the question of which party should control Congress,��� according to a new poll. ���The Democrats, who badly need some momentum, find little.
Rain Dance: GOP Leadership May Be Developing Plan To Solidify Obamas.
Republicans have also pitched the idea of attaching the so-called ���border security��� bill from House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) to any package. But the Wall Street Journals Laura Meckler reports GOP leadership is .
LAWMAKERS SLAM EBOLA RESPONSE Ebola czar coming DEMS BRAWL.
LAWMAKERS SLAM EBOLA RESPONSE ��� The Wall Street Journal: ���In [a] nearly three-hour hearing Thursday, which pulled lawmakers off the campaign trail, House members raised alarms that one of the nurses was allowed to fly shortly before being diagnosed.
Rahall goes down in upset DeFazio in line for TandI ranking member GOP Senate.
THE DUST HAS SETTLED: Good morning! The midterm elections are mostly over (except for any races requiring a runoff) and theres a lot of transportation-related ground to cover. Heres a transpo cheat sheet to get you started (and a full rundown below.
Obama Stated 20 Times he would not Bypass Congress on.
An NBC and Wall Street Journal poll found that 63 percent of Democrats support Obamas maneuver while a measly 11 percent of Republicans fall in line with it.. forms: it could pass a continuing resolution (CR) and fully fund the government, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which controls immigration, or it could provide a short-term determination, placing limits on DHS while providing continuing levels of funding for the rest of the government.
BREAKING: HAGEL OUT -- LAMEST LAME-DUCK EVER.
SESSIONS: WHAT IT MEANS ��� The Wall Street Journals Damian Paletta writes that the battle for the gavel of the Senate Budget Committee could have big implications for the GOP-led Congress and for 2016: ���Messrs... and a variety of suggestions not yet endorsed by GOP leaders: Block the presidents nominees; take further legal action against the White House; zero out funding to Department of Homeland Security agencies and dare Obama to exercise his veto;��.
House Republicans Pass Bill To Defund President Obamas.
Democrats rallied against the bill, which would fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September, after Republicans adopted a series of contentious amendments that take aim at facets of Obamas immigration policy. One of the amendments would choke off funding for. I dont believe this is the right place to have the immigration debate, he said, according to the Wall Street Journal. We are overreaching into an area that goes above and beyond��.
APNewsBreak: US weighs curbing deportations
WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is weighing limiting deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who dont have serious criminal records, according to two people with knowledge of his deliberations.. They want.
R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR.: Liberal lunacy on voter-ID cards
Let those who monitor public buildings, liquor stores, security checkpoints and other points of interest simply take the Cardless Ones word for who they are. I have read the touching jeremiads of Mr. Holder, President Obama and similar voices of.
The Washington Report ��� January 16, 2015 | Capstone.
CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING: 16 PERCENT - Gallup has the new Republican-led Congress starting (at least on public approval, anyway) right where the old Congress left off!. SMALLEST U.S. DEFICIT SINCE 2007 The Wall Street Journal, ���The U.S. last year racked up its smallest budget deficit since 2007, marking an economic shift of fortunes as President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans prepare to face off over legislative priorities this year.
Cantors legacy
picked him in 2003 to serve as a chief deputy whip, and he would go on to help shepherd GOP-led bills on energy, free trade and homeland security into law under President George W. Bush. (Also on POLITICO: Officials to brief Senate panel on Iraq).
Ag Economy; Policy Issues; Immigration; and, Trade
Ilan Brat and Kelsey Gee reported in todays Wall Street Journal that, ���Historically, Americas dairy processors have focused on their home markets, but many of them have retooled in the past decade, boosting output to.. ���But the Obama administration and business groups, which see the Republican-controlled Congress as the best chance in years for a trade agenda encompassing deals worth nearly $500 billion a year to the global economy, are confident of victory.
State of the Union: Obama to push aggressive agenda.
WASHINGTON ��� President Barack Obama will ask the Republican-controlled Congress to authorize the use of force against the Islamic State in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but will also focus on his domestic agenda. Obama, who has unveiled a series of proposals ahead of his Tuesday address, will call on Congress to pass a new revenue package raising taxes on the wealthy by closing a trust fund loophole and raising the rate on capital gains��.
In immigration news: House border bill moves forward.
A GOP-backed bill calling for more border security passed the House Homeland Security committee late Wednesday on a party-line vote; a floor vote could take place next week.. Calder��n: Congress can find common ground on immigration - USA Today Speaking Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, former Mexican president Felipe Calder��n.. House-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill.