The Senate early Saturday passed its first budget in four years by a vote of 50 to 49. The close vote was a big victory for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who had to overcome large differences within their caucus to push the resolution through. Centrist Sens. [...]

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Ted Cruz shuns the lectern. An Ivy League debate champion, Cruz prefers to pace the platform without notes, which allows him to walk to the edge of the stage, look the crowd in the eye, and punctuate his points with swift hand movements. He finds his cadence and energizes the crowd with calls — “On [...]

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Some have criticized House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan’s budget for being too ambitious in certain respects – defunding ObamaCare, reducing tax rates and dramatically simplifying the rate structure, and repealing the hated Alternative Minimum Tax, for example.  But in addition to having the courage to propose good ideas just because they are the right [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – After weeks of warning from President Barack Obama and administration officials that the sequester means criminal would go free, first responders and school teachers would lose their jobs, the border would be less secure, and there would be longer waits for air travelers without an agreement by March 1, Obama said Friday it [...]

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah businessman accused of running a fraudulent $350 million software scheme says the state attorney general arranged a deal to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into the software business disappear. St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson, who’s accused of billing hundreds of thousands of [...]

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It seems retired long-time Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank isn’t content with life outside of politics. (And he’s only been out of the public spotlight for one day!) In fact, on Friday morning he not only told Joe Scarborough and the rest of the Morning Joe crew that he was genuinely interested in serving as Massachusetts’ [...]

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By: Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation? House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive concession of agreeing to raise revenues. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting. [...]

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The post-election negotiations on U.S. deficit reduction that began with a surge of optimism sputtered this week with Republicans expressing political indignation over President Obama’s opening offer to keep a $500 billion mix of tax hikes and federal spending cuts from kicking in next month should no deal be reached. “There has been no substantial [...]

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One wonders what kind of cocoon Todd Akin has been living in these last few days. ABC News George Stephanopoulos sat down with the congressman and what became plain is that Akin hasnt a clue how badly he screwed up: “Weve given this a lot of thought. And that is the fact is that over [...]

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President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday evening that would exempt some senior-level presidential appointees from Senate confirmation. Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and cosponsored by Republicans and Democrats, the bill, now law, weakens the power of the legislature and strengthens the executive branch, critics have warned. The bill skated through the Senate three [...]

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