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Cruz, Cornyn Press Obama for Answers on Unspent Zika Money
The entire Texas Republican delegation in Congress signed a letter to President Barack Obama Friday, asking for answers on hundreds of millions in unspent money to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The administration pledged in April to spend $589 million from unused Ebola funds for Zika. However, only about $180 million of that was obligated, according…Fred Lucas -
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Republicans Consider Next Steps After News of Obama Administration Cash Transfer to Iran
Republicans in Congress are criticizing President Barack Obama’s administration for its approval of a $400 million delivery of cash to Iran on the same day the country released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal. Though the administration says the timing of the $400 million money transfer was coincidental, and part of a…Josh Siegel -
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Obama’s Influence Could Continue After His Term Through His Political Appointees
Civil service laws have made it nearly impossible to remove government bureaucrats from their jobs. President Barack Obama has a chance to place many of his political appointments in these secure positions for life and make it difficult for a new president with a different agenda to enact reforms. It’s a process commonly known as…Fred Lucas -
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Conservatives Push Leadership to Deny Obama His Last Lame-Duck Session
While lawmakers are away from Capitol Hill on August recess, the two largest conservative caucuses in Congress are working to keep a lame-duck spending bill from getting off the ground after the elections. Before Congress recessed, the Freedom Caucus and Republican Study Committee gathered enough signatures to force GOP leadership into scheduling a conference to…Philip Wegmann -
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As Zika Spreads in US, Obama Holds Back on Available Funding
As mosquitoes seem to be spreading Zika inside the United States, the Obama administration has been sitting on some of the resources intended to fight the virus. The administration has spent or obligated less than half of the $589 million that it has available, Congressional Quarterly reported, citing numbers from the Office of Management and…Fred Lucas -
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I Asked Bernie Sanders Supporters If They Identified as Socialists. Here’s What They Said.
PHILADELPHIA—Turns out, Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters refer to communism more than a Fox News guest or conservative confab speaker. Or at least they do when you ask them if they identify as socialists. On Monday night and Tuesday, I chatted with around 10 Sanders supporters, both at the Wells Fargo Center, where all the prime-time speeches…Katrina Trinko -
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Tech Entrepreneur Explains Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Big Tech
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., insists that “competition is dying” in the tech industry because of giant corporations like Google, Amazon, and Apple. But to entrepreneur Christopher Searles, they don’t pose a threat to companies like his. In fact, quite the opposite, he tells The Daily Signal. “As a tech entrepreneur and small business owner, I…Fred Lucas -
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Parents Beat Back Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Mandate in Texas Schools
Administrators of a Texas school district changed guidelines for transgender students to involve parents and work with families on a case-by-case basis, after an uproar among parents. The Fort Worth Independent School District announced the two new pages of guidelines dated July 19 after parents and others had a chance to speak at school board…Leah Jessen -
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These 2 Ohio Counties Are Political Opposites but Have Something in Common About Obama
CLEVELAND—About 90 miles from the Quicken Loans Arena here, two Ohio communities are celebrating an annual tradition this week: the county fair. Residents and vacationers in Lake Erie gathered at the Ottawa County Fair Grounds in Oak Harbor. Further south, but about the same distance from Cleveland, a similar scene played out in the rural…Robert B. Bluey -
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Should the Postal Service Handle Your Loans as Well as Your Mail? Elizabeth Warren Thinks So.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is inching closer to eliminating private payday lending with restrictive new rules and, some advocates hope, paving the way for the U.S. Postal Service to take over these banking services. The agency’s liberal supporters, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., long have wanted to replace the payday lending industry with a…Mollie McNeill -
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What’s Behind Obama’s Obsession With the Public Option
President Barack Obama is calling for the resurrection of his failed “public option” ( a “Medicare-like” plan) to compete directly against private health plans in his government-run health insurance exchanges. “The public plan did not make it into the final legislation,” the president writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Now, based on…Robert Moffit -
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Obama’s Legacy Is Likely to Be Nuclear-Armed Iran
One year after the negotiation of the nuclear agreement, Iran continues to pursue the hostile policies that make it dangerous to the United States and its allies. Iran persists in its attempts to: cheat on its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, export terrorism, threaten U.S. allies, provoke confrontations with U.S. naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, flout…James Phillips -
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Thanks to a GOP Senator, Obama’s ‘Far Left’ Pick Confirmed to Head Library of Congress
Conservative critics of President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Library of Congress were blindsided Wednesday when a key Republican engineered her lopsided confirmation by the Senate despite concerns she is, in the words of one opponent, “an unqualified, far-left progressive.” The Senate voted 74-18 to confirm Carla D. Hayden, who leads Baltimore's public library…Ken McIntyre -
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As Obama Speaks in Dallas, Police Groups Question His Support
As President Barack Obama visited Dallas on Tuesday to speak at the memorial service for five slain police officers there, some law enforcement advocates faulted his legacy on the issue as negative. “Because these are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system,” @Potus…Fred Lucas -
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I’m a Mom. Here’s What I’m Doing to Fight Obama’s Transgender Agenda.
Because I'm passionate about our country, I dedicated years of my life to government service. Later, that same passion led me to focus on raising my three young children to become the finest citizens they can be, becoming a stay-at-home mom. Nevertheless, I have jumped back into the world of politics and policy far earlier…Bethany Kozma -
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House Conservatives Don’t Want a ‘Lame Duck’ Obama to Have Say on Government Funding
Resigned to the strong possibility that the House will need to fund the government through a continuing resolution after this fiscal year, conservatives are warning party leaders of what it would take for them to support such a stopgap measure. With the much-hyped regular order appropriations process looking stalled—if not finished—before it really started, conservatives…Josh Siegel -
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Experts Doubt Obama’s Final Troop Cut in Afghanistan Helps His Successor
President Barack Obama said he won’t withdraw nearly half the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan, much less completely withdraw as he originally intended, so the next president will have a stronger hand in a country where American forces have battled the Taliban and al-Qaeda for nearly 15 years. “Today’s decision best positions my successor to…Fred Lucas -
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Obama Administration Refuses to Enforce ‘Right of Conscience,’ Legal Group Says
The Obama administration refuses to enforce federal law that protects Americans’ freedom of conscience, a Christian legal aid group says. In 2014, California began mandating that employee health plans cover elective abortions. A state agency is refusing to exempt churches from the mandate, said Casey Mattox, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. “Churches should never…Leah Jessen -
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Obama Makes Clear It’s Better to Be America’s Adversary Than Ally
Rarely has the stark contrast between being an adversary of America and being an American friend been more in evidence than in the news this week from the western Pacific. With the inauguration of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan saw the fourth democratic transition in the island’s leadership since the end of martial law in the 1990s….Dean Cheng -
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Obama Administration’s Goal Is to Undermine Brexit Vote
Before Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union last Thursday, the Obama administration was eager to pressure the British people to stay in. They lost, but they can’t stop playing their games. On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, was asked if Britain’s decision could be “walked back,”…Ted Bromund