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“If she can do it, I can do it.” To 27-year-old Grafton Pritchartt, Ann Romney is an inspiration. Like Romney, Pritchartt was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a relatively unexplained neurological condition in which the immune system attacks healthy nerve-cell coverings. She got the news last November, when she was 26. Her form of the disease, like Romney’s,…
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the front-runner for House speaker, is working to lock up support from colleagues before Republican lawmakers vote tomorrow, but a group of conservatives hints that the race for the top spot is far from over. At the monthly Capitol Hill gathering Conversations with Conservatives, lawmakers expressed skepticism over whether McCarthy, currently the House's…
Sen. John McCain says he wants to see a lawsuit against the Obama administration over the Iran nuclear deal. “I think he’s in defiance of the law and I believe we should have lawsuits that bring justice,” McCain tells The Daily Signal. Back in the spring, President Barack Obama signed into law the Corker-Cardin bill,…
Sen. John McCain says the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran is so bad that it could turn the Middle East into a nuclear cauldron. “What I see is an escalation to the point where all the other nations in the region are going to go nuclear and it will be a tinderbox,” McCain tells…
A federal judge has ruled that the Center for Medical Progress may comply with a congressional subpoena to provide lawmakers with its unedited footage despite a temporary restraining order granted to the National Abortion Federation barring the group from releasing the footage. In a decision issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick ruled that “Congress has the power…
People Magazine issued its version of a “call to action” on gun control today, less than a week after a 26-year-old gunman killed nine and wounded nine others at an Oregon college before fatally shooting himself. People’s editorial director, Jess Cagle, published an editor’s letter about the massacre at Umpqua Community College and other mass shootings in America. In it,…
The winds could soon be changing on Capitol Hill. Today Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., introduced legislation that would gradually eliminate federal energy tax credits for a decades-old wind subsidy. Originally designed as a temporary buoy for an emerging industry, the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) was included in the Clinton administration’s Energy Policy Act of…
>>> Updates with Oct. 9 statement from North Carolina’s lieutenant governor amid wide-open race for speaker of the U.S. House. The congressman who stood up to Speaker John Boehner weeks before the House’s top Republican quit got some fan mail Tuesday afternoon from state lawmakers back home. “To see him push back against the old…
The Media Research Center has called for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to apologize for her refusal to respond to a reporter’s question about when human life begins, and for her to answer it. In a letter hand-delivered to Pelosi’s office, Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Media Research Center, wrote that…
David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, previewed previously unseen footage of a conversation with a Planned Parenthood abortionist during a recent interview on TheBlaze. In the video, Dr. Amna Dermish of Planned Parenthood’s Greater Texas affiliate describes how she performs abortions up to 24 weeks. Dermish described obtaining an intact calvarium,…
What happens when an adult steps onto the recess playground with new rules and a game list in hand that reads “Animal Tag,” “Four Square Volleyball,” and “Basketball Bowling?” Two elementary schools in the Minneapolis area, in the town of Edina, have gone from the usual “on duty” recess supervisor to hiring a recess consultant….
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have accused David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, of engaging in “potentially illegal activities” during his undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. Daleiden has maintained that the Center for Medical Progress obeyed all applicable laws during the course of the investigation. Democrats on the committee released…
The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan have announced that they have filed a federal lawsuit against Trinity Health Corporation, a Catholic health organization, for refusing to perform abortions. A spokesperson for Trinity Health said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal that “this case has no merit.”…
Abby Johnson loves quitters. In fact, she is one. A former clinic director at Planned Parenthood, Johnson is now the founder and president of And Then There Were None, a ministry to help abortion workers quit the industry. “No abortion clinic workers, no abortion clinics, no abortions. It starts with the workers,” the organization states on…
Like most teachers, Jim Perialas didn’t have a choice about joining a teachers union. But in 2012, after becoming fed up with rising membership dues and inadequate representation, he and his fellow teachers in the Roscommon area public schools voted to break from the Michigan Education Association. Instead, they formed the Roscommon Teachers Association, where…
Months after promising voters they would repeal Obamacare, House Republicans in three committees have introduced proposals to roll back specific parts of President Obama’s health care law. But the plans stop short of a full repeal. Three committees in the House—Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce—approved proposals last week detailing…
ELKHORN, Wis.—General Electric last week announced it was closing its Waukesha, Wis., plant and moving to Canada because Congress did not reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., addressed the issue Monday, explaining why he’s personally opposed to the bank and what really prompted GE’s move. Ryan, who chairs the House Ways and Means…
San Francisco’s last gun shop is shutting down at the end of October as city legislators consider stricter gun control measures. High Bridge Arms manager Steve Alcairo told the Associated Press staff decided to close the 63-year-old store after a city supervisor began moving legislation that would require the shop to install video surveillance to record…
The same House conservatives who not so quietly helped push out Speaker John Boehner have been tight-lipped about whom they want to replace him. Not enamored with the candidates before them, and without the clout to elevate one of their own, the 40 or so conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus nonetheless effectively have veto…
The pope’s reminder of the Golden Rule during his visit to Congress inspired a House Democrat to introduce legislation to expand the Affordable Care Act. Last week Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill., introduced new legislation called the Exchange Inclusion for a Healthy America Act of 2015, which would allow illegal immigrants health care coverage under Obamacare. “Treat…