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Under pressure to comply with the Affordable Care Act, some South Carolina businesses are cutting back by hiring more part-time rather than full time employees. Although unemployment levels have dropped to pre-recession levels at 6.1 percent nationally, a staffing agency in South Carolina reports that this number may be skewed. Many employees have returned to…
OSAWATOMIE, Kan.—For Kansas, the bad news is the state flubbed more than $18.9 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Payments during fiscal 2013. The good news is this represents an improvement. The state snapped a streak of rising payment errors that stretched back to 2010. Overall,Kansas incorrectly paid out 3.99 percent of the roughly $474 million…
What does Rick Santorum, an advocate of religious liberty, think about Senate Democrats pressing ahead with legislation to undermine the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision? Not much, since the former Pennsylvania senator agrees with the 5-4 ruling that the government can’t force family-owned businesses to cover abortion-inducing drugs and devices in employee health plans if doing so would violate their…
The IRS has less than 30 days to detail under oath and in writing the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of former official Lois Lerner’s emails and to summarize options to recover the messages, a federal judge ruled. Judicial Watch, a non-partisan watchdog group, has sought the documents from the Internal Revenue Service since last year…
President Obama’s response to the crisis on the southern border is “a naked political maneuver” because he “does not ever intend to secure the border,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, charged in an interview with The Daily Signal. King, a vocal critic of what he calls Democrats’ plans to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants…
RUSTON, La. — Peach orchards at Mitcham Farms, near the north Louisiana city of Ruston, have survived winter freezes, droughts and dangerous hail storms. But they evidently will not survive the Environmental Protection Agency and its regulations. The family-owned business, established in 1946 and featured in tourism magazines, is Louisiana’s largest peach orchard,according to its…
As busloads of illegal immigrants arrive in the Southern California city of Murrieta, Mayor Alan Long spoke to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly about the brewing border crisis. Long expressed his concern for the “safety of all”—locals and migrants alike—and the “inhumane” conditions for the illegal immigrants.
CULLMAN, Ala. — Alabama gun groups don’t plan any demonstrations inside Target stores like those seen in Texas, and some even argue those protests were “counterproductive” to the open carry cause. Target last week asked its customers not to carry firearms into its stores, including in communities where open carry—when the gun is visible, instead…
“It’s shocking, frankly,” Rick Santorum said today of accusations that JPMorgan Chase asked employees about their sexual orientation and whether they consider themselves “allies” of the LGBT community. “You would think that would be some violation,” Santorum told The Daily Signal in an interview after he spoke at The Heritage Foundation for the annual leadership summit of…
Introduction by Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal: Today we are here at the Cato Institute with Representative Darrell Issa from California [and chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee]. He talked to us about the most recent developments in the IRS scandal and Operation Chokepoint, and shared his views on whether these alleged scandals coming out of…
Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal: Senator Cruz, thank you for joining us. If you do the math, President Obama’s [$3.7 billion] funding proposal amounts to $12 for every single American. Do you think this is how individuals want their money to be spent when it comes to solving the crisis on the border? Sen. Ted…
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sharply criticized efforts to abolish the Export-Import Bank on Friday, arguing that doing so would be “tying the hands of our manufacturers.” When asked about reauthorization of the institution at a summit hosted by Eagle Forum, Santorum said, “I think it’s a mistake for us to be out there…
Department of Health and Human Services official Mark Greenburg stated during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday that, when placing unaccompanied, illegal immigrant children into homes to await their respective deportation hearings, the department does not verify nor take into account the legal status of sponsors. Committee member Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., remarked…
During Wednesday’s House hearing on the IRS targeting scandal, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, grilled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about Lois Lerner’s emails revealing that she sought to hide information from Congress. >>> Related: Issa on IRS Scandal: Obama Team Wants to ‘Outlast Us’ >>> Related: IRS Emails Show Lois Lerner Suggested Audit of GOP Senator…
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., wants to lift the “veil of secrecy” he said obscures the dealings of the Federal Reserve. Would enhanced congressional oversight of the central bank’s decision-making help the economy? Or would it lead to counterproductive meddling? That was the question members mulled Thursday in a hearing Thursday before the House Financial Services…
The Daily Signal this afternoon asked Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, what he thinks of President Obama’s request for $3.7 billion in “emergency” funds – about $12 for every American – to address the surge of children from Central America illegally crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Cruz accused the president of selling a “social services bill” as a “border…
The United Auto Workers will move forward with plans to form a local union at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. UAW’s announcement comes months after the union failed to gain enough support to unionize employees at the VW plant. In February, UAW lost a representation election at the VW Chattanooga plant by 86 votes….
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. More than a week after he was denied access to a federal facility housing illegal immigrants from Central America, an Oklahoma congressman finally will get to enter the building in the state he represents. On Saturday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., will go to the Fort Sill…
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said President Obama would rather play politics than follow the law to remedy the humanitarian crisis festering at the southern border. “This is a direct failure of presidential leadership,” Sessions said Thursday at the Eagle Forum’s annual leadership conference. “I’ve never seen anything like this steadfast refusal to follow the law.” Session…
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Monday that President Obama’s unauthorized “administrative legalizations” are to blame for the growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. Goodlatte claims that Obama’s “lack of leadership” and executive orders are sending an inviting message to immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the U.S.