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My own journey—to provide an opportunity for quality education for all children—began in Little Rock, Arkansas....

Obamacare is devastating policy for America....

Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan....

UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....

In 2013, federal spending approached $3.5 trillion. Now that’s hard to wrap your brain around. It’s about $27,700 for every American household....

Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....

57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....

America has reached an education policy fork in the road....

...the President has shown a distinct contempt for the legal limits on his power....

...the case for defunding Obamacare....

When Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges open, your data could be exposed to shysters and hackers, thanks to serious vulnerabilities in the system....

Congress is well on its way to solving its Obamacare problem—for Members of Congress and their staffs, that is....

The FDA estimates that first-year compliance costs could be as high as $537 million for all regulated businesses covered under the rule....

During the August congressional recess, a pro-amnesty coalition of business and union interests is putting the squeeze on members of the House....

The State Department closed 21 U.S. embassies over the weekend....

Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested politicians and coercive public employee unions....

High anxiety is gripping Capitol Hill. The reason: On January 1, 2014, Members of Congress and their staff will lose their current employment-based health insurance and will instead be offered coverage in the health insurance exchanges established under the new health care law....

President Obama assured lawmakers that they and their staffs wouldn't be foisted onto the same health exchange as millions of Americans....

Members of Congress head home tomorrow for a month-long recess....

It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....

The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....

1. Obamacare is going great.
2. I cut the deficit in half.
3. Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.

Obama says he’s ready to get back to the “kitchen table” issues after months of focusing on gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and other tangents....

Members of Congress have debated various versions of the DREAM Act more than 30 times over the past dozen years. They’ll do so again today....

the proposal would eliminate Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)....

More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union bosses have left a once-great American city crippled and deteriorating....

Obama yesterday gave a speech on Obamacare, trying to justify the fact that premiums continue to rise, violating his 2008 campaign promise to lower them by $2,500 per family per year....

Fourteen months ago, President Barack Obama was a bigot. Now he is simply wrong. That's what you have to believe to agree with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion ....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

When Harry Reid gets frustrated, he threatens to change the Senate’s rules to get his way....

Obama backed the administration of Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was just ousted by the protesters and the military....

It still goes out of its way to tax Christmas trees....

Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate....

Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive “train wreck,” with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty....

One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg....

In celebration of Independence Day, we are rereading the Declaration of Independence....

the Administration is delaying the employer mandate, which would force businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide government-approved insurance, until 2015....

Justice Anthony Kennedy argued last week that the only reason Congress had for passing the Defense of Marriage Act was to “disparage,” “injure,” “degrade,” “demean,” and “humiliate” others....

On Thursday, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate introduced a conservative alternative to No Child Left Behind (NCLB)....

It’s July 4 week, which means Members of Congress are at home in their districts. As you head to your nearest town hall meeting, take these questions for your Representative....

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is reportedly pushing to split up the old farm bill and take food stamps out of it....