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By Robert Romano In what promises to be a controversial vote at the nation’s Capitol, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is introducing an amendment to the Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appropriations bill defunding implementation of the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule. Under the regulation, in October HUD will be […]

By Rick Manning Majority Leader Harry Reid lost his majority last week.  It will just take five months to make it official. Obama’s disastrous bungling of the Bergdahl trade, piled on top of a Veteran’s Administration scandal have helped put a fork into his last remaining claims […]

By Robert Romano In October, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is set to finalize a rulemaking to condition eligibility for community development block grants on redrawing zoning maps to achieve racial and income integration. In 2012, HUD dispersed about $3.8 billion of these grants to almost 1,200 municipalities . These range from the rather small — Nashua, N.H. received $583,000 that year. To the rather large — New York City received $210.9 million of the grants. Now, under […]

By Bill Wilson It has been almost a year since Detroit filed for bankruptcy on its $18 billion of debt, and now state and local leaders are on the verge of a deal to bring the city onto its own feet again. Under the deal, city employee […]

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By Rick Manning The clock is rapidly expiring on the 113th Congress. While in the rest of the world, the beginning of June signals a nearing to the midpoint of the year, in Congress during an even-numbered election year, when the calendar flips to June, it signals […]

By Robert Romano “This amendment is about power and it’s about politicians silencing the citizens.” That was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) , speaking out against a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.). The bill would for all intents and purposes abolish the freedom of speech under the First Amendment — by […]

By Rick Manning Politicos across the nation have been eagerly watching the pitched battle in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary between long-time incumbent Thad Cochran and challenger state Senator Chris McDaniel, and it looks like they will get to watch it a little longer. As of 5:39 […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at TheHill.com. President Obama just fired/accepted the resignation of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki in the hopes of quelling the budding political problem he faces over the VA health scandal, but the truth is that the real scandal is that denial of health […]