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While regulators make many laws, all legislative power is still vested in Congress, and it needs to better ensure that agencies carry out its intent.
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Congress' budget office again warned that the U.S. faces a massive debt problem Tuesday, using stark language to describe the government's long-term mismatch between spending and revenues even as it slightly upgraded its projections for debt over the next 25 years.
The long-term outlook for the federal budget has worsened dramatically over the past several years, in the wake of the 2007-2009 recession and slow recovery, the Congressional Budget Office reported in its long-term budget outlook for 2015 released Tuesday.
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The Budget Office, a nonpartisan in-house think tank for Congress, projected that the federal debt is set to rise from 74 percent of economic output today to 103 percent by 2040, driven by spending on government healthcare and retirement programs and interest payments on the debt.
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U.S. citizens may fear homegrown jihadists, but law enforcement is more worried about right-wing extremists.
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One high school English teacher says she doesn’t want to teach the works of a “long-dead, British guy” to her students.
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Last summer, when the Gaza conflict was raging, I traveled to Sderot, Israel, on the Gaza border to see for myself what was happening. And boy did I see it.
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Democrats should think long and hard about whether nominating the first woman for president is worth having Clinton Foundation hoodlums dominate the headlines.
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President Obama took office vowing to go after unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants, but worksite audits have plunged over the last year and a half, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, tumbling along with the rest of immigration enforcement.
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Armed Bystander Intervenes, Saves Female Clerk Being Held At Gunpoint
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The aim and purpose of a welfare system is to provide the maximum benefit to the recipients at the least cost to ourselves. This seems like a fairly logical thing to be aiming for too. However, there's good evidence that the current US welfare system simply doesn't do this. So, [...]
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“It doesn’t matter what might be popular at the moment.”
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Peter denied Jesus three times but Hillary Clinton appears to have a much more difficult task; she is going to have to deny herself at least 45 times. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton's spokesperson, Karen Finney, appeared on CNN's The Lead and exasperated Jake Tapper by continuing to avoid avoid answering the important question as to whether her boss still supports or opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bill in Congress. Not a good move in the long run because yesterday Tapper struck back by listing in detail with her own quotes 45 times that Hillary pushed the trade bill over the years. First Tapper writes about Hillary's current reluctance to back the trade bill in stark contrast to the many times she strongly supported it in the past:
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"Only two men, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, directly took part in the May 3 attack"...
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The document’s fame rests on huge myths. But those myths have become their own reality.
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The Wilderness | Issue .50 | 6 . 16. 2015 | Tweet Something happened last month that mostly went unnoticed among rank-and-file politicos. The ground shifted underneath their feet, under the weight of a barrage of leaked email stories, foundation donation revelations and rehearsed campaign appearances. Hillary Clinton made her official announcement for President and embarkedRead more
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When racial solidarity meant something entirely different to her
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Spokane, Wash.'s former NAACP president, who resigned after her parents outed her as white, has broken her silence.
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Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you."
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Liberalism is a force of hopeless insanity. It's important to understand this upfront. Progressives have been waging a brutal, endless war against Truth, and this is where it leads. To Bruce Jenner. To Rachel Dolezal. To much worse things than these, like the destruction of unborn life and the...
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Contrary to Hillary Clinton's claim that Republicans want to limit voting, the GOP works hard to reach new voters and strongly supports early voting.
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At the core of left-wing thought is a rejection of painful realities. Conservatives are all too aware of these painful realities of life and base many of their positions on them.
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“Microaggression” protests have spread to campuses from coast to coast, from Berkeley and UCLA on the East Coast, and Oberlin and Illinois in the Midwest.
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FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) - Police are investigating an assault that was reported during First Fridays in Florence. Investigators said 20 to 30 juveniles assaulted a Lauderdale County man and his 14-ye...
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The Donald, as he is known as a celebrity, will announce his 2016 intentions on Tuesday at a Manhattan skyscraper that bears his name.
