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December 20, 2015

Getting fired is Mission: Impossible for federal bureaucrats in the Obama era

Federal managers have fired fewer bad employees each year since President Obama took office.

December 20, 2015

House Democrats re-elect Pelosi as minority leader

Democrats re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi to another two-year term as House minority leader on Tuesday, two weeks after elections in which the party lost at least a dozen seats in the chamber.

December 20, 2015

Jonathan Turley named lead counsel for House suit against Obama

Professor Jonathan Turley, who currently serves as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, will be the lead counsel for the House of Representative’s lawsuit against the way President Obama has implemented ObamaCare.

December 20, 2015

House Republicans to tap top committee leaders

A House Republican panel is huddling in the basement of the Capitol to decide who will wield the gavels on several committees in the next Congress.

December 20, 2015

New Mexico Dem tapped to head campaign committee

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has tapped Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico to head the party's campaign committee.

December 20, 2015

House lawmakers begin jockeying for committee gavels this week

Lawmakers in the House this week will begin jockeying for top positions on key committees that oversee government operations, taxes, the federal intelligence community, and the ethics rules that govern the behavior of lawmakers.

December 20, 2015

McConnell chosen as next Senate majority leader, Boehner re-elected as House speaker

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell joined House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Thursday at the pinnacle of the congressional and Republican power structures in Washington -- two establishment deal-cutters, each on occasion frustrated by the other's inability to rein in their party's most zealous ideologues.

December 20, 2015

Pelosi cited ObamaCare architect in push for law – now claims she hasn’t heard of him

Nancy Pelosi claimed Thursday she didn’t know who ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber is, after several tapes surfaced showing him gloating about how the law was written to take advantage of the stupidity of the American voter.

December 20, 2015

John Boehner blames Obama for problems at Veterans Affairs hospitals, spares Eric Shinseki

House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said despite a new report about systemic mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals, he would not be joining many of this GOP colleagues in calling for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.

December 20, 2015

Rep. Rogers suggests administration needs tougher foreign policy than #bringbackourgirls

GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested Sunday the Obama administration taking a light, Twitter-style approach to foreign policy, instead of a more substantial one that might have flagged the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram long before members abducted hundreds of girls.