The former head of the Obama administration’s controversial clean-energy loan program warned a staff member last year not to include personal e-mail addresses in official correspondence, to prevent the personal accounts from being subpoenaed, documents show. Jonathan Silver, a political appointee who oversaw the Energy Department’s $38 billion program, sent the warning days before a centerpiece of the program — solar-panel maker Solyndra — declared bankruptcy, pushing a congressional investigati...
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JANESVILLE, Wis. — Representative Paul D. Ryan’s childhood home here was not overtly partisan. His parents were enthusiastic supporters of Representative Les Aspin, a Democrat, yet adored President Ronald Reagan from their glimpses of him on the evening news. But the death of his father when Mr. Ryan was only 16 punctured his life of math tests and bike riding, and in that fissure, the seeds of his worldview were planted. Read more:
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Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is Capitol Hill’s ultimate self-made man. He began as a 19-year-old intern delivering congressional mail and propelled himself upward with a mastery of wonky detail and a talent for cultivating powerful mentors. Ryan is now a seven-term congressman, a committee chairman and the chief architect of GOP ideas on Medicare, the budget and the national debt. Ryan’s big ideas bear the stamp of his own story: They stress independence and self-reliance, the qualities...
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After a months-long stalemate over a bill to protect women from crimes of domestic violence, Speaker John A. Boehner on Monday named eight House negotiators to serve on a nonexistent conference committee, one that would be charged with bridging the divide between House Republicans and the Senate. In April, the Senate voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, and it urged the House to move on the legislation. Read more:
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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday named Republican negotiators on the long-stalled reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, hoping to launch a House-Senate conference committee two-and-a-half months after the House passed its version. The Speaker’s announcement is the first sign of movement on the legislation in weeks, but whether it will lead to substantive action before the November elections is unclear. The House and Senate are just days away from a five-week congressional rec...
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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) today announced eight conferees to negotiate a final deal on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, which both chambers passed in varying forms this spring. Boehner said in a statement that Reps. Sandy Adams (Fla.), Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Trey Gowdy(S.C.), Nan Hayworth (N.Y.), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) and Jim Sensenbrenner (Wis.) and House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith(Texas) will represent House Republicans in haggling ...
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Drug control experts and prosecutors are calling for federal lawmakers to require prescriptions for medications containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to help stop the “meth epidemic.” The number of methamphetamine cases are up nationwide — specifically in South Carolina — despite federal purchasing restrictions on cold medicines containing ephedrine and psuedoephedrine, which also are used to make meth. Prior to 1976, medications containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were available only b...
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WASHINGTON — In response to New York Times stories that relied on leaks of sensitive national-security information, a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday discussed legislation that could allow journalists to be prosecuted for disclosing such information. Read more:
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The House voted to great fanfare, again, on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law. And although the vote might have political implications for some Members, the process seemed like a drag to others. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) woke up at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday knowing full well the vote to repeal “Obamacare” was destined to die in the Senate. Read more:
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WASHINGTON — Expressing outrage over national security leaks, Republicans on a House Judiciary subcommittee pressed legal experts Wednesday on whether it was possible to prosecute reporters for publishing classified information. Read more:
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