Articles by Connie Hair

Taxpayer Dollars OK’d for PA Obamacare Abortions

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvani...

Senate Judiciary GOPers Want Kagan Answers on Obamacare Recusal

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined all seven c...

Obama Defies Court with Second Moratorium

The Obama administration issued a second drilling moratorium diktat for the Gulf of Mexico yesterday ...

Obama Ban Kneecaps Gulf Coast Economy

The crisis in the Gulf of Mexico intensified Friday as one of the largest drilling companies in the w...

Opposition to Kagan Nomination Continues to Build

More statements opposing the nomination of Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court have trickled in...

Unanimous: Fifth Circuit Court Rejects Obama Drilling Moratorium

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in a unanimous decision has rejected the...

Sens. Coburn and Barrasso Release 100-Day Obamacare Check-Up

The only two U.S. Senator physicians have released a blistering oversight report examining the first ...

Healthcare Rationing Enthusiast To Receive Recess Appointment

An email from the Republican Policy Committee informed last night that President Obama intends a rece...

Republicans Slam Obama for Suing Arizona

Congressional Republicans are issuing stinging rebukes of President Obama’s decision to sue the State...

Rep. Issa Releases Oversight Report on Gulf Oil Spill

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Refor...

A Prayer for Washington’s Army

Abiel Leonard, a chaplain from Connecticut, was one of General George Washington’s closest military f...

Sen. Hatch Announces Opposition to Kagan

As the Elena Kagan Supreme Court hearings wind down today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), former chairman...

Obama’s Stealth Moratorium on Shallow-Water Drilling

Congressmen question why the Obama Administration is not granting permits to allow shallow-water oil ...

House Democrats ‘Deem’ Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget ‘as Passed’

The "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for 2011 without the pesky constraint...

Rep. Paul Ryan: New CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook Report ‘Dire’

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its extended budget report entitled The Long-Term ...

House Democrats Vote Down Fed Audit

Update 7:30 pm: The Republican Motion to Recommit failed by a vote of 229-198. All Republicans voted ...

Sec. Salazar Found!

Update 12:30 pm: Salazar didn’t hang around long enough to go through a complete round of questions. ...

Dems Giffords & Teague Join Group Demanding Armed National Guard at Border

UPDATE 11:30 a.m. Democrat Reps. Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.) and Harry Teague (N.M.) have joined Rep. ...

Embattled Goldman Sachs CEO Endorses Democrats’ Wall Street Bailout Bill

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein underwent vigorous questioning yesterday at a Senate hearing where ...

Sen. Graham Will Not Support Amnesty This Year

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has walked away from his months-long effort to saddle the taxpaying publ...

House Republicans Call Democrats’ Credibility into Question

During unlimited floor speeches allowed under the rules on Tuesdays, House Republicans hammered Democ...

Senate Bipartisan Vote to Filibuster Finance Bill

UPDATED 5:52 pm The finance bill filibuster is on. Senate Democrats fell three votes short of the 60 ...

‘Small’ Riot in Arizona over Illegal Immigration Bill (VIDEO)

New aerial footage has surfaced of the violence that broke out at the Arizona state capitol building ...

Senate Democrats Lack Votes to Move Partisan Finance Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set up a showdown procedural cloture vote today at 5:0...