Articles by Connie Hair

Sen. Graham Slams Brakes on Cap and Tax Bill

The media unveiling ceremony planned today for a new Senate cap and trade national energy tax bill ha...

Medicare Report: Obamacare Bad for Seniors

The Obama administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a new report wit...

Fannie & Freddie Reform Excluded from Finance Bill

On Thursday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed cloture on the motion to proc...

SEC Inspector General to Launch Investigation on Timing of Goldman Sachs Filing

At the request of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Governm...

Sen. Dodd Nixes Fannie & Freddie Reform in Democrats’ Finance Bill

The two entities at ground zero of the financial meltdown in 2008 – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – will...

Sen. McConnell to President: Prove It

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell today spoke from the Senate floor challenging President Obam...

Democrats Admit Obamacare Raises Health Insurance Premiums

The New York Times is reporting that Senate Democrats are gearing up to pass even more health care le...

Taxpayer-Funded EPA Propaganda Video Contest

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring a contest asking good little American citizen...

Obama Flirts with Value-Added Tax

President Barack Obama floated the idea of a massive value-added tax (VAT) yesterday in an interview ...

New Developments Identify Lead Protester in Jindal Staffer Beating Case

UPDATE 12:15 pm New information has come to light on GOP protest organizer Iron Rail Collective – the...

Senate Democrats Put Reconciliation for Cap and Trade National Energy Tax in Budget Language

Senate Democrats have included language in their 2011 budget resolution that would allow Democrats to...

IG Report: Obama Homeowner Bailout Program a Bust

A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled A...

Oklahoma to Join 21 Other States Suing over Obamacare

Lawmakers in Oklahoma late Tuesday announced their intent to file a lawsuit challenging the unconstit...

Appeals Court Reinstates ACORN Funding Ban

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a stay on the December 2009 injunction by...

Obama Calls Wall Street Meetings ‘Shocking’ as Rahm Emanuel Meets with Wall Street Investors

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met with Wall Street investors Sunday, the night before his b...

UPDATE: New Bayou Beatdown Protest VIDEO Surfaces

In the wake of reports of the beating of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top fundraiser, Allee Bautsch,...

Sen. Inhofe Confident Cap-and-Trade National Energy Tax Won’t Pass

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is con...

Sen. Scott Brown: Banks should be Banks not Casinos

In his first Sunday show appearance since his stunning election to fill the seat of the late Teddy Ke...

Ways & Means Republicans Seek AARP Docs for Obamacare Oversight Investigation

Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich), top Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee, and Rep. Wally Herger (R...

UPDATE: Beaten Jindal Staffer Says Protesters are the Perpetrators

The mother of one of the victims of a brutal beating in New Orleans outside of a Southern Republican ...

Carter Appointee Rules National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb ruled Thursday that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitut...

UPDATE: Mother of Beaten Jindal Staffer Breaks Silence to Fox News (TRANSCRIPT)

UPDATE: 4:00 P.M. Click here for the Fox News segment from this afternoon. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly has ...

House GOP Leaders Praise ‘Contract FROM America’

The Tea Party Patriots have released their "Contract from America" today to praise from GOP House lea...

Waxman Cancels Obamacare Hearing

House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) late yesterday canceled a hearing ...