[Washington Free Bacon] A Democratic congressman who still owes millions of dollars in legal bills racked up while fighting corruption allegations said on Monday that members of Congress need a raise in order to cope with the District of Columbia's rising cost of living.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) said at a Monday Rules Committee hearing that members of Congress, who make an average of $174,000 per year, "aren't being paid properly." I agree with Alsea on the 'improper' comp. They should ONLY be paid while working on the Hill ! "Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution," he said. Pack a sammich, live in Lorton and use the SLUG line.
Observers scoffed at the comments, saying congressional pay and benefits are quite generous.
"Aside from access to subsidized travel, gym memberships, haircuts, and the like, congressmen have a retirement plan which averages about $40,000 a year for retired members," said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog.
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Did you balance the income/expenditures for the budget? You know if we had some real (not Hollyweird bookkeeping) surplus, we could have some money to spread around. We could call it a 'bonus'.
[Fox] Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden was being treated Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the vice president's office said.
The vice president's office did not immediately provide any other information about why the 46-year-old has been hospitalized.
Biden, a former Delaware attorney general, has had a history of a health problems. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010 and underwent underwent surgery at a Texas cancer center in 2013 to remove a small lesion.
He announced last year that he would not seek a third term as attorney general and instead planned to run for governor in 2016. In January, he joined Wilmington law firm Grant & Eisenhofer, which announced three weeks ago that Biden would be expanding his work there on behalf of whistleblowers. Someone please clue me in. How exactly is Beau Biden qualified for treatment at WR ?
[China's One Child policy created their social Little Emperors. Another disastrous socialist central management program that has left their country with a serious gender imbalance.]
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] More than a decade ago, Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... spotted a political star in the making, someone he predicted would go from a big-city mayor to a national leader - maybe even to the White House. "I won't be surprised if you go all the way," Clinton wrote in a 2002 letter to Baltimore's mayor, Martin O'Malley ...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%)... .
In the years that followed, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Al Haig ... showed up time and again as their young ally gained stature as governor of Maryland, hosting fundraisers, headlining rallies and connecting him to their sprawling network of political donors.
Now, O'Malley is just days away from walking down the path Clinton laid out for him more than a decade ago, as he prepares to announce his presidential campaign in Baltimore on May 30. And that means transforming himself from one of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Everett ... 's most loyal supporters into her chief adversary for the Democratic nomination.
"It's certainly been a long and friendly relationship," said Steve Kearney, a former O'Malley aide. "Times change. He clearly thought she was the best candidate in 2008. We'll find out whether that remains true today."
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It hurts to witness the self-inflicted wounds and hemorrhaging of her credibility. But this is no time for sentimentality. Blind faith doesn't get you elected president.
Oh, but it has! Twice. In a row!
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IF she says the emails belong the State Department and she has no control over releasing them someone should call her bluff and ask Kerry why his department has not released the emails.
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I wrote my Congressmen, a Republican, whom I support and told him I would never vote for another Bush, not due too policy, but that I would never support political Dynasties. Well his Dad was our prior congressman, strangely he has not replied.
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there’s also no denying that the United States will help the Iraqis take back Ramadi.”
Why should we help them re-take Ramadi? We had it once and gave it back. If we do help, and they do re-take it, how long will they hold onto it before it has to be re-re-taken?
Somebody remind me - when are they going to re-take Mosul?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, I'm tired of all this. Somebody tell me when IS gets to the Mississippi River!
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[AnNahar] A U.S. judge Tuesday ordered the State Department to end its foot-dragging and release thousands of emails from Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Marshall ... , dating back to her time as America's top diplomat.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras instructed that the hub of U.S. global diplomacy must come up with a "schedule for rolling productions of Secretary Clinton's emails" within a week, a State Department official said.
"We take our legal obligations seriously. We'll comply with the order," the agency's press office director Jeff Rathke told news hounds.
The judge shot down a request from the diplomatic behemoth to be given until January 2016 to complete its internal review of some 30,000 emails, amounting to about 55,000 pages, handed over by Clinton.
Rathke confirmed that the State Department had "originally proposed" releasing all the emails on mass in January once the review, which includes blacking out any classified material, was finished.
For her part, Clinton renewed a call for the State Department to speed up the process and release the emails sent from her own private server on the private email address hdr22@clintonemail.com during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
"They have their process that they do for everybody, not just for me. But anything they might do to expedite that process, I heartily support," she said, during a campaign stop in Iowa.
"I want the American people to learn as much as we can about the work that I did with our diplomats and our development experts because I think it will show how hard we worked and what we did for our country during the time that I was secretary of state."
Clinton, the former first lady when her husband Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... was president, has officially thrown her hat into the ring to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential elections.
She is seen as a clear frontrunner, with only independent Senator Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... having also officially announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination.
But former senators Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee, as well as former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley ...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%)... , are reportedly also mulling runs.
The email row has raised concerns about why Hillary Clinton chose not to use a State Department email address to communicate on official diplomatic business.
Rathke confirmed her emails relating to the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, would be the among the first released as most of those had already undergone a review.
They would account for some 300 emails amounting to 900 pages.
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The email row has raised concerns about why Hillary Clinton chose not to use a State Department email address to communicate on official diplomatic business.
Why? Could it be the 'Foundation' was actually a vehicle for nefarious acts of another government agency? And what a delightful prophylactic for power and fund raising. Remember, both of these people were at one time, lawyers.
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To paraphrase Andrew Jackson "the judge has made his decision. Now let us see him enforce it"
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"....which includes blacking out any classified material..."
So Da Beast had class info on the unclass system - is that what you're saying Mr. Spokeshole??
You can bet a bunch of bow ties at Foggy Bottom are in a state of panic right now.
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Right you are Bangkok Billy. Another way to put it is – if, as the Secretary as repeatedly claimed, there is no classified information contained in the emails the whole process could be completed in less than a week.
In terms of pollinating food plants, the 4,000 species of native North American bees do a much better job over a longer season than European honeybees do. But they produce neither honey nor bees wax, both of which are very good things. And of course, the entrepreneurial little native bees just show up, quietly pollinating and multiplying, instead of being controlled by bee keepers, providing no one but themselves an income, as it were.
But if a key issue is inbreeding, how hard can it be to import some queens from Europe to replenish the hives? As for why the president of the United States of America is working on honeybees instead of, say, ISIS' conquest of Ramadi, really, what need be said?
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In addition, Obama's budget for next year recommends about $50 million for multiple agencies to help boost research, increase the number of acres dedicated to pollinators' conservation programs and boost funding for research on pollinator losses.
Land and land use are his targets. If Robert Mugabe had a son.....
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As a bee keeper I should be pleased. However, all that money is going to California or his political pals and will do little to help agriculture. Kind of like the stimulus money to shovel ready projects, or Solendra.
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Considering Obie's relative success rate up to this point, maybe we should look into training spotted owls to pollinate things.
Or are we just going to import immigrate African bees? (You know, the mean ones?)
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] House Republicans on Tuesday demanded the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... open an investigation into the Clinton Foundation's tax-exempt status, questioning whether the organization has broken faith with its charitable mission by hiding some donations.
The foundation, associated with former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... , and their daughter, has been in the news as Mrs. Clinton's campaign ramps up.
Foundation officials have admitted they made an "error" in inaccurately reporting certain types of grants, and have had to correct their filings.
"Media reports containing specific allegations have cast a cloud over the Clinton Foundation and call into question whether it is acting within the scope of its charitable mission for which it was originally granted tax-exempt status," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, who led the letter, signed by 51 other House politicians.
The letter was to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, and accused the foundation of using "the cloak of philanthropy" to facilitate major business deals for Clinton pals -- including during the time Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state in the B.O. regime.
The Clinton Foundation didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
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The letter was to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, and accused the foundation of using "the cloak of philanthropy"
A strongly worded letter to Koskinen, yea, that's the ticket. Don't forget to info-copy the new Attorney General.
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"after an extensive and comprehensive audit and investigation lasting an exhaustive 48 hours, Cheryl Mills has categorically found that no infractions or violation of current law have been proven"
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Sorry. They're too busy investigating the Tea Party.
That sounds about like The Cancer Fund of America in Knoxville which was run by one family (James T. Reynolds, Sr. family). They raked in $187m in charity from across the U.S. Most of the money went to luxury living for themselves and little for charity. They are currently being sued by all 50 states and the Federal Trade Commission. Charity. I don't say this to get your hopes up; just showing the similarity of a scam charities and the one under discussion.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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