According to one senior House staffer, the spending bill is so massive, not one single member knows everything that’s in it. That being said, the short amount of time between its unveiling and proposed vote tomorrow breaks the unanimously passed motion from Tuesday that requires a 48-hour review period before action can taken on the   more

Congress just voted almost a trillion dollars in new spending on a party-line vote. And it seems that Republicans could be denied any role in overseeing the stimulus funds.
Both the House and the Senate version of the stimulus bill reject any congressional oversight of the stimulus funds. Both bills put responsibility for oversight into   more

Newly minted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Heath and Human Services contender Tom Daschle aren’t the only ones close to the Obama administration with tax improprieties. It seems the problem that has become a rash in the new Democratic regime includes the commander in chief as well.
Documents acquired by NewMajority indicate Barack Obama   more

An internal document obtained by NewMajority on Friday details even more wasteful spending in the now-$1.2 trillion spending bill that the Senate will take up next week.
The bill is so large that only 7 percent will be spent by the end of fiscal 2009. Yet even with this massive spending – if they divvied   more

It took less than a month for congressional Democrats to jettison President Obama’s call for an earmark moratorium.
With $819 billion in new spending roaring out of Washington, anonymous Democratic legislators could not resist slipping in a few pet projects of their own while writing the legislation.
As the stimulus package arrives in the Senate,   more

NM can now confirm that Sen. Gillibrand, then Tina Rutnik, did not qualify for the UCLA law review and received no academic prizes in law school. This with her non-membership in the Order of the Coif, a merit society for students in the top 10% of their class, further suggests that the future senator’s career-launching   more

The person with the most power over the US auto industry is not an auto executive or union leader – not a member of Congress – not anyone in the Obama administration.
Thanks to President Obama’s decision to allow states to impose their own emissions standards, the most powerful person in the industry is a former   more

Hidden in an obscure congressional amendment is a big gift to pet Democratic interest groups – and a big betrayal of the Democrats’ supposed green principles.
In recent years, as energy prices skyrocketed, consumers reacted by conserving. They switched to high-efficiency light bulbs, lowered thermostats, and invested in more efficient refrigerators and air conditioners.
This is good   more

An enraged Republican donor called Republican National Committee officials “clueless” for their failure to donate or account for Gov. Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe. Instead, as NewMajority revealed yesterday, the former GOP vice presidential candidate’s expensive duds — totalling $180,000 — sits in purgatory at the RNC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“They may want to be supportive   more

Despite the Republican National Committee’s promise to donate Sarah Palin’s $180,000 campaign wardrobe to charity, word has it the Alaska governor’s clothes remain stuffed in trash bags at RNC headquarters, NewMajority has learned.
While Palin followed through on her promise to return her controversial wardrobe after the election, it seems the RNC has not followed through   more

Did President-elect Obama schedule his resignation from the Senate in order to shut down an embarrassing investigation of his personal finances by the Senate Ethics Committee?
This is a question the new President has at least temporarily suppressed as he embarks on what he himself has pledged will be the most transparent administration in history. Yet   more