Seeking to stoke a political vulnerability for President Obama, Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to amp up pressure on the White House over a controversial new health-care rule that critics say violates religious liberty — vowing to press for legislation to repeal the provision unless the administration relents. Read full article > >

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Boehner vows action to overturn Obama administration rule on birth control

Lawmakers help fund relatives’ organizations.

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Earmarks Linked to Family Ties

MPs and peers are are urging the government to bring in a law in England and Wales against stalking – as is already the case in Scotland.

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MPs demand law against stalking

A Kircubbin woman has called for the hunting laws in Northern Ireland to be changed after her cat was killed by dogs from the North Down hunt.

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‘Barbaric’ hunting dogs kill cat

A Kircubbin woman has called for the hunting laws in Northern Ireland to be changed after her cat was killed by dogs from the North Down hunt.

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‘Barbaric’ hunting dogs kill cat

Who says government can’t get anything right? It was just two years ago that the Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, scraped away decades of barnacled case law obscuring our beloved Constitution and unequivocally established the right of corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to spend as much money as they want to influence the outcome of elections. Read full article > >

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Forget super PACs. A modest proposal for legalizing bribery

For the past three decades, Egypt has received an average of $2 billion a year from the United States, making it the biggest recipient of American foreign aid besides Israel. But with the country now at a critical stage in its transition toward democracy, that aid is in peril — as U.S. lawmakers threaten to block assistance in response to Egypt’s crackdown on pro-democracy groups, several of them well-connected nongovernmental organizations based in Washington. Read full article > >

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Egypt’s aid from U.S. in peril amid crackdown on pro-democracy groups

The first Friday of every month, you will find me among those eagerly waiting for the release of the latest government data on jobs . Such eagerness, however, should not be confused with joyfulness. While the numbers have markedly improved over the past year, too much of the commentary has been overly partial and, sometimes, dangerously misleading — a situation that is likely to grow worse in the run-up to the November elections. Read full article > >

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We’re still losing the war on unemployment

House lawmakers voted Wednesday night to freeze their pay and the salaries of congressional staffers and civilian federal employees, scoring a symbolic victory for congressional Republicans who have targeted government compensation as an example of excessive federal spending. Read full article > >

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House approves measure to freeze federal salaries

RICHMOND — The Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, the first of several legislative measures this year that are expected to dramatically alter abortion law in the state. Read full article > >

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Virginia Senate passes bill requiring women to undergo ultrasound before abortion

Tells Hispanic crowd the citizenship law is too costly.

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Paul Loves Immigrants, Hates DREAM Act

Tells Hispanic crowd the citizenship law is too costly.

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Paul Loves Immigrants, Hates DREAM Act

A 2008 email informing James Murdoch of the potential scope of phone hacking at the News of the World was deleted in an IT upgrade last year, lawyers say.

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IT ‘wiped Murdoch hacking email’

In an effort to regain public trust, the Senate voted Monday to take up a bill that would prohibit members of Congress from trading stocks and other securities on the basis of confidential information they receive as lawmakers.

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Democratic Senators to Push ‘Buffett Rule’

The government rules out bringing in a UK law to ensure the Falkland Islands’ right to remain British.

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‘Protect Falklands’ law ruled out