House Republicans have voted to implement significant changes that they say will ensure the independence of the office and committee investigating allegations of congressional misconduct. The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) targets Republican lawmakers roughly 60% of the time. OCE and the Committee on Ethics consistently investigate more Republicans, even when Democrats are in the majority. While Democrats maintain OCE is nonpartisan, many Republicans believe it is biased and heavily influenced by left-wing government watchdogs. Empowered by their new majority, Republicans under Speaker McCarthy are taking action to remedy the perceived injustice. The Washington Times has more: House Republicans, seeking…
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Patrick Houck
Patrick Houck is an avid political enthusiast based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. His expertise is in campaigns and the use of targeted messaging to persuade voters. When not combing through the latest news, you can find him enjoying the company of family and friends or pursuing his love of photography.
Attorney General Merrick Garland contemplated having FBI agents monitor the search for classified documents by President Biden’s aides. Ultimately, he decided against it. According to officials close to Garland, he didn’t want to be seen as compromising the special counsel’s probe. Garland also weighed the White House’s cooperation with Justice Department investigators. The Wall Street Journal explains: After Mr. Biden’s lawyers discovered documents marked as classified dating from his term as vice president at an office he used at a Washington-based think tank on Nov. 2, the Justice Department opened an inquiry into why and how they got there. Mr. Biden’s legal team…
Conservative Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is running for the U.S. Senate, to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Mike Braun. Sen. Braun declared his candidacy for governor of Indiana last month. Banks revealed his campaign news in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News this morning. The Hoosier State politician told the outlet America needs more “conservative fighters” in the Senate. “Indiana deserves a conservative in the Senate,” Banks said in an interview ahead of his announcement on Tuesday morning. “Mike Braun has been a reliable conservative in his term. He announced he’s running for governor, so it’s an open…
I am a man. Those four words became synonymous with Black empowerment from the humble beginnings of the great civil rights movement. A movement that transcended politics to address fundamental human decency and ensure America lived up to the ideals outlined in the Constitution. These days both the left and the right like to claim historically revered figures as their own. The phenomenon becomes increasingly common as time marches on and the character flaws of our leaders, known by their contemporaries, slowly fade away. It allows us to deify the secular. This brings me to civil rights leader Martin Luther…
The latest twist in the Biden classified documents scandal will likely boost former President Trump’s prospects in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. On Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., tweeted that he called for White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain to share the visitor logs from President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home, where aides discovered additional classified documents over the weekend. (RELATED: More Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Home) The president’s lawyers responded Monday, confirming that no such records exist at his Wilmington home. As Fox News reports: “Like every President in decades…
White House lawyers found five more classified documents at President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home on Wednesday. The records come from Biden’s time as vice president. Lawyers for the president found one in a room adjacent to the garage, where investigators discovered government secrets next to his Corvette. On Saturday, White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber announced the fourth discovery of improperly stored classified documents. Sauber said lawyers immediately paused their search while they waited for authorities to transfer the documents to the Department of Justice. Some Democrats fear the revelations have led to a political catastrophe for the administration. One…
Congressman George Santos’ work history is under increasing scrutiny this morning. The Wall Street Journal reports the New York Republican raised money for a company the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) called a “classic Ponzi scheme.” Before winning a seat in Congress, Santos worked for Harbor City Capital, an internet marketing company, from 2020-2021. The SEC charged Harbor City Capital with securities fraud and froze its assets in April 2021. A court order placed the Florida company under receivership. Santos claimed he didn’t know about the fraud. However, Journalist Andrew Kaczynski reported that Santos was alerted to potential fraud…
Rep. Jim Jordan’s first investigation leading the Judiciary Committee has commenced. House Judiciary Committee Republicans announced the Ohio Republican would probe President Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents and the Justice Department’s response. The Washington Examiner reports: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fired off a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday, demanding all documents and communications between the DOJ, the FBI, and the Executive Office of the President about Biden’s apparent mishandling of classified information following his time as vice president during the Obama administration. The Republican letter, co-signed by another top GOP member of the…
Whataboutism abounds in politics these days. It’s often derided as a straw-man argument to marginalize legitimate criticism. Sometimes, though, it’s worth asking. For example, what if sitting Republican representatives said publicly that their Democratic colleagues were unstable and might gun them down? How would the mainstream media react? It’s safe to assume that pearl-clutching, bordering on pandemonium, would consume the news cycle for several days. You might be surprised to learn that’s what Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and others told the progressive news website, Raw Story. What’s less surprising is the media’s collective yawn at the ad hominem attacks. Here’s…
George W. Bush’s longtime senior advisor Karl Rove offered an assist to President Joe Biden on Fox News after the press reported on the first trove of classified documents at a location associated with the president. President Biden’s lawyers said Monday that he had a “small number” of documents with classified markings from his time as vice president. Attorneys found them stashed in a closet at his former office in the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. In a subsequent appearance on Fox News, Mr. Rove argued what made former President Donald Trump’s document scandal worse. https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1612853231817719808 The U.K.’s Independent…