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Who is Probing What Obama Administration Action? If a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, it will be only the latest in a long string of inquiries into Obama administration activities. Half a dozen committees in the House alone are probing administration actions. Here’s a look at which committees are probing what. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 1:04pm
How Many House Committees Are Currently Probing the Obama Administration? If a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, it will be only the latest in a long string of inquiries into Obama administration activities. Half a dozen committees in the House alone are probing administration actions. Here’s a look at which committees are probing what. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 1:04pm
How Can Conservatives Win Over Young Voters? Go For Their Guts. If you want college kids to fight against government overreach, just take away their access to food trucks. When the Washington D.C. city council held a hearing last week on new proposed regulations of the District’s burgeoning food truck scene, it took seven hours to get through all the complaints. And since the issue was about Korean tacos and curbside barbeque, and since the rules would limit the number of allowable trucks in Foggy Bottom to three, it wasn’t just your typical-small government types raising hell. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 12:05pm
National Journal Launches New E-Book: In Lew of Geithner Today National Journal launched its debut e-book, In Lew of Geithner, in which Chief Correspondent Michael Hirsh wonders if ex-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's replacement, Jacob Lew, has the right stuff to rein in Wall Street. With this new long-form digital content, readers will be able to delve deeper into the uncertain future of our nation’s economy and financial oversight, going a step beyond what is typically available in most news outlets. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 11:15am
National Journal’s Hotline Gets an Upgrade and Redesign WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2013 – National Journal has fully redesigned The Hotlinewith a brand new look, a user-friendly interface, and powerful political tracking tools. Subscribers will continue to enjoy The Hotline editors' irreverent and comprehensive look at political developments from across the country, presented alongside campaign news links from around the web, race-by-race polling data and demographic metrics in partnership with OhMyGov, a media monitoring and political analysis research firm. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 11:00am
Does Obama Need Staff Shakeup to Manage Scandals? President Obama and his insular team are violating almost every principle of crisis management. Shoot straight. Ditch the spin. Don't feed the fire. Restore trust. While the West Wing is run by smart and dedicated public servants, their crisis communications instincts are horrible. They dissemble. They make things worse. They undermine the administration’s credibility. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:46am
DoJ Seized AP Phone Records; Paulsen Won't Run for SEN or GOV; Christine Quinn's Bulimia Confession Wake-Up Call! is Hotline's daily morning briefing on campaigns and elections. Click here to subscribe. Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:00am
Elizabeth Warren's Playbook to Win Over Young Voters At a time when millennials are growing increasingly cynical toward government and politics, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is showcasing a playbook to get their attention – focusing on pocketbook issues that impact younger voters. The freshman senator’s first piece of standalone legislation would reduce student loan rates to the same level that the Federal Reserve offers big banks. “Let’s invest in those students by giving them the same deal [as banks],” Warren said on CNN last week. “That’s what it’s about.” Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 6:00am
H-1B Visas to Have Their Day in Committee The tech community will have its first chance Tuesday to weigh in, carefully, on major immigration legislation being debated in the Senate. The influential lobbying force that has for years scrambled for access to highly skilled foreign workers must now carry out a rough balancing act: making sure lawmakers know that the bill, as written, does not work for it, but that it doesn’t want to kill the process, either. Posted: Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:50pm
IRS Scandal Throws Max Baucus New Challenges on Tax Reform The unfolding Internal Revenue Service scandal could complicate Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s No. 1 goal of enacting comprehensive tax reform before he retires at the end of this Congress. The unfolding Internal Revenue Service scandal could complicate Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s No. 1 goal of enacting comprehensive tax reform before he retires at the end of this Congress. Posted: Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:50pm

Who is Probing What Obama Administration Action?

If a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, it will be only the latest in a long string of inquiries into Obama administration activities. Half a dozen committees in the House alone are probing administration actions. Here’s a look at which committees are probing what.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 1:04pm

How Many House Committees Are Currently Probing the Obama Administration?

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 1:04pm

How Can Conservatives Win Over Young Voters? Go For Their Guts.

If you want college kids to fight against government overreach, just take away their access to food trucks.

When the Washington D.C. city council held a hearing last week on new proposed regulations of the District’s burgeoning food truck scene, it took seven hours to get through all the complaints. And since the issue was about Korean tacos and curbside barbeque, and since the rules would limit the number of allowable trucks in Foggy Bottom to three, it wasn’t just your typical-small government types raising hell.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 12:05pm

National Journal Launches New E-Book: In Lew of Geithner

Today National Journal launched its debut e-book, In Lew of Geithner, in which Chief Correspondent Michael Hirsh wonders if ex-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's replacement, Jacob Lew, has the right stuff to rein in Wall Street. With this new long-form digital content, readers will be able to delve deeper into the uncertain future of our nation’s economy and financial oversight, going a step beyond what is typically available in most news outlets.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 11:15am

National Journal’s Hotline Gets an Upgrade and Redesign

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2013 – National Journal has fully redesigned The Hotlinewith a brand new look, a user-friendly interface, and powerful political tracking tools. Subscribers will continue to enjoy The Hotline editors' irreverent and comprehensive look at political developments from across the country, presented alongside campaign news links from around the web, race-by-race polling data and demographic metrics in partnership with OhMyGov, a media monitoring and political analysis research firm.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 11:00am

Does Obama Need Staff Shakeup to Manage Scandals?

President Obama and his insular team are violating almost every principle of crisis management. Shoot straight. Ditch the spin. Don't feed the fire. Restore trust.

While the West Wing is run by smart and dedicated public servants, their crisis communications instincts are horrible. They dissemble. They make things worse. They undermine the administration’s credibility.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:46am

DoJ Seized AP Phone Records; Paulsen Won't Run for SEN or GOV; Christine Quinn's Bulimia Confession

Wake-Up Call! is Hotline's daily morning briefing on campaigns and elections. Click here to subscribe.

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:00am

Elizabeth Warren's Playbook to Win Over Young Voters

At a time when millennials are growing increasingly cynical toward government and politics, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is showcasing a playbook to get their attention – focusing on pocketbook issues that impact younger voters.

The freshman senator’s first piece of standalone legislation would reduce student loan rates to the same level that the Federal Reserve offers big banks. “Let’s invest in those students by giving them the same deal [as banks],” Warren said on CNN last week. “That’s what it’s about.”

Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 6:00am

H-1B Visas to Have Their Day in Committee

The tech community will have its first chance Tuesday to weigh in, carefully, on major immigration legislation being debated in the Senate. The influential lobbying force that has for years scrambled for access to highly skilled foreign workers must now carry out a rough balancing act: making sure lawmakers know that the bill, as written, does not work for it, but that it doesn’t want to kill the process, either.

Posted: Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:50pm

IRS Scandal Throws Max Baucus New Challenges on Tax Reform

The unfolding Internal Revenue Service scandal could complicate Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s No. 1 goal of enacting comprehensive tax reform before he retires at the end of this Congress.