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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) means business when it comes to being on time for House votes. Tardiness has long been a largely unenforced problem when it comes to voting. Last week, Ryan chastised colleagues for being late, saying that "voting within the allotted time would help with the maintenance of the institution." He abruptly ordered Wednesday's vote be closed after the allotted 15 minutes on legislation to prevent the Obama administration from lifting sanctions on Iranian entities unless it certifies they aren't involved with terrorism or the country's ballistic missile program. As a result, more than 130 lawmakers missed the...

https://youtu.be/IJJUFH0ZyNY?t=29m59s Their dancing feet is a good principle to relate the music to the dance potential of the audience.

The general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who have asked the court for relief from being forced to comply with the federal contraceptive mandate. The brief was filed Jan. 8 in the Zubik v. Burwell case, which the court will hear this year. The case will determine whether the Little Sisters of the Poor and other ministries can be forced to comply with the contraceptive mandate of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Under the Affordable Care...

Al Jazeera America will shut down in April, sources at the company confirmed to CNNMoney. The news was announced at a sudden staff-wide meeting on Wednesday afternoon. An Al Jazeera spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Al Jazeera America has been lauded for quality reporting and commentary, but its ratings have remained anemic since launch. In prime time the channel only averages between 20,000 and 40,000 viewers on a typical day.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising "audacious executive action" in Barack Obama’s final year in office. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429692/obamas-chief-staff-audacious-executive-action-final-year

One of our favorite hypocritical CEOs spoke this morning to try and explain why his rail freight transportation company's stock is plunging. 11 months ago Michael Ward was adamant on CNBC that he has "not seen any changes," suggesting everything's fine down to $30-35 oil and "expected no impact on crude shipments." Today, he exclaims, the volume drop can be seen as "freight recession," warning that "there is pressure on markets not seen outside of a recession." He is right, of course, as we noted previously, the weakness in rails is entirely recessionary and is no longer limited to industrials...

ABC/Randy Sager(NEW YORK) -- Ted Cruz has reached top-rank popularity among Republicans and Chris Christie's favorability rating is most improved in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, while Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush all have stumbled in the battle for GOP hearts and minds. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton continues to far surpass Bernie Sanders in favorability among party regulars, and she's vastly more popular within the Democratic Party than are any of the Republican candidates within the GOP base. Still, gender and racial gaps mark Clinton's standings, and Sanders pushes back among young adults, independents and...

A double-header today! They go hand-in-hand, so why not?

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Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,088 registered, likely primary voters in Iowa. The poll was conducted on January 11th and 12th and includes 422 Republicans, 461 Democrats, and the remainder as independents or another party. The poll has a margin of error of ± 3% [5% for Republicans and Democrats]. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The polls were conducted using automated telephone calls (IVR technology) and weighted separately for each population in the question presented. The poll was conducted for One America News.

Former NFL star Lawrence Phillips has been found dead in his prison cell. The 40-year-old, who was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 1996 NFL draft, was serving time at Kern Valley State Prison in California at the time of his death for two separate incidents - assaulting a girlfriend and hitting three teenagers with his car. It is believed his death was a suicide. Phillips was also facing additional charges at the time of his death after being accused of murdering his cellmate last year, Damion Soward.

OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back to warmer conditions like the present. In the last ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, ice sheets blanketed what is now Canada, northern Europe and Siberia. In a new explanation for the long-lasting plunges in global temperatures that cause ice ages, scientists pointed to a combination of...

The first week of July 2013 was the last time the Russell 2000 traded at these levels. That is 30 months of buy-and-hold for no return. Despite the constant clammer from "Small Cap fund managers" that they are the plaxce to be for protection against a soaring USD (since they are dominantly domestically focused), it seems the fact that small caps are much more sensitive to credit market conditions is the real reason and that market is carnaging.

Laxalt will serve as Chairman of the Cruz campaign in NevadaHOUSTON, Texas - Today, the Ted Cruz for President campaign announced that Cruz has received the endorsement of Nevada's leading elected conservative and Iraq War veteran, Attorney General Adam P. Laxalt. Nevada's caucuses take place on Tuesday, February 23rd, and Laxalt has agreed to take on the role as Nevada Chairman of the Cruz for President campaign.Adam Laxalt Endorses Ted Cruz (Video)"After meeting with many of the Republican candidates for President and carefully considering their respective candidacies for office, I am proud to put my full faith, confidence and support...

This is one of the most ridiculous videos I've ever seen of a journalist who was trying to smear a Republican and instead wound up making herself look a complete moron. Here's what happened. Ted Cruz made some comments to a religious crowd, as many of his supporters are Evangelical, and he used a very common Christian phrase that you would instantly understand if you read the Bible just once. Well apparently that excludes Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, who embarrassed herself by accidentally exposing her ignorance on Christianity!! Watch below:

According to unconfirmed reports, the FBI is now investigating the possibility that donors were directed to the Clinton Foundation in return for favors from the State Department when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. This would be in addition to the ongoing investigation into Hillary's use of a private email account for official business. We hope the FBI is reviewing the circumstances described below that we uncovered and have already made public: New York University (NYU) and the United Arab Emirates UAE)- We documented that Cheryl Mills, Hillary's longtime aide and confidant, worked as State Department chief of staff...

Michael Bloomberg keeps pouring $50 million into his Everytown organization to push gun control. That's just a portion of the money he's spending to push gun control. Bloomberg is spending money not just on the political battle, but also on funding research that he can use to push for more gun control and training the media on how to properly cover the issue. While everyone sees that Bloomberg's TV ad spending easily dwarfs what the NRA spends, what has gone unnoticed is how heavily he's spending on research. Few may have noticed how heavily President Obama's speech introducing his new...

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Endorses Ted Cruz for PresidentHOUSTON, Texas – Presidential candidate Ted Cruz today announced the endorsement of Kelly Shackelford, a top religious liberty litigator and spokesman for more than a quarter century.Kelly Shackelford is the President and CEO of Liberty Institute, one of the nation's largest legal organizations dedicated entirely to defending and restoring religious liberty. He is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before Congress on constitutional issues, and won three recent landmark First Amendment and religious liberty cases. Texas Lawyer named Shackelford one of the 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past quarter...

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