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Former Secretary of State and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on October 22, 2015. For those of you expecting anything near the truth to be outed during this hearing, guess again. The whole structure of the congressional committee hearings is to give the members of Congress an opportunity to bloviate, obfuscate and create campaign sound bites. Nothing is geared toward finding the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House has voted to slash the budget for the Internal Revenue Service's tax enforcement division by $1.2 billion, a 25 percent cut that would mean fewer audits of taxpayers and make it more likely that people who cheat on their taxes will get away with it. The House approved the cuts by voice vote after little debate Monday night as it took up a $21 billion spending bill that sets the IRS budget. The cuts reflect GOP outrage over the agency's scrutiny of tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status and frustration over the agency's failure...

A hero in the House Posted: August 5, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com I don't get excited about politicians very often. To do so usually leads to disappointment. But I'm excited about Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., and the work he is doing to hold our federal courts accountable and restore some semblance of constitutional government to our system. He is responsible recently for introducing amendments to a House appropriations bill that would withhold funding for the enforcement of the federal court decision to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building and for the removal of...