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California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna forced a vote in the House Rules Committee on an amendment that would have forced the entire House of Representatives to vote on whether to release the files on sex offender and suspected blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein. The vote failed 5-7, with all four Democrats in favor and Ralph Norman of South Carolina the sole Republican to join them. In other words, only one Republican on the House Rules Committee voted for the “full” release of the Epstein files Monday night. Norman has served in Congress since 2017. He just so happens to have the highest...

President Obama has targeted the Department of Defense to absorb more than 80 percent of the cuts he has proposed in next year's budget for discretionary programs. In its "Terminations, Reductions and Savings" booklet, which the administration released Thursday, the White House highlighted the results of the president's line-by-line scrubbing of the federal budget. The administration identified $11.5 billion in discretionary program terminations and reductions for next year. The Defense Department will take a $9.4 billion hit, constituting 82 percent of the cuts. Defense accounts for 49 percent of spending on discretionary programs, which Congress must fund each year. The...

What I do not understand is why you all need to "freep" Disney in order to try and stop Moore's video about the connection between Bush and bin Laden. If the video and Moore are such a joke and full of lies like you say, then why are you all so nervous about its release? And what difference does it make if it is to be released just prior to the election if Bush and his cronies have nothing to hide? My only complaint about Moore's video is that it is not covering the right topic. It should be a...