Outside the Beltway

Congress gets bad grades in Gallup’s latest poll, and gridlock is the main reason

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.

Speaker Boehner seems confident that immigration reform will become law this year, but his confidence may be premature.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Marco Rubio is threatening to withdraw support for the immigration plan he helped draft, but I would suggest not reading too much into that threat.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

Just about all of the substantive information in the excerpts was already revealed in the TIGTA audit.

Some interesting choices ahead for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie

Filling normal vacancies on the bench is not “packing the court.”

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

Former Senator Bob Dole joins the list of those not too happy with the current state of the Republican Party.

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

A new GOP would make it very difficult to get a good read on the state of the nation’s economy.

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.