Liberals on Capitol Hill have worked themselves into a frenzy over the U.S. attorneys firings. Their latest attack came earlier this week when Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D.-Vt.) issued subpoenas to the White House and Justice Department for documents related to the firings. President Bush has rightly declined to cooperate.
The Heritage Foundation’s Ed Meese [...]

There are few people more qualified for the job of OMB director than Jim Nussle. The former House Budget Committee chairman has a résumé that makes him the perfect fit for overseeing the Office of Management and Budget. Yet that experience could be the very reason Democrats want to block his confirmation.
We found out yesterday [...]

As we close the book on the comprehensive immigration bill, it’s important that we don’t put it on the shelf and forget about it. My colleague Matt Spalding and others at the Heritage Foundation have been saying that for weeks. Earlier today, just hours after the bill collapsed, Spalding offered his thoughts on the next [...]

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There’s lots of celebrating taking place on Capitol Hill following the defeat of amnesty. Heritage held an impromptu party at lunch with free pizza. Later in the day, when I was [...]

President Bush finally admitted today that his comprehensive approach to immigration reform “didn’t work” — a strong indication that we won’t be seeing another bill anytime soon. Here are his remarks:
I thank the members of the Senate and members of my administration who worked so hard on the border security and immigration reform bill. [...]

Hard work is paying off for my friend Phillip Stutts. The grassroots “king” of GOP get-out-the-vote efforts has joined the Herald Group as a vice president to establish a grassroots practice at the bipartisan public affairs consulting firm.
I came to know Stutts through my friends Matt Lewis and Erin DeLullo at a fundraiser for Virginia [...]

President Bush tested conservatives once and lost. He didn’t fare much better the second time. And so goes the story of the ill-conceived immigration bill.
Nearly three weeks ago, after the bill failed a key cloture vote, I wrote that it wasn’t dead yet. This time it is. Today’s vote — which fell 14 short hitting [...]

Just when House Republicans started to regain the trust of conservatives on fiscal restraint, they decided to team up with Democrats to vote themselves a $4,400 pay raise. It’s almost laughable, but in Washington it’s business as usual.
For starters, the notion that members of Congress deserve a pay raise is just remarkable in itself. Just [...]

That’s how Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), a leading critic of the immigration bill, put it to the Washington Post. Some of the bill’s supporters, especially presidential contender John McCain, have the same feeling.
They’ll get there wish in about an hour when the Senate votes for cloture. Supporters of the bill need 60 votes to cut [...]

Tonight’s softball game was a lot of fun. We defeated the AFF/CEI squad, 26-10, and improved to 6-1 in the Think Tank Softball League. I played about half the game, partly in right field and rest in center, and went 2-for-3 with one run scored. The top of the order — Kyle, Spiller and Izzy [...]