House Republican leaders are turning to the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Rep. Elise Stefanik, to help them try to appeal to millennials in the 2016 elections.Source: The GOP finds its millennial star...
Originally published: June 19, 2015 Last updated: June 19, 2015 - 6:55pm Coverage Type: analysis [Commentary] You’re about to get a crash-course in how to avoid eliciting an angry public statement from a pop icon. Know the legal terrain (a.k.a. “Musical Copyright 101”).Source: Campaigns, Copyrights, and Compositions: A Politician’s Guide to Music on the Campaign Trail...
Assume general agreement that the Federal Election Commission is putting on a poor show nowadays. The Commissioners are snarling at one another, tweeting out their grievances, withholding simple courtesies, and just snappish.Source: The FEC's Problems -...
Tired of automated phone calls urging you to vote for a certain candidate or pitching you a cruise vacation? You can now tell your phone company that federal regulators say it's OK to block them. The question now is whether the phone companies have the technology to do it in a way consumers want.Source: FCC to phone companies: You can...
We hear a lot these days about a “dysfunctional” Federal Election Commission, including from the Agency’s own Chair, Ann Ravel, who, after a promising start, has apparently decided it’s not worth the trouble to work constructively within the Agency she nominally heads, and Commissioner ElleSource: A Dysfunctional FEC? Calling Inigo Montoya...
The super PAC supporting Carly Fiorina for president changed its name Monday from Carly for America to CARLY for America super PAC, which stands for: ConservativeAuthenticResponsiveLeadership forYou and ...
--MR. TRUMP, WE MEET AGAIN: Donald Trump -- the real estate mogul, reality television star and hair icon -- will announce today whether or not he will launch his first run for the White House at the iconic Trump Tower in New York City, ABC's JOHN SANTUCCI notes.Source: The Note: Donald Trump Plays His Card...
The Internal Revenue Service may have found 6,400 emails from Lois Lerner, who oversaw the tax agency’s Exempt Organizations Unit, but they aren’t sharing and their excuse is priceless!Source: IRS Finds 6,400 Lois Lerner Emails But Won't Hand Em Over...
Jeb Bush on Monday officially declared that he’s running for president, following a long period of staffing up, traveling and fundraising as an all-but-declared candidate. For months he has been snapping up some of the most prominent names in establishment Republican politics.Source: The power players behind Jeb Bush's campaign...
MIAMI — Jeb Bush, a scion of the most recognizable family in Republican politics who fashioned an image as a sober-minded conservative truth-teller while governor of Florida, is running for president.Source: Jeb Bush launches 2016 presidential bid...
