Tag: Pete Kasperowicz

Gohmert said the movement for transgender people use their bathroom of choice is bringing the country down. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Louie Gohmert: LGBTQ bathroom fight is PC ‘insanity’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 21, 2016 5:46 pm

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., "The point is, they have no plan, they don't want to act, and while they are fiddling, American lives, people overseas, their lives are at risk, and we are telling American women 'don't get pregnant,'" Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told reporters. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Dem: GOP stall on Zika bill is telling women, ‘Don’t get pregnant’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 20, 2016 4:59 pm

The House Appropriations Committee released its proposed spending bill late Tuesday, and is hoping to move the bill out of committee in the coming weeks.

GOP pushes to keep lawmaker pay freeze in 2017

Pete Kasperowicz · April 20, 2016 3:55 pm

"We don't know means we don't know," State Department spokesman John Kirby said when pressed on whether none, some or all of the $3 billion might have been used to fund terrorism. "I would not even hazard an estimate." (Photo courtesy of screen shot)

National Security

‘We don’t know’: State Dept. blind to Iran’s terror funding

Pete Kasperowicz · April 19, 2016 7:24 pm

David Shulkin told the House Veterans' Affairs Committee that the language in question would only hurt current protections for federal workers. (AP Photo)

VA opposes push for more accountability

Pete Kasperowicz · April 19, 2016 5:00 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Union: VA accountability plan an ‘assault’ on federal workers

Pete Kasperowicz · April 19, 2016 4:01 am

"We're following the political situation in Brazil closely, including the lower house's April 17 vote to impeach President Rousseff," John Kirby said Monday. (AP Photo)

National Security

State ‘confident’ Brazil can handle impeachment vote

Pete Kasperowicz · April 18, 2016 7:20 pm

the Department of Veterans Affairs told the Washington Examiner that it's not using that law, known as the Veterans' Choice Act, to discipline the two Senior Executive Service employees. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

VA avoids tough new firing law to discipline two senior officials

Pete Kasperowicz · April 18, 2016 7:16 pm

"What I'd like to say is, just relax," Kasich said on CNN. "If you don't like what somebody's doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it? You know?" (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Kasich tells supporters of religious freedom laws: ‘Get over it’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 17, 2016 2:10 pm

"Winning is accumulating delegates," he said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "I don't have to win the state, I have to accumulate delegates and have momentum going in." (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

Kasich: ‘I don’t have to win the state’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 17, 2016 1:40 pm

The report was done after complaints that VA officials in Los Angeles were shredding mail related to claims. (AP Photo)

VA has ‘systemic’ problem of shredding benefit claims

Pete Kasperowicz · April 15, 2016 6:07 pm

The Republican National Committee, led by Chairman Reince Priebus, is telling GOP candidates that it's up to them to learn the rules of how delegates are awarded, and says states and territories have been transparent about the process. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC: Burden is on candidates to learn delegate process

Pete Kasperowicz · April 15, 2016 11:26 am