The federal government's botched handling of HealthCare.gov cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office (GAO). The report will be officially presented tomorrow to a House subcommittee. The GAO report faults the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), […]
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How Secretive is Your State on Executive Orders?
Before he was president, Barack Obama criticized supposed overuse of executive orders. Now that he's the nation's chief executive officer, he has embraced executive orders as a way to accomplish his policy objectives when Congress doesn't agree with him. That's now the subject of a planned lawsuit by Republican House Speaker John Boehner. But U.S. […]
Fast and Furious Docs Still Withheld Under Executive Privilege
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is asking the court to lift the "temporary" delay it granted the Justice Department allowing it to withhold Fast and Furious records. Nearly two years ago, on June 20, 2012, President Obama asserted executive privilege to keep secret a set of documents that Congress subpoenaed concerning the controversial gun walking case. […]
