Big donors are back at the Republican National Committee.
The party raised nearly three times as much from rich donors in 2011 than during the entire midterm election cycle. The money from wealthy supporters has helped the RNC recover from its dire financial position of last year, when the party’s bank accounts were in their worst shape in more than three decades.
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A senator closely tracking the fate of the U.S. Postal Service is asking the Postal Regulatory Commission to turn over information on the agency’s official travel schedule in recent years, following a Washington Post investigation into trips by its top commissioner.
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A Congressional Budget Office report issued last week has become Exhibit A in Republicans’ efforts to extend a freeze on federal pay rates and limit retiree benefits.
The main take-away from the report: “Overall, the federal government paid 16 percent more in total compensation than it would have if average compensation had been comparable with that in the private sector, after accounting for certain observable characteristics of workers.”
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A series of primary-season losses has already changed one thing about Mitt Romney: his soundtrack.
Months ago — when it seemed that the former Massachusetts governor could win the Republican nomination by merely seeming patriotic and competent — his campaign chose a blandly patriotic theme song. It was “Born Free,” an upbeat anthem from Kid Rock.
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Five months after Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was targeted in a CIA drone strike, a Democratic senator is lambasting the Obama administration for not providing Congress with the legal basis for the killing of the U.S. citizen.
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