"For a federal employee, I think it is more likely — and I can speak for myself — I prefer to stay with the current policy that I'm pleased with rather than go through a change if I don't need to go through that change," IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said Thursday. REP. JOHNSON: Mr. Werfel, last week your employees who are a mem

CROWLEY: Give credit to Kerry for what he's done so far, just getting people to the table is a pretty limited step. It is more than Clinton was able to accomplish, and Clinton never personally engaged herself in the process, she tasked former Sen. George Mitchell as her envoy to the Middle East, and sort of outsourced that. One criticism you do hea

After a vote concluded in the Senate on Thursday, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) told his raucus colleagues to "sit down and shut up."

REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD), HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: I was just on television and they played a clip of Rush Limbaugh before that. And Rush Limbaugh said: we ought not to compromise, because we don't have anything in common. With them. Meaning Democrats. My response was: oh, I think Rush Limbaugh is wrong. We're all Americans, and we're all elected here b

COBURN: I think the number one thing they don't pay attention to is the U.S. Constitution and the enumerated powers enlisted in there in the 10th Amendment. That's what they're not paying attention to. I'm going to introduce the Enumerated Powers Act today. It has 35 cosponsors but there's not one Democrat on there. All it says is when you're going

CAMP: Well, the president promised, that I'm quoting, to lower premiums for the typical family up to $2,500 per year. Is that going to happen? And obviously, we’re a couple of months away from implementing it. People are concerned about the costs, how they're going to meet these obligations, is the average family in mid and northern Michigan goin

Senator Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Ted Cruz moderated by YAL's own Jeff Frazee in a livestreamed roundtable discussion.

On CNN today, longtime Republican New York Congressman Peter King argued Rand Paul and his libertarian-leaning views on foreign policy were making "America the enemy." "He wants to retreat from the world. He wants to isolate ourselves, go back to a fortress America," King said. "The Republicans had this debate back in the 1930s, when you had

NSA Director Keith Alexander was heckled and jeered as he pleaded with professional hackers and cyber-security experts to support indiscriminate surveillance at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was interrupted approximately 30 minutes into his speech when he said that stopping terrorism must be a top priority. An audience me

MSNBC: Chris Matthews talks about the mission of Republicans like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz to destroy Obamacare, the administration, and the government in their recent efforts to push Congress to defund the government in order to stop Obamacare.

Special Report panel discusses.  

"I am running for re-election in New Jersey. I don’t really have time for that at the moment. If I find myself in Washington, I’ll certainly look him up, but I don’t suspect I’ll be there anytime soon," Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said on New Jersey's 101.5FM radio during the "Ask The Governor" show. Christie was responding to

Chris Hayes discusses how Congress could limit the NSA's surveillance of Americans.

DENNIS MILLER: "Rand Paul and Chris Christie, I hate to see Fat Man and Little Boy quibble like this. I mean, as Roger Ailes says, you can not shoot inside the tent. And when the 400 pound guy is telling you you bring home too much bacon, you know it's gone absolutely mad. And yeah, if they're going to keep shooting inside the tent like this, you o

SEAN HANNITY: Do you think Al Sharpton has ever created a job with all this activism? Do has he prevented a life from being taken with all this activism? Has he united anybody, has he solved any problems among any groups that you know of, Michelle? MICHELLE MALKIN: Al Sharpton has blood on his hands. He’s ruined lives, he’s been one of the

Bill O'Reilly catalogues what he sees as the last gasp of the idea that America is a "racist" country. He also speaks with the NAACP's Hilary Shelton about what causes violence and poverty in black communities. BILL O'REILLY: The grievance industry goes off the rails -- that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo".