Newsmax RSS FeedSat, 18 May 2013 21:38:40 EDTFormer Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel this week joined an increasingly crowded field of Republican candidates seeking the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss.Sat, 18 May 2013 15:58:33 EDTVirginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.Fri, 17 May 2013 18:32:57 EDTThe former head of the San Antonio Tea Party in Texas says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of his organization terrified so many members that nearly 50 percent quit the group.Fri, 17 May 2013 16:01:05 EDTFormer Rep. Ben Jones has ripped his old friend Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., for keeping him out of a fundraiser for Markey's Senate campaign. Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:05 EDTA strong majority of Americans aged 18 to 40 expect their health insurance premiums to rise under the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey of 801 people conducted by Public Opinion Strategies March 25 to April 9. Fri, 17 May 2013 13:57:11 EDTWhen she won one of the closest House races in the nation in 2010, Ann Marie Buerkle became a heroine to fellow conservatives and tea partiers nationwide. Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:55 EDTWith Georgia Republican Phil Gingrey running for the U.S. Senate next year, national pundits have long assumed that former congressman and 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr was the runaway favorite for the GOP nomination in Gingrey's open 11th District.Fri, 17 May 2013 13:50:23 EDTThe result of the 37th vote to repeal Obamacare by the Republican-controlled House came as no surprise.The vote was 229 to 195 and the repeal came down on party lines - almost. Fri, 17 May 2013 13:06:20 EDTThe tea party's next mission? Reform the entire legal system.Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:03 EDTRepublican House members are targeted the Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services department for 20 percent more in spending reductions in the coming year on top of sequester cuts made in March. Fri, 17 May 2013 10:58:30 EDTRepublican Sen. Lindsey Graham has joined with Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer in co-sponsoring a bill granting legal protections to journalists following the disclosure that the Justice Department secretly seized phone records of Associated Press reporters. Fri, 17 May 2013 10:46:50 EDTThe bipartisan group crafting the Senate's immigration reform legislation is working behind the scenes to secure the support of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch with the hope he can influence fellow GOP lawmakers to back the bill.Fri, 17 May 2013 10:38:34 EDTHuma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton and wife of former New York Congressman and mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, was permitted to work as a private consultant while also serving out the last few months of her job at the State Department.Fri, 17 May 2013 10:35:57 EDTNow that he has taken the oath of office for his second stint in the House of Representatives, Mark Sanford has revealed to Newsmax that the causes of lower spending and smaller government on which he first won election to Congress in 1994 are "more timely than ever" now.Fri, 17 May 2013 06:33:23 EDTFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says our best days lie ahead, but we must get back to what led us to greatness in the first place a focus on economic growth through a reliance on the free-enterprise system without government interference, and a strong emphasis on the...Thu, 16 May 2013 23:44:31 EDTSenate Democrats, finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to addressing the issue of gay rights under immigration reform, are calling on President Obama for help, Politico reports. They re growing more and more uneasy about risking Republican...Thu, 16 May 2013 23:38:35 EDTRep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is considering a Senate run in 2014, in an effort to capture the seat being left vacant by Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, the Hill reports. Noem has made it clear she will take several months before making a decision on whether she'd take on former...Thu, 16 May 2013 21:56:47 EDTAbuse of government power and a lack of transparency has people looking for a new face in the Senate, says Gabriel Gomez, who has captured the GOP nomination for the seat vacated by John Kerry when he was named Secretary of State. It's this total dysfunction down in DC, ...Thu, 16 May 2013 19:58:47 EDTPresident Barack Obama is tapping former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for the board that selects recipients for Fulbright scholarships.The Arizona Democrat resigned from Congress in 2012, a year after a gunman shot her at close range while she was greeting constituents in her...Thu, 16 May 2013 19:35:25 EDTThe current IRS scandal makes her wary of the tax-collecting agency which also will be entrusted to implement Obamacare, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., says.