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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just violated House Ethics rules when she threatened to use her Congressional power of subpoena against someone who criticized her According to this news article that was just published by CNN, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the following:I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up. Please, keep it coming Jr – it’s definitely a “very, very large brain” idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month. Have fun!Ocasio-Cortez is threatening to use her power as a federal lawmaker to punish someone...

House Republican leaders are expressing concern and frustration about Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent assurances to Iran that the Obama administration could ignore aspects of the Visa Waiver Program reforms that might impact Iran.

President Obama is about to commit the United States to meet greenhouse gas emission targets in an international agreement without consulting Congress, the agencies, or the states. Republicans are warning other countries that the president's executive orders can be overturned and that any negotiations should take that into account.

MADISON -- The 14 missing Senate Democrats have until 4 p.m. today to return to the Capitol or face apprehension tantamount to arrest “with or without force." GOP Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) ordered the apprehension of the senators who fled the state two weeks ago to Illinois to avoid a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill. Republicans voted 19-0 to give the Democrats until 4 p.m. Thursday to appear before the Senate. "They have pushed us to the edge of a constitutional crisis," Fitzgerald said. "We simply cannot have democracy be held hostage because the minority wants...

(Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico's drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. The Obama administration has been under intense pressure to beef up security along the southwest border to prevent spillover from raging drug cartel violence in Mexico as well as to stem an influx of illegal immigrants."So today I say to the cartels: Don't even think about bringing your violence and tactics across this border," Napolitano told an audience at the University of Texas at El Paso.

<p>BAGHDAD - Iraq remained defiant Sunday in the face of U.S. threats, vowing to repel any military action and teach attackers an "unprecedented" lesson.</p> <p>"We are not warmongers. We do not want war and we do not wish it to happen," Izzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council, told reporters.</p>

With due respect to all that has been recently said about Arab economic power and demands that they assume an international political role, it is important for us to realize that emotional words are one thing and cold reality something else. Though we may have manufactured for ourselves the impressive motto, "Glory, Glory to the Arabs," it only feeds the illusion of non-existent power and a role of no importance. I have had the opportunity to look closely at the statement issued by the United Nation's Economic and Social Committee for Western Asia (ESCWA), following its conference in Beirut last...