Outside the Beltway

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

A new GOP would make it very difficult to get a good read on the state of the nation’s economy.

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

There’s bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that they don’t want to participate in ObamaCare.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

If you want to understand contemporary politics, the last thing you should do is reference an Andrew Sorkin project.

The odds that any of the Senators who voted no on Manchin/Toomey will pay a political price for doing so is low.

The filibuster is now so commonplace that it’s baked into the expectations.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

The Senate looks like it’s about ready to take up a bipartisan immigration reform package.