The latest attempt by House Republicans to exploit the death of Americans at Benghazi, a one-party congressional report, cost money at a time of high deficits.

Because the report was so partisan and political and did not even offer a pretense of bipartisanship, Republicans should reimburse taxpayers for the cost of this partisan waste of their money.

The Hill's A.B. Stoddard sits down with Pundits bloggers John Feehery and Peter Fenn to discuss what impact the Boston Marathon bombing will have on the gun control and immigration debates. 

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, like Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Texas’s Ted Cruz have added much to the discussion this past semester, but I would like to suggest they misunderstand their forum. As a business model, the Senate today should be looked at as a pirate ship where full and honest discussion is considered seditious and principled management models are eyed suspiciously as cloaking dissent.

In a speech to the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Lee said: “The single most important policy would be federalism,” which means making “as many decisions at the most local level as possible.”

As stories spread about airline passengers waiting extra hours because of furloughs imposed by the sequester, and as monthly job reports begin to show the jobs-destroying impact of the sequester increasing, it is time to cancel the sequester.

Recently Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) made offensive and ludicrous comments, including his charge that radical Islamists are training future terrorists to act like American Hispanics. 

These comments should be denounced and repudiated by leading Texas and national Republicans including Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. John Cornyn, Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus.

The Gohmert comments are offensive to all fair-minded and decent Americans and Texans.

"This is our f------ city, and nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.” — David Ortiz, addressing the crowd at Fenway Park before the game this past Saturday

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick took questions from the press at Fenway on Saturday afternoon. His comments are worth repeating:

In the midst of bombings, threats and fear this week former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) provided some badly needed comic relief. 

No one will argue that Sanford is incredibly smart and a truly principled conservative — principled in his fiscal policy anyway. And yes, he may still make a comeback and win a special election for his old House seat on May 7. But recent developments in his political campaign have revealed that indeed he is a singularly strange guy. 

Bad news for Hillary. Elizabeth Warren too and Rand Paul and Rick Perry. 

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has just moved to the front of the line. And well he should. What an astonishing piece of work on behalf of the feds, state and local authorities.

Boston FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers brings a resolute commitment to task, but the governor brings a steady presence, a ballast, the feeling that we are here, we will not be turned away. We are coming for you and we will get you.

Obama’s failure to push his gun control agenda through the Democratic-controlled United States Senate revealed the craven political power of big government.

A president with the assistance of a friendly media can drive emotional messages featuring victims, along with media-certified four-Pinocchio statements to try to whip the nation into a frenzy to urge legislation. Yet, only when it fails does the real big government beast expose itself.