The Hill Articles: May 28, 2014

House votes to boost campus sexual assault prevention efforts House votes to boost DOJ immigration review funding House lawmakers rip VA officials Snowden: ‘To do the right thing you have to break the law’ Cheney blasts ‘very weak’ Obama Michelle Obama op-ed: Put kids first House blocks cuts to COPS program Anti-piracy system sent 1.3 million notices in first year Obama turns to concussion research OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Calls for Shinseki to step down grow Brownback comes back to Washington White House slams attempt to reverse Census change Offshore tax report has flaws: conservative group OVERNIGHT TECH: Lawmakers to unveil bill for pre-1972 recordings White House objects to Commerce, Justice bill OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Climate war begins OVERNIGHT HEALTHCARE: McConnell takes hits on Kentucky exchange House presses Chinese government on human rights Homeland spending bill advances with child migrant fund praised Club for Growth key-votes amendment to nix funding for Commerce agency House Republicans urge IRS to abandon tax-exempt rules Liberal Dems slam Obama’s Afghanistan timeline Christie: ‘I used to be bigger’ Support for Shinseki crumbling CAMPAIGN OVERNIGHT: Did Democrats wait too long to call for Shinseki’s head? OVERNIGHT FINANCE: GDP report out Thursday Obama guards his legacy House passes bills to provide veterans with sexual trauma support, jobs training Pritzker announces 12 communities chosen for manufacturing initiative EPA grows its climate change trends list Miller: VA scandal ad not ‘appropriate’ GOP’s Dent: Same-sex marriage an issue of ‘personal freedom’ Budowsky: Obama’s sin, Clinton’s choice VA report ‘extremely troubling’ to Obama Fischer sworn in as Fed governor Cruz: Obama undermined Israel’s security White House adviser: Chamber ‘wrong again’ on climate rule Comcast CEO: Companies must pay to access Internet users Report: Employer cost-cutting measures could be hurting workers McKeon calls on Shinseki to step down GOP lawmaker: Obama doesn’t get it Transportation advocates hail Maya Angelou as streetcar pioneer Cornyn: FBI should investigate VA House passes Venezuela sanctions bill House lawmakers want answers from eBay Rep. Farr will offer amendment to remove GOP school lunch provision Shinseki: IG findings ‘reprehensible’ House panel tweaks autism-fighting bill GOP renews call for Shinseki resignation House action needed quickly on California drought Dem proposes studying health effects of menstrual products Dem calls grow for Shinseki to go Norquist: Don’t tax the Net ‘Top Chef’ judge: GOP should be ‘ashamed’ of nutrition fight Lee: Obama’s policy in Syria could be ‘gas on a fire’ Hoyer ‘not optimistic’ about immigration bill Humans cause climate change? ‘Jeopardy’ host thinks so. Washington’s dysfunctional relationship with Bahrain’s ruling family Senate panel to examine ‘stalking apps’ Is it Ted Cruz’s Texas now? House intel chief kept in dark on Afghanistan House Dem asks Obama ‘what your plan is’ on VA Feds snare rhino horn smuggling ring Obama: Angelou’s best stories were true Veterans waited 115 days for care at Phoenix clinic, IG report finds House lawmakers to EPA: We handle climate policy, not you Keep missile defense system on course Lewinsky: I was ‘the most humiliated person in the world’ Vilsack says Senate school lunch compromise is acceptable Ellmers says military healthcare failings ‘shameful’ Grimes campaign slams McConnell Liberal senators call for finance watchdogs to fill Fed vacancies Calif. gov.: 2016 is Hillary’s ‘if she wants’ Read VA inspector general’s report On cybersecurity, White House preaches sharing Dems eye gun control in spending bill Obama’s labor chief rips Congress for unemployment ‘fatigue’ Report: Power plants reducing emissions Thornberry: Russia making the case for more defense spending American Samoa delegate urges Redskins name change Lawmaker’s staff blasts ‘I’m Too Sexy’ during Most Beautiful interview Brown, Shaheen tout state ties Fox hires ‘Clueless’ star Lawmaker troubled by proposal to limit building heights near airports McCain: Obama foreign policy has ‘intellectually dishonest’ premise Chamber of Commerce defends US Internet oversight shift Section 179D: Best tax provision you’ve never heard of Deadline set for Senate action on cybersecurity Lagarde: Banks need a culture overhaul Crossroads ties Begich to VA scandal Putin hopeful Ukraine will pay gas bill Lawmaker: Obama’s ‘heart really isn’t in it’ Is Estonia leading the way for cybersecurity? Activists renew fight over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood Obama: US can’t ‘exempt’ itself from global climate rules Schumer: House GOP ‘out of excuses’ on immigration reform With inflation heating up, Fed should raise interest rates soon Treasury cracks down on money fraud Lawmakers mourn death of Maya Angelou Clinton: Memoir about ‘hard choices’ Poll: Liberal ideology gaining ground on social issues Angelou had long involvement in politics New regs for Thursday: Old money, highway traffic radio, drug confiscations Democratic candidates go on offense in ObamaCare ads IT firm to bring satellite broadband to Gitmo Feds ramp up energy, climate data programs Good riddance to Buckyballs Read Obama’s address at West Point Lower mortgage revenue drives drop in bank earnings At West Point, Obama turns away from use of US military ‘hammer’ Financial industry welcomes delay to Labor’s ‘fiduciary’ rule McConnell’s O-Care comments ‘unconnected to reality,’ says paper ‘Veep’ actor heads to Capitol Hill Rove v. Clinton: The poll numbers are in Walsh on VA: ‘The buck stops with you, Mr. President’ Poll: 43 percent view O-Care unfavorably Bloomberg: Cities will be key in climate fight Mortgage applications drop amid falling interest rates Chamber: Costs of EPA climate rule could top $50 billion a year LIVE: Obama talks foreign policy Call to action on global nutrition Bikini contest firing voided by labor board Google unveils driverless car prototype Boehner: Obama ‘playing politics’ on deportations Poll: Hawaii voters moving toward Schatz in Senate race From Miami Heat to the Senate? New Jersey conservative gets Palin support, but lags in polling Study: MRSA infection can survive for a week on airplanes School groups ‘cannot wait any longer’ for FCC Handel, Herschel Walker back Kingston How much money will Obama want for Afghanistan troops? Does the US need another round of trade deals? Here’s how to really help families obtain housing Feds reject call to move spent nuclear fuel Young’s widow says she’ll challenge Jolly Wednesday: VA accountability, Venezuela, appropriations Ex-CIA chief slams Obama Afghan plan as ‘dangerous’ Kerry slams Snowden’s ‘dumb answer’ Obama to announce $5B anti-terrorist fund Report: Facebook asks EU to review $19 billion WhatsApp deal Do we have to destroy radical Islamism in order to save Islam? Cutting through the regulatory thicket US to ramp up assistance to Syrian opposition, Kerry says Cummings: Issa ‘going rogue’ on Benghazi Energy solution must be an ‘all of the above’ strategy Making a hash(tag) of Africa policy Geithner, Mian and Sufi on the crisis Drones, transparency and legitimacy Assessing Washington’s response to the Ukraine crisis Wheeler’s ‘third way’ on net neutrality Obama makes a call to his bullpen Obama taking on foreign policy critics Cruz: I’m no Rand Paul on Israel House sharpens focus on VA scandal GOP unites behind Ernst in Iowa Focus on currency manipulation