John Wilson

New York Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley, a member of the Ways and Means Committee is accusing Republicans of playing politics. Read More

The House will open its first hearing into the IRS abuse scandal Friday, two days after the ouster of the agency's acting chief. Read More

Under intense pressure to respond to the tragedy, Bangladesh's government agreed Monday to allow garment workers to unionize without permission from factory owners. Read More

Democrats and the White House are accusing Republicans of obstructionism after GOP senators blocked a committee vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Read More

New York's Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is sponsoring legislation that would extend the existing ban on weapons that can't be spotted by a metal detector. Read More

Crisis manager Lanny Davis has an idea, "Tell it all, tell it early, and tell it yourself." Read More

Under the "Marketplace Fairness Act," all online companies would be required to collect sales tax. Read More

In cities such as Boston, which has a relatively small system of 300 cameras, lawmakers including Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.) want more cameras. Read More

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, told Jansing & Co. polls that show roughly 90% of Americans who say they support expanded background checks have reason to be encouraged. Read More

The chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital is praising the efforts of first responders, crediting them with preventing the loss of more lives in the Boston twin bombing attack. Read More

Tagg Romney, the oldest son of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, says he and his family had just left the Boston Red Sox game a mile away at Fenway Park when the twin explosions occurred. Read More

New numbers from the IRS show 96.5 million individual returns were filed as of April. 5. That leaves an estimated 51 million returns still to be filed, or about 45% of the total individual returns expected to be filed this year. Read More

The disgraced former New York congressman and his wife talked to The New York Times about the scandal. If they want advice on recovering from a marital and political crisis, says one Jansing guest, they could ask their old friends Bill and Hillary Clinton. Read More

Don't beat yourself up the next time you give in to the urge to eat a bag of potato chips or cookies. The processed food industry has spent decades and billions of dollars coming up with the perfect combination of sugar, salt and fat to get you hooked and keep you coming back for more. Read More

WNBC sports anchor Bruce Beck tells Jansing & Co. that Rutgers had no choice but to fire Mike Rice after the video spread like wildfire. Read More

Former New Mexico Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson tells Jansing & Co. he's concerned about the war rhetoric coming from North Korea. Read More

Parent company Bertelsmann says 70 million print, audio and e-book copies of E.L. James' erotic trilogy were sold from March to December last year. Read More

Congressman David Cicilline, D-R.I.,, one of the first openly-gay members of Congress told Jansing & Co., "The American people are way ahead of the judiciary, they have moved beyond this, people have embraced marriage equality...the Supreme Court has the responsibility to catch up to that." Read More

Israel says Iron Dome has stopped 84% of incoming rockets. Read More

At a closed door meeting with senate Democrats on Tuesday, two senators tell Politico that the President tried to assure them that his administration has been more open to oversight than the Bush administration. Read More