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Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Tony Mecia talks with host Eric Felten about how Congress abuses its hearings power to spank private citizens.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Michael Warren on today's House Intelligence committee meetings on Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

Twenty-five minutes before the start of Thursday’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Charles Woods stood alone behind the witness table, marveling at the chaos around him. A gaggle of still photographers was rehearsing their movements for the arrival of former Secretary of State…

Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on President Obama’s executive action on immigration opened with a video montage. Introduced by Republican chairman Bob Goodlatte during his opening statement, the Fox News-produced video featured clips of Obama repeating several times throughout his…

Rep. Ralph Hall, a 90-year-old Republican from Texas, told Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he thought he saw her riding a tricycle in Meade, Kansas when he was in the 3rd grade:

At today's Capitol Hill hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder at first wasn't sure who subpoenaed the AP's phone records, but later blamed his deputy attorney general:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Stephen F. Hayes on what we learned at today's Benghazi hearing in the House of Representatives.

At today's Benghazi hearing, Congressman Mark Pocan complains of "rehashing some of the same old stories":

Benghazi whistleblower Eric Nordstrom, the former Libyan regional security officer, choked up today at the Capitol Hill hearing on the 9/11 Benghazi terror attack:

Fox News's Chad Pergram announces the line-up for the  whistleblower Benghazi hearing, which will be held on Capitol Hill next week, on Twitter:

Two officials from the Obama administration are on the hot seat today on Capitol Hill: John Brennan, who is the president'a chief counterterrorism advisor and who has been nominated to lead the CIA, and Leon Panetta, the retiring defense secretary. For Brennan, the issue is whether he should be…

Dorothy Rabinowitz writes: 

The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said over the weekend that opposition to the nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense is "intensifying." The second highest ranking Republican in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, has been leading the charge against Hagel.

Vietnam veteran and ex-Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Isolation) made a stunning impression in his audition for the role of secretary of defense yesterday, though it was not quite the one that he wished. "Though he was being asked about things he had said over the course of the past 15 years, it was what…

An advisor to President Obama describes Chuck Hagel's hearing as, "somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible." The advisor made the comment to the New York Times.

Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama's nominee to head the defense department, said in his confirmation hearing Thursday that he doesn't "know much" about military programs and technology. "I've said I don't know enough about it," Hagel said, in a response to Maine senator Angus King. "There are a lot of…

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Steve Hayes hosted by Michael Graham:

At yesterday's Benghazi hearings, senators and congressmen sang Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's praise. The Washington Free Beacon provides this video:

During questioning by Senator Rand Paul at today's Benghazi hearing, Hillary Clinton seemed to blame her underlings for the 9/11 terror attack that killed four Americans in Libya: