You can buy a lot of khakis for $12,200.

That's how much money State Farm Insurance's federal political action committee lost in January to "unknown" thieves, according to a letter the company's PAC sent Wednesday to the Federal Election Commission and reviewed by Raw Story.

WASHINGTON — The Republican political fundraising messages are equally urgent and doomsdayist, describing an imminent threat to one of the United States’ most beloved memorials.

“Mount Rushmore DESTROYED,” blares the campaign committee of Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) in a recent email to supporters. “Radical Democrats are ramming ahead with their attempts to dismantle our landmarks and history — starting with destroying Mount Rushmore!”

This annual conservative family gala—formally, the Conservative Political Action Conference — doesn’t just feel different than years past, many attendees are questioning, if not outright complaining, about the leaders of this conservative confab who jacked up prices, even as they’re offering fewer amenities.

“There are a lot of mumblings about the possibility that CPAC is in trouble,” Houston resident Fe Bencosme tells Raw Story.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have focused their attention on a number of hearings attacking Democrats, President Joe Biden and his government.

The House crafted a committee that they are calling the "weaponization of government," claiming that the government is singling out Republicans unfairly. At the same time, polls show that Americans view the GOP's committees as purely political, and they're not doing enough to investigate actual problems.

WASHINGTON — Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is among the Republican officials co-sponsoring a bill that would make the AR-15 the "national gun of the United States."

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), who introduced the bill, said in a statement that the bill protects the Second Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and can't be removed without a Constitutional Convention or a joint resolution passed by a two-thirds vote.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on the attack on Tuesday in a ten-minute rant to reporters about everything from Russia and Ukraine to COVID-19 and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"One of the many problems with how the Biden administration has handled this war is throughout they failed to set clear objectives that were grounded in U.S. national security," said Cruz. "The war in Ukraine is infuriating for many reasons, but most fundamentally because it was utterly preventable. Joe Biden caused the war in Ukraine."

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is blaming Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for the train crash that spilled toxic chemicals all over East Palestine, Ohio.

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, Manchin addressed the electric brakes, which experts at the Federal Railroad Administration say could have minimized the damage in the crash. Those regulations would have required the brakes to be in place by 2023. But according to Manchin such regulations don't matter.

WASHINGTON — Plenty of Americans just might be in the mood this year to break something, so U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is offering them the opportunity to do so in one of his unconventional 2024 re-election campaign fundraisers.

Casey's campaign will conduct a fundraiser March 21 at Kraken Axes in Washington, D.C., according to a fundraising invitation obtained by Raw Story.

WASHINGTON — The secretive U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics — tasked with confidentially investigating allegations of misconduct by its own members and staff — hasn’t formally punished anyone in at least 16 years, a Raw Story analysis of congressional records indicates.

Since 2007, the Senate Ethics Committee has received 1,523 complaints alleging violations of Senate rules. In exactly zero cases did it vote to issue a “disciplinary sanction” — the most damning form of punishment against a wayward senator.