THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

2016: A Time To Change As 2014 came to a close, I spent a lot of time talking about 2015 needing to be "a time for change." I pressured the Republicans in Congress to focus on repealing and replacing ObamaCare, securing our borders, balancing our budgets and to push for energy independence. That didn't happen. I was angry with Congressional leadership at the end of 2014 when they passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill. At the end of 2015, we began the Paul Ryan era as Speaker of the House. With Ryan's arrival, a new hope emerged that Republicans might hold onto Conservative values and revive a lost party. As we start 2016, we know that there needs to be another Conservative revolution, a chance to change the direction of this country. We will pick a President in 2016 and that choice needs to be a Conservative voice of change and hope! I'll see you all Monday at 3pm ET on radio as we begin this journey to the White House together. U.S. Doesn't Know How Many Foreign Visitors Overstay Visas According to a report from Ron Nixon from the New York Times, the U.S. doesn't know how many foreign visitors overstay on their visas each year. A testy exchange during a recent congressional hearing between Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina, and Alan Bersin, the assistant secretary for international affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, highlighted what some law enforcement officials call a critical weakness in the United States foreign visa program. The federal government has spent millions of dollars on trying to ascertain how many people overstay, yet officials can only roughly estimate the number of people in the United States who have done so. Officials blame a lack of technology to conduct more advanced collection of data like iris scans, resistance from the airline and tourism industries because of cost, and questions about the usefulness of tracking people exiting the country as a counterterrorism measure...(continue reading)