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The Obama administration says it expects the number of Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. to quadruple in 2015 and 2016, triggering concerns that some terrorists may be among the refugees allowed in.

An American congressman visits Israel and hails Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of the Israeli leader’s scheduled address to a joint session of Congress next month.

Illegal immigration activists are urging people to prepare for amnesty, even though a federal judge has issued an injunction halting President Obama’s executive amnesty for now.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is taking a group of Democratic lawmakers to Cuba.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says a new court ruling should cause Senate Democrats to end their filibuster of the House-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill and allow it to come to the floor. DHS funding expires Feb. 27.

The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says a new court ruling should encourage the Senate to take up a House-passed measure that would block President Obama’s executive amnesty for illegals, while otherwise fully-funding DHS.

House Speaker John Boehner says he’s not surprised that a court has issued a temporary injunction suspending the president’s executive amnesty, and adds this should empower the Senate to take up a House-passed DHS funding measure.

The discovery that the Obama’s administration will now allow undocumented immigrants to apply for deferred action and advanced parole simultaneously — opening a path to citizenship — is a “scandal,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Friday.

House Republicans are demanding Senate Democrats break their filibuster of a House-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would block President Obama’s executive amnesty.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is shining the light on a change made to the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that could put hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. According to

Members of both houses of Congress are encouraging Senate Democrats to drop their filibuster and allow the Senate to consider a House-passed DHS funding bill.

The Senate appears set to recess next week, even though it hasn’t been able to take up a DHS funding measure passed by the House.

House Speaker John Boehner warns it’s up to Democrats to allow the Senate to take up a DHS funding bill that also blocks President Obama’s executive amnesty.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is defending Senate Democrats, who’ve maintained a filibuster of a House-passed DHS appropriations bill that would block Obama’s executive amnesty.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says the Obama administration’s immigration policies are harming American workers. A recent report noted that for every job created in the U.S. since 2000, the government has added two immigrants.

Republicans from the House and Senate are discussing ways to get a DHS funding bill, passed in the House last month, up for consideration by the Senate. So far, they say, Democrats have blocked their efforts.

The members of the new House Freedom Caucus are sending a message to senators: They ought to vote on a House-passed DHS funding bill.

House Republicans insist they’ve already passed a bill to fund DHS and defund President Obama’s amnesty. They insist it’s up the the Senate to move forward on that bill.

House Speaker John Boehner has an earthy message for Senate Democrats. He wants to know “when they are going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote ‘no!'” on a DHS funding bill that passed the House last month.

For every job that’s been created in the U.S. in the 21st Century, the country has allowed two immigrants (legal or illegal) to enter, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies finds.

Sen. Jeff Sessions is angry over a just-reported Obama Administration program that would allow illegal aliens to bring their children to the U.S. from Central America as well.

The leader of the Senate says his body cannot move on a DHS funding bill, so the next step would be up to the House.

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is calling on Congress to give him what he wants: An appropriations bill that doesn’t defund President Obama’s executive amnesty.

The Obama administration is making it easier for certain South and Central American children to come to the U.S. It’s extended the president’s executive amnesty to include children of those allowed to stay here despite having come illegally.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won’t be on hand when Israel’s prime minister speaks to a joint session of Congress next month.

Forget income inequality for one night. Top Democrat lawmakers are happy to walk the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.

Even as lawmakers try to roll back President Obama’s executive amnesty, the Department of Homeland Security is explaining how individual illegals can inquire about executive amnesty or register complaints.

Federal government statistics show that, since 2007, foreign-born workers have experienced a net increase in employment, while native-born Americans have experienced a net loss.

The Congressional Black Caucus is blasting Sen. Rand Paul over his opposition to Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to be Attorney General.

Democrats won’t “boycott,” but might not attend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress.

House Speaker John Boehner again called on Senate Democrats who have expressed opposition to Obama’s executive amnesty to follow through and vote to allow legislation blocking the executive actions proceed to debate.

Pope Francis will speak to a joint session of Congress in September.

Ohio’s Secretary of State warns the White House that executive amnesty could allow non-citizens to vote in American elections. At least 17 voted in that state in 2012.

Sen. John Cornyn says he’ll join Sen. Jeff Sessions and vote against Loretta Lynch for Attorney General.

The “Cool kids” have weighed in via U.S. mail — sending Sen. Elizabeth Warren a letter asking her to run for president in 2016.