The controversial border security legislation that was supposed to receive a House vote Wednesday has been pulled from the schedule. A House leadership aide blamed the weather. A decision on when the bill will receive a vote remains to be determined, the aide added.
The newly formed House Freedom Caucus will push back against soft Republican efforts to simply pass bills and instead will pursue a true conservative agenda, Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) tells Breitbart News. Fleming, one of the nine founding members of the House Freedom Caucus, argued that demonstrating what true conservatism looks like will serve to increase the ranks of conservatives in elected office.
A new caucus aimed at pushing “an agenda of limited, constitutional government” is up-and-running, launched by nine conservative members of the House of Representatives. “The House Freedom Caucus gives a voice to countless Americans who feel that Washington does not represent them,” the group’s mission statement reads.
Monday, Chicago residents will begin hearing a 60-second radio ad featuring Obama endorsing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection. In the radio ad Obama highlights his own Chicago background and Emanuel’s campaigns for jobs, longer school days, and a higher minimum wage in the city.
As House Republicans prepare to take a vote on what Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) calls the “strongest border security bill” to ever appear before Congress, a union of Border Patrol agents argue it is not tough enough. The House is slated to vote on the “Secure our Borders First Act” this week and the effort’s leaders have billed it as part of a step-by-step approach to dealing with the nation’s immigration problems.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti are leading an effort to oppose a lawsuit, filed by 25 states, that seeks to halt President Obama’s executive amnesty. De Blasio and Garcetti announced plans Friday to file an amicus brief that will support President Obama’s executive actions on immigration against the states’ lawsuit.
The Democratic National Convention will be held the week of July 25, 2016, DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-FL) announced Friday. While the DNC has not settled on a host city yet, the committee is in final contract negotiations with Columbus, New York, and Philadelphia.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released its year-end statistics for 2014 on Friday, saying the agency charged with protecting the nation’s airports experienced a “record breaking year.”
The president of the union representing 12,000 officers and employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is attacking House Republicans’ upcoming border legislation for not dealing with immigration fraud. The leaders in the House effort, however, say the bill is part of a process.
House Republicans say they will continue to work on passing legislation to ban abortion after 20-weeks, after a bill aimed at doing so was scuttled at the eleventh hour when some members raised concerns about language within the initial text. “There is a word of honor that it will,” come up again, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), one of the bill’s sponsors, told reporters Thursday.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to task Thursday for his unexpected invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. The California lawmaker also expressed concerns about the proximity of the speech to the Israeli elections.
House conservatives are calling on their counterparts in the Senate to finish the job of defunding President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and pushing back against the administration’s policies. While the legislation has passed the House, the White House is already threatening to veto the bill and few expect that the effort has the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
House Speaker John Boehner says he invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress because the country needs a “serious conversation” about the threats posed by radical Islam. The Speaker did not consult the White House before he invited the Isreali Prime Minister.
The highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), says the Obama administration sounds as if it’s getting talking points from Iran about its negotiations with the so-called Islamic republic.
House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate on February 11. It would be the prime minister’s third appearance before Congress.
President Barack Obama again called on Congress to pass equal pay legislation to ensure female employees are paid as much as their male counterparts during Tuesday evening’s State of the Union address.
In advance of the State of the Union, the Republican National Committee is pointing out some of the most negative aspects of President Obama’s past six years. For example, the RNC highlights that since Obama took office in 2009, 13 million Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls — more than twice the population of El Salvador.
While Americans are generally more satisfied with their quality of life ahead of the State of the Union his year than they were last year, Americans’ outlook on race relations have taken a nose dive, according to a new poll. A mere 30 percent of Americans polled expressed satisfaction with the state of race relations, down 25 percentage points from 2014, when 55 percent said they were satisfied.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will be hosting Cuban dissidents at Tuesday’s State of the Union. According to the Speaker’s office, Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antunez) and Antunez’s wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera — leaders in the fight for human rights and freedom in Cuba — will be seated in the Speaker’s box come speech time.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2017, some 2 million currently undocumented immigrants will be eligible for certain federal benefits under the Obama administration’s executive amnesty. The office estimates that between 2 million and 2.5 million undocumented immigrants will “have received approval for deferred action” by 2017.
Shortly after President Obama announced his executive amnesty, a number of immigration officials emailed a congressional office expressing frustration and discontent at the administration’s actions. That congressional office this week exclusively provided the angry emails from five immigration officials and one Justice Department official to Breitbart News on condition of anonymity.
In an effort to make it easier for illegal immigrants to benefit from the Obama administration’s executive amnesty, the Mexican government started issuing birth certificates at their consulates in the United States Thursday, according to a new report.
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, obtained in advance by Breitbart News, argues that under President Obama’s executive amnesty certain undocumented immigrants are being released from detention facilities and are eligible for work permits. As Breitbart News reported late last year, from the November announcement to the end of 2014, ICE released more than 600 detained immigrants from custody.
The House approved a Department of Homeland Security appropriations package Wednesday that lawmakers say will block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The $39.7 billion DHS appropriations bill to fund the department through fiscal year 2015 passed 236 – 191.
House Speaker John Boehner took to the House Floor Wednesday — ahead of a series of votes to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty — to take the president to task for his executive orders on immigration. In a pointed speech directed squarely at the president’s actions, Boehner quoted each of the 22 times Obama has said he did not have the authority to do what he eventually did: unilaterally change the nation’s immigration laws.
