Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) attacked his Democratic opponent for what he described as voting “to make undocumented individuals felons” in a debate Monday, underscoring how he has bucked the trend of GOP Senate candidates seizing on hawkish immigration positions amidst
IOWA CITY, Iowa–On the trail here with Joni Ernst, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus lit into President Obama, Harry Reid and Ernst’s opponent, Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) while outlining what he says Americans are “starving for” in their
DES MOINES, Iowa – On the plane ride here, I read in National Review that state senator Joni Ernst was “running to the left” of her opponent, Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) on Social Security. Later, flipping on my television
A placid debate between GOP state senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley became heated in its closing minutes as Braley lunged at Ernst with attacks over the “Koch brothers” and Ernst swung back by asking how Braley could
DES MOINES, Iowa–The next-door neighbor who Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) threatened with legal action over four pet chickens that occasionally wandered into his lawn said she has made up her mind to back the GOP Senate candidate this fall –
On August 21, Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign purchased an ad on the CBS reality show Big Brother for roughly $6,000. The ad, tracked by ad monitoring firm Kantar Media, ripped into Scott’s opponent, Republican-turned-Democratic nominee Charlie Crist over alleged
With the vote coming tomorrow, House Democrats said they are increasingly anxious about a proposal to authorize President Obama to arm and train Syrian rebels with the hope they will combat the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists consolidating power in the
President Obama’s request for congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels to help combat the burgeoning threat of the Islamic State would be in serious trouble in the House if not for the unlikely support of liberal Democrats who savaged George
Liberals on and off Capitol Hill are warning President Obama he must seek congressional authorization to engage in additional military action to combat ISIS. “Congress must weigh in when it comes to confronting ISIL through military action,” Reps. Keith Ellison
President Obama personally called the House Appropriations Committee Chairman at 5:00pm Tuesday to request congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels, prompting a scramble on Capitol Hill to digest the proposed policy change and decide how to bring it up for
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a withering repudiation of President Obama’s foreign policy record in a speech on the Senate floor speech Wednesday and urged the president to seek congressional authorization in his speech on the burgeoning terrorist threat
President Obama told congressional leaders from both parties that he does not need their approval to launch additional military action against the Islamic State (ISIS), but it would be preferable if they did provide it. “The President told the Leaders
A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa’s staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to
Reporters asked the question six ways to Sunday, but Speaker John Boehner wouldn’t give an inch: he won’t say whether congressional authorization will be needed for additional military actions by President Obama to address the Islamic State (ISIS), a burgeoning
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled the GOP’s September agenda in a memo to colleagues, outlining plans to pass a short-term spending bill as well as economic and energy packages. The memo also addresses the growing threat of Islamic State
At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York Friday, President Obama attributed people’s pervasive sense the world is falling apart to “social media.” “The world’s always been messy… we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” Obama
In Dallas at an Americans For Prosperity event, Heritage Foundation president and former-Sen. Jim DeMint put his thumb firmly on the scale for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over fellow Texan Gov. Rick Perry for the coming 2016 presidential contest. “I
Capitol Hill insiders widely consider President Obama’s rumored plan to unilaterally extend amnesty to as many as five million of illegal aliens to be political suicide, essentially ceding control of the Senate in a single act. But a key question
Breitbart News reporter Kerry Picket was arrested late Monday afternoon by a Missouri State Trooper and released several hours later with an apology from the arresting officer and his lieutenant. The State Trooper initially said that Breitbart News, a credentialed
A new New York Times story detailing President Obama’s overtures to the powerful business lobby ahead of planned executive actions on immigration is strikingly negative and suggests the plan continues to lose currency with the liberal intelligentsia in Washington. The
For years, Republicans caught in the cross-hairs of Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have complained about its alleged liberal bias and tendency to investigate GOP officials with far greater frequency than Democrats. Now one of the most
It has been clear for months that the border crisis has radically changed the politics of immigration, but now a liberal senator is bragging about his collaboration with arch conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on the issue. Speaking at the
A news story about the “shining” Scalise operation said it was savvy enough to go over the heads of lawmakers who “can’t be convinced.” Twenty-four hours later, King is the most important and outspoken advocate for a new version of two immigration
WASHINGTON,D.C.–In the Speaker’s lobby just off the House floor, members of Congress were full of recriminations over how the border bill had just died–until it sprang back to life. Now they have emerged from a last minute conference meeting vowing
UPDATE: House leadership postponed the vote on the border crisis bill, bringing up debate on a highway bill at the time the vote had been scheduled. — A last-minute plan from Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to provide conservatives a vote on
