In an abrupt switch from his months of work to bring immigration reform back from life support, Speaker John Boehner told reporters today that the issue cannot move forward until President Obama proves he can be a trustworthy partner to
Last Wednesday evening, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was sitting at home on his couch, scrolling through his Twitter feed on his iPad, when he ran across something that incensed him. At 8:06 p.m. that night, the official Twitter
Speaker John Boehner isn’t ready to let the dream die. On Tuesday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell told reporters immigration is just not in the cards in 2014. Last Thursday, rank-and-file House members sent a loud message at that President
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan confirmed he discussed immigration at a secret meeting with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer last year but said Schumer asked for the meeting, not him. “When a member of Congress of either party
Charles and David Koch raised eyebrows in D.C. last week with an aggressive push back of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the Nevada Democrat delivered the kind of bare-knuckle attack on the billionaire brothers that has become commonplace by top
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, one of the top proponents for bringing a major immigration reform bill to the House floor this year, raised serious doubts about the likelihood of such legislation in remarks on ABC’s This Week. Asked
Immigration is the zombie of political issues–even when it is dead, it is still alive. The combination of the Democratic Party, business interests, and a GOP operative class yearning for its promise of improved standing with Hispanic voters means that
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland–House leadership began the closed-door immigration meeting Thursday by passing out their immigration “principles” just as the first news stories about what was in them were starting to pop. But if the public rollout of the document seemed like
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is launching a boycott of MSNBC over an incendiary tweet from the network that suggested “the rightwing” would “hate” a television ad featuring a biracial family, Breitbart News has learned. “Until you personally and
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland–House Republicans responding to President Obama’s State of the Union vow to move forward on a “year of action” with or without Congress say they agree and want to partner with him. “We heard the president say this should
A little over halfway through President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington started clapping tentatively. Obama was inviting the GOP to come to the table with its ideas on health care.
House Speaker John Boehner declined to speak about forthcoming immigration “principles” at a press conference Tuesday, even as top party officials have in past days said it would include “legal status” for millions of illegal immigrants. Boehner said the matter
Florida Senator Marco Rubio continued his assault on an Obamacare “bailout” quietly built into the health care law in new video address to constituents provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “We should not allow private companies to use their political influence
