Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to answer questions about the security failures at the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. During
Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Breitbart News Tuesday that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies on Wednesday about the failures to adequately protect the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, she
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews compared President Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address saying that, it reminded him “of another second inaugural, Lincoln’s, so much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg Address to the second inaugural itself.”
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) President Grover Norquist appeared on David Webb’s Sirius XM radio show on Friday and said that the fiscal cliff deal that Democrats and many Republicans voted for was a tax hike that nobody actually voted
Wayne Ball, a former special agent of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) pleaded guilty on Thursday in a Southern District of Texas federal court to participating in a scheme to falsify records and to obstruct an
Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer, a Republican, filed a joint resolution on Thursday that would add new language to the state constitution reaffirming state residents’ rights to bear arms. Missouri voters would need to approve the language in Missouri’s next
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated Wednesday that he believes it is not his responsibility “to force anyone to do anything” in his role as a politician. Reporters asked Bloomberg at a press conference if he remembered the moment
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D – NY) applauded his state’s expansion of the current gun control laws on Tuesday telling Breitbart News, “I’m glad New York passed strong legislation. Would I have preferred stronger?–always–without knowing the details of what they did.”
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) announced Monday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would testify before the committee on January 23 to answer questions about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities
On September 20, 2008, then Senator Joe Biden told a crowd in Castlewood, Virgnia, “I guarantee you Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey.” He added, “Don’t buy that malarkey. They’re going to start peddling that
President Obama’s CIA Director pick, White House chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, has a number of issues to answer for before Senators on Capitol Hill confirm him. PJ Media’s Patrick Poole compiled an extensive list of stories concerning Brennan dating
Congressman Jose Serrano (D – NY) recently submitted a long shot bill intended to change the Constitution that would end presidential term limits. : New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano is once again proposing a constitutional amendment to end presidential
Monday, President Barack Obama picked top counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to become the next head of the CIA. Brennan’s views on radical Islam may concern hawkish Senators who will scrutinize Obama’s choice for CIA chief. In May of 2010, Fox News reported
A woman appears to have intentionally placed herself in front of an oncoming train at Arlington Virginia’s Ballston Station Monday morning, The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said in a statement. According to a press release from the WMAT: Orange
President Obama is expected to nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel on Monday for Secretary of Defense. Hagel, a Republican, has clashed with his own party on foreign policy and national security issues in the past. Senate Republicans are putting
The new 113th Congress will convene Friday and House members will vote on a bill that would aid storm damaged states. Under fire from fellow Republicans from Sandy-stricken New York and New Jersey, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, today agreed
House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH) managed to retain his Speakership for the new 113th Congress that was sworn in on Thursday afternoon. Nine Republicans voted for somebody other than Boehner. If 8 more GOP’ers had joined them, there
On Thursday afternoon members of the House will vote for the Speaker of the 113th Congress. Everyone’s vote for speaker is public like most House votes. Given the criticism of current House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH), some are
The House voted to pass the Senate’s fiscal cliff bill on Tuesday night. Eighty-five Republicans joined 172 Democrats to pass the bill. And the House Republican leadership split down the middle. House Republican leadership members who voted against the Senate “fiscal
House members will vote Tuesday night on the Senate’s fiscal cliff bill. Republicans met in two conference meetings to discuss the bill. At the end of the first meeting, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) came out against the Senate
President Barack Obama delivered remarks from the White House on Monday afternoon on fiscal cliff negotiation progress in Congress, as Democratic and Republican leaders in the upper chamber appeared to iron out major issues pertaining to a fiscal cliff agreement:
Washington D.C. lawmakers in both chambers left the capitol on early Sunday night after negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff fell apart in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) said there is “still time left to
One week after NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory apparently flouted DC gun laws by waving a high capacity gun magazine on television, President Barack Obama joined Gregory for an interview. Obama made it clear he planned on “putting
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker and self-described progressive, visited The Nation’s Gun Show, along with his camera crew, at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia on Saturday. Best known for the anti-fast food film “Super-Size Me,” Spurlock visited the same gun show
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday she is resigning from her position. According to reports, Jackson is leaving before an investigation can be launched into the agency’s alleged illegal use of private emails for official government business. Senator
