The House bill from Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) to defund the Affordable Care Act now has 100 cosponsors, according to a press release from the congressman’s office. Graves’s bill reached the milestone just 19 days after he and Sens. Ted
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Tuesday that if the House goes to conference to try to save the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, the “border surge” amendment from Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND) will probably be
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News Monday that he and other Senate conservatives like Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) need help from the grassroots around the country to take down Obamacare. Citing his recent speech in Colorado
In the third part of his interview with Breitbart News on Obamacare defunding efforts, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats, and the institutional left want to drag out the Obamacare fight as long as possible.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News that Republicans in Washington are scared to fight the Democrats and President Obama on efforts to defund Obamacare in the next two months. “The House has voted 39, 40, 41 times to repeal
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has sent a thought-provoking new memorandum to his GOP colleagues, laying out how the Republican Party can turn the ongoing immigration debate in Congress around so conservatives win and liberals and Democrats lose. “The GOP needs
In an exclusive interview late last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News why he believes the upcoming fight over funding for the Affordable Care Act is the GOP’s “last best shot” to rid the country of Obamacare. “I
Polling data obtained exclusively by Breitbart News shows that self-identified conservative and GOP likely voters want their representatives in Congress replaced if they vote in favor of funding Obamacare, even if they had voted against the law in the past. As
Illegal immigrants attended the town hall event in Racine, WI, where House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) openly discussed the strategy by which he and House GOP leadership plan to pass an immigration reform package. “One young immigrant,
New polling data obtained exclusively by Breitbart News shows that two thirds of American voters oppose Congress funding the Affordable Care Act–known to its critics as “Obamacare”– because they feel the law is not ready for implementation. When respondents were
House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Friday that House GOP leadership’s forthcoming immigration plan includes amnesty for all illegal immigrants and a 15-year waiting period for citizenship. In his remarks to a Racine, WI, town hall, Ryan laid
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not yet say whether he backs efforts by conservatives to defund Obamacare in the next vote to extend the federal budget through a continuing resolution (CR). In an email exchange with Breitbart News, McConnell’s
During a town hall meeting in Racine, WI, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) revealed the House Republican Leadership plans to pass multiple immigration bills and then combine them with the Senate legislation in the conference process to create a
An aide to House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) confirmed for Breitbart News he is open to attempting to salvage the Senate’s immigration bill via a conference report with a single House bill or combination of House bills.
Ahead of his scheduled economy speech in Jacksonville, FL, the Florida Republican Party is calling on President Barack Obama to abandon progressive economic policies for conservative ones, like those of Gov. Rick Scott. “I want to welcome President Obama to
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” told liberal activists at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Wednesday how the Democrats plans to enact amnesty for the 11 million illegal immigrants: Get the House
President Barack Obama’s White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joined House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner in making an inaccurate attack on Rep. Steve King (R-IA) over comments he made about efforts to grant amnesty to illegal
First Lady Michelle Obama advocated for Congress to pass an immigration bill during remarks before the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention in New Orleans on Tuesday. During her key note address, which MSNBC’s Erin Delmore characterized as Michelle
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) told Breitbart News exclusively that he does not believe the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill should go to conference with any immigration bills the House produces. In fact, he says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Council president Chris Crane called on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to work with immigration law enforcement officers to ensure his DREAM Act does not turn out to be like President Barack Obama’s executive
Several members of Congress joined representatives of the special forces military veterans and grassroots organizations on Tuesday to launch an effort to force the House to have a thorough, public investigation into the terrorist attack at Benghazi, Libya, on Sept.
The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) issued a press release Monday calling on Republican leaders from the House of Representatives to abandon any efforts to provide amnesty to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants and focus
The former chief strategist for left-wing billionaire George Soros has joined Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in an effort to push amnesty for America’s illegal immigrants, Bloomberg reports. Stanley Druckenmiller, who Bloomberg reports served as Soros’s “chief strategist” for “more than 10
Public records show that Chinese company Huawei, a company accused of passing “intimate” information to the Chinese government, employed 18 lobbyists on Capitol Hill in 2012, including former Democratic Congressman Don Bonker of Washington. Former CIA and NSA director and
Popular opposition to the “Lifeline” program, colloquially known since last year as the “Obamaphone” program, appears to be growing. Tracfone Wireless, the company that most benefits from the government subsidy, is now advertising on inside-the-beltway news websites in an effort
