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As House Republican leaders prepare an immigration proposal that could go much further towards amnesty than their prior public stances, conservative lawmakers are quietly plotting to push back. Aides from over a dozen House offices secretly convened today on the

House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy became the first member of House GOP leadership to back “legal status” for illegal aliens, telling a Bakersfield, California television station that Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the leadership team may follow suit

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in March, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Also, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been invited to speak

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — Conservative activist and author Trevor Loudon riled up the crowd to kick off the South Carolina Tea Party convention in a Saturday speech with a proposed dream team he offered for conservatives to “put the federal

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina–At the South Carolina Tea Party Convention here on Sunday morning, leading Tea Party conservative Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) said foundational changes to D.C. politics will be needed to achieve a conservative agenda. “We must change the incentive structure

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina–Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) called on grassroots conservatives and Tea Partiers across the country to organize and fight back against the GOP establishment’s efforts to stamp out the movement during his speech to the South Carolina Tea

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — Joe Dugan, the executive producer of the South Carolina Tea Party Convention, told Breitbart News minutes before the convention was to officially begin that his goal with this program is to shape the narrative for

The omnibus spending bill that just passed the U.S. Congress slashes the budget of a program that pays to incarcerate illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the United States, the Arizona Republic reports. “A massive 2014 federal spending bill

According to Democrat congressman Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), House Speaker John Boehner called conservative Rep. Steve King (R-IA) an “asshole” for opposing amnesty. Castro made the revelation in a lengthy article he wrote about his short time in Congress for

The forthcoming House GOP leadership immigration “principles” will reflect much of what was in the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that passed last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee

The CEOs of hotel chain Marriott International and telecom giant AT&T are calling on Congress to grant them immigration reform so they can hire more cheap labor from outside the United States – at a time when an unprecedentedly high number of

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the lead Republican member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” questioned Thursday morning whether House GOP leadership should move on immigration legislation in 2014. Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s radio program, Rubio seemed to backtrack even further

A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), provided exclusively to Breitbart News, shows that Texans are footing a massive financial bill because of illegal aliens in the state. “After a brief hiatus that coincided with the

New polling data from Gallup shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not think handling immigration reform is even close to a top priority for 2014. Immigration places well behind other issues like healthcare, jobs, the economy, dissatisfaction with

Wednesday, January 15th would have been the birthday of security officer Tyrone Woods had he not been murdered in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, Breitbart News has learned.  House Speaker John

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on the The Kelly File that the budget deal House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray

A majority of the five House Republicans from Wisconsin voted against the omnibus spending bill from House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). The omnibus spending bill completes the budget

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the 1,582 page omnibus spending bill worth more than a trillion dollars of spending to accompany the recently-passed budget deal. The deal came up for the vote in the House less than two

Perhaps the most bizarre request of the still young 2014 political season comes from The Weather Channel, which is asking people to call their congressmen and senators to demand Congress intervene in the battle between it and DirecTV. DirecTV and

A document published by the Senate Steering Committee Tuesday found that there is actually $18 billion more than advertised in spending in the omnibus spending bill House and Senate establishment leaders introduced late Monday. The Senate Steering Committee, chaired by

The omnibus spending bill that House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) introduced with Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is more than 1,500 pages long – and House lawmakers are expected to vote on it less

The omnibus spending bill that completes the budget deal Congress passed late last year has not a sliver of cuts for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) or the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Heritage Foundation reports.

Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced Tuesday that the “fix” Washington politicians developed to stop cuts to veterans’ pensions actually still slashes pensions for more than 90 percent of retired members of America’s armed forces. Millions

The omnibus spending bill before Congress continues to fund U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advertising programs for food stamps in foreign countries like Mexico, Breitbart News has learned. The bill was hashed out between House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers

President Barack Obama’s White House has announced its opposition to a bill from Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) that would force the administration to provide Congress with a detailed set of Obamacare-related information every week. The White House claims the bill

Rep. John Carter (R-TX), a key figure in the House of Representatives’ immigration negotiations, said Monday that House Speaker John Boehner should not do anything on immigration in 2014 as it would distract from Obamacare. Boehner announced in a GOP

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has hired Paul Teller, the former executive director of the House’s Republican Study Coalition (RSC), his office announced in a press release Monday. Teller will serve as Cruz’s deputy chief of staff effective Jan. 16, 2014.

Friday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) published a photograph on his Facebook page of all the rules and regulations President Barack Obama’s administration implemented throughout 2013.  The photo, a display of all the printed pages of the federal register, is 80,000

Fox News host Eric Bolling called on Rep. Peter King (R-NY) to apologize to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for disparaging remarks King made about Paul while criticizing the senator’s forthcoming class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency

GOP establishment figure Karl Rove said on Fox News Sunday that the Fort Lee and George Washington Bridge scandal that New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie is facing will end up giving him “street cred” with the Tea Party movement. “There

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview late last week that time is running out in the push for answers on the scandal surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, and a select committee is the

The Maricopa County Republican Party in Arizona formally censured Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Saturday evening by an overwhelming 1150-351 vote, Breitbart News has learned.  Maricopa County is Arizona’s most populous county and includes Phoenix within its borders. The official GOP

Radio’s Mark Levin on Friday evening excoriated House GOP leadership, particularly House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, for their immigration policies that will end up aiding an increased welfare state. We’ve talked

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is set to push for full-blown amnesty this year per the marching orders the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has given GOP leaders in Congress. He will make this announcement in an interview set