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Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told Breitbart News he’s seriously concerned about Boehner’s fiscal cliff “plan B.” Huelskamp, a freshman, is emerging as a conservative leader after House Speaker John Boehner purged him from two fiscally focused committees. Boehner’s plan, a

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio now appears to be trying to distance himself from House Speaker John Boehner when it comes to the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. Rubio told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket on Tuesday that while he empathizes with

While the rumor mill buzzes with reports that President Barack Obama will name Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry to be the nation’s next Secretary of State, United Nations ambassador Susan Rice’s team appears to be taking one last shot at

Former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell may be loading his own pockets up with taxpayer money via a privatization overhaul of the PA state lottery system, Breitbart News has learned. One of Rendell’s lucrative post-gubernatorial gigs is as a “senior

House Speaker John Boehner reportedly had another secret meeting with President Barack Obama on fiscal cliff negotiations on Monday. This is the latest in a series of behind-closed-doors talks between the two. On Friday and over the weekend, Boehner caved

House Speaker John Boehner apparently broke from Republican Party principles yet again this weekend, this time with a reported agreement to give President Barack Obama a full year-long free ride that would give up all GOP leverage until early 2014

Conservative Republicans in the House are seriously concerned with reports that House Speaker John Boehner has abandoned GOP principles in his behind-closed-doors fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama by offering a tax rate increase. Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp

The National Review’s Bob Costa reports that Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert had a closed-door meeting with the Speaker on Thursday afternoon about why he was purged. “I don’t think the speaker’s hands are dirty,” Schweikert told Costa. “I simply

Did House Speaker John Boehner lie to the American people during a Thursday morning press conference when he denied the existence of a secret spreadsheet scorecard list allegedly involved in his purge of conservatives from House committee leadership positions? Breitbart

Maryland Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the counterweight from the left to House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, said he thinks House Speaker John Boehner is delaying on fiscal cliff negotiations so as he can get re-elected as Speaker

House GOP leadership has a new spin as of late Wednesday on why they purged conservatives from influential House committees: “It was an a**hole factor.” Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative himself but also a member of the House

Todd Cefaratti, the president of TheTeaParty.net, has a message for Republicans and Democrats alike: “This is just the beginning. If you think the tea party’s dead, you ain’t seen nothing yet.” At a press conference inside the Capitol Hill Club in

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy blew off a scheduled meeting with the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Wednesday. At the meeting, McCarthy was going to explain the secret criteria list, including a voting scorecard, that he created for House

Conservatives in the House Republican conference are becoming more and more upset with House Speaker John Boehner’s purge of more conservative members from their committee assignments, Breitbart News has learned. While many won’t go as far as purged conservative Kansas

A newly-released report from the conservative Americans for Limited Government (ALG), obtained by Breitbart News, found that taxpayers are footing a $4.8 million bill for the salaries of 35 union officials at the U.S. Department of Transportation. The ALG report

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a victim of Speaker John Boehner’s purge of conservatives from leadership positions in the House, said there’s definitely a possibility, depending on what happens during these fiscal cliff negotiations, that enough conservative members of the House

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy has agreed to debrief the conservative Republican Study Committee on Wednesday about his role in drafting Speaker John Boehner’s conservative purge secret scorecard criteria list, a congressman close to the situation told Breitbart News Tuesday

According to Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who was purged from a House committee leadership position, House Speaker John Boehner admitted by careful wording late on Monday that he and House GOP leadership did indeed use a secret list of

Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf has rolled out an effort to push for a special select committee to investigate President Barack Obama’s Benghazi scandal. “I have a bill and it does that,” Wolf told Breitbart News in a phone interview.

A House GOP source has confirmed to Breitbart News that House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy was the one who drafted the secret criteria list House Speaker John Boehner used in his purge of conservatives from House committees. The source, someone

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun, and others will join tea party group TheTeaParty.Net to denounce the House GOP leadership’s caving on taxes later this week. House GOP leadership recently proposed $800 billion in new revenue

UPDATE II:  Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Rozier told Breitbart News he isn’t planning a Speaker run either. “The only leadership position Congressman Hensarling plans to hold in the 113th Congress is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee,” Rozier said in

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash told Breitbart News that it’s “hypocritical” for House Speaker John Boehner to criticize President Barack Obama over his administration’s lack of transparency while keeping the secret list of criteria used in his conservative purge from