U.S. Immigration Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agents have expressed strong concerns over House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and other Representatives pushing for immigration legislation that would legalize the status of America’s at least 11 million illegal
Much has been made over the past week and a half or so over the partial government shutdown, who is winning the battle, and what policies will result from it. Establishment Republicans continue taking sideswipes at grassroots-oriented conservatives, especially Sens.
The Obama administration has, according to the Fort Belvoir Catholic Community’s Facebook page, canceled at least three Church services. In an Oct. 1 posting, the Church canceled multiple services on Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 “due to the government shutdown.”
National Journal writer Elahe Izadi over-estimated that the crowd size at the pro-amnesty rally on the National Mall on Tuesday was about 20,000 attendees. “Organizers estimated 20,000 protesters attended at the peak of the rally,” Izadi wrote in a piece
Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel, Luis Gutierrez, Keith Ellison, Joseph Crowley, Al Green, and John Lewis, along with several other pro-amnesty activists, union members, and other left-wing protesters, got themselves arrested on purpose on Tuesday afternoon in a statement made in
National Education Association (NEA) executive director John Stocks decried law enforcement efforts to enforce United States immigration laws by deporting illegal immigrants in remarks at a union-sponsored rally on the National Mall on Tuesday. Stocks made his remarks while several
In the second week of the government shutdown, the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security was planning to begin a markup of an immigration bill on Wednesday morning at 9 AM. The bill, offered by subcommittee
Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told Breitbart News on Monday that the Obama administration’s decision to block publication Operation Fast and Furious whistleblower John Dodson’s book is troubling. In response to the attempt to block the book’s publication
Several thousand AFL-CIO and SEIU sponsored pro-amnesty demonstrators began rallying on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon around 12:30 PM to call for Congress to grant legal status to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants. The size of the crowd
Momentum appears to be building in South Carolina against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who faces three challengers in next year’s June primary. On Monday evening, the Greenville County, SC GOP executive committee, an official arm of the state’s Republican Party,
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has stepped up to represent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent John Dodson, the whistleblower who first publicly unearthed the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, against the agency’s efforts to
In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, former senior adviser and spokesperson to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and president and CEO of endeavor strategic communications Kurt Bardella argued that congressional Republicans are doing the will of the people by fighting
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) warned the American people on Sunday evening to remain “ever vigilant” about GOP establishment efforts to grant amnesty to America’s illegal immigrants. King’s warning came during an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday with Stephen K. Bannon
House Republican leadership is floating as many ideas as they can to try to get a deal done to keep the government open, Breitbart News has learned. The National Review‘s Robert Costa Tweeted that House Speaker John Boehner “is doing
House Republicans remain united against Obamacare, demanding that it be delayed in its entirety for a full year before they agree to any stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown before Tuesday. Technically, the government will run out of
Just a week ago, House Speaker John Boehner united House Republicans behind an effort to defund Obamacare in the Continuing Resolution (CR). The House passed a plan that conservative Reps. Tom Graves (R-GA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) helped craft. Sens.
As Congress faces a potential government shutdown, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is holding meetings to push amnesty for America’s illegal immigrants, National Review‘s Jonathan Strong reported on Twitter. “With clock ticking on shutdown, big mtg in Cantors office just
In response to President Barack Obama’s demands that the House pass a continuing resolution that funds the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans fired back, demanding a delay for all of Obamacare until 2015. The amendment, led by Tom Graves (R-GA),
President Barack Obama called on House Republicans Friday to drop their previous efforts to defund Obamacare after the Senate stripped the defunding language out of the House-passed continuing resolution (CR). “If Congress chooses not to pass a budget by Monday,
While the cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution passed with GOP support on Friday 79-19, several senior powerful GOP senators bucked their leadership to side with freshmen Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) to oppose the Reid plan.
On the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN) teamed up to falsely claim that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have no support from others in the U.S. Senate for their
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) traveled to Libya for the next stages of the Benghazi scandal investigation early this week – leaving the United States on Sunday and returning safely on Wednesday – but
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) supported the tactics that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is using to attempt to defund Obamacare before he was against them, Breitbart News has learned. In 2009, when Senate Republicans were fighting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s
On a conference call Thursday with reporters, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the next stage in the fight to defund Obamacare occurs Friday when the Senate votes for cloture on the Continuing Resolution. Cruz says Senate Republicans must unite
More GOP senators continue to buck Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s efforts to gain support for a plan that will allow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to fund Obamacare using a procedural trick in the Senate that Sen. Ted Cruz
During a colloquy aiding Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his filibuster-like Senate floor speech Tuesday evening, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) challenged the assertion that Senate Republicans must vote for cloture to support the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) that defunds Obamacare,
Businessman Matt Bevin, the man facing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a primary election next year, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he believes McConnell should find out exactly who in the GOP establishment is behind the shopping of
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), has publicly split with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on whether to join Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in opposing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s efforts to fund
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to criticize Sen. Ted Cruz’s, tactic to defund Obamacare. McConnell’s remarks came in a argument he made against Cruz’s strategy to defund Obamacare in the Continuing Resolution (CR)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Tuesday told Breitbart News that he will buck McConnell, Cornyn and Reid, and supports the position of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Rubio made the remarks in response to the news that Senate Minority Leader Mitch
The Rev. Rob Schenck told Breitbart News that it would have taken at least four grown men to topple the 10 Commandments monument in the front garden of his organization’s Capitol Hill offices. Schenck, the president and lead missionary of
The media war against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rages on as he continues fighting to defund Obamacare. The newest claim comes from GQ magazine. GQ quoted one of Cruz’s college classmates Damon Watson as saying he refused to work in
Fox News host Sean Hannity told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday evening that the battle he is waging against Obamacare by trying to defund it in the Continuing Resolution (CR) is a nexus point in the grassroots fight against
A source in Congress tells Breitbart News that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn are using their leadership positions to pressure other Republicans to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his campaign to defund Obamacare.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested he does not believe Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has ulterior motives in his push to defund Obamacare in Congress’s Continuing Resolution (CR) in a Monday floor speech. “I almost would bet–although I am not
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has offered election integrity group True The Vote its tax-exempt status in what appears to be a bid to keep the group from proceeding with discovery on its lawsuit against the agency, Breitbart News has
Peggy Nienaber, Chief of Program for Faith and Action, told Breitbart News that she was notified this past Saturday evening that her organization’s 10 Commandments monument which was put up several years ago had been vandalized and knocked over by
Though many in the mainstream media have declared the congressional push for an immigration reform package dead, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned Americans on Sunday evening that they should be on the lookout for a renewed push from amnesty supporters
Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday with Stephen K. Bannon on the Sirius/XM Patriot Channel on Sunday evening, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) threw his weight behind Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz is under attack from the GOP establishment for fighting to
