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Several congressional offices have confirmed to Breitbart News they are receiving thousands of phone calls and emails from constituents urging them not to authorize President Barack Obama’s plan for military intervention in Syria. “There has certainly been an uptick in

At Wednesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) pressed Secretary of State John Kerry on America’s potential military intervention in Syria–especially what he considers its ties to 2012’s Benghazi terrorist attack.  Duncan opened his line of questioning

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday morning that it is President Barack Obama’s credibility that is at risk with regard the situation in Syria, not

COLUMBIA,SC–Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell stopped at the Columbia, South Carolina statehouse on Tuesday for a press conference to attack Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is up for re-election next year and facing multiple challengers, for

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — Businessman and pro-life activist Richard Cash told Breitbart News here on Monday that a strong ground game is needed for a Tea Party candidate to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Cash said during an interview at

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of Charleston’s military college The Citadel and one of three primary challengers to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), told Breitbart News on Monday that Graham is as weak as he has

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina – South Carolina Tea Party activists sent a message to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) here on Monday: He’s in trouble. While Graham has $6 million in his campaign war chest and and will wage an aggressive campaign

Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Breitbart News that Attorney General Eric Holder’s claims that amnesty for illegal immigrants is a civil rights issue “profoundly ahistorical.” “If you take a look at the basis of

While President Obama did not request an emergency session of Congress to consider military intervention in Syria, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a Saturday statement, “I believe Congress should return to Washington immediately and begin to debate this issue.”

In a statement he released on Saturday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in response to Obama’s Rose Garden remarks on Syria that he would support a move to bring Congress back early only if the President determined there was

The same conservative activists who heckled Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at an Orlando Americans For Prosperity event showered praise on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Palm Beach Post reports. “For the second day in a row Saturday, a rising Republican

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is reportedly considering bringing the U.S. Senate back to Washington in response to President Barack Obama’s White House Rose Garden remarks regarding Syria on Saturday, but House Speaker John Boehner is having none of it.

On Saturday, President Barack Obama said that while he believes he has the authority to take military action in Syria, he is going to first seek congressional approval. “After careful deliberation I have decided the United States should take military

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land forces, said on Saturday that he will block any efforts by President Barack Obama to procure funding to attack Syria until he

In his Saturday Playbook email, Politico’s Mike Allen defended GOP establishment Senators like Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander and others facing Tea Party challengers as up against nothing more than an “expensive headache” they will defeat. Allen,

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is trying to regain credibility with the conservative base by helping Sens. Ted Cruz (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) with their effort to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR), but Tea

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Laura Ingraham’s radio program that House Speaker John Boehner’s speakership is in jeopardy if any form of amnesty, such as the Senate’s immigration reform bill, becomes law.  “I’m worried about conference,” Paul said Friday,

In Spartanburg, SC on Labor Day, national Tea Party activist Dustin Stockton’s Western Representation PAC will be holding a classic car contest and candidate forum for all the Tea Party candidates running against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the state’s

Various conservative organizations have banded together on a social media campaign designed to memorialize the four Americans murdered in the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, nearly a year ago on Sept. 11, 2012.  The campaign demands accountability from President Barack Obama’s administration

The Republican National Committee, which has expressed support for comprehensive immigration reform, has come out against Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and criticized him for using potential rapes and death to argue for amnesty. The RNC argues that Gutierrez does not

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) split the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” on Tuesday, according to the Huffington Post, discrediting an argument from his fellow Gang of Eight member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) that Rubio used to argue Congress needed to pass

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said at a town hall event in Chantilly, VA on Monday that women will be raped and others may die or be injured if Congress does not grant amnesty to America’s illegal immigrants. Gutierrez said that

Pro-amnesty activists trying to co-opt the civil rights messages of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to push immigration reform through Congress seem to be directly contradicting the wishes of the late Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King. Mrs. King

While many establishment Republicans sit on the fence deciding which way they are going to go on immigration, the institutional left is out in full force invoking the cause of civil rights to drive an amnesty for illegal aliens agenda.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton announced on Tuesday his group Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, is considering suing President Barack Obama’s administration to challenge the president’s decision to rewrite Obamacare several times administratively since the law passed.  “Judicial Watch

Outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pleaded with Congress to pass amnesty legislation, or “comprehensive immigration reform,” in her farewell speech on Tuesday. Napolitano defended her use of “prosecutorial discretion” to administratively grant amnesty to millions of illegal

California is considering allowing non-citizens to serve on juries, a local California public radio station reports. “Under AB1401, non-citizen legal permanent residents would be allowed to serve on juries. Federal law allows such residents – sometimes called ‘Green Card Holders’

During a speech in Lexington, KY, ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell and Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin challenged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his failure to stand up for conservatives in the Obamacare defunding debate. “Mitch McConnell must

The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s White House and establishment Republicans on Tuesday for claiming that amnesty for illegal immigrants would create jobs. “The White House last week released a report claiming that granting amnesty

In an exclusive interview at the Breitbart News Washington, D.C. offices, local Idaho conservative attorney Bryan Smith walked through why he is challenging his Congressman Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) in the state’s primary. “Simpson was one of only three Republicans

Grassroots Tea Party leaders throughout Kentucky are unhappy with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after his campaign spokeswoman called supporters of his primary opponent “fringe” in a quote to the Washington Post, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. Many local Tea

Despite opposition from the majority of Americans to any form of immigration reform that does not include strengthening border security and law enforcement before legalization, immigration special interests are now publicly claiming such an amnesty deal is close in Congress.

Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS is “fighting” Obamacare’s implementation by submitting a video to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $30,000 video contest. The video makes fun of Obamacare and casts the president’s health care law as a boon

A new Public Policy Polling poll shows New Jersey Governor Chris Christie trails in Ohio by nine points against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a potential 2016 face off. “Clinton looks very strong in Ohio- leading Chris Christie

A Facebook posting from ForAmerica on Friday morning has generated at least 5,000 phone calls from conservative activists to House Speaker John Boehner’s office, Breitbart News has learned. “Everyone knows ObamaCare has to go. But Speaker John Boehner won’t fight

On his nationally syndicated radio program on Thursday evening, conservative talker Mark Levin said that if House Speaker John Boehner follows through with a plan to fund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government, Obamacare will