Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was turned away Thursday as he attempted to enter Room H-157 in the Capitol to read Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) so-called Obamacare secret draft.
Senate Democrats gave up their plan to slow-walk President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees Thursday when they yielded the floor and allowed Republicans to bring the confirmation of former Texas governor Rick Perry to the floor, where it passed 62-32.
The only Fortune 500 CEO serving in Congress rose to support Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than six hours after Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.), the leader of the Senate Democrats, called upon Sessions to resign because he met with the Russian ambassador in 2016 as a senator.
The only Democrat to vote to confirm Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Breitbart News Thursday calls by Senate Minority Leaders Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi D.-Calif.) for Sessions to resign are premature.
Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch told reporters Thursday he is concerned by the extent of surveillance President Barack Obama’s administration conducted on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and transition team.
Senators quickly confirmed Dr. Ben Carson 58-41 Thursday as President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Housing and Urban Development Department, as Senate Democrats tire of delaying the president’s nominees and move on to other skirmishes.
Billionaire publisher and former Republican candidate for president Steve Forbes scorched New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after he announced in his final budget address Tuesday that he wants to raid $300 million from the cash reserves of the state’s Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield non-profit insurance company.
The sole Navy SEAL veteran congressman told Breitbart News the special warfare community prefers not to discuss operations — such as the raid in which Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens was killed — but President Donald Trump’s salute to his widow
The day after he sat in the back row of the House of Representatives chamber to hear President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint chamber of Congress Rep. Ryan Zinke (R.-Mont.) was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as Interior Secretary with strong bipartsan vote 68-31.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters gathered in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall that President Donald Trump delivered the mail Tuesday evening in his first address to a joint session of Congress. “It was what we needed to hear,” said
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said President Donald Trump delivered a bold and optimistic message to the American people when he addressed his first joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
President Donald Trump is not expected to endorse the Obamacare fix proposed by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) in his first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, sources told Breitbart News.
The best-dressed man in American politics and one of the political mentors of President Donald Trump told Breitbart News Monday the president needs to stay focused on his program in his first address to a joint session of Congress.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told Breitbart News the new Border Adjustment Tax is the way for Capitol Hill conservatives to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to reform the tax code and reverse American trade disadvantages,
Senators confirmed billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross to lead President Donald Trump’s Commerce Department, 72-27, with 19 Democrats and one Independent joining Republicans in a rare display of robust bipartisan support for one of the president’s cabinet officers.
The chairman of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence told reporters at the Capitol Monday he has yet to see evidence of contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and individuals in the Russian government or part of its extensive network of affiliated persons.
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Michael McCaul (R.-Texas) is establishing a bipartisan task force to investigate and report on travel by foreign extremists.
A member of the 1980-1981 Oakland Raiders Super Bowl winning team told Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it is time for African-Americans to reclaim their traditional conservatism. “Today’s generation has been trained to think differently from my generation. We would stand for the flag in a heartbeat—because we realized the opportunities we had,” said Burgess Owens on Thursday.
The president of the Heritage Foundation and a former senator from South Carolina told an audience at Thursday’s session of the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that conservatives should know, despite their wins in November, there are no permanent victories in Washington.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan told Breitbart News that Republicans on Capitol Hill must remember the GOP promised over the last six political cycles to repeal Obamacare – legislation passed on nine lies Democrats told about President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform.
The outsider-businessman senator from Georgia told Breitbart News he opposes attempts in Congress to create a Border Adjustment Tax because it is an unfair shifting of the tax burden onto regular consumers and disrupts America’s nascent economic recovery.
The president of the American Conservative Union, the sponsor of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, told Breitbart News Sunday host Matt Boyle that this year’s CPAC is about action after years of protest over taxes, regulations, and Obamacare.
A senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told Brietbart News that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was treated unfairly–and perhaps illegally–in the scandal that ended his tenure as National Security Adviser.
A former Georgia Republican congressman, who was one of President Donald Trump’s strongest campaign surrogates, told Breitbart News that the President needs to reform how The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department distribute foreign aid.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) expressed his soft feelings for DREAMers — young aliens brought into the country by their parents without legal sanction, and how they are to be handled Friday at a Capitol Hill press conference.
The Senate confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 52-46, on the Friday before Congress leaves for a week-long Presidents Day recess.
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee told an audience at Washington’s Heritage Foundation Wednesday that he is aligned with President Donald Trump’s populist conservatism and the president’s concern for “The Forgotten Man”–a full reversal from stances he took in the presidential campaign when he adamantly opposed Trump’s candidacy.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told reporters in a hallway just off the Senate floor that his friend, attorney Alexander Acosta, is an excellent choice to lead President Donald Trump’s Labor Department, shortly after the Thursday announcement. “He is a
Capitol Hill conservatives rallied behind the bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) to replace the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, with a patient-centered federal policy at a Wednesday press conference at the Capitol.
The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee expressed his support for businessman Andy Puzder’s nomination for Labor Secretary Wednesday shortly after the CEO of CKE Restaurants withdrew his name from consideration. “Andy Puzder has the experience and
The senior lawyer for the Oklahoma Republican Party organized 35 of his colleagues to join him in signing a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, supporting President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.
Two Texas Republican lawmakers submitted matching bills in the House and Senate Tuesday to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency outside the direct oversight of Congress and the control of the president.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the 2008 Republican nominee for president blasted former national security adviser retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and the capability of President Donald Trump’s national security team in a Tuesday statement.
Senators voted to confirm Linda McMahon as the new head of President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration by a vote of 81-to-19.
Every Democrat joined every Republican in voting to confirm Dr. David Shulkin as the next man to run the Department of Veterans Affairs in a 100-0 vote.
The successful confirmation of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees continued when senators voted 53-to-47 to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary Monday.
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin told Breitbart News he is voting to overturn the Social Security Administration practice of reporting benefit recipients to the National Instant Criminal Check System, the no-buy database for firearm purchases, without a court order or ruling declaring the individual a danger to themselves or others.
In another late-night-early-morning session, the Senate voted 52-to-48 to confirm Rep. Thomas Price (R.-Ga.) to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, one of the leading voices for securing America’s borders, ripped into Thursday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which denied President Donald Trump’s request for a stay of a lower court
In an extraordinary coincidence, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) announced the release of her new book This Fight Is Our Fight Tuesday, the same day she gave the remarks about now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions which led the presiding officer of the senate to rule her out of order and senators to vote to restrict her speaking privileges in the Sessions debate.
