On Thursday evening, President Barack Obama will deliver a White House address announcing his executive action that will give nearly five million illegal immigrants temporary work permits and amnesty. The White House is spinning that Obama’s unilateral action is not
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is concerned that President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive amnesty may lead to anarchy and violence. “The country’s going to go nuts, because they’re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president,
Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions says that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is something that is “endangering our entire constitutional order” as a democratic Republic. “President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order
Despite going forward with immigration reform alone, without Congress, the White House is circulating several infographics showing what President Barack Obama is doing on his own and what Congress has left to accomplish. The images include three small ones–two of
On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Congress must use the powers that is has to block President Barack Obama’s forthcoming unlawful executive amnesty. Obama will make his executive amnesty announcement on Thursday evening and Sessions, in an appearance on Bill
Several top Republicans have issued statements in response to Obama’s executive amnesty order announcement promising to stop him. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the outgoing chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said, “we cannot let this stand.”
Congressional Republicans are searching for ways–short of impeachment or shutting down the government–to respond to President Barack Obama’s seizure of arbitrary power over immigration law and enforcement. One way would be to cancel the State of the Union address next
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several Democratic senators are uncomfortable with President Barack Obama’s decision to use executive action to make immigration reform, raising the possibility of open, bipartisan resistance to his plan. The senators, most from conservative states, objected to Obama’s
President Obama’s announcement tonight may bring a “constitutional crisis,” in the words of Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), but Republicans in Congress haven’t the damndest idea what they’ll do about it. As they departed the House floor, many en route to
On November 4, in a healthy exercise of democracy, voters around the country registered their dismay with the governing party and swept them out of power in Congress and in scores of state legislatures. Yet, this president is not only
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) may miss former President George W. Bush as it pertains to amnesty. At a Thursday press conference, Pelosi declared that there was “nobody better” on amnesty than George W. Bush. “He was absolutely great,”
On Wednesday, the White House did not commit to vetoing a potential bill that would fund the government but prohibit President Barack Obama from using federal funds to implement his executive amnesty. Ahead of Obama’s Thursday prime-time executive amnesty announcement,
A fact sheet being circulated by the White House shows that President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty will grant amnesty to 5 million or more illegal aliens, create a backdoor pathway to citizenship for those amnestied illegal aliens, and massively
HOUSTON, Texas — The governor-elect of Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott, claimed that President Obama has “no legal authority to grant legal status to people who are here in the United States illegally.” Obama is expected to announce an executive order that will give
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that President Obama was “angry with the American people” in his promise to implement immigration reform through executive action and that the GOP should respond by refusing to confirm any nominees by the president on
Wednesday at the White House Press briefing CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett grilled White House press secretary Josh Earnest over if President Barack Obama is “intentionally” timing his executive action amnesty right next to the upcoming government
Representative Steve King (R-IA) said that no options will be taken off the table in the GOP’s effort to block an executive order on immigration by President Obama on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead.” “The first thing we need
Republican House members are calling on President Obama to work with Congress to pass immigration reform instead of moving forward with his expected executive amnesty. In a letter to Obama dated Tuesday, nearly three dozen Republicans lawmakers — led by Rep.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) denounced President Obama’s planned executive amnesty as “unconstitutional and illegal” after the president revealed that he would announce his planned action on Thursday evening. “I believe his unilateral action, which is unconstitutional and illegal, will deeply
With only hours before President Obama is expected to announce a major unilateral amnesty for illegal immigrants, Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear flummoxed at what they might do to stop him from going forward. “We’ve been trying to figure
Republican governors and GOP-led legislatures nationwide could wage a battle to help their counterparts in Washington stop President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty if they wanted to, the New York Times’ Michael Barbaro wrote on Wednesday. “The new legal protections that
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is using President Barack Obama’s own words to argue against executive action on immigration. Boehner spokesman Matt Wolking on Wednesday laid out 22 instances when Obama said he could not create or ignore immigration law
MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who bragged about deceiving the “stupid” American people to secure passage of the bill, has been paid an estimated $5.2 million by the federal government and 12 state governments for consulting services to
It would be “a slap in the face” to Americans if President Obama moves forward with executive amnesty, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) warned Wednesday. “The latest indications that you will
Conservatives say that Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be “complicit” in President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty if they don’t pull out all the stops to block him. They warn
