California’s 26th congressional district race between incumbent Democrat Julia Brownley and Republican challenger Jeff Gorell is still too close to call. According to California’s Secretary of State’s website, Brownley leads Gorell by exactly 530 votes, or a 50.2-49.8% margin. Gorell’s
House Speaker John Boehner sternly warned President Obama against issuing an executive amnesty even as he vowed to move forward on major immigration legislation if the president backed down. “If he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called on Congress to strip funding from President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive amnesty in its next funding bill. In a Thursday appearance on Fox News’s The Kelly File, Sessions said that in Congress’s next funding bill, lawmakers should
The first battle over the direction of the GOP since Tuesday’s tidal wave election is quietly building as conservatives race to construct a plan to stop President Obama’s executive amnesty. Huddling in Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) office Wednesday, top conservative
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) predicts that there will be enough support for immigration reform in a GOP-led Congress. According to the Associated Press, “Ryan said that as long as Obama doesn’t try an executive order in November or December and
At this year’s 48th annual Country Music Awards, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley opened the show with a monologue that quickly turned political, poking fun at President Obama, White House security, and historic Democrat losses in congress. Paisley and Underwood
Americans who voted in the midterms on Tuesday overwhelming are opposed to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and do not want foreign workers to take jobs from Americans and legal immigrants who are already here. An exit poll conducting by
There were two messages from Republicans on the morning after their sweeping victory in the 2014 midterm elections. One was that voters had elected Republicans to stop President Barack Obama’s agenda. The other was that voters had elected Republicans to
You won! Now, what are you going to do with your opportunity to lead? The GOP has a few days to celebrate, then it needs to formulate a proactive, unapologetic, conservative agenda that will act as a blueprint for taking
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) argued that “President Obama is decimating law enforcement,” and that the president’s plan to implement immigration reform through an executive order was an example of Obama’s decimation of law enforcement in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s
Conservative Republicans in the Senate are calling on the outgoing Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV) to block President Obama’s promised executive action on immigration as they say it is his responsibility to protect the Constitution’s prescribed balance of
President Obama will act on his own using his executive authority to enact immigration reform, according to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during the press briefing today. “The answer is yes, the president is going to take action,” Earnest
The four top congressional leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and potential Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have an appointment at the White House on Friday — and it could get testy. Ahead of that session, leading Obama aide Dan
With President Barack Obama poised to move forward on executive amnesty and the deadline to pass a funding measure looming, the anti-amnesty group Numbers USA tells Breitbart News it will be calling for a short-term continuing resolution to fund the
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declined to say whether he supports the president’s plan to implement immigration reform through an executive order on Thursday’s “Wolf” on CNN. When Sanders was asked what he thought of House Speaker John Boehner’s warning that
On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said it is time for a Republican-led Congress to move an immigration bill forward, so long as President Obama doesn’t “burn himself” by enacting executive amnesty before the end of the year. In
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is seeking another term as minority leader. In a letter to House Democrats, published in full by the Washington Post on Wednesday–the day after her party endured a historic electoral drubbing from Republican candidates–Pelosi requested
The results of the actual elections are in — let’s see what we can learn from what voters told exit pollsters yesterday. First, the American electorate is getting older. According to CNN’s exit polling data, two-thirds of voters were 45
The big question now confronts a newly-emergent Republican majority in the Senate and an overwhelming Republican majority in the House: what next? Some party leaders have called for working with the opposition; some have proposed comprehensive legislation. Others say it’s
President Barack Obama challenged Republicans on immigration reform on Wednesday, after Democrats suffered heavy political losses in the midterm elections. Obama signaled that he still planned an executive action on immigration reform, explaining that House Speaker John Boehner would never
Wednesday during his post-election press conference ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl took President Barack Obama to task for not even meeting with members of Congress over the last six years. He said, “Mitch McConnell has been the
A day after voters resoundingly rejected President Barack Obama’s plans for massive executive amnesty in the midterms, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said Obama’s first act should be to give amnesty to eight million illegal immigrants, which would be comparable in
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), in a report to Congress, accused Pakistan of using militants as “proxy forces” in Afghanistan and India and acting as a sanctuary for terrorists. Pakistan denies the accusations, calling them “unsubstantiated allegations” and “unwarranted
If President Obama suffered a “shellacking” in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing short of a vicious gangland beatdown the likes of which have rarely been seen before in the history of electoral politics. This,
On Tuesday, Clay Aiken, runner-up in the second season of American Idol, was defeated by incumbent Republican Renee Ellmers in the race to represent North Carolina’s second congressional district. Ellmers, first elected in 2010, took home 56 percent of the
