About six protestors displaying approximately three signs came out to protest a San Diego oceanfront brunch fundraiser for 52nd congressional district “New Generation Republican” candidate Carl DeMaio that featured U.S. House Speaker John Boehner Saturday morning. DeMaio is challenging U.S.
Late Friday, the NRSC, the campaign arm of the Senate Republicans, announced it was pouring $1 million into South Dakota to shore up GOP candidate Mike Rounds, long considered the presumptive front-runner for the seat. The move matches an earlier
According to a report in the San Antonio News Express the US Army has completed but is refusing to release its investigation into the suspected desertion of Army PFC Bowe Bergdahl who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009. He
During his weekly video address, President Barack Obama made another plea for raising the minimum wage, calling for it to increase from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour, explaining that it would benefit 28 million workers. Transcript as follows:
A spokesperson for the House Select Committee on Benghazi told Breitbart News that it “expects to talk” with Leon Panetta, who served as President Obama’s CIA director and Pentagon chief. Amanda Duvall, a spokesperson for the Benghazi Select Committee, made
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, said President Barack Obama must consider the “harmful effects” his planned executive amnesty will have on American workers. In a Thursday letter to the White House, Grassley said, “I
On Thursday afternoon President Barack Obama spoke to tech startup entrepreneurs and answered their questions at Los Angeles’ co-working space Cross Campus. Amidst touting his various self-proclaimed achievements and blaming Congress for Washington’s problems, the president referred to himself as
On Thursday, President Barack Obama said it would be “suicide” for Republicans if they do not pass comprehensive amnesty legislation, and he accused the Tea Party, concerned about border security and American workers, of ginning up “virulently anti-immigrant sentiment.” President
House Democrats are pulling ads from a formerly competitive Northern Virginia House race, a sign that they are in triage mode as well-heeled outside groups pour money into Senate races instead, Roll Call reports. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee canceled
President Xi Jinping of China has announced a campaign to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline the Communist Party of China, a plan called “mass line” that requires strict adherence to party philosophy to “prioritize the interests of the people.” According
Congressional staffers voted former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) the two best friends of lobbyists in this Congress. In Washingtonian‘s biennial “best and worst” of Congress survey the magazine sends to congressional staffers,
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Oct. 6 (UPI) — Rumors that North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has been deposed have heightened in intensity following a surprise trip by the country’s No. 2 leader to visit South Korea. Kim has not
From National Journal: House Republicans have surprising new company in attacking Nancy Pelosi: her fellow House Democrats. Three Democrats running in GOP-leaning House districts have used late-stage television ads in a bid to distance themselves from the liberal leader of
Akshai Bhatnagar, a field organizer for the Alison Grimes Senate campaign in Kentucky, wrote an article for the Johns Hopkins Politik Magazine in April of this year titled “Why Barack Obama’s New New Deal Depends on This Year’s Kentucky Senate
Republican Georgia Governor Nathan Deal faced off against State Senator Jason Carter at the Reaves Arena in Perry on Tuesday. The 72-year old Deal slammed Carter, 39, for being too “young and inexperienced” for the job of governor. “You’ve never
Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety endorsed several candidates for federal office to make Congress more gun-control-friendly in the November 2014 elections, most of whom are incumbents. Of the 78 the group endorsed, 68 are incumbents, who offer no change whatsoever. According
A new survey released by CNBC reports just 24% of Americans are confident in the President’s economic leadership. Support for Obama’s economic leadership, moreover, is 15 points lower than it was in August 2010, just a few months before the
SAN JOSE, California — In one of the rare California congressional debates to receive national attention, Democratic congressional candidate Ro Khanna fired shots at his incumbent rival, Rep. Mike Honda, leaving Honda on the defensive the entire evening, yet holding
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is heading to South Carolina this weekend for a series of events with local activists, his latest visit to a key state for 2016 that comes after recent staff changes prompted buzz about a likely presidential
A former La Raza lobbyist will reportedly work on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), the committee’s chairman. Olga Medina “was an immigration policy associate at La Raza for two years,” clerked for the American Civil Liberties
Despite saying she opposed amnesty when she was running for Senate in 2008, Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) has the lowest grade of any lawmaker in the North Carolina delegation from Numbers USA this Congress. This Congress, Hagan has an “F”
Forty percent of Republicans view House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) unfavorably. According to Gallup, 28% of Americans view Boehner favorably, and 50% view him unfavorably. But Boehner does not get much of a boost from his own party. The poll
Hey, did you know President Obama’s already-debatable authority to unilaterally bomb Iraq and Syria runs out today? Is the War Powers Act still “the settled law of the land,” to borrow a phrase? Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) lays out the
Despite another seemingly good jobs report, President Obama’s approval rating is lower than a snake’s belly, and Republicans could retake the Senate in November. Missteps in the Ukraine, Iraq, and elsewhere weigh on voters’ minds, but the economy–especially the jobs
In an apparent case of mistaken identity, Congressional Quarterly published an interview with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that did not take place, Politico reports. In the original, since retracted story, reporter Amrita Khalid wrote that “California Republican Kevin McCarthy
