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Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was previously financially aided by the George Soros-financed MoveOn.org to win his Congressional seat.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie told Breitbart News at a sit-down interview in the congressman’s office he believes the reports of former national security adviser Susan Rice unmasking names of associates of President Donald Trump, collected incidentally and cloaked as a constitutional protection against warrantless surveillance.

On the day the H-1B visa program is open for applications by employers, mostly from the tech industry, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is warning companies not to replace American workers with foreign help.

The Verge explained in an article on Wednesday how despite Congress’ decision to reverse the FCC’s internet privacy rules, no one will be able to purchase the browsing data of individuals any time soon.

An effort to weed out foreign workers under the H-1B visa program is getting support from President Donald Trump.

A bill to curtail the number of Americans being replaced by foreign guest workers through the H-1B visa “would have zero impact” on the program, according to an expert on the issue.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor, Alexander Acosta, said during a congressional hearing that he believed it is “not the intent” to replace American employees with cheaper, foreign ones under the H-1B visa program.

Vice President Mike Pence took the argument for the House Republican Leadership’s “American Health Care Act” to Americans on a warehouse floor in Kentucky on Saturday morning, admitting that there would be a “battle” in Washington, D.C., over the bill and that they “need every Republican in Congress” to get it passed.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West told baseball pitching great Curt Schilling, the host of Whatever It Takes, that it is important to take care of our veterans and the warriors down range in a Thursday interview.

The Algemeiner reports: The Senate Foreign Relations committee on Thursday voted 12-9 to approve President Donald Trump’s nomination of attorney David Friedman as the next US ambassador to Israel.

Right on cue, the George Soros-financed MoveOn.org progressive activist group organized a protest outside the U.S. Department of Justice building calling for the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Jewish groups hailed President Donald Trump’s opening remarks in his address to Congress slamming the recent spate of anti-Semitic acts of “hate and evil.”

Immigration experts are applauding President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to the United States Congress, where he called for an end to extended-family chain migration and a move toward a merit-based legal immigration system.

Many Democrats rushed out of the House chamber after President Trump concluded his speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Heritage Foundation Director of Policy Services Rachel Bovard talked about references to the budget, tax cuts, and government debt in President Trump’s address to Congress on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) talked with Breitbart News daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday regarding relief from Obamacare and other issues Congress is expected to confront during the Trump administration.

Cliff Sims, Special Assistant to President Trump talked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday regarding Trump’s recent address to Congress.

Maureen Scalia, the widow of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, attended President Donald Trump’s national address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night as the president and first lady’s guest.

Following Donald Trump’s speech to congress, where he paid tribute to the memory of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens in front of his widow Carryn, leftists have attacked the president and the grieving woman, with many describing the moment as “gross [and] shameful.”

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s deputy assistant and former Breitbart News National Security editor, called into Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily from the White House to preview President Trump’s address to Congress.

The ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), vows not to shake President Donald Trump’s hand when he addresses Congress Tuesday evening.

Historian Doug Wead, author of Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton’s Failed Campaign and Donald Trump’s Winning Strategy, was a guest on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have invited two widows of slain police officers killed in the line of duty by an illegal immigrant to watch his first address to a joint session of Congress.

Approximately 60 groups came together under the “Indivisible East Bay” umbrella to hold an “empty chair” town hall for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in Oakland on Sunday, despite the senator’s absence.

The Trump White House is weighing its options to fire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray.

Demonstrators protested Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Friday outside of her appearance at the Public Policy Institute of California Friday in San Francisco, to complain about her decision not to hold town hall meetings during the week’s congressional recess.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump is keeping a close eye on the Oroville Dam situation in California.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to strengthen the alliance between the US and Israel on Monday afternoon before taking off to Washington for his first meeting with President Donald Trump since he entered the White House in January.

California Democrats may soon find themselves on the defensive in their war against the Trump administration, as the Republican-controlled Congress is moving toward blocking California’s state-run “forced savings” program.

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.

TEL AVIV — Law enforcement and intelligence officials previously privately told the House Committee on Homeland Security that the U.S. screening process for refugees contains inherent vulnerabilities and that a lack of information makes background checks for potential refugees difficult to trust.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the U.S. legal immigration system is working against middle class Americans, tying stagnant wages to the current higher-than-usual levels of immigrants entering every year.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that “nothing is off the table” in dealing with Iran following its test launch of a ballistic missile, and his fellow Republicans in Congress said they would back him up with new sanctions.

Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart attacked the “double standard and hypocrisy” of opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order on migrants from terror-prone countries, noting that many did not oppose a similar move by President Barack Obama that stranded thousands of Cubans throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Secret recordings of closed meetings at the Republican retreat in Philadelphia this week were sent to the Washington Post from an anonymous source. All the quotes from the article were confirmed by the lawmakers or their offices.