Tag: Congress

Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is considering hedge fund, private equity, and big bank job offers that could bag him over $1 million a year, reports Politico. “There are two famous streets in America that would be glad to

Now that he no longer has to worry about elections and party politics, former Congressman Barney Frank is saying he was “appalled” at President Obama for lying to Americans as he rammed Obamacare through Congress. In a recent interview with Huffington Post, Massachusetts

Unlike President Obama, this week House conservatives began the process of taking action to solve the crisis at our nation’s Southern border.  The latest legislation passed Friday gives emergency funds to governors for them to be able to deploy National

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez argued Friday evening that the bill offered by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), set to be voted on in conjunction with the border supplemental bill, that targets President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) praised House Republicans late Friday evening for standing strong on immigration and warned Democrats in Congress that they will be held accountable for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens. “I applaud the

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nobody — even those among their ranks — thought it could happen, but House conservatives cracked GOP leadership to get almost everything they wanted out of a supplemental appropriations immigration bill before the Congress broke officially for

Attorney General Eric Holder believes President Barack Obama has shown restraint in his use of executive actions. In an interview with Time, Holder, who previously could not explain whether the Constitution enabled some of Obama’s bolder executive actions, claimed Obama

Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) isn’t saying either way whether he’s backing the new House immigration bill, but a hill source tells Breitbart News that he’s “very encouraged” by what’s happened thus far on Friday. “Senator

Last Saturday, Breitbart News uncovered three reports and analysis written by Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist and chief architect of Obamacare, stating that subsidies or tax credits will be provided to individuals “to purchase health insurance from private companies through

The often outspoken Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), blasted Republicans for their efforts to address the border crisis, saying that they had reached the “least common denominator of hatefulness.” Gutierrez made his comments during a press conference with House Minority Leader

Late Thursday, lawyers challenging a key part of Obamacare petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take their case. The Court is very likely to grant the petition, resulting in oral argument in January or February of 2015 and a decision

A news story about the “shining” Scalise operation said it was savvy enough to go over the heads of lawmakers who “can’t be convinced.” Twenty-four hours later, King is the most important and outspoken advocate for a new version of two immigration

The Labor Department reported the economy added only 209,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate rose to 6.2 percent, but that hardly tells how tough the labor market has become for ordinary folks.  The jobless rate may be down from

ObamaCare suffered a potentially existential legal blow last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – often called the nation’s second highest court – struck down an IRS rule that extends federal subsidies for health insurance

On Wednesday, President Obama threatened to veto the House of Representatives’ proposed border bill. Obama particularly disliked provisions of the bill designed to amend the 2008 law that allows illegal immigrant minors from non-border countries to stick around for years

On July 18, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said, “Time’s up!” and has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over to the court information on all documents for which President Barack Obama is claiming executive privilege in

On July 18 the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Justice must “provide a detailed listing of all [Fast and Furious] documents that it has withheld from Congress.” The ruling was handed down

House Republican leaders are frustrated that they had to pull their $659 million border bill on Thursday, after Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) convinced enough Republicans to stand up for American workers and vote against a bill that did not explicitly

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) began speaking on the U.S. Senate floor about the border crisis in the wake of chaos on the House side of Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to not support any legislation that doesn’t get at the root

If the House makes any changes whatsoever to the immigration bill that blew up and died before Speaker John Boehner tried to bring it back to life–and then votes on those changes on Thursday evening or on Friday–it would be

In response to reports that Speaker John Boehner had killed his immigration bill due to lack of support among House Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called on Boehner to come back to resuscitate the bill–or at least pass something.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced the Republican House border funding bill as a “statement of meanness” prior to a vote on the legislation. The bill would spend $659 million in response to the border crisis and make changes to

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg plans on staying on the U.S. Supreme Court for the time being, creating the possibility that her seat will be a factor in the 2016 presidential election. On July 30, Ginsburg sat down with Katie Couric