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
A defiant President Obama walked into the East Room of the White House Wednesday to speak to the press after historic wins for Republicans in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Prior to his arrival, White House reporters buzzed about what
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pleaded with President Barack Obama to not use his executive power to grant amnesty to upwards of 6 million illegal immigrants currently living in the Untied States because it would
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
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
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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
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
Arnold Schwarzenegger transitioned from bodybuilder to actor to governor of California. New York Knicks forward Bill Bradley was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and the United States Senate. Bob Mathias won a decathlon gold medal at the Olympics
Congressman elect Mia Love celebrated her surprise victory in Utah as the first black Republican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. But during an interview with CNN this morning, Love was quick to explain that she was
On CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was asked by host Chris Cuomo what last night’s election results meant and if that suggested a desire for a policy shift from what the Democrats in Congress had been
Since the dawn of air warfare, every pilot has imagined himself tearing across the Wild Blue Yonder in pursuit of enemy aircraft to shoot down. Many have done just that and have swept the skies so clear of the enemy
On Tuesday, Mark Levin said it’s now time that conservatives take back the GOP once and for all. And he said Republicans must not relinquish the power of the purse during the lame-duck sessions of Congress. Appearing on Breitbart News’
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) decided to double down on his charges that the GOP is racist. On Wednesday afternoon, he was interviewed on CNN, and snapped this regarding Republicans: We all know who they are and where they’re from. So
As expected, it was a big night for he GOP, as it snatched away control of the U.S. Senate away from Harry “Dingy” Reid, forcing President Obama to have to work with a Republican-controlled Congress in the remaining two years
NBC political analyst Chuck Todd predicted Tuesday night that the president would have to back away from his threat to act unilaterally on immigration because of the Republican sweep. “I think politically, tonight, it put an end to it. It would
This week’s midterm victories were a step in the right direction for conservatives and the core principles we hold dear. There is no understating the importance of the seats we picked up in both the Senate and the House, and
SAN DIEGO, California — “If I were a Democrat, there would be people in the streets rioting over what we’ve had to endure,” said congressional candidate Carl DeMaio to supporters at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego Tuesday
Having won control of Congress, the GOP must now put forward a clear program to create jobs and govern reasonably, lest it give Democrats the upper hand for the 2016 presidential election. In recent months, economic growth has accelerated, but
With 100% of precincts reporting, former San Diego city councilman Carl DeMaio appears to have unseated incumbent Democrat Scott Peters in California’s 52nd congressional district, becoming the first openly gay Republican to win a seat in Congress. However, DeMaio’s lead
NBC’s “Meet the Press host Chuck Todd stated that executive action on immigration would “start a political war” between the president and Congress on MSNBC’s special coverage of the 2014 election. “Politically tonight it put an end to it because
WASHINGTON (AP)–Republicans retained their House majority on Tuesday, expanding their numbers to near historic highs and giving the GOP control of both chambers of Congress. The GOP knocked out Democratic incumbents in Georgia, West Virginia, Illinois, New York and Florida
Tuesday night on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked former White House press secretary and current CNN correspondent Jay Carney what a Republican takeover would mean for the Obama administration. “For those in the White House tonight, they’re looking at the map,
The White House seems to be trying to back away–at least publicly–from potential plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment. Recently, I sent a troubling Judicial Watch report that the Obama administration was actively formulating a
The United States military has decided to add Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system to its arsenal, according to the Israel Defense. Impressed by the system’s performance of a reported 90 percent hit rate in defending Israelis against Hamas’ rockets during Operation
A Christian couple, 35-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 31-year-old wife Shama Bibi, were burned to death Tuesday morning by a Muslim mob in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), accused of committing blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Qur’an.
AUSTIN, Texas — Last month, records were produced showing that officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) misled Congress and the American people when they claimed that 2,200 undocumented immigrants released from detention facilities to save money were only
Democratic Rep. Ami Bera (CA-7) is ratcheting up his attacks on Republican challenger Doug Ose in a new ad, accusing Ose of being against women having access to birth control as well as opposing abortion rights. The text of the
If Republicans win the U.S. Senate today, the first imperative of the 114th Congress should be adopting a budget strategy that reconnects the GOP with its middle-income base, the foundation of all center-right majorities. Such a shift would dramatically improve
Insurgency supporters in Afghanistan continue to receive American, taxpayer-funded contracts and the U.S. Army refuses to do anything about it, according to a government watchdog report sent to Congress. “This quarter, I must once again reiterate my concerns about the
