After urging his colleagues to vote against both the House and Senate border bills on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Congress should not adjourn until it stands against Obama’s executive actions that will effectively end immigration enforcement in America.
UPDATE II: Breitbart News has learned that there may be additional votes after a 3pm conference meeting. Developing… *** UPDATE: Believing they would not have the votes to pass their own bill, House leadership has canceled the vote on Boehner’s border
Just hours before House GOP leadership abruptly changed course on the border crisis bill, moving to allow a vote on a second bill that addresses President Obama’s “deferred” prosecution of illegal aliens, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) met with House conservatives
NumbersUSA is warning House Republicans that it will be scoring votes for the House border supplemental bill as “a vote for continued open borders.” In a message to House Republicans, obtained by Breitbart News, the limited immigration group warned that
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a
On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said a new plan by House leadership to allow a vote on a separate bill to address the president’s unilateral amnesty is not sufficient. “The House border supplemental contains no language on executive action
On May 19, the U.S. government took a highly-publicized stand against state-sponsored cybercrimes by formally indicting five Chinese military officers who had infiltrated various American companies’ systems in order to steal trade secrets for the benefit Chinese companies. The compromised
On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Congress should use the border crisis to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation. At a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing on the border crisis, Pelosi said the influx of illegal immigrant juveniles is more
When House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his new plan for fighting poverty last week, he encountered some unusual reactions. Conservatives, focused on the border crisis, wondered why Ryan hadn’t waited for a more opportune moment. Many liberals,
If the House’s supplemental border bill were to make it to President Obama’s desk, Obama senior advisors would urge him to veto it. In a statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget said it “strongly opposes House
At a Wednesday Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he was still “a fan” of comprehensive amnesty legislation even though he was pessimistic about Congress and the White House ever agreeing on a bill. “You know that I’m
On Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said President Barack Obama’s reported plans to enact a massive executive amnesty “soon after Labor Day” should “send shivers through every Member of this body.” Citing a Wall Street Journal report on Obama’s potential executive
Conservative icon and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has emerged as the “biggest enemy” of the mainstream media and the open-borders and pro-amnesty activists on the illegal immigration issue. “What Jeff Sessions is doing is
Vulnerable Senate Democrats facing tight reelection bids this cycle are telling President Obama to go through the legislative process rather than enact unilateral amnesty himself. “I think this is a congressional issue and I encourage [House] Speaker [John] Boehner in
Wednesday in Kansas City, MO, President Barack Obama attacked Congress as “haters” instead of political advisories with possible different legislative solutions then his own. In discussing minimum wage increases U.S. economy the president launched into mocking laughter as he urged
One of President Obama’s closest friends on the world stage, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would be “Glad to return” an award given to him by a Jewish American group in 2004. The American Jewish Congress asked
On July 29, the Huffington Post ran a column in which Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) argued that gun control makes women safer. The column is part of a current push for more gun
An immigration hawk who has voiced concern over the current House proposal to cope with the ongoing crisis at the border says he and other conservatives they will be able to vote “yes” for the measure if it includes two
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Congress expected to vote on authorization to sue President Obama over executive overreach, House Democrats slammed the effort Wednesday as a “loser” and “waste of time.” “Republicans are wasting time on a partisan lawsuit when instead
With little more than two years left in the Obama administration, President Obama seems to have given up on any pretense of abiding by his oath of his office as he seeks to accomplish his leftist goals. Perhaps the most
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be “glad” to return an award given to him in 2004 by a prominent American Jewish group, Turkey’s embassy in the US said Tuesday, amid a growing controversy over the premier’s anti-Israel remarks. According
Several hours after Speaker John Boehner announced to colleagues in the Capitol that the GOP border bill wouldn’t address President Obama’s threats to unilaterally grant amnesty to as many as six million people, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was befuddled. “I’m
On Tuesday, illegal immigrant DREAMers demanded hearings for every illegal immigrant juvenile who has been apprehended. United We Dream, the group which most recently staged a “funeral” for the GOP in the halls of Congress, blasted Republicans for only caring
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Tuesday afternoon that the plan revealed by Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis working group will not solve the crisis because it doesn’t stop President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty for illegal aliens. “The evidence shows
On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) suggested that Border Patrol agents were torturing illegal immigrants by making detention centers too cold during the summer. At a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing on the border crisis, Schakowsky said she recently visited a
In a classic Washingtonian political maneuver, both parties are prepared to introduce a massive new Veterans Affairs health care entitlement and force members to vote up or down on the entire package before they hustle off to their awaiting flights
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he wanted to attach the Senate’s comprehensive amnesty bill to the House border bill and potentially have a conference on legislation that had all but been declared dead. “Well, if they
During a hearing with House Democrats on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi argued that the bill proposed by Republicans did not have the adequate resources to help unattended minors crossing the border with the immigration court process. The bill,
It couldn’t be more obvious that the White House is using the threat of impeachment as a way to galvanize the Obama faithful to come out to the polls in November. With nothing positive to run on, Democrats have to
Tuesday morning the Associated Press fired of a tweet mocking Congress over its support of Israel. “As much of the world watched Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel.” — As much of
Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added 235,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.1 percent, but that hardly tells the story. The jobless rate may be down from its recession peak
One of the key immigration hawks in the House is signaling that changes to a border crisis package could find acquiescence from the right flank of the GOP conference, although he and like-minded colleagues are still looking to see a
On Monday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said President Barack Obama cannot intimidate Congress and warned Obama that more executive actions on illegal immigration would forever stain his presidency and be an affront to the American people. Addressing his colleagues on
It’s now or never for opponents of President Barack Obama’s lawlessness on illegal immigration. Saying America faces a “perilous hour,” and members of Congress are entering a “momentous week” when it comes to the future of the separation of powers,
The phone lines are jammed. The American people have risen up in response to a rallying cry from Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), overloading the phone lines on Capitol Hill to pressure their members of Congress to
While unveiling their “immigration scorecard” for this Congress on Monday, leaders of various pro-amnesty groups said Republican leaders have been telling them in private that they want comprehensive amnesty legislation. At a Washington, D.C. press conference, leaders from La Raza,
With President Obama vowing to ignore Congress and move on his own on immigration, potentially providing unilateral amnesty to as many as six million illegal aliens, criticism is mounting from the right over Speaker John Boehner’s failure to engage more
Politics has become a new profession. The trend creating “career politicians” has been growing for decades, and it has surely contributed to the entrenchment of power in D.C. and its separation from the will of the American people. Chris Cillizza
A majority of Americans believe that illegal immigrant juveniles are coming to America because they think the Obama administration will grant them amnesty. A YouGov/Economist poll found that 57 percent of Americans — including 51 percent of Hispanics, 44 percent of
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