The long-awaited House GOP leadership immigration “principles” document has surfaced. Titled “Standards for Immigration Reform,” the document breaks down each of the pillars of what House GOP leadership is pushing, including a claim that America’s “national and economic security” depends
Each week, it seems another Democrat lawmaker announces their retirement from Congress. On Thursday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) joined the growing list. It is only January, but 11 Democrat lawmakers have said they are quitting at the end of this
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland–House Republicans responding to President Obama’s State of the Union vow to move forward on a “year of action” with or without Congress say they agree and want to partner with him. “We heard the president say this should
ATLANTA (AP) — The snow and sleet have stopped falling and traffic was moving again around Atlanta following a crippling storm — but transportation and rescue officials said that didn’t mean it was safe yet to drive, especially after the
WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general, Eric Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he’s not a proponent of
On January 29th Attorney General Eric Holder said the public would have pushed Congress to support gun control if the photographs of the slain children at Sandy Hook Elementary had been released. According to Main Justice, Holder said December 14,
President Obama would have been remiss to not mention that his signature legislation at the State of the Union address last night. He did so with unwarranted aplomb, repeating the falsehood that Obamacare has insured nine million people–a number embellished
President Obama waded lightly through every major issue on Americans’ minds in his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, from war to jobs to salaries in those jobs. But the line of the night–a call to abandon “workplace policies
It was the GOP’s official response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union, but Obama wasn’t much a part of it. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) was mostly silent on a suite of Obama scandals and weaknesses. McMorris Rodgers
During the morning before the 2014 State of the Union address, White House Counselor John Podesta fired up the Democrat faithful with visions of a passionate President Obama about to declare rule by executive orders to vanquish his obstructionist Republican
Milton Wolf, best known as Obama’s cousin (or second cousin twice removed), has been on the Kansas Senate campaign trail for only three months and is already gaining support from conservative groups within the state for his August 5 primary
Last night one of Obama’s biggest applause lines was his repetition of a misleading statistic about the wage gap between men and women. This specific claim has been rebutted numerous times and yet in Wednesday morning fact checks many news
Before and during the State of the Union message, President Obama declared that he intended to act by Executive Order to address issues like the economy. He did not mention, as we discussed in the last column, the much of
Promising to address inequality and strengthen the middle class, President Obama’s State of the Union combined sound and foolish proposals, laced with good old fashioned demagoguery. Despite nearly five years of economic recovery, the fortunes of working Americans have decidedly
A little over halfway through President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington started clapping tentatively. Obama was inviting the GOP to come to the table with its ideas on health care.
A federal court recently scuttled Judicial Watch’s lawsuit on behalf of Kawa Orthodontics’ challenge of the Obama administration’s delay of the so-called “employer mandate” provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, but we’re not going away
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Rep. Michael Grimm is defending his actions after he physically threatened a reporter at the Capitol after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The confrontation began Tuesday when Michael Scotto, a reporter for
Conservatives in the House of Representatives feel like President Barack Obama’s brief call for immigration reform legislation during Tuesday evening’s State of the Union speech fell flat. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a hawk on immigration, told Breitbart News to look
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News he wore a Santa Claus tie to the State of the Union speech from President Barack Obama Tuesday evening because he considers Obama like Santa Claus. “When I was looking for a tie
During his 2013 State of the Union address (SOTU) Obama mentioned guns seven times throughout a five-paragraph push for gun control. In his 2014 SOTU he mentioned guns once, in a short paragraph whose only hint of more gun control
Partial transcript as follows: OBAMA: Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for
President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening to make the best case for the interim nuclear deal with Iran–and against bipartisan sanctions legislation that enjoys majority support in both houses of Congress. The president’s
During tonight’s State of the Union, President Obama informed the country that it needs to move off permanent “war-footing.” Instead we need to build up our foreign partners but provided no further details about what that might look like. The
During his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama compared using his executive power to bypass Congress to the first lady Michelle Obama’s
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more
