If at first you don’t succeed, try something different. After Senate Democrats blocked a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill for a fourth time Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is offering a potential alternate route.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that the US was being “conquered” by the Mexican government on Monday. Reacting to a report that the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta was processing applications for “matricula consular,” “have
A new letter from rank-and-file Republicans urges House leadership to stay the course on DHS funding. So far, Senate Democrats have refused to allow a House-passed bill to come to the floor.
For a fourth time, Senate Democrats have succeeded in preventing a DHS funding bill from even coming to the floor. Funding for the agency runs out this week.
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said that “we should be not be playing politics with the Department of Homeland Security” on Monday’s “@This Hour” on CNN. McCaul said that, “we passed a bill that fully funds the Department, I
The Obama Justice Department has officially asked Judge Andrew Hanen to stay his injunction that is preventing the administration from moving forward with executive amnesty.
Sen. Rand Paul is trying to turn up the heat on Senate Democrats. He’s encouraging them to end a filibuster and allow the senate to take up a House-passed DHS funding bill.
Pressure from a purple state: Eight House Reps. from Virginia are encouraging their two Democrat senators to help lift a filibuster of the House-passed DHS funding bill.
New details about a “shadow work-permit system” are emerging. The Center for Immigration Studies finds that between 2009 and 2014, the Obama administration issued 7.4 million new work permits, above the annual 1.1 million new legal and 700,000 guest workers admitted to the U.S.
Democratic Strategist Jamal Simmons and writer and speaker Sayu Bhojwani argued that opposition to the president’s executive action on immigration is at least partially based on racism on Saturday’s “Melissa’s Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. “This 26-state lawsuit [against the president’s executive action] also
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry argued that Republicans were being inconsistent for criticizing the president for being too weak on foreign policy while simultaneously criticizing his executive action on immigration on Saturday. After playing clips of Republican leaders criticizing the president’s
The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona, commemorated thousands of illegal immigrants who died at the Arizona border with Mexico, after Texas Federal Judge Andrew Hanen issued a temporary injunction halting President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty program.
Democrats acknowledged in the party’s autopsy report that the party must win back white voters after getting walloped in midterm elections.
The Washington Post’s Robert Costa reports Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is in Washington, D.C., this weekend for the National Governors Association’s winter meeting. While there, he’ll also be meeting with Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and other influential Republicans in his circle.
Pro-amnesty organizations are cheering the Obama Administration’s decision to seek an emergency stay of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily halted the president’s executive amnesty.
Sen. Marco Rubio plans to be campaigning for president in New Hampshire next week, abandoning his day job even as the Senate tries to take up an important DHS funding bill.
Actor Wilmer Valderrama is urging illegal immigrants to continue to prepare for executive amnesty and sign up in droves when it is available.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued the Republican Party should “abolish the filibuster” in order to pass a DHS funding bill defunding the president’s executive action on immigration on Thursday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. “I would advocate to
As the deadline for funding DHS approaches later this month, dueling letters are making the rounds on the Hill. House Democrats are pressing House Speaker John Boehner to bring a new, “clean” funding bill to the House floor, while House Republicans have asked Senate Democrats to allow an already-passed bill to come to the floor.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) slammed Texas Republican leaders on Wednesday for what he claimed was their “touchdown dance” celebrating Judge Andrew Hanen’s temporary injunction against President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
Sen. John McCain warns that the Department of Homeland Security shouldn’t be shut down because of a battle over funding President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Republican congress members from Missouri are joining those from West Virginia and Indiana in calling on their state’s Democratic senators to allow a House-passed DHS funding bill to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin blasted Mexico’s foreign ministry for its criticism of a federal judge’s decision to halt the president’s executive action on immigration on Wednesday. “The corrupt, disintegrating government of Mexico condemned
Columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” Ann Coulter declared that “the Wall Street crowd” is “going to be wasting a lot of money on Jeb Bush” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly got into a tense exchange over the president’s executive action on immigration on Wednesday’s “Kelly File.” Gutierrez started by clarifying that his prediction of “militancy” after a court delayed
