Lame Duck

The Senate rejected Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) religious liberty amendment and passed the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA).

Congress has a jam-packed legislative calendar as it aims to pass a spending bill and a defense authorization bill before the new congressional term. 

Outgoing House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Democrats should use the “lame duck session” to pass legislation that would “keep these guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.”

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) called for Republicans in the Senate to hold the line in the lame-duck session of Congress and ensure that the lame-duck Congress only passes an extension

Special interest groups, many of which are donors to Republican and Democrat lawmakers, say the GOP must quickly throw support behind an amnesty for illegal alien farmworkers so the legislation can be rushed through the lame-duck Congress.

Pro-migration activists are admitting there is little public support for business plans to import more foreign workers and renters.

Republican Senator Mitt Romney wants to cut inflation by cutting Americans’ wages, including the wages earned by the GOP’s own voters.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated that another, targeted round of economic stimulus is needed, but there are “slim” odds of passing another stimulus in the lame duck session. Comer

The Republicans have taken a six-point lead over Democrats on the generic ballot in a new tracking poll from Reuters newswire service.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a $190.3 billion budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year, beginning July 1 — which the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature intends to bust.

Lame duck California Governor Jerry Brown jetted off in CO2-spewing jet planes for 14-days of galas across the European Continent and a stop in New York City to showcase his climate change credentials.

Governor Jerry Brown jetted off to China on Friday to deliver the Under2 Coalition keynote speech in an effort further raise taxes to fight climate change — even as Repeal The Gas Tax professional petitioners began to hit California shopping centers statewide.

Lake Charles Methanol makes a lot of sense: the thermodynamics, the economics, the boon to U.S. jobs and energy production.

Saturday, MTV News senior national correspondent Jamil Smith called President-elect Donald Trump “uppity” for taking presidential steps during his lame duck days. “There’s reports now he’s even upset with President Obama taking actual presidential steps in these last few lame duck days.

Russia quickly responded after President Barack Obama issued new sanctions against Russia in retaliation for unproven charges that Russian intelligence interfered with the U.S. election with the recent release of Democratic party emails.

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “I will work to form a bipartisan coalition to suspend or significantly reduce United States assistance to the United Nations.”

President-elect Donald J. Trump demanded that President Barack Obama veto a UN Security Council resolution to be voted on Thursday that would declare Israeli settlements across the 1949 armistice line — i.e. in the West Bank — to be illegal.

Sources inform Breitbart News that U.S. President Barack Obama may allow several anti-Israel resolutions to pass at the UN that would legitimize and strengthen the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.

Republican federal lawmakers have asked the Obama Administration and the Bureau of Prisons to “place an immediate hold” on granting a contract for additional housing for criminal alien inmates until after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

California Democrats are appealing to the ‘lame duck’ Obama administration to take measures that would protect its left-wing policies even in the face of changes under incoming President Donald Trump.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) spoke to Breitbart News Daily Tuesday, offering a look ahead at the lame-duck budget battle, which could include another government shutdown drama.

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s electoral chances be damned, President Barack Obama is on a warpath to achieve congressional approval of his landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact before he leaves office.

Paul Nehlen, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s challenger in the 2016 Wisconsin primary, joined SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the possibility that President Obama will push the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (dubbed “ObamaTrade” by critics) through the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress.

“A contract should not exist when it’s not of benefit to both parties,” Sessions declared. “And I just believe it’s time for us to be far more realistic about trading. We have to understand that many of our trading partners are relentlessly mercantilist. They seek to expand their exports to us, expanding their unemployment to us, and block our exports to them.”

The Castro brothers haven’t survived in power without being canny politicians as well as ruthless tyrants. And they have President Barack Obama pegged: they know that his ego trumps all other priorities, and are willing to flatter him to win concessions. Raúl Castro used his country’s debut at the Summit of the Americas to deliver an hour-long rant against the U.S. role in the region–then excused Obama: “I apologize to him because President Obama had no responsibility for this.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, says Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech proves the president is now a “lame duck” president.

Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace said President Barack Obama’s lame duck, nonessential travel schedule proves nothing he is announcing in the State of the Union speech will get done. Pace said, “President Obama crosses into