
GOP Lawmakers Unveil Plan to Defund Refugee Program, ‘Keep Terrorists Out’
A group of Republican House members have introduced legislation that would temporarily suspend the refugee resettlement program by blocking its funding.

A group of Republican House members have introduced legislation that would temporarily suspend the refugee resettlement program by blocking its funding.
“People know that the ORR doesn’t tell us what they’re doing,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn tells Breitbart News Daily host Steve K. Bannon. “They are not fulfilling their obligation. They are not being truthful, honest and transparent and we have been on this.”

Following Speaker Paul Ryan’s “show-vote” on the nation’s resettlement of Syrian refugees, House conservative lawmakers are demanding that Ryan take sincere action by denying the President funds to refugee resettlement in the year-end funding bill.

A group of Republican lawmakers are calling for a complete, temporary halt of all refugee resettlement funding, including the resettlement of “special interest aliens” crossing the Southern border.

Rep. Paul Ryan won the first round of votes for the job of House Speaker, but 45 Republican legislators voted against him. Those 45 members are enough to block him from getting the Speakership during the partisan floor vote on

A spokesman for House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) confirms yet again that despite all the donor class and political establishment wooing, Ryan is not running to replace outgoing Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) would make a great conservative Speaker of the House, suggests the American Conservative Union’s member scorecard.

A new analysis from the American Conservative Union (ACU) of voting records of various potential GOP candidates for Speaker of the House under the soon-to-be-ending Speakership of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) shows that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is far and away the best viable candidate for Speaker.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) should put her name in the race to become the next Speaker of the House, says the American Conservative Union’s executive director, Daniel Schneider.
Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) stated “we will redouble our efforts” to defund Planned Parenthood and “we are activating the reconciliation process” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I’m Marsha Blackburn. I’m speaking to you today as the representative

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile battled over Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments last week comparing Republican candidates views on abortion to terrorists. Blackburn said the comments were

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a statement calling on President Barack Obama to lower the American flag at the White House to half-staff.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) tells Breitbart News in a brief phone interview that America needs to strengthen immigration enforcement to protect our national security.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Obamacare last week was essentially the court saying, “we are making a ruling not on a reading of the law, but we are making a ruling on what we interpret should have been congressional impact,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on the Breitbart News Saturday radio program.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina reacted to the cyber-security hack Friday by saying, “Our Federal government is increasingly inept.”

A whopping 51 House Republicans are publicly pressuring IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Clinton Foundation tax status, signing onto a letter organized by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that pushes for such an investigation.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is working on building congressional support for pressure on the IRS to investigate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s and former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Foundation tax exempt status, Breitbart News has learned.

Monday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the Clintons did not do good work in Haiti, but instead used the tragic 2010 earthquake funds to fill their friends’ pockets. Blackburn explained when the government

Friday on Fox News Channels’ “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the Clinton’s coordinated to give lucrative contracts for mining and digital cells in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake to “their friends and relatives.” Blackburn said, “Crony capitalism is the

May 9 looms large for Republican presidential hopefuls, as Citizens United and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) host the South Carolina Freedom Summit.

The biggest casualty of the President’s executive amnesty, aside from the Constitution, has been the American worker. President Obama is handing out millions of work permits to illegal aliens at a time when many Americans are struggling to find a job. It is difficult to grasp why President Obama seems more interested in lending a helping hand to illegal aliens than American workers. Sadly, the issuance of work permits is often an overlooked part of the President’s amnesty.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) laid out in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the Iowa Freedom Summit the biggest coming scandal of 2015: That the Obama administration is allowing corporations to data mine from healthcare.gov.
On Thursday, talk radio host Laura Ingraham blasted Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC) for voting against an amendment to strip funding from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA]. Ingraham began by criticizing Ellmers for saying she wasn’t for amnesty but
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will speak at the Iowa Freedom Summit at the end of January hosted by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Citizens United, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

On the first day of the 114th Congress, the House has introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—legislation that would restrict abortions to 20 weeks of pregnancy.