(AP) White House praises Senate last-minute budget dealWASHINGTONThe White House is urging quick congressional approval of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the partial government shutdown. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the deal reached by Senate
Progressive Massachusetts paper exhaustively puts the lie to Obama’s post-partisan image. Republicans have been complaining that, despite his constant stream of rhetoric pleading for bipartisanship, President Obama has been one of the biggest opponents of America’s political parties actually working
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a new offer to GOP Leader Mitch McConnell to end the partial government shutdown. The proposal would extend government funding through mid-December at current levels and lift the debt ceiling until the
(AP) Senate rejects Democratic debt limit extensionBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has rejected a Democratic effort to extend the government’s ability to borrow money through next year.Before the vote, Republican senators said Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch
On Friday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) needed to be defeated in his primary next year for conservatism to succeed. “I believe Mitch McConnell should be defeated in Kentucky,” Levin said on
During The Daily Beast’s annual Hero Summit, editor-in-chief Tina Brown unleashed a tirade of hate against the certain members of the GOP. The Hero Summit included an interview with Senator John McCain who also chimed in with some criticism of
NBC affiliate WPSD 6 in Paducah, Kentucky caught Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul Wednesday on a hot mic Paul “I just did CNN and I just go over and over again ‘We’re willing to compromise, I
The media and the left are agitated that Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell were caught on a “hot mic” discussing the utter lack of a White House strategy to navigate the government shutdown fight. Paul notes, in his conversation
Since the government shutdown, House and Senate Republicans have proposed restoring funding to specific agencies or government functions while the parties seek consensus on the larger issues. The House has proposed legislation to reopen the National Parks, the National Institutes
The leftists in Hollywood, led by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, have already raised more than $1 million to support Alison Lundergan Grimes as they and their masters in the Obama administration want to oust Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch
A new national poll has found that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not only the 2016 frontrunner but also the politician Republicans view as their new leader in Washington, D.C. A Public Policy Polling poll of GOP primary voters conducted
Cloture invoked 79-19 (60 vote threshold, there are 54 D, 46 R Senators) This was the vote that mattered because Harry Reid could only get the 60 votes he needed with Republican help. 25Rs joined 54Ds to end debate on
(AP) Senate OKs budget bill, but fight not overBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing
(AP) Obama mocks GOP for ‘crazy’ Obamacare predictionsBy DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressLARGO, MarylandWith just five days to go before Americans can begin signing up for health care under his signature law, President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for “crazy”
Businessman Matt Bevin, the man facing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a primary election next year, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he believes McConnell should find out exactly who in the GOP establishment is behind the shopping of
The Senate is debating the motion to proceed to the Continuing Resolution passed by the House last week that will fund the federal government through December 15 and defund Obamacare. Senator Cruz wanted to filibuster the CR because of Majority
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Tuesday told Breitbart News that he will buck McConnell, Cornyn and Reid, and supports the position of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Rubio made the remarks in response to the news that Senate Minority Leader Mitch
A source in Congress tells Breitbart News that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn are using their leadership positions to pressure other Republicans to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his campaign to defund Obamacare.
Jesse Benton, the campaign manager for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign, told Breitbart News on Sunday that “of course not,” neither McConnell, nor anyone on his Senate staff or campaign staff, shopped any opposition research on Sen. Ted
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not commit to use all the resources available to him and other Republicans to force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hand on a vote to fund all of the federal government but the Affordable
(AP) Senate postpones votes in response to shootingWASHINGTONThe Senate is postponing scheduled votes until Tuesday in response to the deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. Moments after the Senate returned to work on Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) came out swinging against President Obama’s proposal for Congressional authorization of military force against Syria and the Bashar Assad regime. McConnell said that President Obama’s chaotic rollout of his case for military
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not taken a stance on whether the U.S. should intervene militarily in Syria’s civil war, a point his primary challenger, businessman Matt Bevin, made in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on
Kentucky Democrat Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is getting a boost from the Hollywood elite. Grimes has refused to make clear her positions on many issues of the day, emulating Barack Obama in 2008. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks
Wendy Caswell, the recently elected president of the Louisville Tea Party, endorsed Matt Bevin, the businessman who is challenging Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2014 Republican primary, on Thursday. Ms. Caswell was elected as the group’s president only last
