House Speaker John Boehner’s cave on executive amnesty is perfectly timed. First Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks for boldness and action, hours later Boehner collapses in defeat before the wishes of minority Democrats.
With a cave on executive amnesty looking likely, it remains to be seen whether Speaker John Boehner can deflect blame.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to the House’s failure to pass a short-term DHS funding bill that did not touch the president’s executive action on immigration by saying Republicans “can’t execute a surrender” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News
Columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” Ann Coulter criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), saying “takes lots of courage to betray your constituents, to break your promises” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said that judging by developments in the fight over DHS funding “you would have thought that there wasn’t an election last November, and then you would have thought that the election that was last November
Barack Obama’s veto of the bill allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is likely to be a bellwether of vetoes yet to come, reversing a trend in his first six years in office that saw him veto only two bills.
Senate Republicans are ready to cave in on DHS funding. But Minority Leader Harry Reid may prove to be a sore winner.
The Hill Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “really doesn’t want to be talking about” DHS funding on Tuesday’s “Happening Now” on the Fox News Channel. “Democrats in the Senate who were up for re-election many
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.
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.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential Republican candidate for president, is choosing an odd time to come out in favor of passing a DHS spending bill that funds President Obama’s executive amnesty. A federal judge just put amnesty on hold.
Conservative leaders and Republican senators are calling on Democrats to drop a filibuster of a DHS spending bill, especially since a judge has suspended the amnesty.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says a new court ruling should cause Senate Democrats to end their filibuster of the House-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill and allow it to come to the floor. DHS funding expires Feb. 27.
The Senate appears set to recess next week, even though it hasn’t been able to take up a DHS funding measure passed by the House.
The leader of the Senate says his body cannot move on a DHS funding bill, so the next step would be up to the House.
For the past week, President Obama and Senate Democrats have spent the past two weeks blasting Republicans after the House passed a bill which included two different proposals to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Republican leaders in Congress, however, haven’t been as aggressive in their messaging strategy.
Sen. Rand Paul will vote against Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to be Attorney General.
Sen. Durbin thanks Sen. McConnell for returning the Senate to a more normal way of operating.
Influential Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, says he’ll oppose Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be Attorney General because of her stance on President Obama’s executive amnesty.
More than 40 House Republicans are urging the Senate to pass a bill aimed at rolling back funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention last weekend, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Republicans in Congress—particularly GOP leadership on Capitol Hill—have blown, at least thus far, the response to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
Speaker of the House John Boehner tells CBS in an upcoming interview that his Tea Party opposition only targets him to raise money for themselves.
Sen. Rand Paul tells Breitbart News he hopes Senate Democrats have struck an inadvertent blow for property rights. Oh, and he’ll make a decision about whether to run for president this spring.
Thursday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, while discussing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently taking credit for positive upticks in the economy, Vice President Joe Biden admitted when he was in the Senate in the 1980s, he took
A leading conservative in the House of Representatives criticized GOP leadership in the Senate on Wednesday, saying that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already lost the immigration battle to Obama before the first fight has even started.
