Tag: Rand Paul

After the U.S. Senate voted to pass the motion to proceed to floor debate on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed that this bill would solve illegal immigration and secure the border. “Illegal immigration will

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called President Barack Obama a hypocrite for expanding the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs that Obama had previously railed against.  In an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Monday, Paul said the NSA’s spying was an

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered the keynote commencement address at Philadelphia’s Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School Monday, in which he promoted school choice initiatives he has long supported. “The world beckons all of you forward to achieve great things,”

Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that she is not averse to holding hearings that deal with the phone and Internet surveillance programs that have been uncovered recently. She said, “I’m open to doing

On CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ripped into Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over Paul’s suggestion in 2012 that governmental portrayal of the war on terror battlefield being inside the United States opened the door to violation

The federal government may store private phone records ,and Internet data that it has seized through the Prism program, in the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center that is being built and set to open this fall.  The UK Guardian reported on

Once patriots were called on to defend our Constitutional rights. Today, we are called on to reinstate them. In the wake of the latest Obama scandal, i.e. the seizure of phone records for millions of Americans, Sen. Rand Paul has

Sen. Rand Paul released a statement Thursday responding to the scandal erupting over the Nation Security Agency’s massive seizure and surveillance of Americans’ Verizon phone records, as reported by The Guardian.  Paul’s statement read: The National Security Agency’s seizure and surveillance of virtually all

While the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill’s future hangs in limbo in the face of various hurdles that have popped up recently, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is confident that if it passes the Senate, Democrats will gear up their political

Speaking at the Reagan President Library on Friday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) presented a more diverse vision of Republicanism – but more importantly, called for a Republicanism with passion. “Reagan never diluted what he had to say,” Paul explained.

In his keynote speech to the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner on May 10, Rand Paul gave a hilarious speech ridiculing ObamaCare and noting some of the most ridiculous propositions in it, including line-items for injuries people would suffer from

Appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that President Obama’s “moral authority to lead” has crumbled. Referring to the troika of scandals now plaguing the administration – the IRS targeting of conservative non-profits, the Department

On the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said there may be more conservative, pro-liberty “wacko birds” in the Senate than suspected. Cruz said “it has been suggested” that “those of us who have been fighting to defend liberty”

Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. When Paul