Congresswoman-Elect Debbie Lesko Will Join House Freedom Caucus
Congresswoman-elect Debbie Lasko (R-AZ), who won the Arizona special election on Tuesday to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), will join the House Freedom Caucus.
Congresswoman-elect Debbie Lasko (R-AZ), who won the Arizona special election on Tuesday to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), will join the House Freedom Caucus.
A poll released by Emerson College on Monday shows Republican candidate Debbie Lesko “pulling away from her Democrat opponent Hiral Tipirneni” with a six-point lead one day before the special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to replace Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who resigned after a personal scandal.
A poll conducted last Wednesday by OH Predictive Insights shows Republican candidate Debbie Lesko has a ten point lead over Democratic candidate Hiral Tipirneni, 53 percent to 43 percent, in next Tuesday’s special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to replace former Rep. Trent Franks.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he may be setting his sights on a bid for higher office in Arizona.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said evidence from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into allegations against Planned Parenthood “could provide a basis for charges” against the organization.
Pro-life activists are celebrating the restoration of the Adoption Tax Credit to the GOP tax reform bill.
The GOP’s pro-life base is driving a push to include an adoption tax credit in the Republican tax reform bill.
A healthcare policy analyst warns Republicans that the “bipartisan” healthcare deal engineered by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) represents the “second largest expansion of federal abortion funding, behind only Obamacare itself.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says a bill passed by the House that would ban most abortions in the country past the fifth month of pregnancy will get a vote in the Senate and is supported by “virtually all” GOP senators.
The Trump administration has released a strategic plan for the years 2018-2022 that asserts clearly at several points that life begins at conception.
The Arizona Republican who introduced the legislation – now passed by the House – to prohibit abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy, is urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call for a straight up-or-down vote on the bill.
The Trump administration “strongly supports” a bill that would ban most abortions in the country past the fifth month of pregnancy, says a Statement of Administration Policy from the White House.
Alabama Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Doug Jones says he is a “right-to-lifer” once a baby is born, but – before then – he supports abortion up until the day of birth.
Senate Democrats are under fire for handing a religious test to a judicial nominee about her Catholic faith and how it allegedly would affect her judgment while serving on the bench.
Today we commemorate a tragic anniversary. On this day 16 years ago, radical jihadists, who had found safe harbor under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, viciously attacked our nation in the calm hours of the morning.
The House on Friday rejected an amendment to a must-pass annual defense bill that would have required the military to study the link between Islamic doctrine and terrorism and make recommendations for identifying Islamic preachers promoting extremist ideology.
A U.S. lawmaker who has proposed legislation to grant legal permanent status to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents says under the U.K. system of government-run health care, the British judiciary is holding the baby “hostage.”
Two Republican members of Congress said they plan to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the United States to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents to allow the child to leave the U.K. and receive experimental treatment in America.
After police took out Alexandria attacker James Hodgkinson, they discovered an assassination list consisting of Republicans in his pocket.
Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat told reporters in the Speaker’s Lobby just off the House floor Tuesday afternoon that he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus are meeting soon with members of the group of moderates known as the Tuesday Group about reviving the Ryancare bill.
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus told reporters Tuesday that despite a phone call with President Donald J. Trump he is not voting for the American Health Care Act, crafted by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-WI) as an alternative to the clean repeal of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
The House Armed Services Committee has rejected an amendment, 25-37, that would have permitted members of the service and their dependents to obtain abortions at military facilities.
A diverse group of people and organizations representing a wide array of religious beliefs will argue their case before the Supreme Court Wednesday that the government has no role in instructing them about the tenets of their faiths.
Leading pro-life member of Congress, Rep. Trent Franks, has endorsed Ted Cruz in the GOP race for the nomination, the Cruz campaign announced.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to answer a question this week about whether she would support or enforce legislation that protects babies who are born alive during abortions.
A measure in the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Friday to temporarily suspend the availability of any funds to Planned Parenthood of America, Inc. or any of its affiliates, for one year during an investigation of the abortion provider. The moratorium of federal funding is entitled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that would protect babies born alive during abortion by making it a federal crime to kill the baby after it is born, either by an overt act, or through gross negligence. The bill, entitled the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act was introduced by Congressman Trent Franks.
Two women who survived botched abortions during the 1970s testified Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices following the release of a series of videos that exposed the group’s sale of body parts of aborted babies on the open market.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Constitution and Civil Justice subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-AZ) called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide information on prior investigations into fetal body parts trafficking.
Two top Republicans say they saw the now-viral video of a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts weeks ago.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with 45 co-sponsors.
The House of Representatives will vote on a bill next week that would ban abortions past the fifth month of pregnancy. The United States, China, North Korea and Canada are the only nations in the world that permit abortion for any reason after viability.
Nearly three months after caving to a group of Republicans led by Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, the House GOP is trying to resurrect the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, though Ellmers has demanded another language change in the bill