California politicians are being accused of bringing personal rivalries into the fight over tuition hikes for California’s public UC and CSU systems, despite Californians’ opposition to increased taxes or increased tuition prices to maintain current funding. On Tuesday, California State
Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) argued that the GOP should not “take the bait” and “over-respond” to the president’s executive action on immigration while recommending attacking appointments made by the president in the Senate on Wednesday’s “America’s Newsroom.” Gowdy stated that
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) argued that the GOP should stop “cowering and hiding under our desks” on defunding the president’s executive action on immigration, arguing “it’s not like we’re saying ‘we’re not going to fund the government unless you wipe
Former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell said that Democrats are “panicking” because they know President Obama is “fully prepared to sacrifice them in the future” but that the GOP leadership doesn’t have “any idea that the American people just voted to
Sen. Barbara Boxer, desperate to implement harsher standards for greenhouse gas emissions before she loses control of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, is attempting to pass the Super Pollutants Act, a bill that would force cuts in emissions
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert made a strong appeal to defund President Obama’s “unconstitutional amnesty.” Speaking to a crowd on Wednesday, Gohmert said the the U.S. must learn from history. “History has happened, and we either learn from it or repeat it,” Gohmert
Some lawmakers negotiated the inclusion of land grab provisions in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will expand the already massive federal real state holdings. Critics consider those provisions pork because they have nothing to do with
On December 1, Texas state representative Matthew Krause (R-Ft. Worth) introduced legislation barring the in-state enforcement of nearly any federal gun control measure “past, present or future.” The legislation, HB422, “requires the state to refuse to enforce” federal gun control measures
President Obama will meet with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this afternoon, according to the White House press office. The meeting will take place at the White House, as Republicans debate how to handle a funding fight over Obama’s
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn’t take the reins of the Senate until January, but he is making an early move to consolidate his power. McConnell is pushing a rule change in the year-end spending deal currently under negotiation that would
How many times can conservatives be rooked by establishment Republican leadership, and still keep coming back for more? In an attempt to find an answer to this question, Speaker John Boehner has now rolled out his big proposal to stop
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is backing up several other conservative senators in publicly calling on all House Republicans to band together to block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. He advocates using a strategy that will hurt the Democrats
Just days ahead of a runoff election, the conservative Super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund is running a devastating new web ad that cites incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) parroting President Obama’s famous claim that “if you like your health care plan, you can
Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has discovered plans by President Barack Obama to open a new immigration facility to process his executive amnesty action in Northern Virginia, where the federal government has plans to hire a
Talk radio host Hugh Hewitt and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) squared off over military pay and benefit cuts as part of a military budget deal on Tuesday. Hewitt said that listeners had been writing to him and were “pissed” and
AUSTIN, Texas — The deployment of National Guard troops that Texas Governor Rick Perry ordered in response to the border crisis is set to be phased out under a recommendation from the Texas Legislative Budget Board released on Monday. The
CA Republicans proposed two bills aimed to stop a cap-and-trade program for transportation fuels which starts up in January that will increase gasoline prices for motorists across the Golden State. The Sacramento Bee reported that since 2006 cap-and-trade laws, designed
In an increasingly desperate looking attempt to hold onto her Senate seat, Democrat Mary Landrieu can’t seem to decide if she’s for Barack Obama as president, or against him. Well, actually, depending on the audience, she appears to be both.
In response to Landrieu Down Significantly in Early Voting: It is hopeful to say that Sen. Mary Landrieu is all but finished in her re-election race down in Louisiana, but do not dismiss the Democrat Party’s grassroots machine of turning
While Republican Bill Cassidy has seen an uptick over the November primary in GOP early voting, Democrat Mary Landrieu is experiencing the opposite. Democrat early voting totals are down by almost 18 percent and turn-out among blacks is down significantly,
AUSTIN, Texas — Fiscal conservatives are urging the Texas Legislative Budget Board (LBB) to adopt a stricter budget cap than the 11.68 percent growth rate they approved in an unanimous vote on Monday. The LBB is a permanent joint legislative
Conservative lawmakers are expressing doubt that the so-called cromnibus could pass without some concessions from House leadership. “Is the cromnibus without limitation language, in terms of funding the unconstitutional acts of this president in trouble? I think the answer to
The White House is defending President Obama’s nomination of a soap opera producer as the new ambassador to Hungary. Colleen Bradley Bell was confirmed today by the Senate, although Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) berated her as a “totally unqualified individual”
Incoming Senate Steering Committee chairman Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is laying out the strategy that House Republicans should take if they want to successfully block funding for President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty, something that begins with passing a short-term
Republicans in Washington, under the tutelage of House Speaker John Boehner, are planning a full-scale cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, by aiming to fund Obama’s immigration action in full this week. Boehner on Tuesday pitched colleagues on a
