Tag: Senate

Eleven months before Christmas bells start ringing, Indiana already started decorating the tree.  On Monday State senators approved legislation that will allow holiday celebrations back in schools. Approval from the full House and governor is needed before the bill becomes

Maybe it’s too early to call it an official 2016 “cattle call,” but the group of Republicans headlining an April New Hampshire event is going to get a lot of tongues wagging. Featured speakers include Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that immigration reform will not happen in 2014, despite a renewed push from his counterparts on the other side of the capitol in House GOP leadership. “I think we have sort of an

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Chochran is in trouble, and the GOP establishment is pulling out all the stops to save him. A pro-Cochran super PAC associated with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is already on the airwaves to define upstart

Phyllis Schlafly writes at National Review Online: People come to America because it is a remarkable oasis of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Conservatives recognize that the principal reason for our unique abundance is our constitutional restraint on the power of

Charles and David Koch raised eyebrows in D.C. last week with an aggressive push back of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the Nevada Democrat delivered the kind of bare-knuckle attack on the billionaire brothers that has become commonplace by top

On Monday, February 3rd, Colorado lawmakers will debate state Senator George Rivera’s (R-Pueblo) bill to repeal the universal background check requirement passed in 2013. State Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) supported that requirement in May and has since been recalled by

The openness of top Democrats to the House GOP’s immigration “principles” could undercut Speaker John Boehner’s credibility on the right as he seeks to sell his conference on moving forward.  Obama had previously said he would not sign an immigration

The president’s State of the Union address last week was notable for one thing: the almost total absence of the president’s signature health care law. Despite the fact that the address came within weeks of the law’s full rollout, the president didn’t

A newly discovered audio tape of a June 3, 1964 speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Arizona State University, reveals the work he had to do to overcome the Democratic Party’s filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act led

Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced the Learning Opportunities Created At the Local (LOCAL) Level Act, which would stop the federal government from forcing education standards on the states with

With Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie embattled in his “Bridgegate” scandal, top Republican donors may be looking at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as their alternative to Christie.  According to The Hill, GOP fundraisers like Bill Paxon, the New York

A top House Democrat who has been one of the most vocal advocates of amnesty said Friday that the GOP leadership’s “immigration principles” document that was unveiled Thursday does not rule out citizenship for the country’s illegal immigrants. “You know

Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on campaign finance charges. Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder’s junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama’s

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced Friday that throughout 2013 his three campaign arms raised $4.16 million. Cruz made the massive haul over 2013 through his re-election committee, Ted Cruz for Senate, his joint fundraising committee, Ted Cruz Victory Committee, and

It’s going to take more than Wendy Davis’s pink-shoed filibuster to entice more women into running for office. A New York Times report Friday highlights the lack of change in the number of female candidates and the decades-long struggle to correct

After the House Republican leadership unveiled its “immigration principles” on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has staunchly and relentlessly defended American workers against amnesty, weighed in once again. Sessions said it looked like the consultant-driven and “recycled talking points” offer