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When the Senate reconvenes on Monday, its first legislative action will be to extend unemployment benefits for another three months. Unemployment benefits for people out of work for 99 weeks expired at the end of the year. The three month

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is leading a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of Americans against President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) over its spying on the American people, Breitbart News has learned. Sen. Paul will be discussing the

As the 2014 congressional and senatorial elections near, one key issue that both sides are planning to capitalize on is the various candidates’ positions on climate change and energy. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a prime target of the

The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration wrote Wednesday that passage of immigration reform that would legalize millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is a “win-win for both immigrant workers and their

Keeping good on its promise to leave Colorado in reaction to the draconian gun laws passed in March 2013, “high capacity” magazine maker Magpul Industries has announced it will relocate to Texas and Wyoming. On March 4 of last year

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimated that in 2013 it improperly spent about $65 billion in taxpayer funds through waste, errors, and fraud, a figure that was primarily fueled by an estimated $60 billion in overpayments

In Washington, it is often said that the parties can’t get along. As the country found out with the terrible Ryan-Murray budget deal that just passed Congress, the only thing that’s worse than the parties not getting along is when

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is committed to passing immigration reform, and amnesty advocates are more hopeful that Boehner will ignore conservatives who are opposed to a pathway to citizenship provision that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages

(AP) Two-woman ticket in Texas goes for history in 2014By PAUL J. WEBERAssociated PressAUSTIN, TexasForget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 2016. Women still have yet to run many statehouses, but in 2014 two Texas Democrats are

Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that legalizes drinking on pedal pubs. Pedal pubs accommodate up to 16 riders that sit across from each other, using peddles underneath their seats to slowly power the quadracycles across city streets. While

For more than a decade, New Yorkers have indulged the running joke that Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid his way into City Hall. A report in Monday’s New York Times suggests he did just that: paid $650 million in 12 years for

The fight against the crippling regulations imposed by Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency on the coal industry is ratcheting to a higher level now that the regulations are soon to be imposed. Obama has said he wants to

The U.S. economy is gaining strength, but the ObamaCare train wreck, festering problems in far away China, and uncertain leadership at the Federal Reserve could derail the recovery. No small courage will be required for good sense to finally restore

(AP) Congress letting 55 tax breaks expire at year endBy STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONIn an almost annual ritual, Congress is letting a package of 55 popular tax breaks expire at the end of the year, creating uncertainty _ once again _

In 1993, Democrats passed background checks for firearms purchasers, and in 1994, they were romped in the congressional elections.  Then, as now, we had a Democrat president–Bill Clinton–and a Democrat-controlled Senate, under Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine).  The

Despite the never ending gun control push by the Obama administration, Senate Democrats, and gun control organizations during 2013, there were huge pro-gun moments. Breitbart News has compiled what we believe were the top five from 2013. Number five on

The past year has by far been the best for the Tea Party movement in its short history. In 2013, the five-year old conservative grassroots upsurge has grabbed Washington, D.C. by the collar, tearing the city colloquially known as “Boomtown”

With New Jersey’s biggest city in transition as Senator Cory Booker leaves the town to new leaders, his legacy is emerging as, at best, a mixed one. The New York Times reports that violent crime is skyrocketing in Newark– particularly

It is almost time to turn the page on 2013, and, for the Republican Party, this past year has been remarkably mixed. Republicans faced numerous challenges in 2013. President Obama’s inauguration to a second term in January in the midst

After A&E reinstated Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) welcomed him back by tweeting that “tolerance is a two-way street,” something Cruz said that the “PC enforcers often forget.”  Earlier, Cruz tweeted, “Back on.” He

On Thursday, semi-retired radio talker Neal Boortz predicted the Republican Party will not win control of the U.S. Senate in the 2014 midterm elections, despite all the pitfalls the Democrats and President Barack Obama are facing, particularly with regards to