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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) still has yet to join the rest of the House GOP leadership to publicly reject the possibility of a conference committee with the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Breitbart News has learned. On

In announcing that he would “allow” insurance companies to extend current individual health insurance plans for another year (an impossible task for many), President Barack Obama made several excuses for himself and his party in an attempt to minimize the

On Thursday, President Obama unveiled another “fix” for ObamaCare. Americans who had their insurance plans cancelled, because they didn’t meet all of ObamaCare’s coverage mandates, can renew those policies for another year. Presumably, their plans would be cancelled at the

Representative Peter King (R-NY) is co-sponsoring expanded background check legislation with Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA). According to The Hill, the legislation is “identical” to the bill Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) pushed earlier this year.  It would

Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a key figure in fighting against amnesty, said on Wednesday in response to House Speaker John Boehner’s move to kill the Senate’s amnesty bill that it is a “positive development” for

Less than a year into her first term, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is the favorite candidate of many left wing organizations to challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. Eight years ago another first

PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 13 (UPI) —Approval of the way the U.S. Congress is doing its job has dropped into the single digits for the first time in almost four decades, a Gallup poll indicates. Only 9 percent of respondents said

Despite what the hysterical media will tell you, those distant blasts you heard last week rolling from New York City to Richmond were not cannon fire from the ongoing civil war within the Republican Party. They were the first shots

Last week, President Obama apologized for misleading the American public with his false claim that “if you like your insurance, you can keep it.” Without this assurance, it is unlikely ObamaCare would have passed. Obama was not the only politician

Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), the congressman launching the effort to remove Attorney General Eric Holder from his post atop the Department of Justice (DOJ) via Articles of Impeachment, told Breitbart News exclusively in a Wednesday phone interview that he now

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) joined House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in opposing conference committee with the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. “Chairman Goodlatte

House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has joined with Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Speaker John Boehner in publicly opposing any conference committee negotiations with the Senate on immigration legislation. “Whip McCarthy agrees with the Speaker,” McCarthy

On Wednesday, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) introduced a bill in the Senate that would allow Americans to keep their health insurance plans for a limit of two years. “I have repeatedly said that the Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect,” Udall

Janet Yellen will face hostile Republicans doubtful of the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies when she appears before senators Thursday to defend her nomination to lead the US central bank. Yellen, chosen by President Barack Obama to replace Ben Bernanke

On Wednesday, after the Obama administration released the abysmal enrollment numbers for the health insurance exchanges, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would issue no comment until he had spoken with President Obama. Reid, the most ardent advocate

Left-wing activists pushing for amnesty ambushed House Speaker John Boehner in a restaurant on Wednesday morning, confronting him while he ate breakfast on Capitol Hill–then published a video of the encounter online. As the two amnesty activists approached Boehner and

(AP) Obama, religious leaders seek immigration overhaulWASHINGTONThe White House says religious leaders and President Barack Obama have agreed there is a moral imperative for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws and are committed to pushing Congress to act. Eight leaders of

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s spokesman Rory Cooper told Breitbart News that his boss, like House Speaker John Boehner, does not support a conference committee with the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. “The Leader agrees with the Speaker, and

Appearing on the Bill Bennett radio program on Wednesday morning with guest host U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that Americans have “rejected” the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill despite pressure from amnesty advocates