Tag: Senate

A federal judge has struck down a provision of Texas’s new abortion safety law which requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. LifeSiteNews reported Monday that, in response to a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood; the ACLU;

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on Fusion TV, a network which has declared it will use the airwaves to pressure lawmakers into enacting comprehensive immigration reform, and said he believes that providing a pathway to citizenship for the country’s illegal

Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-VA) is defending Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from calls for her resignation over the failed Obamacare rollout. Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, he said: If you’re wanting to kill the program and you start

On Friday, a top political adviser to left-wing billionaire George Soros met with leftist organizations to form a new group called the Latino Victory Project, the Washington Post’s Matea Gold reports. The group is connected to Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, a

(AP) Obama to meet with House GOP on immigrationBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONA House Republican working on immigration legislation is heading to the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida is slated to meet

Thanks to the automatic sunset of stimulus funding, food stamp funding is set to shrink by $5 billion annually – but we’ll still be spending $75 billion annually on food stamps, enrollment in which has swelled in excess of 70%

Ron Fournier, an honest liberal at National Journal, reported Monday that a senior Democrat strategist, with close ties to the White House, sent him an email over the weekend. The subject line was “Dem Party Is F****d.” The substance of

Obamacare website failures have defined the rollout of the President’s healthcare overhaul and now the Republican National Senatorial Committee is out with a new campaign taking mockery of the fiasco to the next level.  From the NRSC website: Get Your

On Monday, the Republican National Senatorial Committee rolled out a new sticker mocking Obamacare web failures. The sticker read: “404: Error.” Only one problem. After the stickers were linked by the Drudge Report, the GOP website promptly failed, giving a

(AP) Food stamps, milk prices on table in farm talksBy MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe fight over renewing the nation’s farm bill has centered on cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. But there could be unintended consequences if no

Commenting on Breitbart News’ story Saturday evening about how Senate immigration “Gang of Eight” member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has effectively un-endorsed his own immigration reform legislation, National Review editor Rich Lowry said this may be the first time in

Several corporate executives have joined forces with prominent local lawmakers, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and George Soros’ National Immigration Forum (NIF) to organize a campaign on Monday to target GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to get them to try to support

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) announced in an interview that aired on Sunday that he will be the first Republican to support a comprehensive immigration reform bill written by House Democrats, which is essentially the Senate’s bill that provides a pathway

Event data recorders, also known as “black boxes,” are now at the center of an argument as to how to raise money for maintaining America’s highways. California has plans to use the boxes to track every mile driven by motorists

In his third trip to Iowa in the last year and in front of a record Reagan Dinner crowd for the Iowa Republican Party on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the mainstream media and the Republican consultants urging the

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), a Republican member of the House who supports comprehensive immigration reform, said on Sunday’s Univision Al Punto show that House Speaker John Boehner promised him there would be immigration votes in the House of Representatives soon.

Uh, oh, here it comes: the big Main Stream Media effort to make Sen. Ted Cruz the face of the Republican Party. After all, the Democrats would like nothing better than to see Cruz be the Republican presidential nominee in

Before embarking on yet another “comprehensive” legislative effort, Congress should learn from the failures of Obamacare and start with incremental fixes that prioritize the most urgent problems. On immigration, the most urgent priorities are border and visa security, plus the

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, growling that a grand bargain between the GOP and Democrats that would cut entitlement programs was just “happy talk,” said that rich people want to pay more money to the government. On Nevada Public Radio,

Because voters in five states where Democrat incumbent senators are running for reelection in 2014 are more against ObamaCare than for it, five senators have joined to call for extending the law’s enrollment period and delaying penalties for those who

Though Republican leaders and the mainstream media have essentially declared immigration reform legislation to be dead, National Journal observes that opponents of comprehensive immigration reform are not celebrating because “they know better than anyone that the issue could be resurrected at any

Senator Rand Paul woke up the Washington political scene on October 25th by leaking that he intends to place a “Senatorial hold” on the upcoming Presidential nomination of Janet Yellen to be the next Chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve, unless

A spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” told Breitbart News exclusively on Saturday that the House should not pass individual piecemeal immigration bills in a “ruse” to get to a conference committee