
Canadian Election 101 for the Uninitiated
The Canadian federal election is today, and Breitbart News thought it newsworthy to provide an introduction to the essentials of Canada’s electoral system for the uninitiated.

The Canadian federal election is today, and Breitbart News thought it newsworthy to provide an introduction to the essentials of Canada’s electoral system for the uninitiated.

Californians are divided over whether they want incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to seek a fifth term in 2018 after her current term ends, according to a new Field Poll.

A candidate running as a Libertarian for the U.S. Senate from Florida is being criticized this week for revelations that, in the past, he participated in pagan ceremonies and once even killed a goat and drank its blood.

A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) has found that current GOP Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is the worst Senate Majority Leader in history for the first year of a Congress in terms of shutting down debate using a controversial procedure known as “filling the amendment tree.”
The spending resolution passed in the Senate Wednesday morning now goes to the House, and it funded Planned Parenthood – something the conservative base protested.
The spending resolution expires December 11, creating another government shutdown cliff right before Congress leaves for the holidays. Potentially, the December “omnibus” could bust the budget caps, raise the debt ceiling, fund amnesty, fund sanctuary cities, fund Iran deal, and fund Planned Parenthood.

When news of GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation filtered into the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal used the occasion to call for GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to follow the Speaker into retirement.

In order to give more attention to GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s personal story from climbing the ladder from a secretary to a CEO, CARLY for America—the super PAC supporting Fiorina—launched a documentary, “Citizen Carly,” about Fiorina’s life so voters can get to know the only female GOP candidate running for president.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats protected President Obama from having to veto a bill that would have made it illegal to murder an unborn child after the 20th week of fetal development.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL), who is in a contentious Senate primary race with fellow congressman Alan Grayson, has expectedly moved to the left of his usual middle-of-the-road positions on many issues.

The GOP’s populist base can help win big battles for the party’s business donors in 2017, if it just shuts up for the next few months, GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell suggested in a low-drama interview with Politico.

Ahead of the Tea Party Patriots rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday protesting the Iran Deal, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum is calling on the Senate to treat President Obama’s Iran negotiation as a treaty.

The Beltway press tried to make the passage of President Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran look like a moment of high political drama, but you could tell their hearts weren’t really in it. Everyone knew this was a done deal from the very beginning, thanks to the efforts of the true “deciding vote,” Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee.

Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland just became the deciding Democat vote to push President Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran through Congress.

Ever-ambitious Sen. Chuck Schumer, according to Politico, is spending his valuable time reassuring other Democrat Senators that he won’t pressure them to join him in his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.

It’s for real. Tonight, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah plans to offer an amendment to H.R. 22, the “Hire More Heroes Act” – that’s the House-passed vehicle the Senate is using as a placeholder for a six-year highway funding bill.

With Florida’s August 2016 primary still more than a year away, it would be highly unlikely for any candidate to have the race sewn up already, but this poll does settle some questions about how the race would be affected if some of the potential candidates jumped in: former Attorney General Bill McCollum (R-FL) and Rep. Gwen Graham (D-FL).

Sen. Mike Lee’s attempt to force a vote in the Senate that would defund Planned Parenthood was blocked Sunday by some of his Republican colleagues.

The loved ones of the victims came to Washington, D.C. for a hearing on Kate’s Law and meetings with several legislators, including Gohmert, concerning the epidemic of illegal immigration into the United States.

On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a strident speech on the Senate floor supporting the Iran nuclear deal. The speech is very important, for three reasons. First, Durbin is one of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats. Second, Durbin owes

As Breitbart News reported, López-Cantera is Florida’s first Hispanic Lieutenant Governor and previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2004 until term limited out in 2012. During his time in the Legislature, he was Majority Whip and then Majority Leader. In 2012, he was elected Property Appraiser of Miami-Dade County.

That would be Charlie Crist, the former Florida Governor who used to be a Republican, then bailed on the party to run as an independent after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) surged to a double-digit lead in the 2010 Senate primary. Crist’s name has become a shorthand insult whenever someone wishes to challenge a candidate’s conservative credentials, and when Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) jumped into the Florida Senate race on Monday, the Club for Growth had thrown the Crist name at him within a few hours.

Florida Lt. Governor Carlos López-Cantera has formally announced that he will run for the 2016 U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Marco Rubio.

On June 14, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) gave an impassioned speech about the need for school choice during the Senate debate on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.

López-Cantera, Florida’s first Hispanic Lieutenant Governor, previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2004 until term limited out in 2012. During his time in the Legislature, he was Majority Whip and then Majority Leader. In 2012, he was elected Property Appraiser of Miami-Dade County.
Back in April, radio talk show host Mark Levin exploded in anger, warning that the United States Senate had capitulated to Barack Obama and rewritten the U.S. Constitution by giving up its power to stop the dangerous nuclear deal between the United States and Iran.