House Republicans remain united against Obamacare, demanding that it be delayed in its entirety for a full year before they agree to any stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown before Tuesday. Technically, the government will run out of
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. Before I discuss the situation in Congress, let me say a few things about two important opportunities in our foreign policy. Just now, I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic
UPDATE: The House voted 231-192 to keep the government open and delay Obamacare. Harry Reid has said that the Senate will reject the measure. ** On Saturday, House GOP Leadership announced plans to take up the Senate stop-gap spending bill and
Just a week ago, House Speaker John Boehner united House Republicans behind an effort to defund Obamacare in the Continuing Resolution (CR). The House passed a plan that conservative Reps. Tom Graves (R-GA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) helped craft. Sens.
This week in the U.S. Senate, cloture was approved to end debate on the Continuing Resolution to fund the government until November 15. But the principled CR passed by the House is now unrecognizable, as the Senate resolution includes an
Senate Republicans are angry at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for saying that a vote to allow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to add an amendment to fund Obamacare is in fact a vote for Obamacare. In addition, Senate Republicans are
As Congress faces a potential government shutdown, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is holding meetings to push amnesty for America’s illegal immigrants, National Review‘s Jonathan Strong reported on Twitter. “With clock ticking on shutdown, big mtg in Cantors office just
President Barack Obama said Friday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling with Republicans, whom Obama accused of wanting to negotiate “under the threat of blowing up the whole economy.” Obama said failing to meet this responsibility would
President Barack Obama called on House Republicans Friday to drop their previous efforts to defund Obamacare after the Senate stripped the defunding language out of the House-passed continuing resolution (CR). “If Congress chooses not to pass a budget by Monday,
A new national poll has found that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not only the 2016 frontrunner but also the politician Republicans view as their new leader in Washington, D.C. A Public Policy Polling poll of GOP primary voters conducted
Cloture invoked 79-19 (60 vote threshold, there are 54 D, 46 R Senators) This was the vote that mattered because Harry Reid could only get the 60 votes he needed with Republican help. 25Rs joined 54Ds to end debate on
On Friday, Sen. John McCain indulged in his favorite pastime–going to the media and criticizing his fellow Republicans. Speaking to CBS, McCain said the GOP was “dysfunctional” and blamed Sens. Cruz and Lee for driving wedges between Republicans over their
While the cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution passed with GOP support on Friday 79-19, several senior powerful GOP senators bucked their leadership to side with freshmen Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) to oppose the Reid plan.
(AP) Senate OKs budget bill, but fight not overBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing
The consequences of three of the biggest political battles of the last four years are all converging over the next two weeks. With a polarized Congress and an intransigent Obama Administration, there is no clear path to settle the current
The vote to invoke cloture on the CR passed as expected, moments ago with the final tally 79-19. 19: Vitter,Paul,Lee,Cruz,Crapo,Enzi,Fischer,Roberts,Scott,Heller,Grassley,Toomey,Moran, Rubio, Shelby,Risch,Inhofe, Portman, Sessions — Byron York (@ByronYork) September 27, 2013 NRSC’s leadership – chairman Jerry Moran and vice chair
Chris Christie’s crossover appeal is unlike that of any other Republican. Real Clear Politics reports that a series of polls in New Jersey show Christie getting more than 30 percent support from black voters: In a Quinnipiac poll released on
On Friday, the Senate voted 79-19 to invoke cloture and end debate on the House-passed Continuing Resolution. The vote paves the way for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to offer an amendment to restore funding for ObamaCare. Funding for the
On the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN) teamed up to falsely claim that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have no support from others in the U.S. Senate for their
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled four votes Friday afternoon to complete the Senate’s work on the Continuing Resolution. Once the Senate passes the CR and sends it back to the House, Senators will leave DC for the weekend.
Republicans must live with Obamacare. They have few prospects for electing 60 senators needed to repeal the law, and unless they work to make it more palatable–something they have few ideas to accomplish–the nation is headed for socialized medicine. Obamacare
Reading Politico’s Friday lead piece, “The GOP Should Just Do It,” on my iPhone this morning, I simply assumed it was an editorial. The tone is so partisan, inflammatory, and derisive, the thought that such a thing would be presented
More than a few things that make up the core of modern conservatism started with “lost causes.” Oh, those who proposed them didn’t think they were lost causes, but if they listened to their critics, to their opponents, to the
CNS News is reporting that a group of 21 House members have sent a letter to all GOP Senators, warning them against a cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution. A vote on cloture would give Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) the
The Senate unanimously confirmed Todd Hughes, the United States’ first openly gay federal appeals judge, in a 98-0 vote on Tuesday. Hughes was nominated by President Obama to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
