Tag: Senate

The Tea Party Leadership Fund has decided to endorse Nancy Mace, a conservative challenger to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in the upcoming GOP Senate primary in the state, Breitbart News has learned.  “Big government politician Lindsey Graham has provided aid

Breitbart News is featuring an ongoing series highlighting the philosophical and policy outlooks of two great American leaders, Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). This conversation is less of a debate between the modern left and right, than one

In 2011, the Tunica County Economic Foundation purchased a 100 acre property and transferred ownership to GreenTech Automotive. At the time, Terry McAuliffe, current Virginia Democratic nominee for Governor, was chairman of the company.  Lynn Arnold, President of the Tunica

Conservative star State Senator Lee Bright (SC-12) tells Breitbart News he will formally announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate Tuesday. “It’s time for someone new to represent the people of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate,” said Bright. “Tim Scott

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has called on the Obama Administration not to open the Obamacare state health exchanges because the security of Americans’ personal data cannot be assured. A press release Monday indicated that McConnell sent a letter to

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced that he does not “classify” illegal immigrants as criminals, although he admits “it’s obvious that they broke the laws and did things that were criminal and they shouldn’t.” This odd distinction came up at an

Wall Street is betting that the looming debt limit debate will, as in the past, be resolved. Politico’s Ben White and MJ Lee, however, argue this time could be different. “Really, seriously different,” write White and Lee: The House GOP

Last week, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker came under fire for alleged crony capitalism involving his Internet startup, Waywire, which tapped CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s 15-year-old son to be a compensated “millennial adviser” for Booker’s company. Now, on Monday, the

On Monday, the DREAM Action Coalition (DRM), which vowed to “target” Republicans during the August recess to pressure lawmakers to support comprehensive immigration reform, went after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for his vote against the Senate’s immigration bill. Paul will be

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been silent on the issues of immigration reform ever since the bill he championed in the Senate passed in June, reportedly broke that silence–for about a minute–while speaking to around 300 people on Monday at

Enroll America, the non-profit leading the effort to enroll Americans in ObamaCare health exchanges, is focusing its resources on 10 states, nine of which have Republican Governors. The only state with a Democrat Governor is Illinois, Obama’s home state. All

(AP) ‘Whitey’ Bulger guilty of gangland killingsBy JAY LINDSAY and DENISE LAVOIEAssociated PressBOSTONJames “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland

A group of bills moving through California’s assembly and senate–including one to create a database for ammunition purchases–could create the strictest gun control laws of any state in the union. According the San Jose Mercury News, the bills being heard

A group of conservative organizations are headed to Richmond, VA, on Monday evening to protest the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill and ongoing House GOP leadership efforts to try to produce a similar legislative solution. The event, being put

A primary challenger to South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said the incumbent Senator may be vulnerable in 2014 because his embrace of the Senate’s immigration bill has angered South Carolinians who are against amnesty for illegal immigrants.  Nancy Mace,

(AP) GOP moderates push back on tea party spending cutsBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONMidway between the 2012 and 2014 election campaigns, moderate Republican conservatives are beginning to foment a revolt of their own _ a backlash to anti-spending tea party shrillness

If the Republicans take control of the US Senate next year, it will be due, in no small part, to the collapse of the Democrat party in the South. Democrats face an up-hill battle holding onto the 4 seats they

Keeping the door open on a 2016 run, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was enthusiastically received by Iowans this weekend. Santorum actually won the Iowa caucuses in 2012, but that did not become official until three weeks after Santorum