Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did not know how many passports someone could forge under the Senate’s immigration bill he helped write before being charged with a crime. In fact, McCain did not even know there was a provision concerning forged
Sen. Marco Rubio raised a substantial $3 million in the second quarter, a 30% spike from the beginning of the year. The impressive haul came while Rubio was most vocal in promoting the Senate’s Gang of 8 immigration deal. Big
(AP) The nation’s top military officer told a Senate panel Thursday the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost 93,000 people.
On Thursday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) fired back at Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, accusing the “establishment Republican” of vilifying opponents of comprehensive immigration reform by using the same tactics Obamacare proponents employed to ram through the health
As the House begins to take up comprehensive immigration reform legislation, Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ sent a warning to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI): don’t commit political suicide by becoming the House’s version of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). “We are still
On Wednesday, Grover Norquist slammed Rep. Steve King (R-IA), alleging his opposition to immigration reform is why King will never win a statewide election in Iowa. “He’s not electable statewide. The cost of Steve King is that he can be
Breitbart News has learned the Senate’s controversial immigration reform bill passed in late June contains a Medicaid mandate similar to a provision found in the Affordable Care Act, known to its critics as Obamacare. A little-noticed part of the Congressional
GOP and Democrat Senators have joined to make student loan interest rates lower until the end of the 2015 academic year, with a subsequent rise in the interest rates. The vote to confirm the deal will be either July 18
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) went all-in to become the face of the “Gang of Eight” and the Senate’s immigration bill, which the Congressional Budget Office claimed would lower the wages of working class Americans while not solving the illegal immigration
It finally happened. Obama’s pick from “the Hugo Chavez wing” of the Democrat party, former Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, was confirmed, today, by the Senate for Labor Secretary. Republicans put up a valiant fight for months, but
How could there be anything left to say about World War II and the Cold War that hasn’t been said already? We know the narrative, start to finish. In researching my new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our
In a lengthy interview on immigration reform efforts currently before Congress, Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) said the border must be secured and the nation’s interior immigration laws must be enforced before granting any legal status to America’s at least 11
The immigration debate threatens to tear the Republican Party apart–not because of disagreements over the principle of immigration reform, but because of disagreements over strategy and tactics that may become insurmountable. The party leadership, believing that immigration reform will appeal
House Republican Leadership will not be voting on the Senate’s immigration bill, opting instead to tackle the issue in five smaller legislative chunks. One of the five immigration bills (H.R. 1417) is the lower chamber’s border security legislation, which was introduced
When several dozen members of the Bighorn Basin Tea Party met Wednesday night in Cody, Wyoming for a regularly scheduled meeting, the results of their straw poll on the 2014 Republican Senate primary between incumbent Senator Mike Enzi and recently announced
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who once said the mainstream media represented his base and assailed conservative leaders as “agents of intolerance,” is now getting back into the media’s good graces by being the favorite Republican of Democrats, especially Senate Majority
There is no doubt that Samantha Power turned in a strong performance during her confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, and likely secured her confirmation as UN Ambassador. She was as good as Secretary of Defense Chuck
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is becoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) favorite Republican. Most recently, McCain led a group of Republicans who also supported the Senate’s immigration bill–Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), John Hoeven (ND), Kelly Ayotte (NH), Lamar Alexander (TN),
Fresh off the passing of his amnesty-lite immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate, Senator Rubio appears to be moving back towards his conservative roots. Rubio has just introduced legislation to overhaul an reform the United Nations. “The U.S. should
It is rare that a conservative hawk is able to praise any of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy nominees. But Samantha Power’s solid performance at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday was impressive. She will
In an interview with Telemundo on Tuesday, President Obama said that an immigration reform bill that didn’t provide citizenship to currently illegal immigrants “does not make sense.” The hard-line position makes it more difficult for the White House, Senate Democrats
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) reportedly conceded that opponents of the Senate’s immigration bill are winning the messaging battle during a meeting with Gang of Eight members and big business interests on how to target and pressure House Republicans on comprehensive
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) told Breitbart News that he and many other conservative members of the House GOP conference believe that if House Speaker John Boehner tries to salvage the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in conference, it would
Sensing support for the Senate’s immigration bill is losing momentum and anticipating the fierce resistance against the bill during the August recess, the Gang of Eight will coordinate with the big business interests to target at least 100 House Republicans
Sen. John McCain spent the weekend negotiating with Majority Leader Harry Reid on a deal to avert Reid’s threatened use of the “nuclear option” to change Senate rules to eliminate filibusters on Presidential nominations. Through his efforts, McCain was able
