From Senator Mike Enzi: Americans cannot tell the government they don’t want their personal financial information collected or stored. That was the message U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., shared when he spoke against the nomination of Richard Cordray to be
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the United States should consider boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia grants NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum. When The Hill asked the Gang of Eight senator about whether he would urge the
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney announced on Tuesday that she will challenge Wyoming incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi in the Republican primary in 2014. Enzi also announced on Tuesday that he would be seeking reelection, formalizing the matchup. Liz
(AP) Liz Cheney to seek Wyo. Senate seat held by Repub.By MEAD GRUVER and BEN NEARYAssociated PressCHEYENNE, Wyo.Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney will run against Wyoming’s senior U.S. senator in next year’s Republican primary, her campaign said
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a deal is in sight that would resolve the chamber’s bitter impasse over stalled nominations. Reid announced the likely agreement less than an hour before a scheduled showdown vote over the first nomination.
Republicans are on the threshold of gaining control of the Senate after the 2014 midterm elections, according to New York Times election prognosticator Nate Silver. After Montana’s Democrat Governor Brian Schweitzer announced on Saturday he would not run for the state’s
Senate sources say a deal has been struck to avert Harry Reid’s threatened “nuclear option” on nominations. By deal, we mean that Senate Republicans ceded the point and will now allow votes to confirm 7 pending nominations from the White
After being the face of the Senate’s immigration bill, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has not said a word about it since it passed more than three weeks ago, and has not come to the bill’s defense even when other Republicans
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) emphasized that the Senate’s immigration bill’s intersection with Obamacare would penalize employers for hiring U.S. citizens or legal immigrants. Keynoting the D.C. March for Jobs rally, which the Black American Leadership Alliance organized and Breitbart News
“I can’t hear you, America! Good morning!” black conservative activist and media personality Wayne Dupree, known online as “News Ninja 2012,” said as he fired up the crowd at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C. “I still can’t hear you! Good
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, who founded the South Central Los Angeles Tea Party, emphasized on Monday that working class black Americans and those at the bottom of the economic ladder oppose the Senate’s immigration bill, contrary to what politicians and
Col. Allen West, a former Republican congressman from Florida, said at Monday’s March For Jobs rally, organized by the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA), that when the establishment and the institutional left attack someone, it is a sign that person
On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the Senate’s immigration bill if enacted into law would most hurt Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder. He illustrated that point by explaining how his father would have been fired as
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, who founded the South Central L.A. Tea Party, said the late Andrew Breitbart “was a gift from God to America” during Breitbart News’ broadcast of the D.C. March for Jobs rally on Monday. Speaking to Breitbart
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said on Monday that Breitbart News was “doing great work” in getting the truth out about the Senate’s immigration bill and how it would not solve the illegal immigration problem while lowering wages for working class
Over the course of several emails Sunday evening after Breitbart News reported that Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus omitted any reference to the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill during his speech to the Young Republican National Convention
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said the late Andrew Breitbart would have been “delighted” with the turnout for the D.C. March for Jobs rally and would have been “reveling” in the march if he had been alive. King said the rally
The Associated Press reports Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing for rule changes to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate in order to “win confirmation for some of [President Obama’s] nominees for posts overseeing workers’ and
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said the Senate’s immigration is a “slap in the face at the black community,” especially given the high levels of unemployment among blacks across America. West addressed the D.C. March for Jobs rally on Monday
In 2005, Republicans, who controlled the Senate and were frustrated with the lack of progress on President Bush’s nominations, considered amending Senate rules to prohibit filibusters on Presidential nominations. As the video below details, Senate Democrats viewed the move as
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said on Monday that opponents of “comprehensive immigration reform” in the House could “make the most difference” by specifically pressuring House Republicans in South Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio now and during the August recess. After he
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Breitbart News on Monday at the D.C. March for Jobs rally that America’s leaders had a “moral obligation” to stick up for working class Americans and oppose the Senate’s immigration bill instead of kowtowing to
Thousands of grassroots activists from all around the country descended on Washington, D.C., on Monday for the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) March For Jobs, a movement against amnesty aimed at defeating the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. The
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continued preparations to alter Senate rules and strip Senators of their ability to filibuster Presidential nominations. In an unusual step, all Senators are scheduled to convene this evening in the Old Senate Chamber
An explosive new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) slams the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill as an amnesty bill–for corporations. GAI, a nonpartisan government watchdog organization, has found a so-called corporate “Get Out of Jail Free” card in
