White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responds to a question regarding Obama’s hypocrisy on the so called “nuclear option” of filibuster reform in the Senate…
A bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and strengthen the medical safety standards of abortion clinics is before the Texas state Senate Friday for debate and a vote. The Senate debate is being watched closely following a previous special
On Thursday, Public Policy Polling released its latest 2016 tracking poll of Iowa Republican voters. The results show a dramatic shift in Republican voter sentiment. Sen. Marco Rubio, who had led in previous surveys, has dropped to 5th place. Sen.
!['Hispanic Media's Walter Cronkite' Blasts Boehner as 'Joe Arpaio [of] Hispanic Community'](http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Journalism/2013/07/12/jorge-ramos-04.jpg "'Hispanic Media's Walter Cronkite' Blasts Boehner as 'Joe Arpaio [of] Hispanic Community'")
Judging by his verified Twitter feed, Noticiero Univision anchor Jorge Ramos is just as biased as the man to whom he is compared: Walter Cronkite.Ramos is blasting John Boehner, claiming that the House Speaker’sunwillingness to take up the Senate’s immigration reform
House Judiciary Chair Bod Goodlatte and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, both from Virginia, are drafting legislation to enact something similar to the DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants who entered the country as children to become citizens. It is
With a late-term abortion ban having passed the House, and more states adopting late-term abortion restrictions and safety standards, feminists and liberal politicians are on defense regarding abortion, a prominent plank of the liberal agenda and a pivotal political and
From the “This Is Why We Lose Department,” Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), member of the House Homeland Security Committee, refused to give a straight yes or no answer to a basic question: Will House Republicans push for a border fence in
The Black American Leadership Alliance announced today that they have granted Breitbart News Network the rights to broadcast in its entirety, the DC March for Jobs Rally live on July 15. Breitbart News Network Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will
At a press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that “the Bible folks” are “getting impatient about Congress taking action” on comprehensive immigration reform. Pelosi told the assembled media: The fact is that many Republicans in
Former President George W. Bush announced at a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday that he does not plan to get involved in the specifics of the immigration reform debate happening in Washington right now but is glad the conversation is taking
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is contemplating a run for president in 2016 and that he will likely make an announcement on a decision shortly after the 2014 midterm congressional
On Thursday afternoon, House GOP Leadership engineered final passage of a stripped-down Farm Bill. Getting there wasn’t pretty. First, the Leadership removed all provisions related to the food stamp program, which comprises the overwhelming majority of spending in the bill.
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid began steps to exercise the so-called “nuclear option,” a permanent change to Senate rules to prohibit filibusters on Presidential nominations. Senators would no longer have the right to extended debate on Executive and
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on CNBC Thursday ” I’ve taken the odds of immigration reform from what I thought was 70 percent when the Senate bill had a lot of momentum, now I would say it’s 50-50.”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, telling the House and Senate to stay in session to address Chicago’s gun violence, called gun control the “weak link” in Chicago’s efforts toward public safety on Tuesday. He repeated his desire for a three-year minimum
Late Wednesday, the House Rules Committee voted to waive the rule requiring pieces of legislation to be available to members for three days prior to a final vote. After the ObamaCare debacle, the GOP campaigned on enforcing such a rule
Several reports show that Tom Perez’s former employees at the Maryland Department of Labor were the ones who really wrote the letter of support from the Maryland Chamber of Commerce that served as an “endorsement” of his nomination by President
A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday delivers plenty of bad news for President Obama and his second term agenda. On every important national issue, the president finds himself upside down. This includes his overall approval rating, 44% – 48%; foreign policy,
In their ongoing effort to pressure House Republicans into passing the kind of immigration reform that will create millions of new Democrats, the media have engaged in a unified concern-trolling narrative that claims the GOP must do this in order
Conservatives in the House are pushing a resolution that would require the four southern-border states to certify that the border is secure before any immigration legislation could be brought to the floor for a vote. The immigration bill passed by
When “Gang of Eight” Senator John McCain faced a tough re-election campaign back in 2010, he found an issue that gave him an edge over his Republican primary challenger at a time when anti-incumbent sentiment was running high. McCain
In 2010, President Barack Obama and the Democrats sold Obamacare to hesitant lawmakers and an outraged public as a deficit-reducing bill. Now that the president has decided to delay implementation of the employer mandate–against the explicit provisions of the law,
ALBUQUERQUE–U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for two Mexican nationals to receive free housing, food, and healthcare. The two men were in the U.S. illegally and have received lengthy prison sentences for aiding a methamphetamine operation on U.S. soil. Had
Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, tweeted Wednesday evening that the Senate’s immigration bill is unconstitutional because it raises revenues and originated in the Senate instead of the House. “Chairman Camp: Senate immigration
On Tuesday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee said it would support incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) over commentator Liz Cheney if she were to primary him in 2014. “The NRSC’s main responsibility is to ensure the reelection of Republican senators on the
