Tag: Senate

(AP) Bush sees Congress making progress on immigrationWASHINGTONFormer President George W. Bush says it looks like an immigration overhaul has a chance to pass Congress and he says its’ important to fix “a broken system.” The Senate has passed legislation

Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has told Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) that she is thinking about challenging him in Wyoming’s Republican Senate primary in 2014. According to the New York Times, Enzi said that Cheney “called me and

Sens. Cruz, Lee and Paul have become the conservative conscience of the Senate. Sen. John McCain, an improbable GOP nominee for President, smeared the triumvirate and other principled conservatives as “wacko-birds” earlier this year. McCain ally, Sen. Lamar Alexander, who

(AP) GOP presses Democrats for student loan changesWASHINGTONCongressional Republicans are pushing to overhaul the government’s student loan program, as both Democrats and the GOP blame each other for letting interest rates on the subsidized loans double last Monday. In the

While most Americans rank the economy and government spending as the top challenges facing the nation, the Senate last month rushed through a comprehensive immigration bill to give amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens. The effort was more about the

Former President George W. Bush is expected to speak about immigration reform on Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reports. “Bush will deliver opening remarks at an citizenship ceremony and immigration forum at the Dallas presidential center bearing his name, where

President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nightmare might come true if the GOP can recapture the Senate in 2014.   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she has no interest in retiring now so that Obama can pick a younger successor and

After focusing on the IRS scandal, Tea Party groups are targeting comprehensive immigration legislation that the House will take up after the Senate passed the “Gang of Eight” bill last week 68-32. Aware the pressure representatives will face in their

Former Montana Governor and possible Democratic U.S. Senate contender Brian Schweitzer (D) is coming under fire after FOX Business reporter David Asman revealed on Monday that Schweitzer’s PAC may have funneled money to a shell 501(c)(4) non-profit that appears to

A new study of government data has found that all of the net domestic gain in employment over the last 13 years in the United States has gone to foreign-born (legal and illegal) workers.  The same study found that the

According to a newly-revised estimate of the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will cost more money while only minimally preventing more border crossers. According to the CBO, the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which

Much of the D.C. brain trust has concluded that the IRS targeting scandal doesn’t need a special counsel to do the investigating. The folks who are against the appointment of a special counsel, for whatever reason, are happy to allow

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on Tuesday that he supported a pathway to citizenship for the country’s illegal immigrants.  In an interview with Wausau Daily Herald, he was asked if he could “envision a world” where 11 million illegal immigrants could “have a path to

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is revving up an effort to regain credibility among conservatives after his popularity took a nosedive over his stance on immigration reform, The Hill reports. Senate Republicans are aiding Rubio’s rehabilitation by allowing him to be

The conservative Madison Project is collaborating with local Tea Party groups looking for a Tennessean conservative to challenge Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the state primary over his vote in favor of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. The Madison

When the Senate passed the 1,200 page immigration bill last week (officially called the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”) less than six days after receiving the final version, its unlikely any of the 68 Senators who voted in

Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will not filibuster a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and make abortion clinics safer should the bill make it to the floor the Texas state Senate a second time. “You can’t have

Obama administration officials are illegally delaying enforcement of a central provision in the president’s namesake legislation in a desperate attempt to manipulate the 2014 midterm elections and swell the ranks of those who look to government for healthcare.  The White