Tag: Senate

The federal government may store private phone records ,and Internet data that it has seized through the Prism program, in the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center that is being built and set to open this fall.  The UK Guardian reported on

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told Breitbart News on Thursday that “Gang of Eight” Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) did not appear to impress House conservatives in the Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Wednesday. King said conservatives

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie named New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa as the state’s new interim senator. Chiesa will fill the seat of the late Frank Lautenberg until residents elect a new Senator in a special election in October.  Chiesa

Earlier this week, I wrote that NJ Gov. Chris Christie faced a national test on the decisions he needed to make to fill the vacancy of deceased Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Apparently, Christie decided to audit the class. Instead, he chose

Once patriots were called on to defend our Constitutional rights. Today, we are called on to reinstate them. In the wake of the latest Obama scandal, i.e. the seizure of phone records for millions of Americans, Sen. Rand Paul has

The Tampa Bay Times is asking whether Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) still supports the “Gang of Eight” immigration legislation. “Sen. Marco Rubio has for months positioned himself as the focus of the immigration debate, the reason why a bill has

(AP) NJ attorney general named to fill US Senate seatBy ANGELA DELLI SANTI and GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated PressTRENTON, N.J.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has named state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa (kee-AY’-sah) to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat that opened up

While Republican lawmakers will bring Attorney General Eric Holder back to the Hill to explain testimony he gave on surveillance of reporters, they won’t be issuing him a subpoena. On Thursday, Republican leaders on the House Judiciary Committee sent a

An official document from President Barack Obama’s administration from 2009, obtained by Breitbart News, shows Department of Homeland Security officials acknowledging that any immigration reform plan should not include a path to citizenship or legalization for any illegal immigrants. The

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) has officially left the House version of the “Gang of Eight” after Democrats–led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a House aide familiar with the discussions told Breitbart News–went back on a prior agreement-in-principle during the

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) defended the federal government’s reported seizure of Verizon customers’ cell phone records, saying on Thursday that the seizure had been “proven meritorious” in the fight against terror. Sen. Chambliss, who serves as the Ranking Member on

Sen. Rand Paul released a statement Thursday responding to the scandal erupting over the Nation Security Agency’s massive seizure and surveillance of Americans’ Verizon phone records, as reported by The Guardian.  Paul’s statement read: The National Security Agency’s seizure and surveillance of virtually all

On Wednesday evening, Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez put his opponent, long time Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, on the defensive in the first debate of the special election campaign to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate from Massachusetts. Gomez

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would radically expand abortion-on-demand in his state. Cuomo likened his 10-point plan, called the “Women’s Equality Act,” to a “bill of rights.” The bill, which is aimed at strengthening women’s

Barack Obama shamelessly appointed U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace Tom Donilon as White House national security adviser on Wednesday, saying he was “thrilled.” Obama thumbed his nose at those who have lambasted Rice for her anemic performance as U.N.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that he supports Barack Obama’s nomination of Samantha Power as the new U.N. ambassador. McCain stated, “I believe she is well-qualified for this important position and hope the Senate will move forward on her

Once again Democrats tried to get a bill passed in the House of Representatives to fund an expansion of U.S. prisons in order to house terror suspects in the U.S. heartland instead of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As in years previous,

Roughly 80% of the Senate’s $955 billion farm bill, which is expected to pass this week, will go to bankroll food stamps over the next ten years. “The trillion-dollar farm and food stamp bill should not be called the ‘Farm

Owners of various local gun stores sent members of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus a letter Wednesday asking them to support the online Internet sales tax bill pending before Congress, arguing that without it they may go out of business because

While the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill’s future hangs in limbo in the face of various hurdles that have popped up recently, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is confident that if it passes the Senate, Democrats will gear up their political