Tag: Senate

The Republican members of the bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight” have passed the deadline for Senate Judiciary Committee ranking GOP member Sen. Chuck Grassley’s request for a briefing on their coming immigration reform bill. Last week, Grassley (R-IA) and his

After spending a year studying political intelligence firms that gather insider political tips and sell them to investment firms, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a 34-page report that named few names and contained no recommendations for how to crack

Imagine a world in which American presidential elections since 1988 go like this: Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama, Clinton, Clinton. It could happen. On Monday, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he will join GOP Senators to filibuster a bill expanding gun control regulations if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) brings it up for a vote this week. This puts McConnell shoulder-to-shoulder with Sens. Rand

Roughly 40%  of the 11 million undocumented workers in the United States are foreigners who came legally mostly through visas but have overstayed the length of the visas or overstayed their legal residence here, the Wall Street Journal reported on

Julianna Smoot is a heavy-hitter in Obama’s political world. Chief fundraiser for Obama’s 2008 campaign, Smoot served a stint as social secretary at the White House during Obama’s first term. In 2012, she was deputy campaign manager for Obama’s successful

All the members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform in the U.S. Senate will band together to block any efforts by other senators to offer amendments to their legislation once it is introduced, the Washington Post reported

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Tennessee Williams) went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday to say he was “encouraged” by recent trial balloons from the White House over President Obama’s budget blueprint. The President’s budget plan is more than two months past

Projecting madly, the White House on Sunday pushed the notion that Republican intransigence is the reason that Democrats have been unable to pass a budget during President Obama’s tenure. “Right now,” said senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer on Fox

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Face the Nation today that he hoped that the Senate would come to an agreement on immigration reform this week. “All of us have said that there will be no agreement until the eight

Sen. John McCain (R-Sunday Shows) expressed bewilderment on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that GOP Sens. Cruz, Lee and Paul would filibuster gun control legislation. “I don’t understand it,” McCain said. “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul raised his public profile last month with his principled filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination for Director of Central Intelligence for a continuous 13.5 hours without a break. In a Democrat-controlled Senate that didn’t pass a budget in four

Appearing on the “Boomtown 2: The Business of Food Stamps” special on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Friday, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) president Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon exposed how companies that administer EBT cards like J.P. Morgan

On April 4, President Obama said that while he’s very optimistic about the chances of getting legislation through Congress addressing immigration reform, he has lost confidence in passing any significant gun control measures. After talking to donors in San Francisco about possible immigration

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) responded to Senate Judiciary Committee ranking GOP member Sen. Chuck Grassley’s concerns about the secrecy of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration reform deliberations by saying any proposal the group will come up with is intended

The American Civil Liberties Union has some serious issues with President Obama’s attempt to institute so-called “universal background checks” on gun owners in America. Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for privacy-related issues in the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office joined me and

Maryland has just passed some of the most sweeping gun control laws in the nation. Governor Martin O’Malley has taken advantage of large majorities of Democrats in both houses of the State legislature in Annapolis and has pushed through restrictions on so-called

On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney explained that President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will be incredibly detailed. So detailed, in fact, that he said it would “blow your mind.” Undoubtedly, he is correct, considering his

The Obama administration is proudly shattering welfare records with an astonishing number of people collecting public benefits long term, especially food stamps.  In fact, as I discussed in a special to be aired on Hannity tonight, Obama and his friends

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and three of his fellow conservative committee colleagues are demanding the Republican members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” take their immigration reform negotiations out of the shadows so

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a member of the so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform, disagrees with Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions’ staff’s analysis of immigration reform’s impact on the U.S. entitlement system. The Senate

The White House does not think it is hypocritical for President Barack Obama to claim that he wants to work with Republicans on bipartisan solutions while fundraising on San Francisco’s “Billionaires’ Row” to help Democrats take back the House in

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney labeled a Senate Republican effort to filibuster gun control “shameful.” On Thursday, Brian Phillips, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), one of the potential filibusterers,  said: It is shameful that the