New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez abruptly left a press conference on Hurricane Sandy aid ahead of other Senate Democrats on Monday. While it’s unclear why Menendez left the presser early, the move came amid building pressure concerning a scandal
Texas’ newest Senator, Republican Ted Cruz, blasted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the threatening letters the mayor sent to several American banks over their business connections with American gun manufacturers. Cruz advises the banks not to be bullied by the
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized conservative media investigating New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s alleged solicitation of prostitutes in the Dominican Republic and the FBI inquiry into the matter on Tuesday. At his weekly press conference, Breitbart News asked
It must be good to be Tim Robbins. The Oscar-winning actor, known as one of the film industry’s most vocal liberals, once gave cash to several GOP candidates including Michele Bachmann. Yes, that Michele Bachmann, the former Presidential candidate and
A moderate Republican Hispanic group in favor of comprehensive immigration reform wrote a memo to GOP lawmakers urging them to watch their tone. The Hispanic Leadership Network wrote the memo to GOP lawmakers on the day a bipartisan group of
We’ve already seen Jimmy Fallon shamelessly turn over his “Late Night” spotlight to President Barack Obama to put the administration’s spin before the public. Now, Brian Williams of NBC News is getting into the act. Williams, repeating a bit dubbed
(AP) Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has confirmed Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as the next secretary of state. The vote was 94-3. Once sworn-in, Kerry will replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is stepping down
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday nicknamed President Barack Obama’s Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan the Hurricane Sandy “disaster czar.” At a press conference with fellow New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg and New York Democratic
Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton. “Last year, I joined with my colleagues at a press conference with the top representatives of the nation’s rank-and-file immigration law
The Republican Party has a gang problem. Over and over again, small groups of GOP Senators have broken with the rest of their caucus to negotiate side deals with like-minded Democrats. While well-intentioned, these “gang” compromises have tended to undermine
On Monday, the Senate cleared a $50.5 Billion relief package to aid the clean up and recovery from SuperStorm Sandy. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has said he will sign the measure. Including the $10 Billion in
President Barack Obama met with big-city police chiefs today calling for gun control. In response, former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell explained to Breitbart News why violating the Second Amendment doesn’t make anyone safer, and how Second Amendment supporters can protect
President Barack Obama is set to reject the key compromise at the heart of a bipartisan deal on immigration reform announced by eight Senators yesterday. The president, who will deliver an address later today in Las Vegas, NV outlining his
(AP) Senate panel to vote on Kerry nomination TuesdayBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sen. John Kerry to be the next secretary of state. If approved, the
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee said Monday that while he thinks the “Group of Eight” immigration reform proposal is a step in the right direction, he can’t support it. “Despite the often divisive rhetoric surrounding immigration reform, initial discussions have
Two Republican senators who have been grabbing more than their share of headlines and appear to be positioning themselves for for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination are Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Both men were swept into office in large
Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States with 1.2 million members, is convening an emergency summit meeting Monday in Washington D.C.; over 400 Christian leaders will urge their senators to vote against Barack Obama’s
Border security is the only basis for Republican unity. Republicans are divided on all other particulars–path to citizenship, guest worker program, deportation, anchor babies, etc. As I’ve argued before, Republican strategy in the House should be to say “no” on
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to meet with police chiefs from three U.S. communities scarred by mass shootings last year to talk about the administration’s push to reduce gun violence, a White
A day before President Barack Obama is due to reveal his own immigration proposals in a speech in Las Vegas, NV, a bipartisan group of eight senators has announced a deal on the “outlines” of an immigration reform deal, according
In December, President Barack Obama succeeded in getting Congressional Republicans to further sully their already tattered Party brand – by getting them to go along with the government taking even more of our money. For the President and his Democrats
Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued a statement on Friday in response to the decision of a federal Appeals Court that held that President Obama’s three appointments to the NLRB, while the Senate was
The federal judge leaned forward and looked intently at New York’s once most powerful Republican. “Let me explain somethin’ to ya once, Mr. Bruno, and I will not explain it again: for once in your life, you don’t control something,
Speaking to the conservative Ripon Society on Tuesday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) admitted that he screwed up the public relations aspect of the fiscal cliff negotiations: Looking back, what I should have done the day after the
With the re-election of Barack Obama in November – and with his heavy support in the Latino community — the Republican Party has been openly considering what it can do to open up the Latino vote for conservative gains. For
