House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) requested that President Barack Obama avoid making a “very public push” on immigration during the midterm primaries, according to White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Washington Bureau Chief, Lynn Sweet,
The nuclear talks between Iran and the international community have failed to reach a deal by the Nov. 24 deadline, and will reconvene next month, according to Reuters and other sources. (Update: The new deadline is the end of June
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Hannity show, Geraldo Rivera attempted to justify President Barack Obama’s executive orders protecting millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, blaming “hard-core, tea party radicals” in Congress for forcing the President to act, but found
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the number-two Democrat in Senate leadership, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Barack Obama “had no choice,” but to grant amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal immigrants already living in the Untied States.
On Sunday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said critics of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty are acting as if Obama took House Speaker John Boehner’s gavel after his State of the Union address in January when Obama declared he would not
The national director of Priests for Life said that his organization rejects the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit regarding its objection to the HHS contraception mandate and will appeal the decision to the Supreme
Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and potential 2016 presidential candidate, said he would decide on a run by May and refused to say whether he would reject the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. On ABC’s This Week, Carson
President Obama’s decision to ignore the law by granting de facto amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants brought to America as children and those who are parents of children with legal status was a terribly foolish act. It will only serve to
On Friday, November 21, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) rendered its final decisions in on the new Social Studies instructional materials up for adoption. Following a contentious multi-month process fraught with attacks from education progressives like the Texas
If a Friday afternoon when the GOP is suing the administration over the Affordable Care Act, while still scrambling internally to formulate an official response to last night’s announced amnesty for five million illegal immigrants, isn’t the best time to
Representative and US Senate candidate Bill Cassidy (R-LA) touted his support for the Keystone XL pipeline and stated his opposition to the president’s executive action during the GOP weekly address on Saturday. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello.
President Obama urged Republicans not to make his executive action on immigration a “dealbreaker” on other issues because “that’s not how our democracy works” in his weekly address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. Today, I’m at Del Sol
The Federal Reserve is conducting an internal investigation that is to last “several months” after criticism that the Fed is improperly supervising America’s banks. On November 21, William C. Dudley, the former chief economist of Goldman Sachs and the current
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama was “hoping” he will goad Republicans into shutting down the government over his executive action on immigration on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “This is all about political positioning. This
Friday on Newsmax TV’s “MidPoint,” Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID) said President Barack Obama “lied” to the American people last night when he said the Republican House will not work with him on immigration reform. Labrador pointed to the many immigration
Friday on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily,” former President Jimmy Carter said President Barack Obama was “right” to go around Congress and enact executive action amnesty. Carter said, “I think he has tried every possible way to get Congress to pass a
During his speech Thursday night, President Barack Obama announced that he would be enacting sweeping immigration reforms through a series of executive orders, and he insisted that these reforms were not amnesty, contrary to the clear definition of the word.
In declaring his executive amnesty on Thursday evening, President Barack Obama made the case for seizing what he once described as imperial powers. He said he had been compelled to do so because of the “broken” state of the country’s
Lawrence Miller, Vermont’s health care reform chief, says the state of Vermont is going to cut Jonathan Gruber’s pay, but keep his $450,000 contract, according to the Burlington Free Press. Miller said that he had informed Gruber over the phone
As “Emperor Obama”–to cite a title applied to Barack Obama by House Speaker John Boehner, Senator Jeff Sessions, and others–proceeds with his plan to trample the Constitution by issuing an Executive Order on amnesty for illegals, perhaps it’s worth looking back to
On June 4, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Barack Obama could face “impeachment” if he continued to release terror detainees from the military prison facility at Guantánamo Bay without Congress’s explicit approval. On Thursday, however–the same day that
As news reports announced 31-year-old Florida State University alumnus Myron May drew a handgun and opened fire “in or near” the FSU library on November 20, one aspect of the story was conspicuously missing–namely, that FSU President John Thrasher played
Emperor Barack Obama will be signing his executive amnesty orders today in Las Vegas, Nevada, this after going on national TV to announce his intentions to transform the U.S.A, into the United States of Amigo. Republicans have threatened to sue
“Executive action taken today is not a final solution,” said Democrat California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León of Obama’s Thursday evening announcement of reprieves for foreign nationals currently illegally present in the United States. Resounding applause for Obama
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama’s executive order on immigration was telling legal immigrants that they were “chumps” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “I think on the policy, it is very clear that he is
Thursday night from the White House, President Barack Obama’s addressed the nation to lay out the terms of his immigration policy executive order: Transcript as follows: My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration.For more than
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) argued that Republicans should “stop complaining and stop whining” on illegal immigration on Thursday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Gutierrez blamed House Republicans for failing to act on immigration, saying “the
Everyone knows–whether they admit it or not–that President Barack Obama’s “executive amnesty” is wrong. But most Americans aren’t sure how to stop him–even though if this last election was about anything, it was about stopping Obama from granting an executive
Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “MidPoint,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said while there is not a lot that can be done to stop President Barack Obama’s lawless executive action amnesty now, it will change in January when the Republican Party takes
Thursday on the Senate floor Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used the words of philosopher and politician Marcus Cicero who advocated to return to a Republican government after the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar died. Cruz addressed the speech to President Obama
One hundred public school superintendents nationwide were invited to the White House for the inaugural digital education summit ConnectED to the Future on November 19. Ten percent of them were from Texas. That means, 10 of the school district officials who attended were from
(Reuters) – The Obama administration would like to work with the U.S. Congress to impose sanctions on Venezuela in response to a crackdown on anti-government protests, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser told lawmakers on Wednesday. Tony Blinken, who is Obama’s choice to
Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D. was elected to serve as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (CMT) for the 114th Congress which starts in January, 2015. Burgess previously serves as vice-chair of the
As the president prepares to roll out his planned executive amnesty on Thursday night, the mainstream media are eagerly pushing an administration talking point that former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush enacted executive amnesty too. That’s not true,
Former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is stepping up as a potential Democrat challenger to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. With a 14-minute video, Webb announced an exploratory committee, saying that “thousands of concerned Americans” had urged him to
President Barack Obama will fast track green cards–or legal permanent residency in the United States–in his planned executive amnesty for illegal aliens that he will announce on Thursday evening, a leaked document published by a liberal group shows. The document
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is concerned that dangerous criminals and terrorists will not get deported when President Barack Obama enacts his executive amnesty and further weakens the nation’s immigration laws and enforcement mechanisms. In a Wednesday letter to Homeland Security
Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions says that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is something that is “endangering our entire constitutional order” as a democratic Republic. “President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order
As part of his argument for executive amnesty tonight, President Obama asserted that now was the time for action, instead of waiting any longer for Congress to act on immigration reform. Reports detail, however, that Obama made his decision a
A fact sheet being circulated by the White House shows that President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty will grant amnesty to 5 million or more illegal aliens, create a backdoor pathway to citizenship for those amnestied illegal aliens, and massively
