Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Ranking Member on the Budget Committee, killed the Senate’s $3.6 billion border funding bill on Thursday evening after Democrats could not get enough votes to waive his budget point of order. After Sessions raised the
House Republican leaders are frustrated that they had to pull their $659 million border bill on Thursday, after Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) convinced enough Republicans to stand up for American workers and vote against a bill that did not explicitly
Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) took to the Senate floor in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from using executive action to grant amnesty to 5 to 6 million illegal immigrants already in the country. Unfortunately, he was defeated
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) began speaking on the U.S. Senate floor about the border crisis in the wake of chaos on the House side of Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to not support any legislation that doesn’t get at the root
Former U.S. Sens. John Breaux (D-LA) and Trent Lott (R-MS), who recently merged with international law giant Squire Patton Boggs, say they are excited to leverage their crony lobbying contacts globally on behalf of the world’s highest corporate bidders. “Now
Along with popular conservative radio hosts like Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham coming out against him, the fundamental reasons why Senator Lamar Alexander may lose to Joe Carr in the upcoming primary are detailed in this Weekly Standard item. Not
UPDATE: Breitbart News has learned that there may be additional votes after a 3pm conference meeting. Developing… Unable to secure the necessary votes to pass it, House leadership pulled the Republican border spending bill from the House floor. After both parties
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress must do something to alleviate the ongoing crisis at the border, and President Obama’s plan to take more unilateral action on immigration reform will make the crisis worse, House Speaker John Boehner argued Thursday. “The crisis
Speaker John Boehner’s top immigration aide was at the center of a heated dispute between the speaker and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday, according to several people who witnessed the altercation. Gohmert, speaking to the
After urging his colleagues to vote against both the House and Senate border bills on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Congress should not adjourn until it stands against Obama’s executive actions that will effectively end immigration enforcement in America.
UPDATE II: Breitbart News has learned that there may be additional votes after a 3pm conference meeting. Developing… *** UPDATE: Believing they would not have the votes to pass their own bill, House leadership has canceled the vote on Boehner’s border
While we enjoy the blizzard of fundraising letters Democrats are using to siphon cash out of their gullible supporters, and MSNBC’s round-the-clock saturation coverage of the non-existent impeachment threat, let’s pause for a little comic relief from the reliably amusing
— — Wednesday Kentucky Democrat Allison Grimes, who’s in a tight U.S. Senate race to unseat Republican Mitch McConnell, waxed eloquent about how Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was somehow helpful in the campaign against Hamas’ terror tunnels, which
Just hours before House GOP leadership abruptly changed course on the border crisis bill, moving to allow a vote on a second bill that addresses President Obama’s “deferred” prosecution of illegal aliens, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) met with House conservatives
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has advised House Republicans on Thursday morning that should vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis bill. “The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill,” Kristol wrote Thursday
HOUSTON, Texas–Brandon Creighton, State Rep. and Republican candidate for Senate District 4, has called a meeting of law enforcement personnel in an effort to address the problems on the Texas border. Creighton told Breitbart Texas that he preferred taking real
On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said a new plan by House leadership to allow a vote on a separate bill to address the president’s unilateral amnesty is not sufficient. “The House border supplemental contains no language on executive action
On May 19, the U.S. government took a highly-publicized stand against state-sponsored cybercrimes by formally indicting five Chinese military officers who had infiltrated various American companies’ systems in order to steal trade secrets for the benefit Chinese companies. The compromised
House GOP leadership is beginning to crack on its position that it would not include any language intended to prohibit the President from expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty in a border bill package. Unable to
According to a new report from the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, a “club of billionaires” including Tom Steyer and Hank Paulson has effectively hijacked the Environmental Protection Agency for its own purposes – to grow
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In order to obtain more conservative votes some provisions might be added to the House border bill, according to House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions. “I think the issue is whether there will be provisions added to
On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Congress should use the border crisis to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation. At a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing on the border crisis, Pelosi said the influx of illegal immigrant juveniles is more
When House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his new plan for fighting poverty last week, he encountered some unusual reactions. Conservatives, focused on the border crisis, wondered why Ryan hadn’t waited for a more opportune moment. Many liberals,
Sen. Rand Paul took a shot at MSNBC Wednesday afternoon during an appearance on The Cycle. During a discussion with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the host brought up controversial comments Paul made in 2010 during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel
At a Wednesday Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he was still “a fan” of comprehensive amnesty legislation even though he was pessimistic about Congress and the White House ever agreeing on a bill. “You know that I’m
