Tag: Senate

During his bus tour through Tennessee, Sen. Lamar Alexander was approached by someone asking him why he voted to support amnesty. The video was provided to Breitbart News by the “Beat Lamar” effort by the Real Conservatives National Committee Super

Ohio House Republican leaders introduced a bill Monday to repeal the controversial Common Core standards that will be implemented in the state’s schools next month. House leaders will fast-track the bill by sending it to a committee chaired by Speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as they grapple with an immigration crisis at the border, White House officials are making plans to act before November’s mid-term elections to grant work permits to potentially millions of immigrants who are in this country

One of the key immigration hawks in the House is signaling that changes to a border crisis package could find acquiescence from the right flank of the GOP conference, although he and like-minded colleagues are still looking to see a

On Monday, Nebraska Republican Senate nominee Ben Sasse urged President Barack Obama to fly to Central America and directly–and unambiguously–tell Central Americans that America will not give migrants amnesty if they make it across the U.S.-Mexico border. “The American people

Rob Engstrom, the US Chamber of Commerce’s national political director, recently told a gathering of trade association executives that the Chamber planned to endorse Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu in her reelection bid this year. The endorsement, reported by the

They’ve pared it down and reduced the amount of spending in it, and now Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are barreling ahead with a border crisis bill expected on the House floor Thursday. The bill is expected to

With President Obama vowing to ignore Congress and move on his own on immigration, potentially providing unilateral amnesty to as many as six million illegal aliens, criticism is mounting from the right over Speaker John Boehner’s failure to engage more

School cafeteria workers say First Lady Michelle Obama’s latest criticism that they are serving up junk food to children is “offensive,” and they are fighting back. As Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner notes, Patti Montague, chief executive of the

On Monday, Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate Scott Brown became the first Senate candidate to use the border crisis in a television commercial. Days after residents from working-class localities across neighboring Massachusetts protested illegal immigrants being dumped in their communities,

Tennessee state Representative Joe Carr, the conservative candidate who is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in an August 7th primary, said the “grassroots has absolutely caught fire” as he closes in on Alexander in the final week of the campaign.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned his colleagues in Congress that Americans will vote them out of office in November if they do not act this week to thwart President Barack Obama’s plans to grant work permits and amnesty to up

Americans may soon have the freedom to unlock their cellphones from the service providers to which they are attached. The House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, sponsored by Rep. Bob

In response to President Obama’s executive order last week banning “all companies that receive a contract from the federal government from discriminating against their LGBT employees,” the U.S. Catholic bishops have responded by decrying the order as “unprecedented and extreme.”