Tag: Senate

The shocking announcement that Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs is still sinking in. Most of those employees do not have a realistic chance of obtaining as good a job as the one they are losing. In the United States, the number of engineering jobs

As the debate examining prohibiting late term abortions has unfolded, I can’t help but think of my youngest grandson who was born a few years ago, weighing only 2 lbs 5 oz at 28 weeks. After his birth, I spent

A bill introduced by his home-state colleague and Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) “does not go far enough” in addressing the tens of thousands of illegal alien children streaming across the southern U.S. border, Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman

On Monday, six of the seven members of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation demanded that the federal government reconsider using Fort Sill military base to house illegal immigrant children who have been flooding across the border. The Obama administration announced last

On Monday, a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) challenging the Obama administration’s decision that members of Congress and their staffs must secure government-subsidized health insurance through Obamacare exchanges. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach, a

Good for Elizabeth Warren. She’s letting us know where she stands. No oily evasiveness for her, or at least less than usual from politicians. Here are her eleven tenets of today’s progressivism, outlined in a July 18 speech before Netroots

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and a key immigration hawk, took to the Senate floor on Monday afternoon to attack the efforts by President Barack Obama to grant amnesty via executive order to

Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham lit into an immigration proposal from House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) Monday, saying it would actually weaken border security. The proposal, which a group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner

A new Politico poll finds 57% of likely voters disapprove of Obama’s job performance and essentially split on which party they prefer. Respondents were drawn from areas with competitive House and Senate races this November. The poll also shows that

The U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), a treaty that, if ratified, could undermine parental rights and those of people with disabilities. According to

Centrist Democrats are pulling away from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) plans to throw more money at the border without also making policy changes focused on the deportation of illegal minors–especially minors from Central America. According to The Hill,

A flurry of legislative activity to address the border crisis is emerging as a major showdown between Tea Partiers and establishment politicians. Conservatives want to take the fight directly to President Barack Obama, whose executive amnesty policies they say is

As more governors enact legislation to remove their states from the controversial Common Core standards, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) said Thursday he will ask his state’s attorney general to reexamine Utah’s adoption of them in 2010, including any federal

The Obama administration praised a recent agreement between Mexico and Guatemala that could allow even more migrants to hop on so-called “death trains” to try to unlawfully enter the United States. In fact, the administration may even send Mexico foreign

On July 17, the Massachusetts Senate passed a “sweeping overhaul of the state’s gun laws,” but not until after senators removed the aspects of the bill worrisome to law-abiding gun owners. According to The Washington Times, a measure contained in

The unfolding illegal immigration crisis at the southern border is likely to change the political calculus of the fall midterm elections. Even in states far from the border, like New Hampshire, the situation is altering the political dynamics on the