Radio host Laura Ingraham, who played a key role in Dave Brat’s primary upset victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), said that she was “all in for Joe Carr” in his primary challenge against Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Monday on the Senate floor, Majority leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said television star Judge Judy would throw out “in half a second” the “sham” lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s excessive use of executive actions to rewrite the Affordable Care
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham endorsed Joe Carr, the Republican Senate challenger to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), as a new poll shows that he is gaining significant support in his campaign. A new poll conducted by Triton Polling, shows that
Legislation set to be introduced Tuesday aims to deal with the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border by expediting the processing of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors from Central America. Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Democratic Rep.
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) lawyer initially brought information about a blogger photographing Cochran’s wife at her retirement home to the mayor of Madison, Mississippi, not police, according to The New York Times. The Times‘ story is about Tea Party leader
“Do you really know what you’re getting with David Perdue?” asked Congressman Jack Kingston in a debate Sunday night for the Georgia Senate Primary. For Kingston, that’s his strongest argument against a candidate that has worked to paint the eleven-term
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s lower house of parliament on Monday voted to scrap the country’s controversial carbon tax, setting up a final showdown in the Senate as early as Tuesday to decide the scheme’s fate. Abolition of the carbon tax
The conventional wisdom headed into the November mid-terms was set, illegal immigration was going to divide the GOP and lift the sagging image of Obama and his fellow Democrats, possibly even giving them a chance in what most concede will
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is quickly becoming a top Democratic fundraiser and campaign powerhouse, hitting the road on behalf of candidates in key races the party will need to win to retain control of the U.S. Senate
The Hill reports that using immigration reform as a 2014 campaign issue has become a dead end for Democrats, who are avoiding the subject as they run for Congress. Part of the problem for Democrats is that the very group
Governor Jerry Brown spoke out for the first time Friday on the illegal immigration crisis while pointing fingers at policies of the Republican Party and making a nameless reference to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. During the annual American Federation of
While liberal activists keep pushing Democrats to make more concessions regarding the flood of illegal immigrant children across the border, GOP consultants in D.C. are suggesting that Republicans roll over and approve President Barack Obama’s request for $3.7 billion without
In this weekly Republican address, Iowa Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Joni Ernst offers a scathing critique of liberalism. Ernst, who is running against Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley to fill retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) seat said, “The problem with
From the Daily Beast: The GOP Senate campaign committee illegally funneled funds on behalf of Sen. Thad Cochran, two operatives say. In an ugly, barren press conference, they demanded a new election. There’s “no proof that this theory is true
Saying she was unaware of a fundraiser’s criminal history, Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn now says she will not take the cash raised for her campaign by an operative who was a former Black Panther and was convicted of
Friday on “Fox News Radio,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said the House Republicans are not moving on immigration reform because the Senate version is a “naked political agenda” to create documented Democrats. “If a couple of Republicans cave in, every
The DCCC, the campaign arm for Rep. Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, has raised $22 million more than the House GOP for the fall elections. That result is surprising enough, as Democrats’ minority status gives them little political leverage in
The USA Today editorial board blasted Congress for its recent efforts to undermine the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act which banned members of Congress from profiting off of insider knowledge when making investments. As USA Today noted, a book
Billionaires Warren Buffett, Sheldon Adelson and Bill Gates have teamed up to call for amnesty for America’s illegal immigrants as a solution to the ongoing crisis at the border as President Barack Obama mulls granting amnesty to millions via executive
Friday on “Democracy Now,” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) attacked his “shameful” Republican colleagues for wanting to change the 2008 child trafficking law so that the children from from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador current streaming across the border in hopes
Nearly half of illegal immigrant juveniles do not show up for the hearings, according to a top Justice Department official. At a Thursday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the $3.7 billion in supplemental funding that the Obama administration requested to
Joe Carr, the conservative who is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in an August primary, blasted Alexander for calling for National Guard troops on the border a year after he voted for the Senate’s amnesty bill which many believe contributed
At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, President Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell said that beds for illegal immigrant children can cost the federal government up to $1,000 per bed. While asking the senators to approve
On Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Barack Obama’s temporary amnesty program for some illegal immigrant children has nothing to do with the increase in the number of illegal immigrant kids flooding across the border. “I authored the DREAM
Fending off persistent questions about his residency status, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted in a radio interview last week that “my kids went to school” in Dodge City, Kansas, as a means of demonstrating his ties to the state he
