Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat who is running against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat refused to answer a local reporters question about if she supports President Barack Obama’s request to congress for $3.7 billion
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is using Senate procedures to prevent Republicans from adding amendments to repeal gun control to the Sportsmen Bipartisan Act. On July 9 Breitbart News reported that GOP senators were planning to offer amendments that
Sen. John McCain told reporters on Capitol Hill today that he was currently working on an alternate immigration bill for Republicans to offer instead of President Obama’s emergency funding supplement McCain previewed the legislation for reporters calling the repeal of
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a sizable lead over other potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates in a new Zogby poll that was taken June 27-29. The poll of 282 likely GOP primary voters, though, has a wide margin of error of
Multiple media outlets and far-left groups have savaged faithful Catholics and Protestants over this past week after the Supreme Court held that Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). National Democratic leaders endorsing this anti-Christian discrimination show
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s call for Republicans to try to impeach Obama would be a mistake. “I respect always Sarah Palin’s views but my particular view is that we should devote our energies on regaining
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) believes that the sudden influx of unaccompanied minors detained by the government should be cared for and sent home. In an interview with Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, Rubio argued that it was important to enforce the
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund announced today that they have endorsed Joe Carr, the Republican challenger to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Martin highlighted Carr’s anti-amnesty record on illegal immigration, citing the issue as a critical one for the Tea
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HOUSTON, Texas–U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) attacked President Obama from the floor of the Senate over his failure to visit the humanitarian crisis on the border between Texas and Mexico. President Obama plans to visit Dallas today for a fund
On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said President Barack Obama should visit the border to see whether the country has improved by “almost every measure” since he took office, as Obama claimed in an address in Colorado. During that speech,
The Obama administration is prohibiting anyone from asking for the immigration status of the parents or family members who are picking up illegal immigrant children from detention centers. At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Acting Assistant
Sen. Thad Cochran’s campaign manager, Kirk Sims, has been replaced by his state director Brad Davis, according to a GOP source close to the campaign. The source, who has first-hand knowledge of the information from speaking to campaign officials, also
National conservative election integrity organization True The Vote has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, alleging that the state GOP may be engaged in the destruction of evidence of alleged voter fraud
The Senate is preparing to take up gun control again–but this time it is with Republicans pushing to repeal or limit various gun control statutes already on the books. According to The Washington Post: Republicans want to overturn the ban
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America with the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this year, Politico’s Manu Raju reports.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday to denounce President Obama’s failure to address the border crisis although he was traveling to Texas for fundraising events. Cruz pointed out that Obama was correct in describing
The humanitarian crisis at the border is a “direct consequence of President Obama’s lawlessness,” Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz argued Wednesday. “Amnesty is unfolding before our very eyes,” Cruz said on the Senate floor. “And I would suggest the only
Colorado Senator Mark Udall votes with the president 99% of the time and worked hard for his reelection in 2012, but for some reason now, he won’t be seen with him at his own fundraiser in Denver. Citing “last minute votes
Wednesday at a Senate hearing with officials from the Department of Homeland Security testifying on the influx of unaccompanied children crossing into the border states, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blasted U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske for issuing
The decision to enlarge the Southern California detention center for illegal immigrants in Adelanto is being excoriated by pro-immigrant advocacy groups. Instead, they are demanding that resources be used for children seeking asylum in the United States. The Los Angeles
Republican Senators blasted government officials on Wednesday for obstructing members of Congress from visiting facilities where unaccompanied minors were being held. During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) blasted Heath and Human Services
Hey, remember when everyone was upset because Obama’s deliberately-created border crisis was going to cost taxpayers $2 billion for refugee care? No one should be surprised that the tab has already jumped to $3.7 billion, or that the Republican Party
There’s always talk of outreach to independents and the “mushy middle,” but what about people who just don’t care about politics? Or those who think politics don’t affect their daily life? How do we reach them? An article in the
DENVER (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday will headline his first fundraiser for a Senate Democrat in danger of losing this fall — but the candidate, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, won’t be by his side. In a last minute
The Texas Constitution places the obligation of educating Texas children upon the state Legislature. Article VII states: “A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty
