Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) literally got lost on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, The Hill reports. Cochran accidentally, while speaking with The Hill‘s Cameron Joseph, went to the Senate Democrats’ luncheon instead of the Senate Republicans’ luncheon. “Cochran, while talking with
According to the owner Mayflower RV, an Arkansas business that was devastated when tornadoes ripped through his county in April, Senator Mark Pryor’s reelection campaign taped a campaign commercial on his property under false pretenses. Rep Tom Cotton (R-AR) accused
The scandal surrounding Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) roared back to life late Monday evening with a new report from the Washington Post in which the senator’s attorney accuses the Cuban government of planting negative stories
The New Jersey state Senate will vote Thursday on a bill that establishes a task force to study the Common Core standards, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and the use of student test scores
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) will host a “Thank You Reception” Tuesday for donors who forked over nearly a million dollars to help Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) defeat state Senator Chris McDaniel in a June 24 runoff. The event
It’s clear that five and a half years into his presidency, Barack Obama doesn’t give a rip about optics. That’s why he continues to golf every weekend as the fledgling democracy of Iraq descends into violent chaos. It’s why his
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case, Democrat lawmakers are hoping to draw Republicans into a fight about birth control by introducing legislation that would counter the high court’s ruling that the health law’s
Young Americans elected President Barack Obama, but his poor performance in office may turn young people coming of age during his tenure into conservatives. Writing in the New York Times, David Leonhardt recalled that “less than a generation after young
President Obama needs to visit the border during his fundraising trip to Texas this week and get a “wake-up call,” according to Texas Republican John Cornyn. “I think the problem speaks for itself when the President — who would prefer
On January 28, 2014, State Senator Rod Wright was found guilty of eight felonies by a jury of his peers in a courtroom in Los Angeles. All eight crimes were related to the fact that while Wright had declared that
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) believes that deporting illegal immigrants is the best public relations campaign the Obama administration can use to deter illegal immigrants from flooding across the border from Central America. Speaking on the Senate floor Monday, Sessions said
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed that 95 percent of the unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border are doing so because they believe they will receive amnesty and be allowed to stay in the United States in an interview on Monday’s
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly told President Barack Obama that there would be a good chance of passing a comprehensive amnesty bill in the next Congress, which the GOP may control. On June 24, when Boehner told Obama there
President Obama once described it as “little more than a fund for corporate welfare,” but now top Senate Democrats are touting their support for the Export-Import Bank as a way to siphon campaign donations from the GOP. The New Deal-era
The Obama/Democrat messaging machine is bracing for some bad ObamaCare news that should hit voters by early Fall – right before the midterm elections. That’s when most state insurance rates are scheduled to be approved, and they’re expected to sky-rocket. The
The crisis at the southern U.S. border is an “existential” national security threat, according to the top general in charge in charge of overseeing the area. “In comparison to other global threats, the near collapse of societies in the hemisphere
Though North Carolina House and Senate negotiators say they have reached an agreement on a bill to repeal the Common Core standards in their state, the measure could replace Common Core with parts of the same controversial standards, wral.com says.
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon of Illinois has died. His son Jeffrey Dixon tells The Associated Press that the 86-year-old died Sunday at his home in Fairview Heights. He had recently been hospitalized for heart problems,
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan has her Republican opponent right where she wants him geographically — and, therefore, politically. Thom Tillis is stuck at the state capitol trying to resolve a budget quarrel as speaker
A NASCAR team pulled a Charlie Crist sponsorship from one of its cars for this weekend’s race at Daytona. When Josh Wise’s started his No. 98 car in Sunday’s rain-delayed Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, his car did not have
I recently joined Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw and United States Congressman Louie Gohmert, along with a small group of Texas House colleagues, to tour the Texas border along the Rio Grande River. In advance of our
The Texas border region is engulfed in a full-blown humanitarian crisis measured in lost lives, unsafe communities and an overwhelmed infrastructure in danger of buckling under the flood of unaccompanied minors hailing largely from Central America. Despite President Obama’s threats
In August Missourians will vote on Amendment 5, an amendment to the state constitution which explicitly declares private gun ownership an “unalienable right” and obligates the state government to “uphold” it. The language of Amendment 5 says “that the right to
While Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans have bragged about their desire to destroy the so called Tea Party, or their own conservative GOP base, even their own polls are demonstrating how they may have over-reached and
DENVER (AP) — An obscure, chicken-sized bird best known for its mating dance could help determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. Senate in November. The federal government is considering listing the greater sage grouse as an endangered species
