
A top deputy to House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to to excuse their legislation to pink-slip 200,000 blue-collar Americans by claiming that employers are suffering from a shortage of workers.
by Neil Munro18 Dec 2015, 2:15 PM PST0

Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) circulated a letter Monday saying that if Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stays out of the race for Speaker of the House, Flores will throw his own name in the hat, according to CNN.
by Alex Swoyer12 Oct 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

Speaker of the House John Boehner decided to push back the elections for House Majority Leader and Majority Whip until next month, giving conservatives more time to offer candidates to fill the positions.
by Alex Swoyer5 Oct 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

House Speaker John Boehner had been planning to call up on the House floor last week a measure from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that would have removed him as Speaker of the House if it succeeded—intending to embarrass Meadows—but abandoned the plan after his entire leadership structure learned that they did not have the votes to re-elect him as Speaker before the August recess.
by Matthew Boyle2 Aug 2015, 3:00 PM PST0

Speaker John Boehner, confirmed a White House official, joined the president on Air Force as well as Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
by Charlie Spiering26 Jun 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

It’s time for conservatives to take out House Speaker John Boehner and all of his comrades in primaries, nationally syndicated radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and conservative movement thought leader Mark Levin argues in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.
by Matthew Boyle20 Jun 2015, 4:26 PM PST0

In fact, the situation is devolving so rapidly out of control for leadership that at a “Whip Briefing” for legislative staffers on Monday, GOP leadership officials wouldn’t even commit that there will ever be a vote to pass Obamatrade—never mind confirm when.
by Matthew Boyle9 Jun 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

Two members of House GOP leadership—Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)—refused to admit through spokespersons to Breitbart News whether they have read the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal, but they still support granting President Barack Obama the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track it.
by Matthew Boyle4 Jun 2015, 3:47 PM PST0

Here’s the untold story of how two members of Republican leadership took a bold stand against the Democrats and the liberal interests in their own party to swat down a pro-amnesty amendment in a key defense bill.
by Matthew Boyle15 May 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

A new letter from rank-and-file Republicans urges House leadership to stay the course on DHS funding. So far, Senate Democrats have refused to allow a House-passed bill to come to the floor.
by Matthew Boyle23 Feb 2015, 4:32 PM PST0

House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) tells Breitbart News exclusively that he’s calling on Senate Democrats to stop their obstructionism and open debate on a House-passed bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its entirety — with the exception of President Obama’s executive amnesty.
by Matthew Boyle9 Feb 2015, 2:27 PM PST0

Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis (R) is said to have quit the House Republican whip team because House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) has politicized the procedural vote process and has threatened to kick out those members who did not conform to the wishes and demands of House leadership, this according to a source very close to whip team itself.
by Javier Manjarres8 Feb 2015, 5:31 PM PST0

Politico remains the go-to publication for establishment Republican leaks.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Jan 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to retaliate, or exact “revenge” as Politico put it, against at least two House Republicans who voted for a Republican alternative is haunting Republicans who supported him conference-wide and sparking a discussion in the party about the role Boehner should play as Speaker—and Republican members should play in challenging his authority.
by Matthew Boyle9 Jan 2015, 5:38 AM PST0

If reinstated Republican House Speaker John Boehner is to be believed, he can forgive speaking to a racist group, but not voting against him as GOP leader.
by Dan Riehl7 Jan 2015, 10:36 PM PST0

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin, argued Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) should resign on Monday. Levin said that while he doesn’t believe Scalise held the views of David Duke, or even knew he was speaking
by Ian Hanchett5 Jan 2015, 10:29 PM PST0

Two top deputies to Speaker John Boehner defended on his behalf the tactic of forcing members to vote on legislation they haven’t yet read in Monday evening’s more than two-hour-long conference meeting of Republican members, one of the members challenging Boehner for Speaker told Breitbart News exclusively.
by Matthew Boyle5 Jan 2015, 7:47 PM PST0

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is slamming Republicans for standing by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). “As the new Congress begins, nothing discredits Republican claims of ‘outreach’ and bringing people together more than their decision to keep Steve Scalise at the top tier of the elected leadership of their caucus,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement Monday, calling their defense of the Lousiana lawmaker “divisive.”
by Caroline May5 Jan 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest couldn’t resist drawing attention to Republicans for allowing Rep. Steve Scalise to stay as House Majority Whip, after reports that he addressed a group of people at a white supremacist group convention. Earnest explained that Republicans know that they needed to “broaden their appeal” to minorities, gays, women, and young people, but that it was eventually up to the party to decide.
by Charlie Spiering5 Jan 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) thinks that Majority Whip Steve Scalise should be allowed to remain in his leadership position. Scalise has apologized for a speech he delivered in 2002 to a group of people prior to a white supremacist conference.
by Charlie Spiering5 Jan 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

“You have a long line of politicians who go to see Obama. Now, Scalise is supposed to be a bad guy because he may have come to our meeting he may not have come to our meeting or whatever,” David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, said on his radio program on Friday. “He certainly did, like most Republicans in my state and elsewhere, and most Democrats in the South and certainly many around the country, he echoed a lot of my ideology and my policies–no question about it,” Duke added.
by Matthew Boyle3 Jan 2015, 1:15 PM PST0

Knights of the Klu Klux Klan founder David Duke defended the embattled Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Tuesday, telling media that he has met with Democratic legislators at least 50 times over the course of his political career.
by Katie McHugh2 Jan 2015, 7:07 PM PST0

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted those who have defended House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) associations with top allies of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, liking them to those who defended President Barack Obama’s more recent and “immoral”
by Tony Lee2 Jan 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

A whopping 60 percent of voters who voted for Republicans in the last election either definitely or probably want their member of Congress to elect someone other than John Boehner on Jan. 6, when Congress convenes, according to a poll. The voters were asked: “As you may know the new Congress will select its leaders in January. If it were up to you, would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you elect someone new?”
by Matthew Boyle2 Jan 2015, 6:33 AM PST0

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York is the first member of the U.S. Congress to call on House Speaker John Boehner to ask for House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise’s resignation. Maloney wants Scalise’s scalp after the revelation that Scalise had a years-long personal and political relationship with Kenneth Knight, the top political aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
by Matthew Boyle31 Dec 2014, 4:45 PM PST0