Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Tuesday afternoon that the plan revealed by Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis working group will not solve the crisis because it doesn’t stop President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty for illegal aliens. “The evidence shows
The bill doesn’t touch President Obama’s “deferred” prosecution of illegal alien minors, or his threats to expand the program to as many as 6 million people, but House Republicans now appear to have firmly concluded they must pass something before
A majority of Americans believe that illegal immigrant juveniles are coming to America because they think the Obama administration will grant them amnesty. A YouGov/Economist poll found that 57 percent of Americans — including 51 percent of Hispanics, 44 percent of
On Friday, Joe Carr, the conservative state representative who is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in an August 7th primary, called on Alexander to support Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bill that would prevent grants of temporary amnesty to future illegal
After President Barack Obama failed to visit the border on recent fundraising trips to Texas and California, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said on Friday that he hopes Obama could prioritize a visit to the border to see the crisis firsthand.
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Senate Democrats of meowing like “kitty cats” and enabling President Barack Obama to enact lawless executive actions like no other president before him. In a colloquy on the Senate floor with Sen. Jeff
On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), who have arguably been the two most influential conservatives in stopping amnesty legislation, urged their colleagues to put more pressure on President Barack Obama, so he does not unilaterally grant
During a “Hardball” segment on MSNBC comparing former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said the freshman senator “looks like a jerk.” TIME political columnist Joe Klein said Cruz is a
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced another border crisis bill on Thursday, which, like the first one he introduced last week, is aimed at curbing President Barack Obama’s amnesty for illegal aliens via executive order. Cruz issued a statement about his
House GOP leadership will be holding a border crisis summit at 9 a.m. Friday morning, Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel announced in an email to reporters on Thursday. “The House Republican Conference will hold a meeting tomorrow morning at
House Speaker John Boehner accused President Obama of flip-flopping on the border crisis and of being AWOL on the issue. Boehner explained that he continues to discuss the issue with House members, but that it wasn’t helping that the White
Sen. Ted Cruz defended his questioning of the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to halt air travel to Israel. Cruz also criticized Secretary of State John Kerry for giving $47 million in economic aid to Hamas in Gaza. Yesterday, a State
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday questioned whether President Barack Obama used a federal agency to impose an economic boycott on Israel after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. airline flights to Tel Aviv because of safety
When President Obama announced on Monday that he had dispatched Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East in order that he “do everything he can to help facilitate a cessation to hostilities” between the terror group Hamas and
Joe Carr remembers exactly where he was when he found out that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his race to the largely unknown political upstart David Brat. As he finished up a meeting with a group of about 75
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have snubbed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Texas Gov. Rick Perry in an interview on Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Romney re-iterated he wasn’t considering running for president in
Breaking news: a fading television show lumbering through its final season makes a desperate bid for attention by creating a “controversy.” Such was the plan when the silly, but once-upon-a-time entertaining, HBO vampire show “True Blood” unleashed its writers’ inner
Wednesday on “The Mike Gallagher Show,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) charged President Obama with “heartlessly” causing “more and more little boys and little girls to be physically assaulted, to be sexually assaulted” by refusing to act on the humanitarian crisis of
On the border crisis, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is leading the Ted Cruz brigade in the House. The six-term lawmaker has introduced the House companion to Cruz’s bill seeking to block President Barack Obama from implementing more executive amnesty via
A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner released a set of recommendations to the House GOP conference Wednesday, including $1.5 billion in new spending and proposals to send the National Guard to the border and require the
While Republicans are reluctant to speculate about the possibility of a Mitch McConnell loss to Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky this November, when asked if his number two, Texas Republican John Cornyn, was a lock for Leader if he does lose,
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted HBO’s “misogynist and profanity-ridden” True Blood episode that demeaned “Republi-cu*nt” women and depicted a bloodbath at a Cruz fundraiser at the George W. Bush Presidential Library. “Of all the places I never thought to be
Using Facebook, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz responded to a Sunday night episode of HBO’s “True Blood.” The show revolved around a vampire bloodbath at a fictional Ted Cruz fundraising event held at the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The
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
House Speaker John Boehner is lowering expectations on whether any border bill will pass in the wake of heavy criticism from conservatives like Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and increasingly intransigent Democrats. “Republicans have made clear that
