Tag: Ted Yoho

A third Republican Congressman, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), has joined the public movement against House Speaker John Boehner’s re-election. Yoho joins Reps. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) in announcing he will not be voting for Boehner on Tuesday—and Yoho also now is the first GOP member of the House of Representatives to announce he is willing to stand up as an alternative candidate to Boehner if no other alternatives emerge.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is targeting President Obama’s executive amnesty by offering companion legislation in the Senate to a bill from Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) that the House approved last week. Paul’s “Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014,”

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says she is encouraging House Speaker John Boehner to work with Democrats to pass the upcoming government funding measure. “I have reached out to the Speaker and said, ‘Extend the hand of friendship. We

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has thrown his public support behind House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to fund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty order through March. “That would be a big accomplishment if we could get a bill over

The pro-amnesty activists who interrupted and chanted during Tuesday afternoon’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on President Obama’s unilateral immigration actions were self-defeating and disrespectful, according to at least one of the members on the panel. “They are absolutely defeating their

Following a closed-door meeting described as passionate but not contentious, Republicans are poised to move forward on a two-step response to President Obama’s executive action, but they are still haggling over the details. As early as this week, the GOP

Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned GOP colleagues in a closed-door meeting Tuesday against fanning the flames of impeachment for President Barack Obama, saying Democrats had successfully used the issue to raise $2

In a free-wheeling discussion that touched on dozens of proposals for how to address the tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children streaming across the southern U.S. borders, one thread connected the calls to add to or change a border

Florida Republican Rep. Ted Yoho says Mexico should not get foreign aid until the U.S.-Mexico border is secure. “Mexico should not be accepting American generosity with one hand and covering their eyes to the situation at the border with the

On May 23 Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL-03) sent a letter to Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki “asking him for his resignation.” Yoho made a statement after he sent the letter: The decision to ask Secretary Shinseki to step

As Republican leaders in Congress plan a fundraising retreat in Florida to benefit the Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC, Florida Campaign for Liberty is teaming up with Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) in hosting a major event in Orlando, Florida, that’s

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) told local supporters at a town hall in his northern Florida district Tuesday night that he and other Republicans are currently drafting a resolution seeking impeachment for Attorney General Eric Holder. “It’s to get him out

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) said the message conservatives are sending to Washington is being heard and the same type of opposition to Syria is needed to defund Obamacare.  Speaking to Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News’s

The House voted Wednesday voted to give states the power to perform drug tests on people who apply for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The proposal was written as an amendment to North Carolina GOP Rep.

In Florida, the Tea Party and the Republican establishment faced off in two marquee primary battles on Tuesday.  Rep. John Mica, an ally of House Speaker John Boehner’s and a 10-term Congressman who chairs the Transportation Committee, defeated freshman Tea