A female Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday reportedly said women who wear revealing clothing often create an “invitation” to sexual harassment.
Eight-term Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks will resign, the latest politician to end his career over past “inappropriate behavior” – according to his statement, conversations that “made certain individuals uncomfortable.”
Nearly 10 lawmakers took to the House floor Wednesday to call on Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign from his position over conflicts of interest stemming from his role as former FBI director.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, discussed the House’s passing of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and pro-life issues in general with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—which now goes to the Senate–and President Donald Trump promises to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
Following the overwhelmingly successful turnout in last week’s Kurdistan Independence Referendum, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who has long been an advocate of the Kurdish people, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives supporting an independent Kurdish state.
The Judicial Crisis Network has launched a ten-day ad campaign bringing public awareness to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (calling a judicial nominee’s strong Roman Catholic faith a “concern” regarding that nominee’s fitness to serve as a federal judge.
Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) praised President Donald Trump for pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying he “should never have been prosecuted in the first place.” “There was an overwhelming bias in the Obama
Following news that the Alexandria baseball field attack was carried out by a committed leftist, NRATV tweeted a video of Wayne LaPierre saying the “violent left” will face “freedom in the hands of the American people” if they attempt to bring terror “to our communities, our neighborhoods, or into our homes.”
During the June 18 airing of Breitbart News Sunday, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) warned of the rise of the “militant left” in U.S. politics.
Some Republican lawmakers have denounced character assassination attempts against Dr. Sebastian Gorka, White House deputy assistant and former Breitbart News national security editor.
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks came out swinging in a Facebook post defending Sebastian Gorka against baseless smears of anti-Semitism. Gorka is the Deputy Assistant to President Trump, former Breitbart News editor, and author of the bestselling book Defeating Jihad.
A group of 25 Republican House lawmakers, joined by one Democrat, have sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to significantly increase funding to various programs aimed at developing an earth- and space-based “robust missile defense architecture” capable of protecting the U.S. homeland against “any threat from any nation,” not just Iran and North Korea.
Thursday in an interview with MSNBC, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said while he supported measures to “protect” American elections, he argued the information that the Russians have been accused of hacking to underm “The truth is, and I think that
CLEVELAND, Ohio—Republican delegates in Cleveland drew a sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats on Monday, pushing sharp restrictions on federal power over land and aggressive domestic energy production as vital to both the economy and national security during the Platform Committee debates ahead of the full party gathering next week to nominate the GOP’s standard bearer.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) told Breitbart News that he believes that Donald Trump should be stopped, because he “does not represent the best the Republican Party has to offer.”
Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) is urging lawmakers to sign a letter calling for either Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to drop out of the Republican presidential race.
Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) stated that those who overlook Planned Parenthood’s behavior “have to take rank with those people who have done those kinds of things in the past when genocides occur” and that “the same argument” that was used to
Two high-level Republican lawmakers had seen a video showing a Planned Parenthood executive discussing what the organization charges researchers from organs harvested from aborted babies–and were aware of it weeks before it caused an online furor.
On the first day of the 114th Congress, the House has introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—legislation that would restrict abortions to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Republican House members are calling on President Obama to work with Congress to pass immigration reform instead of moving forward with his expected executive amnesty. In a letter to Obama dated Tuesday, nearly three dozen Republicans lawmakers — led by Rep.
On Breitbart News Sunday, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said President Barack Obama’s latte salute symbolizes Obama’s resentment of the military. Speaking to host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Franks said it
Monday, September 29, Breitbart News will sponsor the second National Security Action Summit (NSAS II), co-sponsored by EMPAct America. The event will host some of the foremost foreign policy experts and commentators in the country, including Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX)
At a time when our country is confronting great and growing threats, the ship of state is, at best, adrift. At worst, it is headed toward, if not actually on, the shoals. The fault lies, of course, primarily with
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama owes former President George W. Bush and those Americans who died fighting in Iraq an apology, Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks said Thursday after attending a classified briefing on ISIS. Franks read excerpts from
On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Arizona Treasurer and former Cold Stone Creamery CEO Doug Ducey for governor. Palin said Ducey is “self-made man” who is a “private sector job creator and proven conservative leader that Arizona needs
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
Late Thursday evening Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, with the co-sponsorship of seven other House Representatives, released a bill to finally designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The Breitbart News Network has obtained a copy of the potentially
Earlier this week Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) blasted the Obama administration’s handling of the unfolding military crisis developing between Israel and Palestine saying “I thought nothing this president could ever say or do would surprise me anymore, but this flushed
Forty Republican House members are counting on the success of a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation that challenges the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that it violates the Constitution’s Origination Clause. Article I, Section 7, clause 1
Pressed by dozens of lawmakers from both parties in 2012 to putgreater focus on growing violence by Boko Haram, the Islamistmilitant group that recently kidnapped 200 teenage girls inNigeria, the State Department sent something akin to a formletter in reply.
Three years ago today, an earthquake-induced tsunami devastated Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power complex. The flooding knocked out power required to cool reactors and their spent fuel pools, causing dangerous – and continuing – radioactive contamination. Unfortunately, unless we act quickly,
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and former Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) were joined by top national experts, EMPact Chairman Henry Schwartz, and Fox News’s Judge Jeanine Pirro in warning of the dire consequences to the United States of a form of
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is confirmed to speak at the Breitbart News Network, Center for Security Policy, and EMPAct America’s “The Uninvited II: The National Security Action Summit,” his office announced in a media advisory Wednesday. Cruz’s speech to the
Breitbart News Network will be hosting its second annual national security forum during the Conservative Political Action Conference and will expand the event from a single panel to a full day of events with top conservative leaders. Speakers for the
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the 1,582 page omnibus spending bill worth more than a trillion dollars of spending to accompany the recently-passed budget deal. The deal came up for the vote in the House less than two
On Monday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) discusses a congressional probe into National Intelligence Director James Clapper’s testimony to Congress.
I was hoping last week’s judiciary hearing on the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law was the first step by Republicans to finally do something about Obama’s lawlessness. At the hearing, Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School said,
On November 8, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) and thirty-nine other Republican members of the House of Representatives filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) based on the Origination Clause
On June 18, the Congressional EMP Caucus held a public event to launch the SHIELD Act, which would protect the national electric grid from a natural or manmade electromagnetic pulse (EMP). EMP is like super-lightning that can damage and destroy
On Thursday afternoon, House GOP Leadership engineered final passage of a stripped-down Farm Bill. Getting there wasn’t pretty. First, the Leadership removed all provisions related to the food stamp program, which comprises the overwhelming majority of spending in the bill.
Arizona Reps. Paul Gosar, Matt Salmon, David Schweikert and Trent Franks will be holding a special select congressional field hearing on Monday afternoon to examine President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) overreach. Arizona Attorney
As the House prepares to vote Tuesday on a bill that would ban abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, President Obama has issued a threat to veto the legislation. The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) Monday
On Wednesday, Gabriel Gomez, the Republican candidate in the Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate, called fellow Republican Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) “a moron” for comments he made in a House committee hearing on Wednesday about
On Wednesday, Democrats seeking to revive the war on women meme latched onto comments by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who said that “the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” The comment came in the context of a
