The new 113th Congress will convene Friday and House members will vote on a bill that would aid storm damaged states. Under fire from fellow Republicans from Sandy-stricken New York and New Jersey, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, today agreed
House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH) managed to retain his Speakership for the new 113th Congress that was sworn in on Thursday afternoon. Nine Republicans voted for somebody other than Boehner. If 8 more GOP’ers had joined them, there
On Thursday afternoon members of the House will vote for the Speaker of the 113th Congress. Everyone’s vote for speaker is public like most House votes. Given the criticism of current House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH), some are
The House voted to pass the Senate’s fiscal cliff bill on Tuesday night. Eighty-five Republicans joined 172 Democrats to pass the bill. And the House Republican leadership split down the middle. House Republican leadership members who voted against the Senate “fiscal
House members will vote Tuesday night on the Senate’s fiscal cliff bill. Republicans met in two conference meetings to discuss the bill. At the end of the first meeting, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) came out against the Senate
President Barack Obama delivered remarks from the White House on Monday afternoon on fiscal cliff negotiation progress in Congress, as Democratic and Republican leaders in the upper chamber appeared to iron out major issues pertaining to a fiscal cliff agreement:
Washington D.C. lawmakers in both chambers left the capitol on early Sunday night after negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff fell apart in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) said there is “still time left to
One week after NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory apparently flouted DC gun laws by waving a high capacity gun magazine on television, President Barack Obama joined Gregory for an interview. Obama made it clear he planned on “putting
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker and self-described progressive, visited The Nation’s Gun Show, along with his camera crew, at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia on Saturday. Best known for the anti-fast food film “Super-Size Me,” Spurlock visited the same gun show
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday she is resigning from her position. According to reports, Jackson is leaving before an investigation can be launched into the agency’s alleged illegal use of private emails for official government business. Senator
The Connecticut State Police report regarding the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will not be released for “several months,” spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said over one week ago.”There is no further information to be released by
The Associated Press reported that if lawmakers do not reach a deal on the fiscal cliff, local police in Oregon will release inmates from jails: A scenario that police in western Oregon feared came true in the thick of holiday
Lawmakers and President Barack Obama are hurrying back to Washington on Thursday in what appears to be another attempt to avoid going off the fiscal cliff. In order to do that, Congress and the White House must agree on how to
Jeremy Clarkson, a British television personality who hosts the popular BBC program Top Gear, weighed in on the controversy surrounding fellow Brit CNN’s Piers Morgan. Clarkson tweeted on Monday: Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers
Gun control advocates, following the NRA’s press conference on Friday, slammed the National Rifle Association’s response to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting. NRA CEO Wayne La Pierre told reporters: We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret
The clock is ticking down towards the deadline of the fiscal cliff, and analysts are wondering why Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not taken action on the tax withholding levels in American workers’ paychecks. The Obama Administration has framed its
Despite claims from leadership on late Thursday morning that Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) “Plan B” tax proposal had enough votes to pass the House, insiders say that Plan B was not just defeated, it was not even a close vote.
The NRA proposed on Friday its National School Shield Program in response to the tragic school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The program will assist schools in implementing qualified armed security personnel at U.S. schools. According
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) told members of his own conference on Thursday night that there were not enough votes among the party that would support passage of Boehner’s tax proposal known as “Plan B.” Boehner’s office
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R – TX) gave remarks on the House floor Wednesday evening and read an October 2010 interview with then House Minority Leader John Boehner (R – OH) by National Journal’s Major Garrett. The article was written eight days
President Barack Obama at a White House press conference on Wednesday said that he intends to take action in the area of gun control legislation next year. “Any single gun law cannot solve all these problems,” he said. “This time,
Senator Lindsey Graham (R – SC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he wants to see the interviews the FBI conducted with the individuals who survived the Benghazi attacks. Mr. Graham agrees
The State Department’s Accountability Review Board finished its investigation on the issues surrounding the attack on the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi. Last week, Breitbart News first reported the breakdown in the State Department’s Diplomatic Security at the U.S. consulate
Senator Joe Manchin (D – WV) appears to have changed his tune on the second amendment. The Democratic Senator who received an “A” rating from the NRA appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday to discuss the school shooting in
Around 60 to 75 protesters appeared in front of the National Rifle Association’s headquarters in Washington D.C. on Monday afternoon. Chanting “shame on the NRA,” the the small group, led by the organization CREDO, met several blocks away from the NRA’s
Dawn Hochsprung, the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal and a teacher were ultimately slaughtered when they attempted to stop gunman Adam Lanza from killing school children and faculty on Friday morning in Newtown, Connecticut. Hochsprung’s husband, George, told CNN: “There
In the wake of the of the horrific Sandy Hook School massacre, questions are arising about the effectiveness of the 1990 Gun Free School Zones Act (GFSZA). According to the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) the intent of gun-free school
Andrew McLaughlin, a former member of President Obama’s senior White House staff, who served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, mocked Nancy Lanza, the murdered mother of the Newtown, CT massacre killer Adam Lanza, on Twitter Saturday evening: The
As first reported by Breitbart News, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R – UT) claims that the State Department is not telling Congress where the Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi are. Chaffetz appeared on
The federal government’s food stamp recruitment program SNAP, the AARP, and the Urban League are teaming up to end “senior hunger” in the nation’s capitol regardless of an individual’s income level. According to the D.C. Hunger Solutions website: DC Hunger
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R- UT) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, plans to ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton why U.S. diplomatic security agents in Benghazi were not initially armed when the attacks on the embassy compound happened. The Congresswoman
On Tuesday, Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) confirmed with Breitbart News that she has “concerns about the defense put up by [Benghazi] Diplomatic Security. That is correct.” Breitbart News reported on Monday that Sen. Feinstein was
A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed. Additionally,
