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JERUSALEM – The Trump revolution is like the Reagan revolution in that both leaders connected with the average American and in November those Americans went out and voted for the first time since Reagan, transition team member Becky Norton Dunlop told Breitbart Jerusalem at a conservative summit held Monday in Jerusalem.

22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell shouted, “Allah is in control, not this judge!” as he was led from U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith’s courtroom on Monday to begin serving his 30-year prison sentence for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in the name of the Islamic State.

Capitol Hill conservatives are preparing for a fight over funding the federal government after the current funding legislation expires Dec. 9, as President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) take their last bite from the apple before both men return to private life.

Tuesday, a group of NFL players visited Washington D.C. to discuss police brutality and race issues with members of Congress. Detroit Lions wide receiver Anquan Boldin, fellow Lion and safety Glover Quin, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, Cleveland Browns quarterback Josh McCown

“Any attempt to roll back the longstanding ban on congressional earmarks — the lubricant that empowers politicians to cut bad deals — would amount to a rebuke of those voters,” says Michael Needham, the chief executive officer of Heritage Action.

About 40 people have occupied Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Capitol Hill office to protest his ties to Wall Street as he prepares to lead Senate Democrats in the 115th meeting of Congress, the Associated Press reported.

Former Illinois Republican Congressman Aaron Schock, who was tagged in the media for decorating his office in the style of the English TV series Downton Abbey, says he has been indicted on 24 counts of political corruption related to his misuse of congressional office maintenance funds.

The speaker said he was proud of his Better Way agenda that he developed and now he was looking in the next session of Congress to executing the agenda. “There is a lot of unfinished work to do. I think I can do a lot to help our cause, our party.”

What President Barack Obama and the Democrats have attempted to do for eight years has gone beyond the boundaries of the the Constitution; beyond the previous limits of what both parties considered possible; and, often, beyond what they themselves promised voters that they would do.

A leading voice for Texas agriculture producers is making a familiar case against one of the conservative movement’s foremost think tanks.

TEL AVIV – An event in the House of Representatives advocating an economic boycott of Israel sponsored by a Democratic House lawmaker has been canceled following the Congresswoman’s withdrawal amid complaints from fellow Democrats.

The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that opponents of the State of Israel are scheduled to gather Friday on Capitol Hill for the first congressional forum dedicated to expanding the Left’s economic war on Israel that operates through the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

A senior Republican Capitol Hill insider with extensive knowledge of the 2016 congressional races told Brietbart News regardless of how Donald J. Trump performs in November, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is safe from Democratic takeover, despite claims by Democrats and mainstream media outlets that the House is in play.

Senate conservatives lost their fight to protect investors when the Senate passed the Puerto Rico default bill, by 60 to 30 votes, on Wednesday.

“Radical Islam killed those poor innocent victims! Radical Islam killed those poor innocent victims!” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Texas) pointing to a placard with the faces of the 49 victims killed June 12 by a Omar Mateen at Orlando’s Pulse, a gay nightclub. Some of the victims and more than 50 survivors were shot by police officers, but the details have not been released.

The second congressman to endorse Donald J. Trump for president told reporters Thursday that he is no longer commenting on the presumptive nominee and it does not surprise him or bother him that Trump does not meet personally with his congressional supporter.

House Republican leaders quickly staged a show-vote in response to Sunday’s terrorist shooting massacre at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, and passed the Countering Terrorist Radicalization Act 402 to 15 votes.

Iowa Rep. Steve King wants congressional legislators to publicly pick sides in the progressives’ fast-expanding culture war against the two sexes in America.

As presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump met with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, immigration activists who oppose Trump delivered taco bowls to lawmakers who support the billionaire.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez is using an unusual weapon in her campaign to replace outgoing liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): her record in Washington.

Frank Gaffney writes that representatives from the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) visiting lawmakers today are “associated with, and working to advance, the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Marco Rubio returned to Capitol Hill yesterday to vote on North Korea sanctions, but he may have been surprised to find a TMZ cameraman waiting for him in the Senate halls as he exited the Capitol building.

Actress and lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow took to Capitol Hill Wednesday to join lawmakers in pushing for the mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

As the crucial vote for fast-track trade authorities looms, President Obama is headed over to Capitol Hill to make his case to House Democrats who are on the fence about supporting the president’s proposal.

Rep. Tim Ryan told NBC that meditation could reduce friction and increase productivity in Congress.

WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) — Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., was caught on video parking terribly on a street at the Capitol. Norton was presumably headed to join her colleagues in Congress for the address by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Silent Night! Endless night!All is dark, there’s no light.Cyclone clouds have blocked out the sky, We’re almost out of our dry-meat supply. Sleep in uneasy peace.We may have to eat Aunt Bernice. What the New Yorker is calling “Climate Change Carols” are

The charity Invisible Children, most famous for releasing the wildly popular, and later wildly unpopular, viral video “Kony 2012,” is significantly reducing its operations, and a spokeswoman for the group says it will probably not exist in any form once

UPDATE: The omnibus spending bill has passed the House, 219 votes to 206. Speaker John Boehner will “roll the dice” and bring the 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending deal bill to the floor on Thursday night, and if it fails–as

Columnist Pat Buchanan declared “find out what the agenda is of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable and you will find out what the agenda is of the leadership of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill” on Wednesday’s

There’s blood in the water on Capitol Hill. Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., is out in strong opposition to the omnibus spending bill as Democratic support–and Republican support–for it continues crumbling. “On behalf of the 1.4 million members of

Speaker John Boehner may be endangering RINOs, or Republicans-In-Name-Only, across Capitol Hill with this bill, but he’s going to extra lengths to use the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to protect real-life

During a conversation with the Business Roundtable on Capitol Hill, President Obama dismissed Republican opposition to his decision to implement executive amnesty without Congress. He calls his action “exactly the right thing to do.” Obama added that comprehensive immigration reform

Congressional Republicans are searching for ways–short of impeachment or shutting down the government–to respond to President Barack Obama’s seizure of arbitrary power over immigration law and enforcement. One way would be to cancel the State of the Union address next

WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a rare Capitol Hill appearance, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday encouraged the GOP’s newest members of Congress to embrace compromise and common ground as they shift to a governing role following their party’s midterm