Seven newly elected Senators were sworn into office Tuesday, the start of the 115th United States Congress. Here are the names and faces of the five Democrats and two Republicans who make up the 2017 freshman senate class.
“He says that their focus should be on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things that are greater and far more important,” Spicer told reporters as he explained the President-elect’s tweet that criticized House Republicans for having the wrong priorities.
Paul Ryan is expected to be officially re-elected as Hose Speaker, give remarks, accept the gavel and be sworn in. Dean of the House, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is scheduled to swear Ryan in.
TEL AVIV – Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to denounce the United Nations for its recent Security Council resolution deeming all Israeli settlements as “flagrant violation[s] of international law.
TEL AVIV — Mike Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, is generating headlines for exclaiming alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election amounted to “the political equivalent of 9/11.”
Hillary Clinton appeared on Capitol Hill to warn the world about “fake news,” explaining that Americans learned of the “real world consequences” of it in 2016.
The Senate recently passed the Justice Against State Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) – a law intended to permit victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia in court for being complicit in the terrorist acts committed that day.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected to lead the Fatah party for the next five years at its first congress in seven years on Tuesday.
A member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has issued a warning against leadership changes introduced by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), suggesting her proposals could decrease the group’s power while seemingly increasing her own.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that “there will be pitchforks and torches in the street” if the Republican Party doesn’t deliver on its promises to voters.
Results of a new U.S. Forest Service aerial survey revealed that, since 2010, more than 102 million trees have died in a 7.7 million acre swath of California forest land, and the culprit is drought.
During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, Senator-Elect Todd Young (R-IN) said one of Congress’ “first steps” “will be to create a healthcare system that works for all Americans.” Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello, I’m Todd Young. Last week,
Republicans have re-nominated Paul Ryan to be House speaker when next year’s GOP-led Congress starts working on President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda.
GOP legislators in Congress want to revive the use of spending ‘earmarks’ which help leaders and legislators trade votes in exchange for pork-barrel spending in their districts, says a report from the Heritage Foundation.
The Breitbart News White House correspondent told Curt Schilling, mighty righthander and host of Whatever It Takes, that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Thursday meeting with President Barack Obama is more than just grip and grin; rather it is a crucial part of the peaceful transition of power.
Republicans will maintain at least a foothold in the federal government by retaining their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, though control of the Senate is still too early to call.
One of the leaders of House conservatives told Curt Schilling, the host of Whatever It Takes, that unless the Congress gets a handle on pork spending, the budget crisis in Washington will never be solved.
NEW YORK — During a radio interview, comic legend and political pundit Jackie Mason jested that Hillary Clinton’s staff was granted immunity more times than the entire U.S. mafia.
Vice President Joe Biden denounced disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the husband of close Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that he now supports of California’s $64 billion high-speed rail system, after opposing it and withdrawing support for the controversial project just two years ago.
Democrats are aghast that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would declare our election system “rigged,” and that he declined to state in the third presidential debate whether he would accept the result if he loses in November.
Washington has long been known for its “revolving door,” where former lawmakers in Congress leave the halls of Capitol Hill for the lobbying firms of K Street.
On Tuesday’s”CNN Newsroom,” anchor Brooke Baldwin asserted that “there already are are term limits” on members of Congress. Baldwin said, “[L]et me just relay this to everyone, that apparently, from the Trump camp, there is another major announcement that Trump
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence pledged to a room of Miami-Dade County Republicans Friday night that, in light of the Obama Administration’s new round of easing restrictions on Communist dictatorship Cuba, “When Donald Trump and I take to the White House, we will reverse Barack Obama’s executive order on Cuba.”
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump weighed in on Thursday on a controversial resolution approved earlier in the day by the UN’s cultural arm that erases the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and its holy sites, calling the move a “one-sided attempt to ignore Israel’s 3,000-year bond to its capital city” and “further evidence of the enormous anti-Israel bias” at the United Nations.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama touted economic growth over the past eight years, saying that “working families are finally seeing their wages and incomes rise,” and urging further action on the economy, stating, “we just need a Congress that
For eight years, President Barack Obama has been reluctant to expose skeletons in the closet of the Iranian mullahs. Even his own party members are now fed up with this policy, as a number of them joined Republicans to pass legislation dragging out one of these skeletons.
The widow of a man who perished in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks filed a lawsuit against U.S. ally Saudi Arabia soon after Congress enacted a law over President Barack Obama’s veto that allows Americans to sue the Arab kingdom in connection to the attacks that killed more than 3,000 more than 15 years ago.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressional leaders from both parties expressed buyer’s remorse soon after the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to overturn President Barack Obama’s veto of a contentious new law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.
A woman whose husband was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia Friday, two days after Congress passed a law allowing Americans to sue foreign governments over their alleged roles in terror attacks.
Saudi mainstream and social media lambasted U.S. Congress after it voted to bypass President Barack Obama’s veto on a bill that would allow relatives of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government for damages.
Saudi Arabia could reduce valuable security and intelligence cooperation with longstanding ally Washington after a Congressional “stab in the back” allowing 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom, experts warn.
The United States on Wednesday began notifying lawmakers that it has approved $7 billion in long-stalled sales of Boeing Co (BA.N) fighter jets to Kuwait and Qatar, and more than $1 billion in Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) jets to Bahrain, sources familiar with the decision said.
There are only three days left until President Barack Obama gives up the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the international community, ending online freedom of expression and enterprise as we know it.
Congress is poised to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the kingdom’s alleged backing of the terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Representative Peter Sessions (R-TX), who chairs the House Rules Committee, told Breitbart News in terms of immigration policy, President Barack Obama and his administration has deliberately worked to circumvent the law, to frustrate law enforcement personnel trying to live up to their oath.
Saudi social media users have been divided over President Barack Obama’s decision to veto a Congressional bill that would allow relatives of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government for reparations.
Republican U.S. lawmakers launched an effort on Tuesday to modify a $38 billion military aid agreement with Israel by providing more money and easing controls on how it is spent, setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over the package days after it was signed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new $38 billion US defence aid package against criticism Israel could have negotiated a larger sum had he not angered the White House.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Three Louisiana Republican lawmakers are pushing back after being attacked in the media and by fellow Republicans and Democrats in Congress over disaster relief money for the state’s flood victims.
