A report at Politico says “dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 address, while Vice President Joe Biden has yet to commit to attendance. They might want to rethink their position, as a new Rasmussen poll finds considerable public support for Netanyahu’s speech.
While there isn’t much Democrats and Republicans will agree on in the U.S. Congress, one issue that both sides have come together to crackdown on is human trafficking.
President Barack Obama and New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick: Professionally successful, but not always truthful or honest.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is firing back against a liberal blogger, telling Breitbart Texas in an exclusive interview that the blogger’s headline was an “outright lie” and twisted his words about the abortion bill that recently failed in Congress to make it sound like he said the complete opposite of what he actually said.
In a video posted on his Facebook page on Monday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) showed the 79,066 pages of new and updated regulations to make the point that the Congress has conceded too much of its lawmaking authority to unelected
Breitbart Texas’ Managing Director Brandon Darby responded to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) claim that the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector is “the most wide open unprotected sector that we have on the U.S. – Mexico border.” Darby said, “He’s dead wrong about the RGV sector. In fact, he’s substantially wrong about his border security approach across the board.”
House Republicans, worried about losing their majority in 2016, have caved to the pro-abortion lobby.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to grant whistle-blower protection to an Orange County Transportation Security Administration (TSA) air marshal who was accused of leaking sensitive information to the press.
A leading conservative in the House of Representatives criticized GOP leadership in the Senate on Wednesday, saying that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already lost the immigration battle to Obama before the first fight has even started.
As hundreds of thousands of members of the pro-life community descend upon Washington D.C. for the March for Life Thursday, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has caved to Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and a group of GOP
During his trip to the United States next September, Pope Francis is planning to address a joint session of Congress as well as visit the White House, according to the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N. in New York. Francis aims to visit the White House on September 23 and will celebrate Mass at Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception later that same day.
A fawning New York magazine profile of Tim Ryan, Congressman from Ohio’s 13th District, praises the Democrat as a man of “ideas” and labels him “Congress’ crunchiest member.”
Friday at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, President Barack Obama said, “Congress needs to show patience,” and let him negotiate with Iran before lawmakers go ahead with a bill increasing sanctions,
Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) is touting the passage of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill as the fulfillment of a promise he and House Republicans made to block President Barack Obama’s executive orders granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is not pleased with the Republican effort to defund President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, arguing that his actions have actually improved the immigration system.
Conservative movement leaders are unveiling the mandate they say Republicans have heading into this new Congress, after voters gave them a majority in both the House and Senate for the first time during President Obama’s tenure.
The document, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, details how the conservative leaders expect Republicans in Congress to “stop” Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America,” something they say the American people made clear in the 2014 midterm elections with such resounding GOP victories.
Despite early talk of a historic insurrection, powerful criticism from conservatives upset by what they describe as weak leadership against President Obama’s agenda, and phone lines reported melting with anti-Boehner calls from Republican voters, the Speaker secured the votes he needed to win.
They didn’t fess up willingly, but after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington, D.C. Obamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim.
Florida Congressman Richard Nugent (R), fresh off being booted from his seat on the House Rules Committee for opposing Speaker John Boehner in the recent Speaker of the House election, delivered a magnificent gutting of Boehner by calling out the Speaker’s missteps and poor leadership.
Here in the winter of our conservative doldrums as the party of jackasses has once again been trounced by the screaming weenies of squishy establishment Republicans, a spark of hope. Amid the ruins lies the Gadsden flag, smoldering, tread upon. In swaggers the great orator and visionary statesman Daniel Webster. Wearing his long frock coat, he walks amid the ashes as if it is nothing. He casts about his severely conservative, unblinking gaze. He eyes the barricades before him. Undaunted.
The new Senate will have many national security and defense issues to deal with in 2015, but indulging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s relentless campaign to alter the military justice system should not be one of them.
After 25 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives embarrassed Speaker John Boehner by voting against his re-election bid, the newly re-elected Boehner has begun to exact his revenge on those that opposed him.
Grassroots America – We the People, the largest constitutional conservative organization in East Texas and one of the largest in the state, thanks Congressman Louie Gohmert for his courage in leading a revolt against Speaker John Boehner.
American voters, whether believers or not, apparently enjoy being represented by people of faith. A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that not a single declared atheist was elected to the 114th Congress of the United States.
Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV) bandaged and bloodied from an exercising accident last week, taped a video message to let everyone know he was “homesick” for Washington D.C. and the start of a new Congress. Reid said, “I
Here are six reasons a new poll from Caddell Associates shows that 60 percent of Republicans agree with dumping John Boehner.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) is not looking kindly at the current challenges to House Speaker John Boehner’s leadership post. “I don’t think they are very serious and frankly they are disappointing” Cole, a Boehner ally, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel
Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) thinks that Majority Whip Steve Scalise should be allowed to remain in his leadership position. Scalise has apologized for a speech he delivered in 2002 to a group of people prior to a white supremacist conference.
The honorable resignation is a lost art in American politics. Most politicians are determined to cling to power, regardless of the cost to their reputation, their party’s standing, or their broader ideals. Scalise could have resigned with dignity, affirming the principle that even fleeting association with racism and antisemitism will not be tolerated in the Republican Party.
Republican Members of Congress share the frustration that voters have with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), according to well-placed sources that spoke to Breitbart Texas on condition of anonymity, but they are skeptical there is a viable alternative among their ranks this year and expect him to easily win re-election.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas, Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) pushed back against critics who view Congressional Republican leadership as weak on amnesty, and defended the planned homeland security appropriations bill that will come up for a vote in the new Congress as a strong tactic against President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty orders.
Parents Matt and Raeona Dies cannot bring their young daughter back to life, but have pushed to hold accountable those responsible in the DUI crash that killed her. A quiet early November settlement granted the couple $2.5 million from the United States Government, a co-defendant in the lawsuit seeking damages and asserting the Congressional aide behind the wheel that night became intoxicated on government time. Reports have indicated a possible cover-up from Congresswoman Capps’ office.
Every generation of conservative leaders must rise to the occasion to confront the challenge of the time. The challenge at present is to stop Obama’s war on our borders and thereby his war on the rule of law. Will conservatives rise to the occasion?
The controversial spending deal the 113th Congress passed before the end of the year also included a little over $2 billion in funding for the operation of the House and Senate. According a USA Today report, Congress’ 2015 budget is 11 percent less than its 2010 operations budget. Back then the cost came in at $2.3 billion.
Congressional Democrats, leftwing groups, and the mainstream media were certain this month’s Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA enhanced interrogation program (which they call torture) would spark a groundswell of anger against Bush administration officials and the CIA that would change the subject from the president’s growing unpopularity and the Democratic Party’s poor showing in the mid-term elections.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd declared that President Obama had decided his attitude towards Congress was “Congress has to decide how they’re going to work with me” on Friday during MSNBC’s coverage of the president’s year-end press conference. “When
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate and outgoing California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly announced in his personal blog this week that he will not be seeking election for U.S. Rep.-elect Steve Knight’s soon-to-be vacated seat in California’s 21st Senate District. The special
A medical marijuana dispensary in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California was forced to remove a decal depicting Santa Claus smoking marijuana after dozens of complaints were lodged against the pot shop on Facebook. Last week, the Harbor
Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) pointed to a “disturbing trend” under the Obama Administration, in which there are increased negotiations with spies and terrorists, culminating with President Obama’s decision to release three Cuban spies in
The recent court opinion declaring portions of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration to be “unconstitutional” bodes well for future litigation against the president’s recent order, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte tells Breitbart News. Tuesday, District Court Judge Arthur
