GOP elected officials are being called to “use every legislative tool” to oppose President Obama’s newest executive action on gun control by Arizona Republicans—this in the midst of Arizona Sen. John McCain facing tough primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward.
A teary-eyed President Barack Obama compared gun control Tuesday to women’s rights, equating tighter background checks with the battle women waged to win the right to vote–as well as the fight for civil rights for black Americans.
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the White House’s newest executive actions that aim to restrict firearms.
Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-ND) says he’s ready for the fight against President Obama’s executive action on gun control, and adds he’s worried about the ramifications to society of this type of government overreach by the President of the United States.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett insisted President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive action on guns would be well within his authority and that it is the fault of Congress for the need of Obama
The Obama administration criticized members of Congress for refusing to address gun control – accusing pro-gun politicians of both parties of causing more gun deaths.
On December 18, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio referenced President Obama’s pending executive action on gun control and said executive order or not, guns will not be surrendered.
White House communications director Jen Psaki says President Obama will be reviewing executive actions he can take to go around Congress on gun control in “weeks, not months.”
As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
Speaking from Paris, France, on December 1, President Obama criticized the lack of gun control in the U.S. and pledged to remain focused on using executive action to enact new controls where possible.
The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is urging President Obama to declare a “state of emergency” and use subsequent emergency powers to institute gun controls rejected by Congress.
On November 23 Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) and 113 of his Democrat colleagues submitted a letter urging President Obama to circumvent Congress by using executive action to expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
On Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, sucker-punching the largely GOP state one last time before he leaves office, issued an executive order granting the right to vote to roughly 140,000 nonviolent felons whose sentences have been completed.
Hillary Clinton is campaigning on a war against gun stores, gun makers, and gun owners, yet she has spent decades of her life—perhaps the majority of her life—enjoying around-the-clock armed protection either for offices she occupied or those occupied by her husband Bill Clinton.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh is warning listeners: during Barack Obama’s upcoming, final year in office, the president will move ahead with whatever he desires because “he knows nobody’s gonna stop him.”
On November 17 GQ magazine published an interview with President Obama in which he indicated his last year in office will be one of “sustained attention” to gun control.
On November 12, CBS NEWS reported that “White House lawyers” are examining gun laws to find an avenue where President Obama can use executive action to go around Congress and expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
With only one year left in President Obama’s tenure, the White House continues to hint at the possibility that the President may use his executive powers to unilaterally shut down Guantánamo Bay prison without the consent of Congress.
Hillary Clinton’s proposals include extending the instant background checks indefinitely by changing the amount of time the FBI has on extended checks. She also wants to place new regulations on sales at gun shows and for guns sold online, and she wants to expand the definition of domestic violence to include dating relationships, then use that expanded definition to ban individuals from owning guns.
Washington D.C. based Immigration attorney Kyle Barella responded to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen’s (appointed by President George W. Bush) summons of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and four other immigration enforcement officials, ordering them to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for violating his court order, as Breitbart News previously reported.
The members of Congress filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit previously filed by 26 states challenging Obama’s action.
San Diego residents will feel the squeeze to comply with government mandated water restrictions under new declarations from the city’s Mayor Kevin Faulconer and councilmembers who joined California Governor Jerry Brown’s unprecedented decree to reduce water usage 25% statewide.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The injunction that has blocked President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty will remain in place following the ruling of a federal judge Tuesday night in this Texas border city.
Add non-Obamacare government health insurance to the benefits that foreign nationals currently illegally present in the United States could receive should President Obama’s November 2014 executive action be determined constitutional in the courts.
U.S. Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has been traveling the country on an “Immigration Action National Tour,” gathering foreign nationals illegally present in the United States, organizing them to rally for comprehensive immigration reform, and guiding them in applying for legal status under President Obama’s executive amnesty plans–DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parental Accountability).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion for discovery on Thursday to investigate whether the Obama Administration misrepresented actions taken under President Obama’s executive orders granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick quickly issued statements of support of the call for an investigation. The issue revolves around admissions by the Administration that tens of thousands of work permits have already been issued to illegal immigrants, a direct contradiction to facts presented in federal court.
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) argued that some Republicans “can’t see the fairness and the justice” of President Obama’s actions on immigration on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. He began by stating that he was “signing up millions of people
The White House dropped a bombshell on Thursday by announcing that FCC already has the authority to take over regulating and taxing the Internet without Congressional approval.
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.
On a call with reporters this afternoon, a White House aide warned that President Obama’s security might be in jeopardy if Republicans failed to pass a full funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. “Until a full funding bill has passed, the DHS and the Secret Service is not able to move forward with the recent recommendations from the report on White House complex security,” Andrew Mayock from the Office of Management and Budget explained during the call.
As part of his “State of the Union” preview, President Barack Obama made a video promising executive action on “affordable high-speed broadband for all Americans.” The president supports allowing cities and towns to build their own government-owned Internet networks, which
Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest was challenged by Fox News Channel’s chief White House correspondent Ed Henry over claims that the president is willing and eager to work with Republicans despite President Barack Obama threatening vetoes and
