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Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and House conservatives chastised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday for holding up over 300 House-passed bills and urged the Senate to drop the legislative filibuster to enable the Republican-controlled Congress to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Following the overwhelmingly successful turnout in last week’s Kurdistan Independence Referendum, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who has long been an advocate of the Kurdish people, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives supporting an independent Kurdish state.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) argued that he doesn’t believe tax reform should be revenue-neutral and wouldn’t rule out raising taxes on wealthy to partially offset the cost of tax

Three Freedom Caucus leaders brought warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been speaking with GOP lawmakers, according to a new report from the Washington Post.

One of the most perplexing stories of this young administration is the surprising influence of a faction of the Republican Party that was dead-set against the nomination of Donald Trump, conspired behind the scenes to defeat him in the general election, and oppose almost every major aspect of the policy agenda he was elected to implement.

The House Freedom Caucus unveiled an Obamacare repeal bill this week that passed through the House and Senate in 2015 and would repeal the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act.

Former Freedom Caucus Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that the only way to push towards a clean repeal of Obamacare is through the discharge petition.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) said at a press conference on Wednesday that, unless Congress can pass a budget, healthcare reform, and a tax reform package, there should be no August recess.

House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) says that if Congress fails to introduce a tax reform package by the end of July leadership in the House and Senate should call off the August recess.

Former Tuesday Group co-chair Tom MacArthur told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that Republicans “have to learn as a party to work together.”

When Speaker Paul Ryan finally called last week for a vote of the House of Representatives for the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), the Republican plan described by Ryan as the “repeal and replace” bill for Obamacare, there seemed to be some surprise that the entire 14-member California Republican delegation voted for it.

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) scolded reporters at a briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, saying it is “pretty shameful” the way reporters have described the revised GOP health care bill, expected to be voted on by the House Thursday.

GOP leaders are struggling to reassure moderate Republicans on the Obamacare repeal bill as they attempt to pass the bill this week.

The influential American Conservative Union called out the House of Representatives for asking members to vote on a 1,600 page appropriations bill, H.R. 244, only two days after introducing it.

There is only one way to change Congress’s incentives, and that is to change the default option — to make sure Obamacare is repealed, whether or not Congress comes up with a plan to replace it.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) leadership was called into question by new voices Thursday night as hopes expire of passing a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare before President Donald Trump’s first 100 days end on Saturday.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke to reporters Wednesday about the progress House Republicans have made during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office without a major legislative accomplishment in the bag.

Congressman Jim Jordan, former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, spoke with Breitbart News about his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he expects an Obamacare repeal bill to pass by the end of May.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Freedom Caucus Member Representative Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stated that there’s “definitely a path” to an Obamacare bill, and that if they can deliver lower premiums and more choice, “I

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are still waiting to see text of a proposal from the Trump Administration that would allow states to obtain waivers for Obamacare’s guaranteed issue, community rating, and essential health benefits mandates.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows met with the Vice President late Monday after which he told reporters the caucus was “intrigued” at an offer to give states an option to waive two provisions of Obamacare.

Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to President Donald Trump’s tweets aimed at the House Freedom Caucus, which is considered by many to be what kept the American Health Care Act, House GOP leadership’s

Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said even after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act there was still a “70 percent, 75 percent chance that we

When the conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus reunite in Washington, D.C. this week, they will have an unprecedented opportunity. It is the legislative equivalent of an empty net in hockey — when the opposing team brings its goalie into the attack, leaving its own goal undefended.

The Beltway consensus is that President Donald Trump lost so badly by pulling the American Health Care Act last Friday that he has permanently crippled his presidency. He may not achieve anything in his first 100 days (as if he hasn’t already); he may not even last a full term.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), a member that resigned from the House Freedom Caucus on Sunday, ripped his former Freedom Caucus colleagues and questioned if there was anything that they would support. Poe’s resignation came on

Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has formally resigned from the House of Representatives’ conservative Freedom Caucus after the failure of the GOP’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

President Donald Trump singled out members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus for refusing to support Paul Ryan’s bill to replace Obamacare.

President Donald Trump continues to court members the Conservative House Freedom Caucus, pushing them to support the House-led bill to replace Obamacare.

House Republican leaders previewed parts of an Obamacare repeal bill at a Thursday press conference.

House Freedom Caucus co-founder Rep. John Fleming is calling for the United States to be “among the first” countries to form a trade deal with the United Kingdom following their citizens’ historic vote to leave the European Union.

John Bresnahan writes at Politico that Paul Ryan “is struggling to advance an agenda.”

The House voted Wednesday evening to approve the bipartisan budget deal, 266 to 167.

SAN DIEGO — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told a book signing on Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton is “very, very unlikely to be the Democrat nominee.”

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.