The race to replace retiring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who will step down from leadership in November, is already underway. But deciding on the longtime GOP leader’s successor looks to be an arduous process.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) latest freeze in front of cameras on Wednesday has reportedly sparked discussions among some Senate Republicans about holding a bigger party discussion regarding McConnell and the future of their party’s leadership.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has congratulated Republican politician Kevin McCarthy on becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives, telling him Ukraine is counting on his “continued support” and more U.S. aid.
Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) comes out in support of the embattled Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) after being removed from the Republican leadership as conference chair, the number three position Wednesday.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and guest host Frances Martel on Friday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss a proposed legislative improvement to E-Verify that he said GOP leadership cast aside.
Radio and television host Sean Hannity joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his upcoming induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame and the controversy over President Trump’s dealings with Democratic leaders concerning DACA.
The thing people like about House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is that he is a serious guy who is capable of thinking big and has an ambitious agenda to salvage our ungovernable federal bureaucracy.
Another example of unrest between the Republican leadership and its members came from The Hill on Monday, as it reported the forty members of the House Freedom Caucus may separate from the Republican Study Committee when the next Congress convenes.
Sources report Donald Trump received two standing ovations during the meeting, where he reportedly spoke about tax reform, Obamacare, the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment and dishonesty in the media.
House Republicans couldn’t override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would have repealed most of Obamacare and eliminated taxpayer funding for abortion business Planned Parenthood. The 241-186 vote fell short of the required two-thirds needed to block the veto.
“President Obama’s gall is stunning,” said Rep. Diane Black, author of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, in a statement. “He spent this week discussing the need to ‘protect innocent people’ and ‘save more lives’ yet he callously vetoed a bill to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us from the heinous abuses of Planned Parenthood.”
As the House of Representatives readies for a “show vote” on a reconciliation measure that would defund Planned Parenthood, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released a new video that focuses on the profits associated with harvesting fetal body parts.
Congressional Republicans are touting a bill scheduled for a vote next week that would gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in favor of other health centers that do not perform abortions.
Next week, Congress is expected to send President Obama a bill that would both defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare’s mandates and the taxes that enable the law.
It’s painful to see newly-minted House Speaker Paul Ryan’s imprint on the irresponsible trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill, because he used to be one of the GOP’s most effective spokesmen for fiscal responsibility.
GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee is criticizing the GOP leadership in the Senate for negotiating a debt ceiling increase that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare with the Obama Administration.
Republicans encouraged Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to run for Majority Leader in the House of Representatives Tuesday, following House Speaker John Boehner’s resignation, but Gowdy refused, saying he doesn’t want to leave his Chairmanship on the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Rep .Meadows Thanks Speaker John Boehner, Urges Next Leader To Aid Conservatives
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) supports GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, saying she thinks Fiorina is the “best person” to run against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. But when it comes to criticizing GOP congressional leadership, Jenkins says Fiorina shouldn’t get involved.
In a radio interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz slammed GOP leadership, saying that on the Republican side, “We’ve got a bunch of weenies.”
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio criticized Republican leadership on the Iran nuclear deal and other issues, stating they shouldn’t treat the deal like any other bill and wondering, “What’s the point having the majority then? We might
GOP leaders in the Senate are feebly complaining and whining about the Democrats’ solid support for President Barack Obama’s nuke-and-cash deal give-away to Iran. GOP leaders will fight hard for goals sought by business groups–such as free-trade deals–but will only pretend to fight for conservatives’ ideological and social priorities, such as pro-American immigration reform, say these critics.
Texas Rep. Bill Flores fled from a press conference today instead of saying whether he would support House Speaker John Boehner in a pending leadership vote.
The House is leaving for its summer recess until September 8 without voting on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of the recent gruesome videos released of the abortion giant’s practice of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies for sale to biomedical companies.
Republican leaders said they needed the Senate to get anything done, and they got it, in a historic midterm election landslide. They’ve done absolutely nothing with it. Harry Reid is still the effective Senate Majority Leader – in fact, he’s sitting prettier than ever, because he gets to watch Republicans use his grubby tactics to stymie conservative votes, while his hands remain clean.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and likely GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says America is at a “pivotal point” and it’s “hugely important” a Republican is elected president in 2016. Indications are she’ll be a candidate.
Per a Washington Post report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) claims that after the 2013 government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act both he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) “had their money spigot turned off by (GOP) leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members.
As more details emerge from a poll indicating Republican voters want John Boehner out as Speaker, a clearer picture of a largely dissatisfied GOP voting base is emerging.
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?
Popular radio host and top conservative Mark Levin took to his Facebook page this morning and called for the current GOP leadership to be “cleaned out.”
