In an exclusive interview, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Thursday will go do as a “dark day” in Senate history, with Senate Democrats blocking GOP legislation addressing the Islamic State (ISIS) and President Obama’s threat of executive amnesty. “Unfortunately the
A Mark Begich immigration vote which Begich’s Republican opponent Dan Sullivan characterized as “bizarre” in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News may result in more than a few heads being scratched in Washington and Begich’s strange explanation for it doesn’t
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) criticized Senate Democrats for rejecting an amendment to block President Obama’s planned executive amnesty on Friday’s broadcast of “The Laura Ingraham Show.” Sessions said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allowing a few vulnerable Democrats to
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is drawing a line in the sand on immigration on a procedural vote on Thursday, he announced in a Senate floor speech Wednesday afternoon. Sessions is focusing on a procedural vote
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is warning that the “lame duck” session in December may be used to pass amnesty. Most lawmakers and aides on Capitol Hill expect the session, which occurs after the midterm election but before newly-elected lawmakers are
An aging rocker calls Obama a name, and CNN goes insane to boost Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. Republican Trent Lott flatters a hundred year-old man, the media frenzies until he’s ousted from his leadership position in the Senate. A
To hear the incessant liberal bleating about the Koch Brothers – Senator Harry Reid commandeers the floor of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body at least once a week to rail against them, secure in the knowledge his targets can’t sue
“I’m not doing hypotheticals if we lose, because I don’t think we are [going to lose the Senate],” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said before he affirmed to reporters on Tuesday he would be running for leader of his caucus
In Alaska, Dan Sullivan’s campaign is out with a new ad, “Pure Washington,” hitting Democrat Mark Begich. The Sullivan for U.S. Senate campaign released their latest web ad, “Pure Washington.” The ad highlights how career politician Mark Begich repeatedly says
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Two new polls out of New Hampshire show that former Sen. Scott Brown is now tied with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). The polling was done in the days leading up to when Sen. Rand
Jeb Bush adviser and GOP hack Mike Murphy thinks it may be in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) interest to throw the Senate to Republicans. In an appearance on Sunday’s Meet The Press, the conservative-bashing consultant who has yet
After pressuring President Barack Obama to delay his executive amnesty until after the midterms, panicked Senate Democrats are now reportedly pushing him for an indefinite delay to preserve their political lives. But if Senate Democrats were more serious about blocking
Late Tuesday, House GOP leadership unveiled its proposal to extend government funding through mid-December, avoiding a potential government shutdown at the end of the month. Leadership plans to vote on the massive funding measure on Thursday, just over 24 hours
At a Tuesday press conference hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), several members of Congress–after Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) brought up how Tennessee helped save Texas with luminaries of history like Davy Crockett–compared the battle they’re heading into with Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama’s decision to delay taking executive action gives Congress a chance to pass a major bill during the upcoming lame duck session, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid argued Tuesday. The delay is “another example of why”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) urged Senate Democrats to secure the border in order to increase wages and reduce income inequality at a press conference on Tuesday. That press conference highlighted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blocking of a vote
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said congressional Republicans in the House and the Senate should use “any and all means necessary” to stop President Barack Obama from granting an executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, which he said may include
On Thursday at Harry Reid’s annual energy conference in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton said, “Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.” The former Secretary of State and the likely 2016 Democratic frontrunner for president
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in a speech to conservative activists at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream Summit in Dallas, Texas, this weekend that stopping amnesty is the most important issue of the 2014 midterm election
DALLAS, Texas — Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently spoke at the Defending the American Dream Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity. The eighth annual Summit was the largest in the event’s history, with over three thousand attendees, and Cruz’s popularity
The risk of another government shutdown before the midterm election is too great to use the upcoming continuing resolution as leverage against President Obama’s executive action on immigration, according to Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar. “It would be nice to
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) accused Redskins owner Dan Snyder of trying to buy off Native Americans in Nevada so they can support the “racist” Redskins name. Reid recently told the Reno Gazette-Journal that even though “Redskins is a racist name and
On Monday, talk radio host Mark Levin slammed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for his controversial comments to a group of Asian business owners, and the Republican leadership for failing to win a majority in the Senate. “You wanna
A spokesman for Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, declined to comment about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racially insensitive jokes about Asians. “We don’t have any comment on that,” the spokesman said
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) joked to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce that he was having trouble “keeping my Wongs straight.” Had a Republican said something similar, Democrats and the mainstream media would have played
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quickly apologized after video surfaced of him making Asian jokes to an Asian audience. While speaking to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce, Reid joked, “I don’t think you’re smarter than anybody else, but
Sen. Harry Reid made some jokes about Asians in front of an Asian audience on Thursday. The Washington Post covered the incident and suggested Reid made so many gaffes he had built up a “gaffe immunity.” “I don’t think you’re
An old rule of politics is to ignore what campaigns say and watch, instead, what they do. Where a campaign devotes its money and resources says more about their view of the landscape than what they say in a press
After relating a highly amusing incident in which a crestfallen Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was brusquely told by President Obama to deal with Republican leader Mitch McConnell on his own (just try to imagine the expression on the Crypt
Saturday in the Republican weekly address, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has not acted on more than 340 Bills passed by the House of Representatives. Collins said, “We’ve passed bill after bill to help our
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring the Senate back from recess immediately and allow an up-or-down vote on the two House-passed border crisis bills. “We have a true crisis at our southern
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to allow the U.S. Senate to vote on the two House-passed border crisis bills that would block President Barack Obama from continuing or expanding his executive amnesty
National Democrats are dropping $9.1 million into North Carolina to protect incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) from GOP challenger and State House Speaker Thom Tillis, Roll Call reports. “House speaker Thom Tillis drew a bull’s-eye on public schools, cutting
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Breitbart News in a lengthy phone interview on Tuesday that the new media are the backbone of the conservative anti-amnesty movement, and that last week’s unification of the GOP against
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Fox News Channel “On the Record” host Greta Van Susteren criticized the possibility that reportedly President Barack Obama will use his executive power to grant amnesty to up to 6 million illegally
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann released the following statement tonight calling for Harry Reid to get the Senate back to work on what she now believes is a viable immigration fix passed by the House. “The meltdown of the phones this week
Friday at a press conference, President Barack Obama said in order to address the humanitarian crisis of ten of thousands of unaccompanied children illegally flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border, he was “going to have act alone.” The president said he
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will use the immigration bill proposed by Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) to bring back the Gang of Eight immigration proposal. On Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show,” Sessions told guest
On Tuesday, Citizens United launched a video calling on President Barack Obama to deploy the National Guard to the southern U.S. border. “President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi are in complete denial when it comes to the illegal immigration
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he wanted to attach the Senate’s comprehensive amnesty bill to the House border bill and potentially have a conference on legislation that had all but been declared dead. “Well, if they