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On October 5, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Americans’ safety is being sacrificed to the “radical agenda” of the National Rifle Association (NRA) by Republicans who are nothing more than “puppets” of the NRA to begin with.

Sen. Ted Cruz is excoriating the Republican leadership in the House and Senate for failing to “lift a finger to defend life” by eliminating taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Cruz’s speech on the Senate floor comes as the lawmakers voted, 77-19, to advance a bill to authorize government spending that includes funding for Planned Parenthood.

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.

On Friday morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that he would be leaving Congress on the day before Halloween. Presumably, he already has a gig booked the next night as a pumpkin.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he has devised a strategy to force Democrats to vote on the Iran nuclear deal as is, or face a procedural vote that would make Democrats vote on whether the Iran accord should be tied to the release of four American hostages and the recognition of Israel as a sovereign state.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who has obsessed over the franchise name of the Washington Redskins for months, claims that team owner Daniel Snyder “bribed” Native Americans to support the Redskins moniker and accused the NFL of ignoring that issue while prioritizing Deflategate.

As President Obama headed for Las Vegas on Monday to kick off an energy summit hosted by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), media reports are surfacing of a recent FactCheck.org report that challenges Reid’s record of

President Obama won’t be in the White House to see the market close. Later this afternoon he will board Air Force One for a trip to Las Vegas where he is expected to make a speech at the National Clean Energy Summit to promote his stiff regulatory policy on power plant emissions.

Allowing illegal alien “anchor babies” instant citizenship perverts the historical intent of the 14th Amendment and disparages the history of the black slaves it was originally intended to protect.

Obamacare has survived twice at the Supreme Court, but it may now face a third challenge brought by the California-based Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). PLF’s case is based on the Constitution’s Origination Clause (Article I, Section 7, Clause 1): “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”

With their legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those federal funds to women’s health care facilities that don’t provide abortions, Senate Republicans say they are sending the message that their proposal is not about politics, but about the “moral fabric” of the nation.

“This is one of the greatest illustrations of the butchery, if you will, of our culture and the literal attack on words to call what happens in a Planned Parenthood clinic ‘health,’” Limbaugh said. “Whether you preface it by saying women’s health or whatever, there’s nothing healthy going on in here.”

Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) accused Senate Republicans Wednesday of enacting a “long-term smear campaign” to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of shocking undercover videos demonstrating the abortion organization’s involvement in the sale of aborted baby organs.

On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable—a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless—happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran.

Sen. Mike Lee’s attempt to force a vote in the Senate that would defund Planned Parenthood was blocked Sunday by some of his Republican colleagues.

“At the end of the day, it is about power and money in Washington and the people getting left behind are working men and women,” Cruz said. “Now I will say one thing that’s very encouraging, which is even though the Washington Cartel is coming after me hard—the lobbyists are backing other candidates in this presidential race—out of 16 candidates for the Republican nomination, do you know which candidate raised the most money out of all 16?”

Lawyer Abbe Lowell and the rest of Menendez’s defense team claim that FBI agent Gregory Sheehy’s statement to the grand jury that the August 2012 meeting was “all about Dr. Melgen” was untrue and that it “directly contradicted what the officials had told the FBI.”

Tuesday, Minority Leader Sen Harry Reid (D-NV)  defended Planned Parenthood, which has come under intense criticism over the release of recent videos showing their doctors discussing the sale of fetal tissue. Reid said, “Human fetal tissue research has been critically

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) described himself as a “Clinton fan” but said “I’ll do my endorsement later” in an interview with Nevada’s KNPR on Monday. Reid, when asked if he was supporting Clinton or Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT),

When the smiling ophthalmologist, accompanied by his wife and daughter, walked free, it was the first time he has been out of jail since his arrest April 14 on federal charges of Medicare fraud. Federal prosecutors claim Melgen cheated taxpayers out of $105 million in Medicare reimbursements he received between 2007 and 2014. He faces unrelated charges alongside Sen. Robert Menendez in New Jersey.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” billionaire business mogul and Republican candidate for president Donald Trump said he gave money in the past to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to ease the gridlock in Washington, D.C. When host Jake

On June 18–the day after the heinous attack in which nine were killed at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–President Obama said, “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the United States is the “only advanced country” where public “mass violence” occurs, and more gun control is needed now to keep Charleston-like attacks from happening again.

Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) blasted the Democratic Party for holding up funding for troops to get more money for the IRS, saying “to think President Obama still has no strategy to defeat and destroy ISIS, yet his party has a

The surprise outcome exasperated Republicans from Las Vegas to Washington and served notice that even as Reid heads into retirement, Republicans will have to get around him if they hope to win Nevada in 2016.

From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The sleepy United States senators thought they were done voting. But then, around 1 a.m. on the Saturday before Memorial Day, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and presidential candidate, marched spryly to

On Friday’s broadcast of José Díaz-Balart’s MSNBC program, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid discussed the 2016 presidential race and his thoughts on the race for his party’s presidential nomination. Reid harkened back to the 2008 Democratic presidential primary contest between Barack Obama

Lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) filed a motion in a Newark federal courtroom this week asking for a change of venue in his public corruption trial. Menendez wants the trial to be held in Washington, D.C., not New Jersey, where the indictment was filed on April 1. Attorneys for his co-defendant, Florida opthalmologist Dr. Salomon Melgen, joined in the request.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), pontificated Tuesday about the ethics of the NFL punishing the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady for Deflategate while ignoring the nickname of the Washington Redskins.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blasted the NFL for being “more concerned about how much air is in a football than with a racist franchise name” in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Reid said, “I find

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce purports to be a Republican-leaning organization, but it actually ranked Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid better than Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in its new scorecard for 2014 votes.

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) compared the Republican budget to the recent earthquake in Nepal in a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday. Reid said, “the budget is just wrong. It’s also dishonest. It claims to be

The GOP majority is because of the midterm elections last November, which saw a nine-seat swing in favor of Republicans—one of the biggest in history. But it’s quite clear from the empirical data that nothing has changed, and Reid’s office is clearly quite happy about it. It’s as if he’s still the Senate Majority Leader.

Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General has been met with one of the most contentious confirmation proceedings America has seen for the position, and now Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli is calling out the GOP Senators and political gamesmanship enabling the controversial impending confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. The Senate vote has been set for Thursday.

Tuesday on the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” co-host of Fox News Channel’s “The Five” Dana Perino, also a former press secretary for President George W. Bush,  offered some strong opinions about her time working with current Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Perino said,

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney stated he is “delighted” Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is retiring on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Romney said, “I wish Harry a very comfortable retirement. I’m delighted that he’s going to be retiring.