If the House makes any changes whatsoever to the immigration bill that blew up and died before Speaker John Boehner tried to bring it back to life–and then votes on those changes on Thursday evening or on Friday–it would be
In response to reports that Speaker John Boehner had killed his immigration bill due to lack of support among House Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called on Boehner to come back to resuscitate the bill–or at least pass something.
UPDATE: Breitbart News has learned that there may be additional votes after a 3pm conference meeting. Developing… Unable to secure the necessary votes to pass it, House leadership pulled the Republican border spending bill from the House floor. After both parties
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress must do something to alleviate the ongoing crisis at the border, and President Obama’s plan to take more unilateral action on immigration reform will make the crisis worse, House Speaker John Boehner argued Thursday. “The crisis
Speaker John Boehner’s top immigration aide was at the center of a heated dispute between the speaker and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday, according to several people who witnessed the altercation. Gohmert, speaking to the
On Thursday, his last day as House Majority Leader, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) did not mention amnesty or work visas during his farewell speech on the House floor. Shockingly, Cantor lost a June 10 primary to Dave Brat largely because of his
UPDATE: House leadership postponed the vote on the border crisis bill, bringing up debate on a highway bill at the time the vote had been scheduled. — A last-minute plan from Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to provide conservatives a vote on
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has advised House Republicans on Thursday morning that should vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis bill. “The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill,” Kristol wrote Thursday
After conservative icon and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for declaring that impeaching Obama was off the table, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Limbaugh for understanding the importance of not emboldening Obama to
Several family members of victims of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens have invited House Speaker John Boehner to visit the U.S. Border with Mexico with them in a fiery letter provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “As you leave Washington,
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern argued Wednesday that once unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors are turned over to their family members in the United States, they are no longer a burden on the United States. “You talk about the costs of
Wednesday in Kansas City, MO, President Barack Obama attacked Congress as “haters” instead of political advisories with possible different legislative solutions then his own. In discussing minimum wage increases U.S. economy the president launched into mocking laughter as he urged
Campaign strategist Karl Rove denounced talk about Republicans impeaching President Obama, including White House efforts to stoke the rumors. On Fox News Wednesday morning, Rove referred to Obama as the “cynic in chief” who was fueling the rumors for the
On Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused the White House and Democratic lawmakers of running a “scam” by ginning up impeachment talk on which to fundraise. A compilation of Democratic leadership and House members dire warnings about “this politically
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said in a statement Tuesday that House Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis working group’s legislation is a “surrender” to a “lawless president.” “The Obama Administration has openly declared its plan to
Tuesday House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused the White House of running a “scam” by ginning up impeachment talk on which to fundraise. Boehner said “This whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president’s own staff, and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill,”
House Speaker John Boehner (R) flatly denied that there were any plans to impeach President Obama, adding that the buzz behind the issue was “coming from the president’s own staff.” Boehner dismissed the impeachment buzz as a ploy by Democrats
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said he has no plans to impeach President Barack Obama and impeachment talk was nothing but a “scam” started by Democrats. “We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans,” Boehner
They’ve pared it down and reduced the amount of spending in it, and now Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are barreling ahead with a border crisis bill expected on the House floor Thursday. The bill is expected to
President Obama is practically shouting from the rooftops that he’s about to grant a new unilateral amnesty to as many as six million illegal aliens, but the topic of immigration does not come up in a new op-ed from Speaker
“What happened is y’all didn’t vote. And that’s when all kinds of … stuff happened,” said President Barack Obama to a crowd of his Democratic donors in Los Angeles. This is not the first time the president has lashed out
A majority of Americans oppose House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) lawsuit against President Barack Obama for his executive actions on Obamacare. A CNN poll found that 41% of Americans approve while 57% disapprove. Among Republicans, 75% approve of the lawsuit.
House GOP leadership will be holding a border crisis summit at 9 a.m. Friday morning, Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel announced in an email to reporters on Thursday. “The House Republican Conference will hold a meeting tomorrow morning at
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), an influential conservative member, wrote to Speaker John Boehner and other members of House GOP leadership to urge them to drop plans for a new border crisis bill until President Barack Obama rescinds his executive orders
House Speaker John Boehner accused President Obama of flip-flopping on the border crisis and of being AWOL on the issue. Boehner explained that he continues to discuss the issue with House members, but that it wasn’t helping that the White
The top line recommendations of Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis working group recommendations do not address President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has been widely cited as a key
A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner released a set of recommendations to the House GOP conference Wednesday, including $1.5 billion in new spending and proposals to send the National Guard to the border and require the
The United Nations Relief Works Agency, the organization of the world body dedicated solely to Palestinian ‘refugees,’ announced that the 20 Hamas terror rockets found hidden inside a UNWRA run school on Thursday have been returned to Hamas. In its
A border security proposal from Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) that has already prompted fierce criticism on the right is included in the forthcoming proposal from a working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner, according to Rep. John Carter
On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said he was not optimistic that Congress can pass a bill before the August recess that deals with the border crisis. President Barack Obama has requested $3.7 billion to deal with the flood
A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner submitted their final policy recommendations to him late Wednesday, which did not include language intended to prevent President Obama from expanding a unilateral amnesty for so-called DREAMers, a member of
A small group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner to craft a response to the tens of thousands of illegal alien children streaming across the southern U.S. border has delayed a report of its recommendations while officials consider a
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans will have a better idea of what their next steps will be on the border crisis by the end of the week, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Tuesday. “We’re awaiting Chairman Hal Rogers and
The Chamber of Commerce has not been discouraged by the lack of legislative action on immigration reform. Instead, the business organization is digging in, pushing for an immigration overhaul as soon as possible. “We’re going to use every tool and
When Bloomberg reporter Al Hunt asked him if Republicans who oppose illegal immigration are racists, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said he sees his own children in the illegal immigrant kids who are flooding across the border. During this weekend’s Political
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said that President Barack Obama told him in March to bring him a “menu” of potential executive actions to grant more amnesty and ease deportations if Congress did not pass a comprehensive amnesty bill. Gutierrez said
Saturday in his weekly address, President Barack Obama attacked Republicans for House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) lawsuit against his alleged abuses of executive power calling it a “political stunt.” “I’ve taken actions to attract new jobs, lift workers’ wages, help
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour” New York Times columnist David Brooks and Creators Syndicate columnist Mark Shields took on the House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against the Obama administration, which alleges oversteps in executive authority by the Obama White
Friday on Bloomberg TV’s “Street Smart,” ThinkProgress.org’s Igor Volsky, Bloomberg’s Peter Cook and the Heritage Foundation chief economist Stephen Moore discussed Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) suing President Obama over his excessive use of executive action. Moore said the Republicans lawsuit
More than 1,200 graduates of Jesuit universities and high schools have signed a petition that urges fellow alumni in the House to “seek comprehensive immigration reform without delay.” According to the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) blog, 43 House members, including
