Barack Obama’s veto of the bill allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is likely to be a bellwether of vetoes yet to come, reversing a trend in his first six years in office that saw him veto only two bills.
Senate Republicans are ready to cave in on DHS funding. But Minority Leader Harry Reid may prove to be a sore winner.
A new letter from rank-and-file Republicans urges House leadership to stay the course on DHS funding. So far, Senate Democrats have refused to allow a House-passed bill to come to the floor.
A group of House Democrats are calling on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to postpone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress next month.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential Republican candidate for president, is choosing an odd time to come out in favor of passing a DHS spending bill that funds President Obama’s executive amnesty. A federal judge just put amnesty on hold.
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said he did not consult the White House when inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress because President Barack Obama’s the animosity towards
Monday Breitbart News reported that House Speaker John Boehner’s relies heavily on adviser Becky Talent to craft his immigration amnesty policies. Now Breitbart News senior political reporter Matt Boyle revealed on Breitbart News Saturday, Sirius XM Patriot radio show, that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is recruiting Talent to help him shape his immigration strategy.
A spokeswoman for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s potential 2016 presidential campaign has confirmed a previous Breitbart News article reporting that Speaker John Boehner’s on-staff amnesty advocate Becky Tallent has been in job talks with Bush’s campaign—undercutting a previous on-the-record denial from Boehner communications director Michael Steel.
House Speaker John Boehner’s on-staff amnesty advocate Becky Tallent is in talks with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s potential presidential campaign for a job, meaning if she takes it she’d leave Boehner’s office.
House Speaker John Boehner warns it’s up to Democrats to allow the Senate to take up a DHS funding bill that also blocks President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis (R) is said to have quit the House Republican whip team because House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) has politicized the procedural vote process and has threatened to kick out those members who did not conform to the wishes and demands of House leadership, this according to a source very close to whip team itself.
A House immigration bill, pulled last month, seems to be coming back to life after high-level advisers met with House staff on Friday, several key Capitol Hill sources tell Breitbart News.
For the past week, President Obama and Senate Democrats have spent the past two weeks blasting Republicans after the House passed a bill which included two different proposals to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Republican leaders in Congress, however, haven’t been as aggressive in their messaging strategy.
As the Senate prepares to vote on a House-passed DHS funding bill, Speaker John Boehner is urging senators from both parties to vote to roll back amnesty.
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that the declining relationship between the US and Israel was due in part to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan argued there
The Obama Administration’s actions towards Israel become more intolerable each day, carrying with their insults deeply damaging national security implications for our country.
President Obama charts a course forward for his party: more spending, more taxes.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” in an interview, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said “of course there is” antipathy in the Obama administration toward Netanyahu. Partial transcript as follows: BAIER: Are you surprised by the
House Speaker John Boehner apparently plans to sue the Obama administration over executive amnesty, in addition to a lawsuit he’s filed over ObamaCare.
Tuesday at the Republican leadership press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) defended his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting the Obama administration saying, “We had a right to do it and we
A border bill introduced by House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) has less than 50 miles of border fencing because McCaul thinks it would cost American taxpayers too much to secure the whole border, McCaul aides tell Breitbart News. In addition, committee materials that were distributed to House Republicans in an effort to win their support for the bill contain provably false information—specifically a claim that there are already 652 miles of double-layer fencing, of the 700 miles required by law, built on the U.S. border with Mexico.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention last weekend, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Republicans in Congress—particularly GOP leadership on Capitol Hill—have blown, at least thus far, the response to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
Speaker of the House John Boehner tells CBS in an upcoming interview that his Tea Party opposition only targets him to raise money for themselves.
After taking down then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary last year, Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) is aiming to slay a border bill from House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)—a bill Brat says is a “Trojan Horse” for amnesty.
Thursday at her weekly briefing, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the administration by saying, “It’s hubris to say, ‘I rule,
Talk radio host and author “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin predicted Congressional Republicans will not defund the president’s executive action on immigration or Obamacare this year on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “When it comes to Obamacare, why
Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) inviting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress without notifying the president was “an episode of
House Speaker John Boehner says he invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress because the country needs a “serious conversation” about the threats posed by radical Islam. The Speaker did not consult the White House before he invited the Isreali Prime Minister.
Wednesday, Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama’s “fantasyland proposals” and “veto threats,” he laid out last night in his State of the Union address will not stop the new Congress from doing its work.
House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate on February 11. It would be the prime minister’s third appearance before Congress.
After a month of spirited dissent and calls for justice from the Cuban-American community in light of President Obama’s capitulations to the Castro regime in December, the Republican Party is answering by hosting some of the most prominent members of the Cuban dissident community at tonight’s State of the Union Address.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will be hosting Cuban dissidents at Tuesday’s State of the Union. According to the Speaker’s office, Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antunez) and Antunez’s wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera — leaders in the fight for human rights and freedom in Cuba — will be seated in the Speaker’s box come speech time.
Last week, President Obama announced an initial proposal to make two years of community college free to any American. “Put simply, what I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for anybody who’s
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that the media should investigate who in the Democratic Party “inspired” a former bartender to try to kill House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday. Limbaugh clearly said that the would-be assassin was “clearly
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is fear mongering against congressional Republicans’ efforts to block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, citing the Paris terrorist attacks in an attempt to scare Americans. Pelosi said she and her fellow Democrats were “disappointed” that Republicans split Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding out from the full 1,774-page $1.1 trillion “cromnibus” spending bill, and are now aiming to block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty in it. The House passed a bill aimed at doing so on Wednesday.
Michael Hoyt, 44, who worked at Wetherington Golf & Country Club in West Chester, Ohio, was charged after admitting that he considered poisoning Speaker Boehner’s drinks in a loosely-planned assassination plot.
Fox News reports an Ohio man with serious mental issues threatened to poison House Speaker John Boehner,and was in a position to make good on his threat last fall, as he was tending bar at a country club Boehner frequented.
House Speaker John Boehner took to the House Floor Wednesday — ahead of a series of votes to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty — to take the president to task for his executive orders on immigration. In a pointed speech directed squarely at the president’s actions, Boehner quoted each of the 22 times Obama has said he did not have the authority to do what he eventually did: unilaterally change the nation’s immigration laws.
Despite early talk of a historic insurrection, powerful criticism from conservatives upset by what they describe as weak leadership against President Obama’s agenda, and phone lines reported melting with anti-Boehner calls from Republican voters, the Speaker secured the votes he needed to win.
Michael Robert Hoyt, 44, of Ohio served House Speaker John Boehner drinks for five years at the Wetherington Country Club in West Chester. Now, it’s being reported that Hoyt intended to poison Boehner after losing his job and blaming it on the Speaker.
