In 2011, Republican ‘Young Guns’ former Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan went to Facebook’s headquarters to meet with Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is one of three delegates for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from California’s 23rd congressional district, according to an official list of delegates released late Monday.
The Donald Trump campaign named 169 California delegates on Monday, including such high-profile names as billionaire Peter Thiel, conservative leader David Horowitz, and several legislators.
As Paul Ryan grows more insistent that he will not be the GOP nominee, Politico’s Mike Allen points out that Ryan is “running the same playbook he did to become [House] speaker: saying he doesn’t want it, that it won’t
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) penned an open letter to President Obama on Thursday urging an increase in water pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to thirsty farms and communities in Southern California.
On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) weighed in on the rise of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump coming off of his win in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday. McCarthy said to co-hosts Joe
National Review’s effort to take down GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has been billed as a symposium of “conservatives against Trump.” However, that billing may be undermined by the discovery that several of the contributors National Review relied upon to pen their anti-Trump manifesto are supporters of the open borders immigration agenda, which National Review itself previously declared would bring about the end American conservatism.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) has sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry protesting his offer to allow Iran to bypass a new law restricting travel from countries that sponsor terror.
House Republicans from California lashed out at Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Friday for blocking drought legislation language from a larger government funding spending bill.
On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on New York City’s AM 970, host John Catsimatidis welcomed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on his show. McCarthy addressed the recent terror attack in San Bernardino, CA, urging President Obama to take Islamic State “head on.” “The more that
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) offered his thoughts and prayers to the victims of the San Bernardino shooting that left 14 dead Thursday but noted that the final motive has not yet been determined.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
On Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that the House investigation of Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling fetal tissue to researchers for profit will continue.
Pro-life leaders and members of Congress are focused on statements from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy indicating that a government shutdown over defunding Planned Parenthood is unlikely.
On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells reporters he expects a healthy debate about funding Planned Parenthood, but would not say whether or not Republicans intend to insist on defunding the abortion organization.
Rep. Paul Ryan won the first round of votes for the job of House Speaker, but 45 Republican legislators voted against him. Those 45 members are enough to block him from getting the Speakership during the partisan floor vote on
The secret, top-level process used to create the federal budget for 2016 and 2017 really “stinks,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is likely to replace Rep. John Boehner as House Speaker this week. But he did not promise to vote against the $8 trillion plan.
A new PBS documentary has exposed the motivating factors behind House Freedom Caucus members’ decision to propel donor-class favorite Paul Ryan into the most powerful position in Congress. As Speaker of the House, Ryan will have unilateral control over many aspects of the congressional agenda, including passage of Obamatrade in the lame duck session and amnesty legislation in 2017.
Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement on Wednesday that he would not run for president of the United States made it a foregone conclusion that the media would worship at the shrine of Hillary Clinton during her Benghazi testimony on Thursday.
After a few weeks of hand-wringing over the horrors of “politicized” Benghazi hearings, based entirely on the foolish words of Rep. Kevin McCarthy – who had nothing to do with those hearings – and a disgruntled ex-staffer of dubious portfolio, the media is suddenly very happy with Democrats politicizing the hell out of those hearings.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), a member of the House Freedom Caucus suggested that Republicans should “perhaps” look at someone other than Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), who he described as “from the liberal half” of the conference, as speaker and that
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is reminding members of the House of Representatives that nothing has changed since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropped out of the running for Speaker of the House. King is encouraging members to throw support behind Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), saying he can “bridge the divides currently running through [the] Conference.”
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), a liberal Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, censored the press in her district on Tuesday—refusing to allow credentialed members of the media to ask legitimate questions of the congresswoman about her alleged affair with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or about the House Speakership race.
California Democrats in the Bay Area are eagerly awaiting tonight’s Democratic presidential debates in Las Vegas, Nevada where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will duke it out as Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee seek to garner more national attention in their own bids for the coveted nomination.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is playing a long game when it comes to a potential Speakership bid. Meanwhile, amid House GOP conference chaos the establishment-backed House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), continues to play Hamlet on his own potential bid.
President Barack Obama managed to squeeze two rounds of golf into his busy schedule on Sunday and Monday during his latest fundraising stint in California.
Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) circulated a letter Monday saying that if Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stays out of the race for Speaker of the House, Flores will throw his own name in the hat, according to CNN.
Conservative radio host Sean Hannity says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t the right man to be Speaker of the House and is urging other members of the House to come up with another option.
Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots is out with a blistering statement urging House Republicans to hold the line in the Speakership battles and not accept House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the next Speaker of the House.
Illinois Republican Peter Roskam is one of the emerging candidates to replace Ohioan John Boehner as the powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives. So, who is Peter Roskam?
A new analysis from the American Conservative Union (ACU) of voting records of various potential GOP candidates for Speaker of the House under the soon-to-be-ending Speakership of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) shows that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is far and away the best viable candidate for Speaker.
President Barack Obama raised money across California this weekend, while U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy went into seclusion upon returning home to Bakersfield. Obama even poked fun at the turmoil in Republican ranks, which intensified when McCarthy withdrew from the Speaker’s race in the House.
It appears as if those conservative “wacko birds” in the U.S. House of Representatives really do have a lot of sway up in Washington, D.C.
The problem is that the Republican leadership betrayed their own base one time too many. What happened in 2014 was quite simple: the GOP asked voters to give them both House and Senate to put the brakes on Obama’s disastrous agenda, and the voters took them up on it. The capitulations and walkbacks began with days of the last races being called. The old song-and-dance about how “we’ll fight next time” and “we need just a little more power to get anything done” was performed one last time, to disastrous effect.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday the reason why the mainstream media is not visibly celebrating Kevin McCarthy’s decision to drop his bid for House Speaker and the ensuing Republican Party implosion is because the perception is that conservatives have won a victory over Washington insider establishment individuals like McCarthy.
Rep. Renée Ellmers is calling rumors that she had an affair with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “completely false accusations.”
With unseemly rumors swirling about an alleged affair between Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Ellmers reportedly thanked her colleagues for their “prayers and support” during a closed-door meeting Friday.
Since the Tea Party arose in 2009, it has achieved two major goals, but failed to fulfill its third and most important task: taking power.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” host Bill O’Reilly reacted to the decision by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to drop his bid to fill the House Speaker’s position soon to be vacated by John Boehner (R-OH). According
