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Jarome Bell, a Republican candidate in the 2022 race for Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday where he discussed the race and how he believes he can beat incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA).

Tom Cotton said Democrats’ push for court packing would turn the Supreme Court into a “super legislature” resembling the “House of Lords.”

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that the “divided” Democrat Party can only afford to lose three members to pass their infrastructure bill.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) issued a formal response Friday to an Ethics Committee complaint made by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) against her over her alleged role in the riot that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

It is time to stand up to Nancy Pelosi and the radical Democrats’ lack of regard for human life and pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Corporations criticizing Georgia’s election law are profiting off of human rights abuses in China, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said.

Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said Democrats are lying about Georgia’s new election integrity law to lay a predicate for passage of H.R. 1.

We need a stronger loyalty to the Constitution and the liberties it provides and less obedience to the woke left and weak government authorities who are enacting arbitrary measures to expand their control during the pandemic.

The Club for Growth launched an ad Tuesday featuring West Virginians urging Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to “stick to your guns” and keep the Senate’s filibuster. West Virginians argued that the filibuster serves as their bulwark against the far left.  

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hung signs on all the major interstate highways entering Florida informing everyone traveling by road into the state that the Sunshine State has implemented E-Verify, a background check system for employers to see if prospective hires are in fact legally authorized to work in the United States.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), by releasing thousands of illegal migrants into the interior of the country soon after they are apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, is effectively aiding the cartel business, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) assessed after a two-day visit to McAllen, Texas, last week.

Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan — marketed as an “infrastructure” proposal — would create a “Soviet-style economy”, warned Rep. Scott Perry.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Americans and Israelis will be murdered as result of the Biden administration’s decision to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden said in an interview with Breitbart News Saturday that he will send “quintessential swamp dweller” Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) packing home in 2022 with a cardboard box.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) says former President Donald Trump is “energized and engaged” after meeting with him last week at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Colin Schmitt, a Republican representing the 99th district of the New York State Assembly, told Breitbart News Saturday that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) sold out the people of Hudson Valley for political gain.

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) led several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee on a two-day visit to McAllen this week where they witnessed the ongoing border crisis, and all members — as they recapped their visit — said the Biden administration was at fault for surging numbers of illegal migrants.

Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA), the House Republican chief deputy whip, told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Friday that Democrats stuffing the $2.5 trillion coronavirus bill would not garner Republican support for the legislation.

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) finds the Democrat Party is failing to acknowledge the issue of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, he told Breitbart News in an interview Wednesday during his two-day trip to Texas.

New York must be saved from “one-party Democrat rule,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is running for governor of the Empire State, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

The ongoing immigration crisis is caused by Mexican cartels and the federal government is turning a blind eye, Texas Congressman Chip Roy argues.

Former Vice President Mike Pence announced the launch of his policy and advocacy organization Advancing American Freedom (AAF) this week, which aims to advance the pro-freedom policies promoted under the Trump administration. However, this, coupled with news of his two-book deal, has some wondering if he is angling for a 2024 run. While members of his PAC’s advisory board, some of whom worked closely with the Trump administration, generally support the vice president and his efforts, they are not yet throwing their full weight behind him in terms of a 2024 primary run.

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a two-day visit to the U.S.-Mexico border described the main federal border facility in Donna, which is far exceeding its capacity, as “chaos,” providing his remarks to Breitbart News on Wednesday after a roundtable meeting with congressional colleagues and Texas officials.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan amounts to a “China First Policy” that also fails to revitalize America’s dwindling infrastructure. 

Georgians lament the potential economic boost we lost, but what concerns and infuriates us most is the emboldened woke mob and the frightening number of those who are willing to cave to it.

The tentacles of criminal organizations like the Gulf Cartel or the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas do not end at the Texas border, said U.S. Congressman Chip Roy.

A 7-year-old girl from Honduras who made the journey to Texas had a phone number written on her arm as the only way to find her mother in South Carolina.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that Missourians need a fighter who will push for former President Donald Trump’s America First policies.

Corporate titans tripping over themselves to be “woke” by condemning election integrity laws like Georgia’s SB 202 are failing in their duty to focus on running their companies profitably, ironically instead pushing an agenda that other nations show destroys private business under one-party socialist rule.

Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan would place the United States in “a race to the bottom of jobs and growth,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) said.

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that the federal government needs to cut off the welfare “magnet” to curb illegal immigration and stop the migrant crisis at the border.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — United States Border Patrol Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz spoke with Breitbart Texas Thursday as he completes a tour of the South Texas sectors. Chief Ortiz says COVID-19 makes this surge different from others witnessed throughout his career.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Friday that migrants he spoke with at the southern border acknowledged they did not have legitimate asylum claims but were seeking economic benefits in America relative to their countries of origin.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that many border patrol officers are either quitting or considering retirement because of President Joe Biden’s open borders policies.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday slammed a bill from Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) that would empower establishment media organizations and help them destroy competition under the guise of appearing tough on Silicon Valley tech giants.

The Biden Administration’s “American Jobs Plan,” ostensibly an infrastructure-funding bill, will facilitate the outsourcing of jobs to China “under the name of global warming” if enacted, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said.