Eighteen Republican United States senators voted with Democrats to pass the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill and send it to the House of Representatives, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi hopes to pass it before Christmas.
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Tuesday that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill undermines border enforcement and misses a crucial opportunity to secure the border.
Democrats are giving $3 billion to the administration’s catch-and-release network that delivers migrants into workplaces and housing.
Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Senate Democrat disagreements over the future headquarters of the FBI has delayed the release of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
On Friday’s edition of PBS’ “Washington Week,” New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent Carl Hulse stated that he thinks an omnibus bill will be passed due to “the oldest reason in the books, it’s pork.” He also stated that the top two
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) criticized Senate Republicans for pushing an omnibus spending package and stated that doing so denies the House GOP the funding leverage to push border security provisions. Donalds particularly criticized the lead Republican negotiator in the Senate, Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), for “selling everybody out” “to take all this money out the door and cut a deal with the worst president in our history” and extend the Biden agenda.
Incoming House Republicans urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to nix plans to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill and instead pass a short-term continuing resolution (CR), which would give a House Republican majority input on a longer-term spending bill Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted to the omnibus framework by pointing out that the two leaders on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Vice
Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, with government funding set to run out on Friday.
Congressional leaders are steadily moving towards a potential government funding deal as the government soon faces the prospect of a government shutdown.
Congress has a jam-packed legislative calendar as it aims to pass a spending bill and a defense authorization bill before the new congressional term.
Even though the general election was not as competitive as the Republican primary was, GOP nominee Katie Britt won the election to fill Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, soon to be vacated by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL).
Democrats pulled funding from the appropriations bill for a Health and Human Services office devoted to fighting so-called climate change.
A senior staffer for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) sent a bizarre email across the Senate GOP conference earlier this week in which he wrote a fictional account fantasizing about GOP senators fighting with each other and one threatening to stab others with shards of a broken glass bottle.
Katie Britt, candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama, went to Russia to confront Vladimir Putin about the Russia collusion hoax, but she softened her tone after Putin ignored her and is again now claiming to be a tough on Russia candidate.
The top Republican appropriator in the Senate says the caucus of 50 GOP Senators will try to block the Democrats’ one-sided agency spending bill for 2022.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the longtime retiring senator from Alabama, plans to oppose former President Donald Trump in the primary to replace him and attack Trump’s pick for the nomination, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Breitbart News has learned.
In a joint statement, several Republican Senators blasted President Joe Biden’s defense budget, calling it “disappointing,” and saying, “talk is cheap, but defending our country is not.”
For more than a decade, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) has represented Alabama’s fifth congressional district in the U.S House of Representatives. But next year, he hopes to change that with a successful run for higher office.
Most GOP senators are dodging the Democrats’ efforts to seduce them into joining very unpopular amnesty bills by citing President Joe Biden’s border meltdown, according to Politico.
A split House Republican Conference voted Wednesday to overturn the House GOP’s ban on earmarks.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced Monday that he will not run for re-election in 2022 after 40 years in the U.S. Senate.
On Monday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) made it official and announced he would not seek a seventh term for the U.S. Senate in 2022. Among the possible names mentioned to be a contender for the upcoming vacancy is Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL).
On Monday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced he would not seek a seventh term representing Alabama in the U.S. Senate.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren will put her Silicon Valley version of GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill into the year-end omnibus bill — if top GOP leaders stand aside, say sources and lobbyists.
A stripped-down version of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) S.386 stealthy immigration bill may be added to the House spending bill, forcing GOP Senators to decide if they want to create a new class of low-wage half-immigrants, say lobbyists and insiders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed during the Democrat debate Wednesday that Michael Bloomberg supported President George W. Bush in 2004.
CNN political correspondent Dana Bash unsuccessfully attempted to interview Vice President Mike Pence and several senators as they entered the House chamber to hear President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Bash said, “Hi there, Anderson. I
Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) said on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week” that while he believed the House has a “weak hand” in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, he was “open to listening to the arguments” to allow more witnesses.
The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, sending the funding measure to President Donald Trump to sign hours before government spending was set to run out.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has abandoned the House’s migrant crisis funding bill in favor of the Senate’s less radical version, which includes some of the Democrats’ many pro-migration priorities.
GOP leaders in the Senate approved a $4.6 billion budget to fund an orderly Central American migration into the United States — even though the bill excludes any steps to reduce the crisis and also gives multiple pro-migration wins to Democrats.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) blocked a unanimous consent vote Friday on a disaster relief bill because the bill lacked any humanitarian relief or border security funding.
Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Thursday introduced the No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019, a bill that would make convicted terrorists ineligible for early release from prison due to “good behavior.” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) introduced companion legislation in the House.
The Senate closed a last-minute deal with President Donald Trump on a disaster aid package on Thursday.
A U.S. federal prison is expected to release John Walker Lindh, an allegedly unrepentant jihadi known as the “American Taliban,” on Thursday, years before the end of his 20-year sentence reportedly due to good conduct and time served before his trial.
“We couldn’t get here fast enough,” Trump said. “I wanted to come the day it happened.”
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, explained why he was not supporting a measure that would block President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Democratic leaders directed their deputies on the 2019 border security panel to hide their negotiating victories from President Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post.
