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The Senate passed the First Step Act on Tuesday night in a win for the White House, especially senior adviser Jared Kushner, as well as many Republicans and Democrats. 

Tuesday on the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) commented on the prison reform bill’s status, doubting there is sufficient time left in the session to get it passed. Cotton said there are “ongoing changes, seemingly by the hour from

The text of the latest version of the First Step Act, being circulated by proponents to law enforcement groups and obtained by Breitbart News, still allows a number of violent criminals early release under the program.

A Republican U.S. Senate document circulating among GOP offices opposed to the so-called FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill making its way through Capitol Hill, lists 20 violent crimes that would be eligible for early release under the legislation.

A group of black conservatives spent Wednesday lobbying senators in support of criminal justice reform through the First Step Act.

Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that policies included within the First Step Act have been “proven to work” in Texas.

A prison reform plan supported by both political establishments, the billionaire Koch brothers, the ACLU, and President Trump will make it more difficult to deport criminal foreigners in United States prisons, experts say. 

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo is scheduled to speak at Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s 36th Annual Awards Dinner Wednesday evening in Washington. 

Tuesday on the Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed the leak of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s letter alleging sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh over 30 years ago. Hewitt asked Cotton if he believed there was something

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is standing by President Trump’s remarks on sanctuary city policies, which are cities and localities that protect criminal illegal aliens from deportation. 

President Trump’s “America First” immigration plan – which cuts legal immigration levels in half and mandates E-Verify to stop illegal immigration –  would stabilize the United States’ unprecedented population growth.. 

Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) echoed Supreme Court associate justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s words and said Democrats behavior through the confirmation process for Kavanaugh was a “search and destroy mission.” Partial transcript as follows: JOHN

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued that some of the statements made by Democratic senators about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh “resemble the kind of Stalinist show trials you saw in the Soviet Union,” where making

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has now criticized the media, saying they “outed” Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser.

The New York Times is admitting that the process known as “chain migration” — whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. — is being used to import entire small villages of extended foreign families.

The last period in United States history that saw a booming, record-hitting foreign-born population was met with a near immigration moratorium that lasted for about 40 years.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday blasted China for bullying El Salvador to break diplomatic ties with Taiwan — the third diplomatic ally to do so under pressure from China this year. 

On Tuesday’s edition of the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) predicted that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, will be confirmed by the Senate by the first day of October. Host

Asylum rules being pushed by Democrats and the Republican establishment would give all Central Americans the right to migrate to the U.S.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Tuesday at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington, DC, that the ties between the United States and Israel are secured by our common religious heritage and our commitment to liberty for our citizens.

Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to President Donald Trump’s nomination of D.C. Circuit U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the void to be left behind by the retirement of Supreme

Rep. Scott Perry cheered the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Trump’s travel ban saying that the decision will protect “our American way of life.”

President Trump has repeatedly asked the Republican-controlled Congress to close immigration loopholes in order to end the trafficking and smuggling of children across the border by illegal aliens who hope to be released into the interior of the United States.

Every single Senate Democrat has backed a bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would effectively prevent authorities from arresting illegal aliens within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the Democrats’ proposed legislation to end illegal alien family separation at the United States-Mexico border should be called the “Child Trafficking Encouragement Act,” as it will likely bring a flood of illegal immigration and human smuggling to the border.

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated he will offer an amendment this week to the spending bill to end the separation of families at the border by allowing families to be held at the border and

Republican and Democratic Senators have finally found common ground in an unusual place: reversing a Trump administration trade policy they say is too easy on China.

A bipartisan group of Senators is slamming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for recently allowing U.S. businesses to import an additional 15,000 low-skilled foreign workers to the country.

Sen. Tom Cotton has warned that Huawei is “essentially an arm of the Chinese government.”

The House passed a prison reform bill on Tuesday that would expand prison work programs that provide job training for prisoners at the taxpayers’ expense.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a close ally of the president and member of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, said Tuesday that American companies should not give in to Chinese bullying.

Stars & Stripes reports that smartphones made by the Chinese company Huawei are being sold to U.S. military personnel at exchanges on military bases in Germany. Defense officials explained that until Huawei products are explicitly banned by statute or regulation, they will remain available. A bill that would bar U.S. government contractors from using Huawei equipment is currently making its way through Congress.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Democrats were “engaged in shameful political behavior” in opposing President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN, CBS’S “FACE THE NATION”:

During a call with White House reporters, Cotton ridiculed Senate Democrats for suggesting Pompeo was “too bellicose” and not committed to diplomacy.

A foreign national was sentenced to less than 20 years in prison for killing a teenage girl and severing a man’s legs in a hit-and-run accident that occurred in November 2016.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term, leaving the door open for an economic nationalist Republican to take over as Speaker.