House Approves Farm Bill with Work Requirements for Food Stamps
The House passed a Farm bill on Thursday that includes work requirements for food stamps, otherwise known as SNAP.
The House passed a Farm bill on Thursday that includes work requirements for food stamps, otherwise known as SNAP.
House GOP leaders are having serious problems finding the votes for Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty plan, the so-called “compromise” legislation that will be voted on alongside a bill from House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) on Thursday.
Robert Doar, a poverty scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) wrote an op-ed last Friday that work requirements for food stamps will help “fight poverty at its roots.”
The House will vote next week on a Farm bill that, if passed, would impose work requirements on food stamp recipients.
On Monday, President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced they are declaring bump stocks to be “machine guns” in order to ban them.
It is January 30, 2018, which means Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has ignored national reciprocity legislation for 47 weeks.
It is January 23, 2018, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has ignored national reciprocity for 46 consecutive weeks.
House Speaker Paul Ryan shelved the Hearing Protection Act two days after the heinous Las Vegas shooting, and it remains so.
It is November 17 and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is ignoring national reciprocity legislation for a 45th consecutive week.
GOA executive director Erich Pratt issued a press release noting that gun control failed in Texas but an armed citizen saved the day.
It is October 31 and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is ignoring national reciprocity legislation for the 43rd consecutive week.
NYC Council Public Safety Committee voted to give gun permit applicants a health warning on the dangers of firearms prior to permit issuance.
It is October 27 and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has just finished ignoring national concealed carry reciprocity for a 42nd consecutive week.
Gun Owners of America sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan urging him to remember that a bump stock ban will lead to magazine bans.
Democrats soften on gun control, and House Speaker Paul Ryan has seized the moment by dropping pro-gun legislation.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday regarding the potential for new gun control debate in Congress after the tragedy in Las Vegas, President Trump’s tax reform plan, and the federal response to Puerto Rico.
During his opening monologue on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel made seven false or misleading statements about gun laws as part of a push to shame Congress into enacting increased gun control measures following Sunday’s attack on a country music concert in Las Vegas that left 59 people dead and hundreds more injured.
Legislation to fix the cumbersome patchwork of concealed carry laws in the U.S. has gained momentum with the addition of a 212th co-sponsor in the House of Representatives.
Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt says Speaker Paul Ryan’s inaction on concealed carry reciprocity gives “dirtbags” the upper hand.
During the September 7 of Armed American Radio with Mark Walters, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said his concealed carry legislation is stalled because Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) does not want Congress to touch it.
A new poll warns the Republican Congressional leadership that a revolt is brewing against them among President Trump’s base.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s approval rating has plummeted among Kentuckians as national reciprocity languishes on the sidelines.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is joining with President Donald J. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in pushing for Congress to send a clean repeal of Obamacare to President Trump’s desk now, and work on the replacement later.
Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that all lawmakers feel assaulted following the shooting earlier today in Alexandria where a man targeted GOP members who were practicing for the Congressional baseball game, set for tomorrow at Nationals Park.
TIME Magazine has named President Donald Trump, his chief of staff Reince Priebus, and his chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon to their 100 Most Influential People list. Speaker Paul Ryan wrote an essay on Trump for the magazine, praising the
It was a photo finish in the “jungle primary” special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District on Tuesday to select a replacement for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), punctuated by unusual technical reporting delays from Fulton County, the largest county in the district.
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie told Breitbart News at a sit-down interview in the congressman’s office he believes the reports of former national security adviser Susan Rice unmasking names of associates of President Donald Trump, collected incidentally and cloaked as a constitutional protection against warrantless surveillance.
Capitol Hill conservatives took satisfaction in Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) decision to withdraw the American Health Care Act from the House floor Friday afternoon—minutes before congressmen were to vote on the bill crafted to rescue the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) spoke to Breitbart News on Thursday after his meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and three senior aides to President Trump. The topic was the final attempt to modify the American Health Care Act before the House vote on Friday.
The No. 2 House Democrat told Breitbart News late Thursday House Republicans will suffer at the polls no matter how they vote for the American Health Care Act, the health insurance industry rescue program crafted by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-WI).
On the seventh anniversary of former President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a planned vote on the House Republican leadership’s repeal and replace of the ACA, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), has been canceled.
President Barack Obama broke his post-presidency silence on Thursday to deliver a statement celebrating the seventh anniversary of Obamacare, as House Republicans work to pass a plan that would replace it.
The deputy House Republican whip told Breitbart News that the House GOP leadership has the votes to pass the bill Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-WI) crafted to rescue Obamacare, named the American Health Care Act, scheduled for a vote Thursday.
Iowa Republican Rep. Rod Blum told reporters just 10 feet from the entrance to the House floor Tuesday that there is no way he would vote for the American Health Care Act because it does not address the chief flaw of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Lou Barletta announced Tuesday he will not support the American Health Care Act, crafted by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to prevent the collapse of the Obamacare exchanges.
North Carolina Republican Ted Budd announced Tuesday that he is voting against the American Health Care Act, scheduled for a vote on the House floor Thursday — less than two hours after he joined House Republicans meeting with President Donald Trump.
The leader of the Republican Study Committee chose to remain outside the conservative coalition fighting Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-WI) and his American Health Care Act, which amends the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act so as to stabilize insurance company margins.
Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Mark Meadows, and Rep. Jim Jordan spoke with reporters Tuesday to discuss their opposition to any legislation that does not fully repeal Obamacare.
In another late-night-early-morning session, the Senate voted 52-to-48 to confirm Rep. Thomas Price (R.-Ga.) to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
House Republicans passed new rules Tuesday to fine members for taking pictures or video from the chamber floor. The move was intended to discourage Democrats from carrying out another protest similar to their gun control sit-in last year, during which they used photos and video taken from the House floor to press for gun control votes on social media. Prior to the adoption of the new rules, however, a number of Democrats kicked off the 115th Congress by taking photos from the floor in protest.