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A group of conservatives who reflect a broad spectrum of the Republican Party are holding a news conference Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill to caution Congress against passing the current version of proposed Trade Promotion Authority “fast track” legislation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently confirmed that the TPA bill would cede more Congressional power to President Obama.

Six Republican freshmen members of the House of Representatives promised their constituents on the campaign trail they’d vote against Representative John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House. Five of these freshmen broke their campaign promises and voted “yes” on Tuesday to elect Boehner to a third term as Speaker of the House. In addition to the six who promised their constituents they would vote against Boehner, incoming Republican freshman Alex Mooney (R-WV) broke a Madison Project Candidate Pledge he signed in December 2013 to vote against Boehner.

Newly elected Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) demonstrated with his vote in favor of re-electing John Boehner as Speaker of the House on Tuesday that he is a master of the political art of word-parsing and rationalization, especially when it comes to advancing his own ambitions.

A spokesperson for Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) confirms that Jerry Jones, owner of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, paid for the private jet that flew Christie from New Jersey to Texas to watch the National Football League playoff game between the Cowboys and the Detroit Lions on Sunday. The value of the round trip chartered flight was estimated to exceed $10,000. The value of the seat to watch the game in Jones’s private suite was estimated at $6,000. Both the round trip flight and Christie’s seat in Jones’s private suite during the game are apparently considered personal gifts from Jones to Christie.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be a featured speaker at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention on Sunday, January 18. Joe Dugan, executive producer of the three-day event, told Breitbart News on Thursday that Cruz will join a pantheon

Much of the research assistant work performed for Professor Jonathan Gruber’s 2009 $392,600 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop economic models for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) seems to have been conducted by an employee of the NBER.

Gruber’s stonewalling of Vermont comes on the heels of at least four other pending or potential investigations in which the professor has failed to provide documentation requested by authorities.

Vermont’s Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin is abandoning his efforts to implement the nation’s first single-payer health care system in 2015. The surprise announcement was a stunning setback for supporters of “the next step” envisioned in President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act.

Minnesota State Representative Greg Davids is calling for embattled MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare, to return all $329,000 he was paid by the state of Minnesota as a subcontractor on a 2011 contract to analyze the state’s

Minnesota State Representative Greg Davids is calling for embattled MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare, to return all $329,000 he was paid by the state of Minnesota as a subcontractor on a 2011 contract to analyze the state’s

Best-selling author Brad Thor is expanding the tweet that started a social media firestorm. On Tuesday, he sent out this tweet: “Hey @Reince & @GOP – let me be perfectly clear.  If Jeb Bush is the nominee, I will never

In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, potential 2016 Presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump bashes Jeb Bush’s presidential aspirations. “The last thing this country needs is another Bush at the helm. I think it’s a big mistake,”

In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, potential 2016 Presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump bashes Jeb Bush’s presidential aspirations. “The last thing this country needs is another Bush at the helm. I think it’s a big mistake,”

Dr. Ben Carson will be a top featured speaker at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention next month from January 17 to 19 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  Joe Dugan, founder and executive producer of the group’s fourth annual

Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is issuing a subpoena demanding MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber produce all documents related to his Obamacare consulting work for the federal government and any state governments.

A showdown between the United States House of Representatives and Democratic Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin may be in the works over Shumlin’s claim of executive privilege over documents related to controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber’s contract with the state

Laura Ingraham is blasting Republican House leadership over its support for a more than $1 trillion “Continuing Resolution-Omnibus” budget bill she calls “a 1,600 page bad joke.”  On her nationally syndicated radio program Thursday, Ingraham said that Speaker John Boehner

Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, isn’t wasting any time. Minutes after the House passed a controversial omnibus spending bill, she tweeted: “Speaker Boehner & House GOP leadership have found a way to needlessly squander political capital, after

A Wednesday afternoon session of the House Rules Committee remains the final hurdle for Speaker Boehner’s 1,600 page, $1.1 trillion “CR-Omnibus” budget bill before a scheduled vote on the floor of the House tomorrow. But one of the most powerful

Controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, known to all except, apparently, himself as the “architect” of The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), apologized repeatedly for what he called his “series of inexcusable comments” in his testimony before the House Oversight and

One week after he first requested billing details related to Jonathan Gruber’s contract with the state of Vermont, state Auditor Douglas Hoffer has yet to receive any information about the details of Gruber’s contract from the administration of Democratic Governor

Democratic State Representative Cynthia Browning, who has a Phd. in economics from the University of Michigan, blasted the administration of Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, for its lack of transparency and reliance on an expansive definition of executive privilege in

Internal emails between Vermont bureaucrats and controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber reveal that Gruber’s public silence is a strategic decision to avoid engaging with what he calls the “haters” who have criticized him. Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare, has

Less than 24 hours before polls open in Louisiana’s runoff election, things are not looking good for incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA).  The most recent poll, conducted by GEB International, shows her challenger, Representative Bill Cassidy (R-LA), with a 26

Conservative talkradio host Mark Levin made news Thursday when he addressed the annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a “non-partisan membership association of state lawmakers,” and it wasn’t just because he reiterated his call for an Article V “Convention

Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer is asking Governor Peter Shumlin’s administration to provide his office with further information about the billing practices of controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, as Breitbart News reported Thursday.  Specifically, Hoffer wants more details about the names,

Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer wants more details about controversial MIT professor Jonathan Gruber’s billing practices.  To date, the administration of Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) has provided little evidence that it has exercised any accounting oversight of the $280,000 contract

Just days ahead of a runoff election, the conservative Super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund is running a devastating new web ad that cites incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) parroting President Obama’s famous claim that “if you like your health care plan, you can

The well choreographed exercise in political theater orchestrated by the architects of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to force feed a single-payer health care system on residents of Vermont hit a speed bump recently when Vermonters for Health Care Freedom

Jonathan Gruber’s testimony on December 9 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on health law deception could help determine who becomes the next governor of Vermont. Since incumbent Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) failed to obtain more than 50

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is running a radio ad in which Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) claims if Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) defeats her in Saturday’s runoff election, Republicans will impeach President Obama. Here’s the full text of the ad, as

The “architect” of Obamacare is officially taking a pay cut.  One week after Vermont health care reform chief Lawrence Miller publicly announced that the State of Vermont would not pay controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber any more money, but

Controversial MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare, has agreed to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Spokesperson Caitlin Carroll tells Breitbart News that Gruber will appear at the committee’s hearing about health law deceptions on

Lawrence Miller, Vermont’s health care reform chief, wants to give the impression that he’s fired controversial MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare. Gruber had signed a lucrative $450,000 personal services contract with Vermont before his frank admissions the

Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on December 9, her spokesperson confirms to Breitbart News. In a letter sent on Thursday, Chairman Darrell Issa