The governor of Alabama appointed his own state’s Attorney General, Luther Strange, Thursday to fill the Senate seat left vacant by former senator Jeff Sessions taking over President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
Capitol Hill conservatives Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah), House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.), and Meadow’s HFC predecessor Rep. James Jordan (R.-Ohio) at a Heritage Foundation-sponsored event told reporters Congress should repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–immediately.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told Breitbart News he supports President Donald Trump’s promise to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a gag rule on certain non-profit and religious entities tying their non-profit status to their abstaining from political speech.
Senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) 52-to-47-to-1, with Sen. Joseph Manchin (D.-W.V.) crossing the aisle and the nominee himself voting present.
Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren received a stunning monition Tuesday evening from her fellow senators after she quoted from a letter that accused Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) of racism during his tenure as a federal prosecutor.
The Republican senator who introduced new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee told reporters shortly after the Senate’s Tuesday vote to confirm DeVos that her taking over federal education programs is long overdue.
Two Republican senators took up the baton for populist immigration reform Tuesday when they announced their Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment, or RAISE Act, designed to raise wages for ordinary Americans, restore legacy immigration levels, and reset family and worker visa programs.
The chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee praised retired NOAA scientist John L. Bates for coming forward through interviews and a lengthy blog post outling how his former colleagues massaged data to produce a report debunking the so-called pause in global warming from 1998 forward.
The House Homeland Security Committee released a study Monday, “America’s Airports: The Threat From Within” that documents serious flaws in America’s aviation infrastructure and operations at the same time terrorists, such as the army of the Islamic State, view the nation’s airports and aircraft as their No. 1 target.
Leftist celebrities Rachel Maddow — hostess of an MSNBC show and Stephen Colbert, host of the CBS program Late Night — took to Twitter Monday to deny that they were participating with the “Fire the Fool Declaration Rally” protest organizers.
A Texas Republican congressman told Breitbart News during a sit-down interview in his Capitol Hill office that his two bills now under consideration by the Senate are critical to draining the Washington swamp and taming out-of-control federal regulators.
The senior senator from Arizona and the 2008 Republican nominee for president told Breitbart News Thursday he and other Republicans support confirming President Donald J. Trump’s cabinet nominees because a new president has the right to select individuals he wants running his administration.
The Democratic senator from West Virginia told Breitbart News he had a great meeting with President Donald J. Trump’s National Security Adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, at the Capitol about the president’s tougher posture with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. David A. Perdue Jr. (R.-Ga.) said on the Senate floor that Minority Leader Sen. Charles E. Schumer’s (D.-N.Y.) public display of emotion over President Trump’s new restrictions on refugees and immigrants belonged more in Hollywood than the nation’s capital.
President Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, cleared his first hurdle en route to Senate confirmation with an unusual one-party vote by the Environment and Public Works Committee — a vote boycotted by the committee’s Democrats.
The junior senator from Nebraska told Breitbart News he was pleased with Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin G. Scalia on the Supreme Court, who died Feb. 13 creating the current vacancy.
The Democratic Connecticut senator who once law clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the Roe v. Wade decision, told Breitbart News GOP senators will not change the rules to confirm Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
The No. 2 Senate Republican said Tuesday that he is thrilled to support President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court: Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch, shortly after the president made the announcement at a White House ceremony.
The second ranking Democrat in the Senate told Breitbart News he has confidence in Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly after the secretary met with congressmen and senators at the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon.
The Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee withdrew from the committee’s business Tuesday, forcing the committee to delay voting on confirming Steven Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary and Rep. Thomas E. Price (R.-Ga.) for Health and Human Services Secretary.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said in a statement Sunday it was wrong to describe President Donald J. Trump’s executive order, signed Friday, as a prohibition on Muslims entering the United States.
Georgia Republican Sen. David A. Perdue Jr. took on former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in a statement Tuesday after President Donald J. Trump fired her for countermanding his executive order restricting immigrants and refugees from troubled parts of the world.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on his colleagues to support the nomination of Rex Tillerson to serve as Secretary of State shortly after the chamber voted Monday to end debate on the former Exxon-Mobil CEO’s confirmation.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) told reporters Thursday at the Republicans’ policy retreat here that they are committed to a 200-day program to implement the agenda of President Donald J. Trump.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford told Breitbart News that President Donald J. Trump’s administration and the Republicans in Congress are moving forward on the pro-life agenda.
Vice President Mike Pence became the first vice president to address the annual March for Life since the Washington, D.C. protest began in 1974, the year after the Supreme Court legalized abortion as a constitutionally-protected right.
Pollster and image consultant Frank Luntz told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump has had a great first week of his presidency.
PHILADELPHIA – The chairman of the Senate Republican Conference told reporters Wednesday at the joint retreat for GOP senators and congressmen in Philadelphia that Republicans will overcome Democratic opposition to President Donald J. Trump filling the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) celebrated Wednesday, along with other House Republicans, President Donald J. Trump’s signing of executive orders initiating his promised wall along the Mexican border and clamping down on jurisdictions that flaunt their obligation to report immigrant lawbreakers — so-called “sanctuary cities.”
One of Indonesia’s richest men and the owner of two new Trump resorts told Breitbart News, in an exclusive interview at Washington’s Trump International Hotel, that he is considering a run for president of Indonesia to reboot his country’s economy. The interview took place one day before his friend Donald J. Trump became president.
Senate Democrats know they may lose their last congressional tool to block legislation from the GOP-led Congress in November 2018, because they must defend 23 Seats seats while the GOP need only defend eight seats.
Pro-life congressmen stood in front of the Capitol — along with Janet Porter, the Ohio woman who led to the fight for passage of that state’s “heartbeat bill” — all in support of Rep. Steve A. King (R.-Iowa) and his Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017, H.R. 490, which restores legal protection to unborn children once their pulse is detected.
President Donald J. Trump announced Monday that his choice to lead the Air Force is former New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson, a graduate of the Air Force Academy.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters just off the Senate floor that Senate Democrats know they do not have the votes to stop the confirmation of Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson, but they insist on stretching out the process as a continuation of the 2016 election cycle.
Two days after Madonna shared her wish to blow up the White House, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) has not come out with a statement condemning the outrageous desire that the pop singer expressed in her address to Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington’s National Mall.
Airline pilots will hold a White House rally on Tuesday asking President Donald Trump to block Obama’s last-minute approval of a plan that would replace thousands of American pilots with foreign aircrew paid at rock-bottom foreign wages.
President Donald J. Trump and first lady Melania Trump joined more than 2,000 military personnel, veterans, and first responders at Friday’s “A Salute to Our Armed Services” Presidential Inaugural Ball — one of three official balls celebrating the new president.
President Donald J. Trump reviewed units representing all of the armed forces shortly after taking command of America’s military from former president Barack Obama on Friday.
The president of Liberty University and an early supporter of Donald J. Trump for president told Breitbart News Thursday that he is more pleased with Trump now than when the son of Evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. endorsed Trump 12 months ago.
More than 500 supporters of LGBTQ rights in Washington, D.C., marched, danced, and chanted two miles from the shopping district of Friendship Heights to the Chevy Chase home of Vice President-elect and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Wednesday evening–two days before he is sworn in as vice president.
