The Wall Street Journal criticized Republican moderates in its lead editorial Thursday for their reluctance to support the latest version of the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
Congressional Republicans do not seem too unhappy that there may not be an August recess this year.
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Marc Kasowitz accused former FBI Director James Comey, in response to Comey’s Thursday testimony on Capitol Hill, of retaliating against Trump by leaking privileged communications with the President to the press.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump will not exert executive privilege over former FBI Director James Comey as he is set to testify this week on Capitol Hill.
President Donald Trump is deciding between two rival ideas – one more “kinetic” and the other “less kinetic” – for U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, according to a senior White House official.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After Congress passed a new law allowing Sept. 11 victims’ families to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, opponents mounted an expensive political campaign, including paying American military veterans to visit Capitol Hill and warn lawmakers about what they said could be unintended consequences.
The father of CIA contract security officer Tyrone Woods, one of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya, told Breitbart News that former national security adviser Susan Rice should answer questions about her handling of intelligence reports while being wired to a lie detector.
A Capitol Hill source familiar with the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), told Breitbart News that Nunes stepped away from the committee’s investigation into Russia’s participation in the 2016 election cycle as a result of a coordinated political attack by the Left.
Former President George W. Bush had a one sentence verdict on Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, according to a report from New York Magazine, citing three separate sources.
U.S. Capitol Police officers fired at Taleah Everett, 20, Wednesday morning after she left her vehicle, which was blocked by police after she hit another vehicle attempting a U-turn on Independence Avenue, in front of the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a statement from the department.
Multiple reports state gunshots were fired outside the Rayburn House Office Building around 9:30 a.m on Wednesday.
An ally of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) breached protocol when he accused Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, of working in league with House Democrats to protect the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
A former Georgia congressman and member of the House Appropriations Committee told Breitbart News on Friday that President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to the foreign aid budget strike him as the right thing to do. “I think it is a
Waking to the fact that the death of RyanCare won’t kill tax cuts or regulatory reforms, cooler heads are prevailing on Wall Street.
The American Health Care Act cleared another hurdle Thursday when congressmen on the House Budget Committee approved the RyanCare bill 19-17 after more than six hours of testimony and debate with Rep. Dave Brat (R.-Va.), Rep. Mark Sanford (R.-S.C.), and Rep. Gary Palmer (R.-Ala.) joining the 14 committee Democrats opposed to the bill.
WASHINGTON – There are 14 Obama holdovers still at the Pentagon, two months into the Trump administration.
The two leaders of Capitol Hill Democrats told reporters Monday they welcomed the scoring report from the Congressional Budget Office, which predicts that the American Health Care Act bill crafted and supported by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) will leave more Americans without health insurance.
The Republican Florida congressman who gave his legs serving in Afghanistan before running for Congress in 2016 told Breitbart News on Friday that the rollout of the RyanCare bill one week ago did not build confidence with House Republicans.
Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.) told Breitbart News on Friday that he will work with moderate Republicans to pass better Obamacare repeal-and-replace legislation than the bill offered by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) — as part of his understanding with President Donald Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence took to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers on the heels of the release of Republican House Leaders’ plan to replace Obamacare.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said President Donald Trump delivered a bold and optimistic message to the American people when he addressed his first joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan told Breitbart News that Republicans on Capitol Hill must remember the GOP promised over the last six political cycles to repeal Obamacare – legislation passed on nine lies Democrats told about President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform.
A former Georgia Republican congressman, who was one of President Donald Trump’s strongest campaign surrogates, told Breitbart News that the President needs to reform how The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department distribute foreign aid.
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.
Stripping sanctuary cities of federal funds will be done on a “case-by-case” basis, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly.
New legislation being pushed by Democrats to slightly reform the H1-B foreign guest worker program is designed to make giant, tech conglomerates look good, rather than widely reforming the program, an immigration expert says.
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.
Amid outcry from the mainstream media over President Donald Trump’s most recent immigration executive order, the White House is already moving forward to visa reform.
On Wednesday, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) — head of the Congressional Black Caucus — blasted the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to have three black members of Congress testify last at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) Tuesday confirmation hearing for attorney general, saying it was the equivalent of being sent to the “back of the bus.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he would skip President Obama’s Capitol Hill meeting with Democrats on defending Obamacare.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fired a group of Democratic staffers right before Christmas.
JERUSALEM – The Trump revolution is like the Reagan revolution in that both leaders connected with the average American and in November those Americans went out and voted for the first time since Reagan, transition team member Becky Norton Dunlop told Breitbart Jerusalem at a conservative summit held Monday in Jerusalem.
House Conservatives are trying to play it cool after House Freedom Caucus member Rep. John M. “Mick” Mulvaney (R.-S.C.) met with President-elect Donald J. Trump Monday about his leading Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, one of the most powerful positions in the White House and the federal bureaucracy.
22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell shouted, “Allah is in control, not this judge!” as he was led from U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith’s courtroom on Monday to begin serving his 30-year prison sentence for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in the name of the Islamic State.
Capitol Hill conservatives are preparing for a fight over funding the federal government after the current funding legislation expires Dec. 9, as President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) take their last bite from the apple before both men return to private life.
Tuesday, a group of NFL players visited Washington D.C. to discuss police brutality and race issues with members of Congress. Detroit Lions wide receiver Anquan Boldin, fellow Lion and safety Glover Quin, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, Cleveland Browns quarterback Josh McCown
“This is an historic moment to have Republican control of House,Senate and presidency and I believe that the people, who came to the polls sent a clear mandate that they want change here in Washington–drain the swamp,” Walker says. “We need to be talking about unifying and earmarks are another divisive issue,” he said.
“Any attempt to roll back the longstanding ban on congressional earmarks — the lubricant that empowers politicians to cut bad deals — would amount to a rebuke of those voters,” says Michael Needham, the chief executive officer of Heritage Action.
About 40 people have occupied Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Capitol Hill office to protest his ties to Wall Street as he prepares to lead Senate Democrats in the 115th meeting of Congress, the Associated Press reported.
Former Illinois Republican Congressman Aaron Schock, who was tagged in the media for decorating his office in the style of the English TV series Downton Abbey, says he has been indicted on 24 counts of political corruption related to his misuse of congressional office maintenance funds.
