Gov. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas is acting to protect clergy and religious organizations from punishment for refusing to recognize or provide services for same-sex marriages.
Mandated drought restrictions have spawned San Diego’s new “Bucket List Challenge” bucket giveaway, which asks area residents to take actions like using cold water from their warming showers to flush their toilets.
To buy peace with climate change activists after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that oil fracking does not poison water, President Obama has signed an executive order tripling the size of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, just north of San Francisco. The order bans oil drilling in the area Obama renamed the “Greater” Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The move is merely symbolic, since there are no oil reserves in the area.
Historic mandatory water use reductions in California are spawning a new campaign from the nation’s largest faux lawn distributor.
San Diego farmers are calling a foul on Governor Jerry Brown’s new and unprecedented 25% mandatory water regulations, accusing the governor of favoring Central Valley farmers with exemptions and pressing for similar allowances for other California farming regions, including those in San Diego County.
On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown made national headlines by announcing that he had “signed an executive order requiring the State Water Resources Control Board to implement measures in cities and towns to cut the state’s overall water usage by
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Wednesday mandating a 25 percent cut in statewide water use, the first mandatory water restrictions in state history.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells Breitbart News that if he’s elected President, one of his first actions will be to undo all of President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders.
In Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials about whether the agency was taking funds from fees paid by legal immigrants and diverting them to pay for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty program. Cruz also asked about how USCIS officials were complying with the recent temporary injunction issued by a federal district court judge in Texas, which was supposed to block the Obama administration from implementing the program.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, ignoring prospective critics arguing for the LGBT movement, rescinded an executive order issued in 2007 by former Governor Kathleen Sebelius that expanded laws specifically protecting LGBT state workers.
The White House’s official promotion of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty policy used California as its poster child in a tweet Monday touting individual states’ “benefits” following the aggressive–and unconstitutional–move.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer does not think the next president will roll back President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, even if a Republican wins in 2016.
Whether you agree or disagree with the policy itself, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT)–which kept open gays and lesbians from serving in the U.S. military–was done the right way, unlike so much else President Barack Obama is doing. Then-Senator
Wednesday during President Barack Obama’s announcement the United States will begin the process of normalizing relations with Cuba, their Cuban leader Raúl Castro dressed in his military uniform called on the Obama to use an executive order to lift the
Barack Obama and his spokespeople have claimed he has used unilateral executive action far less than previous presidents, citing his lesser number of executive orders. It’s not true, according to USA Today. Obama has evaded scrutiny of his massive unilateral
Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rundown” with José Díaz-Balart,” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) said the more illegal immigrants who sign up for President Obama’s executive order amnesty the more difficult it would be to reverse. Gutiérrez said, “The more people to sign up, the
Wednesday, Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and David Vitter (R-LA) hosted a press conference with a national delegation of sheriffs to address President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty’s impact on law enforcement officers across the country. Sessions said, “So I have a
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s News Headquarters,’ ranking Senate Budget Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said considering the majority of those effected by President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty have low income jobs, when you factor in both
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf banned public gatherings of any kind for the next 42 days to prevent the spread of Ebola. The country is in the middle of senatorial elections, but Sirleaf wants to prevent mass bodily contact as
Gasoline prices are in free fall. And after last week’s OPEC decision to keep pumping oil at the same rate despite a growing international glut, they’re only going to go lower in the weeks ahead. At the end of July,
The Republican leadership in the U.S. House decided to let the fight over President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty to slide until next year when there’s a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate to help the cause. That sounds reasonable in
Thursday at his weekly press conference, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) took a shot at President Barack Obama when asked if in retaliation for his executive order amnesty he would decline to invite the president to speak at
Immigration reform activists met with Obama administration officials at the White House today, as House Republicans voted to on a House bill to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. Following the meeting, the activists challenged Republicans for trying to roll back
Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL), the sponsor of a bill that asserts President Obama does not have the legal authority to implement his executive action on immigration, dodged on whether House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) would fight to defund the president’s
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan predicted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will back down in the battle against President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty. Buchanan said, “Boehner and those folks up on the
AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Rick Perry announced on Wednesday an executive order requiring all Texas state agencies to use “E-Verify” to check the employment eligibility of current and prospective employees. The announcement was a reversal of his past public comments
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) reported that the president’s executive action on immigration would clean the slate for “the vast majority” of the 900,000 illegal immigrants who “are under deportation orders and have not appeared” on Wednesday’s “Morning
On December 1, Texas state representative Matthew Krause (R-Ft. Worth) introduced legislation barring the in-state enforcement of nearly any federal gun control measure “past, present or future.” The legislation, HB422, “requires the state to refuse to enforce” federal gun control measures
Representative Dennis Ross (R-FL) said that a government shutdown is “not even a topic I think we’re going to discuss at this point” and “bait” that the GOP would not take in a clip broadcast on Tuesday’s “Wolf” on CNN.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is flat out denying that President Obama’s executive action on immigration was amnesty. During a House Committee hearing on the department, Johnson was asked: “Is this amnesty?” by Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA). “No.” Johnson replied
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com On Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, Gov.-elect Greg Abbott (R-TX) discussed his proposed lawsuit against the Obama administration for his proposed action on President Barack Obama’s executive order changing immigration
Monday, President Barack Obama announced a new executive order and task force to address the protests and riots across America in response to the Missouri grand jury decided not bring charges against former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for fatally
President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he intended to enact immigration reform by executive order, granting millions of illegal immigrants protection from deportation, was immediately the subject of sharp criticism, not just from Republicans and immigration hard-liners, but also
Niger Innis, Executive Director of TheTeaParty.net and National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, declared President Obama the “most racially divisive and divisive president that we have had since Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the federal offices across the country” on
Monday on KFYI AM in Phoenix, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said President Barack Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal immigrants already living in the United States was “outrageous,” and an illegal example of Obama’s “imperial
DREAMers upset that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty didn’t cover their illegal immigrant parents are soliciting donations to push Obama and Congress to grant their parents amnesty. As soon as Obama, in a move constitutional scholars have said was an
President Obama’s executive amnesty for an estimated five million illegal aliens is, from the perspective of Republicans, an unconstitutional power grab that threatens the republic. In Obama’s telling, over soft piano music in a campaign-style YouTube video, it “just comes
The presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, the leading source countries of illegal immigrants in the United States, hailed Obama’s executive decree to stop the deportation of many of their compatriots. Obama’s unilateral measures will shield nearly five million
On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” President Barack Obama seemingly taunted congressional Republicans to shutdown the government by saying it was their “habit” to do so with every disagreement like the one he just caused with his executive order
On Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” Gov.-elect Greg Abbott (R-TX) said President Barack Obama’s executive order that essentially grants amnesty to upwards 5 million illegals already living in the United States is the, “epitome of lawlessness.” Abbott said, “What
