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If the Obama administration decides to unilaterally adopt policies to further reduce immigration enforcement in August, the flood of unaccompanied minors and family units illegally entering the United States could worsen, according to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). “This

Radio host Mark Levin argued that Dave Brat’s primary victory was a sign that the Republican Party should “stop chasing ethic groups,” and “stop chasing genitalia.” He stated that Brat’s victory showed there is “a percolating anger and frustration among

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) bid to appeal to Democratic voters in the Republican primary runoff appears to be in full swing, with the six-term incumbent leveling personal attacks against his primary challenger for the first time – from the left. At

JACKSON, Mississippi — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is gathering his K Street army to help stop the Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel and re-elect 42-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). “The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out an

SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi–He’s endorsed his colleague Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign. But addressing a crowd of 100 Republicans here Tuesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) urged party unity, no matter who wins the bitter Senate primary. “I think we need to

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at his campaign headquarters to help unite the Tea Party with McConnell, who in the eyes of some represents the so-called establishment wing of the Republican Party. Follow

From Ana Marie Cox at The Guardian: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s primary victory on Tuesday night in Kentucky will undoubtedly tempt many a pundit to write the Tea Party’s eulogy. But the Tea Party will achieve in electoral death what it

During a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell trashed Sen. Harry Reid for his leadership in the Senate and hinted at what he would do should Republicans win the majority in the 2014 elections. McConnell

BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes on Wednesday twice refused to say whether she would have voted for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Asked two times whether she’d have voted for the 2010 overhaul,

Matt Bevin was the candidate, but Matt Hoskins, the Jim DeMint protege and the head of the Senate Conservatives Fund, was his most important supporter – and one McConnell allies took pains to highlight and isolate throughout the race. Hoskins’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has defeated millionaire businessman Matt Bevin in an expensive and bruising primary election in Kentucky. He’ll face Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the fall as he pursues his sixth

This article originally appeared on CNN.com Matt Bevin reaches into the breast pocket of his jacket and extracts a wrinkled, yellow piece of paper. “Fraud Alert,” it reads, in alarming, official-seeming font. “Sensitive Materials Enclosed. Please Open Immediately.” A Republican

The blow-back from Stanford University‘s May 6 decision to become the first major university endowment to divest of the stocks of coal-mining companies may hurt the general election prospects of Kentucky Democratic Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes, who has a one-point

On PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday, New York Times columnist David Brooks noted a trend indicating change in the Tea Party. He pointed to the academic credentials of U.S. Senate hopefuls Ben Sasse and Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the shift

Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse may not see himself as an establishment slayer, but Nebraska’s primary voters may have given him a dominating 27-point victory on Tuesday to send a message to the Washington Republican establishment. At the beginning

The Tea Party, left for dead by the mainstream media only a week ago, roared back to life on Tuesday with two big Republican primary victories in Nebraska and West Virginia. All eyes now turn to Mississippi’s June 3 Republican

LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the

After the Republican establishment gloated on Tuesday for surviving primary challenges against underfunded Tea Party challengers, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin ripped into the Republican leadership for preferring candidates they can coerce to support policies their conservative constituents oppose.

Granted, he lacks the warmth of Darth Vader or the charm of Jabba the Hutt. But Mitch McConnell, I have always thought, was a principled force for good in an evil, evil place. Which is why it is so shocking

An ad against Nebraska Senate Republican candidate Ben Sasse claiming the grassroots favorite supports Obamacare has gotten the attention of ForAmerica Chairman Brent Bozell, who condemned it as a Washington establishment attack and called on Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to

A Super PAC launched by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spent upwards of $100,000 on an all-out campaign to sink Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, after the grassroots favorite surged to the front of the race against

Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.

On Friday and Saturday, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual meeting at the Indiana Convention Center in the center of downtown Indianapolis, IN. Agenda as follows: Friday, April 25 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum 1-4p ET / Noon-3p CT Confirmed

In a video that aired on Louisville NBC affiliate WAVE on Thursday, Matt Bevin, the self-proclaimed Tea Party challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke in front of a so-called cockfighting rally with more than 700 people in attendance.

On Thursday, 22 Republican senators, including even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), denounced President Barack Obama in a scathing letter for threatening America’s “entire constitutional system” with his immigration “enforcement review” that threatens to “nullify” the nation’s immigration laws. 

In TIME‘s latest 100 Most Influential People edition, Sen. Mitch McConnell praises Sen. Rand Paul’s “rare magnanimity.”  McConnell points out that the freshman senator from Kentucky embraces the “Eleventh Commandment” made famous by Ronald Reagan: “Thou shalt not speak ill of

A new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that health insurance costs will continue to rise under Obamacare while offering individuals fewer choices of doctors and lower reimbursement rates than employer-sponsored insurance plans. Democrats attempted to present portions

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–Speaking at Saturday’s FreePAC Kentucky gathering sponsored by FreedomWorks, talk radio host Glenn Beck said of Matt Bevin, the Tea Party-endorsed challenger to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), “I believe that man was called of God.” Beck’s speech was wildly

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe, one of the featured speakers at the organization’s FreePAC Kentucky event in Louisville Saturday, told Breitbart News that the estimated 2,000 Tea Party activists attending the event will focus on the tools and techniques of community

Friday morning, Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign sent out a press release criticizing his GOP primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, for planning to attend a major Tea Party rally this weekend.  “This Saturday, Kentucky will focus on the Final

Glenn Beck and FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe are coming to a major Tea Party rally in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s back yard – and McConnell primary challenger Matt Bevin is a featured speaker. The event, dubbed FreePAC Kentucky by host

On Friday, FreedomWorks, the grassroots conservative group, pulled its endorsement in the Nebraska GOP Senate primary from Shane Osborn and gave it to conservative, anti-establishment candidate Ben Sasse, who has been surging as the anti-Obamacare candidate. In one of the

When Breitbart Sports was the first major outlet to announce the All-American team, the most controversial pick was Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein as the 3rd team All-American center. One of the top 15 offensive players at www.valueaddbasketball.com (No. 1 Seed Wichita

When House Republicans penned their Pledge to America in 2010, they convinced American voters they would advance a conservative agenda if they regained control of the House that year. Four years later, what promises have they actually delivered? ObamaCare is

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign just could not get the simplest of ads right on Tuesday.  The campaign embarrassingly put out a web ad that mistook players from Duke’s 2010 championship team for Kentucky players three days before