This week, the Boeing 737 Max returned to the commercial airways with a three-hour American Airlines flight between Miami and New York City. Tuesday’s flight marked the first time that a Boeing 737 Max transported commercial passengers since the plane was grounded in 2019 following two fatal crashes.
A new report published by the Senate Commerce Committee alleges that Boeing “inappropriately influenced” FAA test pilots during flight simulations. The interference allegedly took place when test pilots attempted to interact with the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), the same function that led to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said: “Our findings are troubling. The report details a number of significant examples of lapses in aviation safety oversight and failed leadership in the FAA. It is clear that the agency requires consistent oversight to ensure their work to protect the flying public is executed fully and correctly.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delayed Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Facebook staffers requested a brief recess after Zuckerberg experienced technical difficulties in trying to connect to the hearing via video chat.
The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a hearing for Nathan Simington, Donald Trump’s nominee for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner, a crucial appointment in the battle against Big Tech censorship.
“They are sitting on the nomination,” said Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Remember that next time you hear Republicans in Washington pretend that they care about free speech.”
The Department of Justice will submit a proposal to Congress that would curb big tech’s legal immunity, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Big Tech-funded lobbyists and D.C. insiders are expressing alarm that President Donald Trump is set to nominate an FCC commissioner, Nathan Simington, who isn’t one of them.
It’s likely that the Senate will have time this session to confirm a new FCC commissioner.
Three GOP Senators have announced a new bill called the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act that aims to modify Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act to clarify the original intent of the law and increase accountability faced by the Big Tech Masters of the Universe for their censorship of political speech.
The House Armed Services Committee passed a defense bill that requires the Pentagon strip Confederate names from military bases.
Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposal to remove an amendment to rename military bases named after Confederate generals gained steam on Wednesday.
Republicans urged the White House to maintain regulations on use of aborted fetal tissue for vaccine research and on drug-induced abortions.
On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said after the House Intelligence Committee public impeachment inquiry hearings that the Democrats had “a bad week last week.”
A group of Republican senators introduced legislation Friday that would ensure dignified burials for aborted babies.
Eleven Republicans voted with Senate Democrats Wednesday to nullify a resolution that would terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency, which would eliminate Trump’s ability to fund the construction of a southern border wall.
China is the United States’ main national security challenge for the next 50 to 100 years, the Army general picked to become the top military officer in the United States said during a Senate hearing on Thursday.
A group of Republican lawmakers is urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to stand with the men and women who earn livelihoods working in America’s small refineries across the country and to block Democrats’ efforts to lobby the agency to stop issuing Small Refinery Exemptions (SRE’s).
A vote this week on the measure – as hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists descend upon the nation’s capital during the March for Life – would mark the first time the Senate has voted on this legislation.
President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday evening as he barnstorms across the country this week trying to help Republicans keep the House and the Senate.
Trump held a rally in Tennessee on Monday and is expected to hold rallies in Minnesota and Kansas later in the week before heading to Iowa next week. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All time eastern.
Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel, the populist-conservative who came within a hair’s breadth of clinching the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2014, announced Wednesday he would challenge his state’s other GOP incumbent this year.
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) future in the Senate remains in limbo as his health continues to decline; many speculate that he will retire early next year.
In a now-deleted article at NBC News, Jonathan Allen and Keri Geiger wrote that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon is planning primary challenges to both of Mississippi’s incumbent establishment Republican senators.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is badly losing the war he is waging against his own party’s voters this Thanksgiving, a sign of the failed GOP leader’s waning power in the era of President Donald J. Trump.
The man heading the effort to re-elect Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) to the U.S. Senate does not think much of a potential challenge based on the anti-incumbent Republican sentiment facing Washington, DC. According to a Friday report by The Meridian Star’s
According to a report published Thursday written by Alayna Treene, Tea Party Patriots co-founder wants President Donald Trump not to get involved in next year’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Mississippi. Treene wrote that even though Martin says Tea Party
Chris McDaniel is calling out establishment incumbent Sen. Roger Wicker for refusing to say whether he thinks Mitch McConnell should do more to confront Republicans standing in the way of the president
As the leader of the Senate Republican caucus, McConnell told Trump that Bannon was “undermining the president’s agenda” by recruiting and funding candidates to challenge Senate incumbents.
Senator Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) continued absences from Washington have reignited long-standing concerns over his physical health — and set up the possibility that both seats in the United States Senate from Mississippi, currently held by establishment Republican allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), could be up for grabs in 2018.
Conservatives and economic nationalist leaders are looking past the current dysfunction in Washington to a group of new and exciting young candidates throwing their hats in the ring nationwide to break the gridlock with midterm election victories.
Facing enormous pressure from conservatives, and a brewing revolt against many of his vulnerable members, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bent down on wounded knee to pitch the debt ceiling deal President Donald Trump cut with the Democrats as a GOP victory.
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a hardline conservative who nearly toppled Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the 2014 midterm primaries, told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday evening he is considering launching another bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), indicated that Republicans leaders will have a debate about potentially giving citizenship to so-called DREAMers in this Congress. “I think the first thing we’ll do is a
Sen. Thad Cochran’s campaign manager, Kirk Sims, has been replaced by his state director Brad Davis, according to a GOP source close to the campaign. The source, who has first-hand knowledge of the information from speaking to campaign officials, also
Last Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff in Mississippi is turning out to be the most revealing incident in the protracted fight between the conservative grassroots and the GOP establishment. The GOP party leadership has been exposed for their true motives in
JACKSON, Mississippi — Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) was listed as a speaker at a campaign rally for Sen. Thad Cochran today but will instead be in Washington, D.C. for a relatively routine and non-controversial vote, his spokesman said. An advisory
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said on Fox News on Wednesday that the “secret” nature of the budget negotiations between House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) results in things like
The military pension cuts in the “bipartisan budget deal” crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murrary (D-WA) do not spare disabled veterans. In fact, disabled veterans who “were previously thought to be exempt from changes to military
(AP) Year-end agreement: Budget heads to final passageBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONYear-end legislation to ease Congress’ chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked
(AP) APNewsBreak: Ricin suspect released from jailBy JEFF AMYAssociated PressOXFORD, Miss.The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge was released from jail on Tuesday, federal official said, though the
(AP) Hearing resumes Tuesday for Miss. ricin suspectBy JEFF AMYAssociated PressOXFORD, Miss.More discussion was likely Tuesday of the mental state of the Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge.