Rep. Curt Clawson (R-FL) will slam President Barack Obama’s pro-amnesty immigration policy—and tout legal immigration—during the Tea Party response to Obama’s State of the Union address. Excerpts of Clawson’s speech were provided exclusively to Breitbart News.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin reacted to excerpts of President Obama’s State of the Union released on Tuesday. Levin said that Obama believed “he’s smarter than all men who’ve come before him and served
House Assistant Democratic Leader Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) refused to say what he considered a “fair” tax rate on Tuesday’s “Your World With Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. After declaring that it was “class warfare when you have the
In advance of the State of the Union, the Republican National Committee is pointing out some of the most negative aspects of President Obama’s past six years. For example, the RNC highlights that since Obama took office in 2009, 13 million Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls — more than twice the population of El Salvador.
While Americans are generally more satisfied with their quality of life ahead of the State of the Union his year than they were last year, Americans’ outlook on race relations have taken a nose dive, according to a new poll. A mere 30 percent of Americans polled expressed satisfaction with the state of race relations, down 25 percentage points from 2014, when 55 percent said they were satisfied.
After a month of spirited dissent and calls for justice from the Cuban-American community in light of President Obama’s capitulations to the Castro regime in December, the Republican Party is answering by hosting some of the most prominent members of the Cuban dissident community at tonight’s State of the Union Address.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will be hosting Cuban dissidents at Tuesday’s State of the Union. According to the Speaker’s office, Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antunez) and Antunez’s wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera — leaders in the fight for human rights and freedom in Cuba — will be seated in the Speaker’s box come speech time.
On the one-year anniversary of the start of talks with Iran, and as President Barack Obama prepares to give his State of the Union address, Russia has signed a military deal with Iran. The agreement covers “includes expanded counter-terrorism cooperation, exchanges of military personnel for training purposes and an understanding for each country’s navy to more frequently use the other’s ports,” the AP reports.
Working at the White House isn’t always formal. Sometimes even flannel is in fashion, as this weekend when official photographer Pete Souza released a photo of a casually dressed President Obama, working on his State of the Union speech with speechwriter Cody Keenan.
“Trolling.” That’s the theme of commentary on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address as he prepares to face a Congress that is totally controlled by Republicans. Since guiding his party to a staggering defeat in a midterm election
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that White House feels a “palpable sense of momentum” heading into the State of the Union and that the president’s executive action on immigration was one factor that contributed to this confidence on Monday’s
On Tuesday, a DREAMer from Texas will be sitting with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The White House officially announced that Ana Zamora will join 21 others as Michelle Obama’s guests tomorrow evening in
In the build up to President Obama’s State of the Union address, the White House has floated plans to raise hundreds of billions in new taxes. The plans have almost no chance of passing Congress but are designed to frame the upcoming debates and alter the landscape for the presidential election in 2016.
President Obama previewed his State of the Union Address during his Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. Every day, we get thousands of letters and emails at the White House from Americans across the country – and
Citing the “verve and tenacity” of Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa displayed on the campaign trail in 2014, Newsweek calls her the “smart pick” to handle the GOP’s response to Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address set for Tuesday.
Gone are the days when Obama wants to talk about changing the nation. Now, he seems content to send his people out to talk to Politico about changing a speech here and there. The speech in question is the traditional
As the President’s State of the Union speech nears, he is launching trial balloons right and left–mostly left–to see what might prove a hit for his annual night of big policy initiatives. Some of the proposals on deck are cyber security and Internet proposals, two years of “free” community college, and changes in the way people qualify for homeownership.
The White House claimed last week that President Barack Obama’s proposed “free” community college for everyone proposal would cost U.S. taxpayers at least $60 billion over the next 10 years were it to pass. But as the New York Times pointed out on Friday, community college is already tuition-free for millions of students.
As President Obama returns briefly to Washington from vacation, he prepares for a campaign-like swing through three states to promote his upcoming State of the Union address. Obama will hit Michigan, Arizona and Tennessee with a focus on economic issues.
