While the White House remains open to an immigration deal with the Republican establishment and Democrats, leaders in the Democratic Party have started fighting over politically correct language.
It will be remembered as a moment that defined his presidency: Donald Trump, flanked by leading Democrats, and joined by members of both parties, led a roundtable discussion Tuesday about how to resolve the problems created by the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and illegal immigration in general.
Frustrated Democrats who want to replace House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have an urgent problem: there is no alternative.
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017 is just one of the indications that the left’s progressive agenda — spearheaded by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — has acquired a stronghold in the Democratic Party.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” House Democratic Whip Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that while there’s a “pattern” of a cover-up, “we don’t yet have hard evidence” of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia. Hoyer further said
Over 25 Jewish organizations and Republican and Democrat lawmakers convened at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center on Wednesday to mark and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day and to reaffirm that Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, House Democratic Whip Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said that the passage of the American Health Care Act was “the Republican-led Congress at its worst, and deeply out of touch with the people it serves.” Transcript
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan measure objecting to last month’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 on Thursday, garnering 342-80 votes in favor of House Resolution 11.
The number-two Democrat in the House, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, has published several statements which are strongly critical of the Obama administration’s betrayal of Israel at the United Nations.
House Democrats re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader on Wednesday despite disenchantment among some in the caucus over the party’s disappointing performance in elections earlier this month.
A member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has issued a warning against leadership changes introduced by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), suggesting her proposals could decrease the group’s power while seemingly increasing her own.
Liberal columnist Dana Milbank says that Nancy Pelosi should step down as the Democrats’ House Minority Leader and allow “some fresh blood to take on Donald Trump.”
On Friday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live,” House Democratic Whip Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) reacted to FBI Director James Comey’s announcement that the agency is taking a new look at Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails by
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Democratic Whip Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should have disclosed her pneumonia diagnosis when she received it on Friday and “she ought
Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was greeted with boos from some in the audience when he said, “We’re here to nominate Hillary Clinton” during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI-1st) will introduce the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2015” to ban all manufacturing of “assault weapons.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) decision to drop out of the speakership race shows “deep divisions and dysfunction” among House Republicans, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) argued Thursday. “As a result of their divisions and their efforts to disrupt Congress’s work, we’ve experienced a government shutdown, a near-default on our debt, and too many missed opportunities to grow our economy and support job creation,” Hoyer said in a statement.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is furious that House GOP leadership is considering holding a vote on a resolution of disapproval of President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with the Islamic Republican of Iran under the terms of the Iran deal constructs put forward in legislation approved earlier this year from Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Ben Cardin (D-MD).
Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom With Carol Costello,” House Democratic Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) broke ranks with President Barack Obama saying he did not agree with his administration’s stance that if the Iran nuclear deal was not passed, the only alternative is
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) remains on the fence about the Iran deal. Lieu replaced veteran Democrat Henry Waxman, one of the most pro-Israel members of Congress for four decades, earlier this year.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is taking Republicans to task for using the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill to block Obama’s executive amnesty, arguing that the effort puts the nation’s security at risk.
While John Boehner will likely win reelection as House Speaker on Tuesday, the right flank of the Republican Party has made it difficult for him to lead, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) tells reporters. The 114th Congress convenes at noon on Tuesday. Among the first orders of business will be the House’s election of a speaker.
On his Thursday Fox News Channel program, Sean Hannity reacted to the House of Representatives CR/omnibus bill under the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner by saying he should no longer be the Speaker of the House. “John ‘Gruber’ Boehner,
President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to
On the floor of the House of Representatives, leaders from both parties took a moment to recognize retiring Democratic Rep. John Dingell’s final vote — for the cromnibus bill. Dingell, from Michigan, is a 59-year veteran of the House, and
House Speaker John Boehner’s forthcoming $1 trillion-plus omnibus spending deal–the text of which he still hasn’t released–will reportedly surrender every gain Republicans made this summer on the border crisis. The deal, which Boehner is working with Nancy Pelosi and her
If lawmakers in the House vote this week on a “CR-omnibus” spending package, House Speaker John Boehner will be doing exactly what he accused former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of doing on a similar bill in 2009: Ramming it down Americans’
Both House and Senate Republican leadership appears poised to sell-out it’s base to both keep the government open, while giving Barack Obama complete freedom to move forward with his controversial executive orders. The “cromnibus” represents “a combination of a long-term
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says she is encouraging House Speaker John Boehner to work with Democrats to pass the upcoming government funding measure. “I have reached out to the Speaker and said, ‘Extend the hand of friendship. We
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) joined a group of House Democrats Thursday in a call to President Obama move forward with executive amnesty. Hoyer argued that taking such action would
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) joined executive amnesty activists and several Democratic lawmakers to call on President Obama to act on executive amnesty Wednesday. “I join with my colleagues in urging the president to take action.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi is expected to run for Minority Leader again with little opposition, but according to a new Politico report, after the midterm drubbing some Democrats are thinking it might be time for someone new in leadership.
On Friday, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) declared that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus speaks for all Democrats on amnesty and immigration. “Let me make it very clear: the Hispanic caucus speaks for all of us–not just for their caucus
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Congress expected to vote on authorization to sue President Obama over executive overreach, House Democrats slammed the effort Wednesday as a “loser” and “waste of time.” “Republicans are wasting time on a partisan lawsuit when instead
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Up w/Steve Kornacki,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) claimed not only will House Democrats “survive” the 2014 midterm elections, but they will “take back the House.” The Democratic Whip said “We’re going to survive.” He added Democrats will
As thousands of illegal immigrant children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, House Democrats pushed for more amnesty, guest-worker visas, $3.7 billion in funding, and more lawyers for illegal immigrant children during a Tuesday Twitter town hall on immigration. Their message
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The unaccompanied children from Central American crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally should be deported except in extreme circumstances, according to House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. “We have an immediate humanitarian crisis that confronts this country, we also
Soon-to-be former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was not just reportedly unavailable to the constituents in his own district, Cantor made himself reliably unavailable to Capitol Hill reporters when his staff stopped his weekly pen and pad pressers with reporters
On May 28 Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Democrats “may offer” gun control amendments to the Commerce, Justice, Science spending bill this week in response to Elliot Rodger’s Santa Barbara attacks. Rodger stabbed three people to death in a
With the business versus environmentalist battle over the Keystone Pipeline ongoing, a potential Keystone II-like battle is shaping up in Maryland as energy company Dominion Resources seeks to invest approximately $3.8 billion to upgrade a Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas