U.S. Congress

UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has ruled out Western troops being sent into Ukraine in favor of extracting more financial support from U.S. Congress.

Congress must get the country’s “fiscal House in order” as price increases on food continue to rock U.S. consumers, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said on Thursday.

Rep.-elect John James (R-MI) and Rep.-elect Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are two of the newest Republican members of Congress.

Wyoming Republican House candidate Harriet Hageman has raked in massive third quarter fundraising numbers after thrashing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) by nearly 40 points in the August primary, Breitbart News has learned.

The House of Representatives is planning to give all its staffers free Peloton memberships using taxpayer dollars at the same time Americans are facing rising gas and food prices due to inflation, according to reports.

The Mexican president offered his American counterpart help in convincing U.S. lawmakers to offer legal status to illegal migrants.

Ten U.S. Congress members met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last week in what they said was a “tense” discussion that involved a dressing down over the PA’s so-called pay-for-slay policy rewarding terrorists and their families, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday.

Tear gas has reportedly been used in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda following protesters breaching the building, forcing the complex into a lockdown as lawmakers are given gas masks.
Police have fired tear gas in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and distributed gas masks to lawmakers after protesters breached the building.

The U.S. Capitol has descended into chaos as rioters at the March to Save America clashed with police.

American Christians are celebrating the election of at least 13 new pro-life women and the reelection of 11 incumbent pro-life women to the U.S. Congress.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s executive order which will exclude Illegal aliens from being counted for purposes of congressional apportioning.

A bipartisan U.S. Congress group has slammed China for threatening punitive economic sanctions against long-term ally Australia. The support follows Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s very public drive for an independent investigation into the origins of the global Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The bill includes a wish list of Democrats’ pet issues, including increased fuel emission standards for airlines and the expansion of wind and solar tax credits.

Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus and Andy Puzder, a former Trump nominee for U.S. Labor Secretary, published an op-ed Monday defending the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and its paid medical leave policy.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said Israel would allow BDS-supporting Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, to visit “out of respect for Congress.” 

The Texas Senate passed a resolution Tuesday afternoon calling the “crisis at the Texas-Mexico International Border an emergency.” The resolution calls on Congress to take action and supports President Donald Trump’s recent emergency declaration.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) warned in an interview with Fox & Friends Tuesday that Republicans have just over a month to secure border wall funding before the Democrats take over the House in the new year.

Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is campaigning for Democrat congressional candidate Mike Levin in his bid to replace retiring Rep. Darrell Issa.

President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Friday night to support the campaign of Dr. Mark Harris, the Republican nominee who is in a close race against Democrat nominee Dan McCready in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

On Friday, the NRA tweeted a message for gun controllers in Congress and elsewhere saying, “We the People will never give up our guns.”

Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, warned of large technology companies’ procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC.

Rallying in support of Republican Tennessee Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in Johnson City, Tennessee, President Donald Trump warned Monday evening of economic carnage if the Democratic Party wins a majority in Congress in November.

TEL AVIV – The first Muslim woman to be elected to Congress said on Monday she would “absolutely” vote against the U.S. providing military aid for Israel.

Members of Congress have brought forward a bipartisan bill to review textbooks and other materials used in Palestinian schools that have been accused of promoting extremism.

The Constitution makes all U.S. presidents immune from prosecution for any crime—including obstruction of justice—until after they leave office, and are permanently immune from being prosecuted for using his constitutional powers to take official acts.

Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the most sweeping tax reform plan we have seen in decades. As with everything in politics, the policy nuts and bolts were a series of trade-offs.

Frank Stephens, a man with Down syndrome, told a congressional committee on Wednesday that his life is “worth living” while condemning the “final solution” proposed by abortion advocates who would kill babies with the genetic condition.

In a strongly worded statement, the Catholic archbishop of Newark, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, has lashed out at President Trump for his “malicious” decision to phase out DACA, saying that the move represents an “abandonment of humanity.”

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss new sanctions imposed by Congress against Russia and Iran. He saw the sanctions as an appropriate first step against those adversary nations and advised President Donald Trump to sign the bill.

The White House notified the US Congress Tuesday that Iran is complying with the 2015 nuclear accord negotiated by former President Barack Obama, and that sanctions relief would be extended to Iran in return for the curbing of its nuclear program.

The House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan measure Thursday that rebukes the United Nations for criticizing Israeli settlements as Republicans used the debate to accuse President Barack Obama of turning his back on the Jewish state.

On Tuesday beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET, the 115th Congress will convene, which includes the swearing in of new members. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

The Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been lobbying American lawmakers to change the bipartisan law that allows the families of 9/11 victims and survivors of the tragedy to sue the Gulf Arab country in U.S. courts for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on American soil.

TEL AVIV – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said that since “the Zionist regime has never been after peace,” the Palestinians have no option left but to wage “jihad” against Tel Aviv, the semi-official state news agency Fars reported.

TEL AVIV – The Iranian defense minister has warned that President-elect Donald Trump could trigger a world war which would “destroy” Israel and small Gulf Arab states if he pulls out of the nuclear deal.

TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian cleric called for Iran to “retaliate” over U.S. “violations” of the nuclear deal, following Thursday’s vote in Congress to level new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.