Mitch McConnell warns of ‘poison pill’ immigration beds clause in shutdown deal
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday ripped Democrats, saying they are letting a “radical fringe” sabotage government funding negotiations by proposing a cap on the number of Immigration More...
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address
President Donald Trump’s second formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night used a theme of “Choosing Greatness.” Trump: Thank you very much madam speaker, vice president, members of Congress, More...
South Dakota: Comet Haraldson identified as pilot killed in weekend plane crash
UPDATE: Obituary listed. Authorities have identified the pilot that was killed in a plane crash over the weekend in southeast South Dakota as Comet Haraldson. Haraldson, 69, died Sunday afternoon as his single-engine More...
Red Sox Mookie Betts won’t visit White House
On Saturday night, after accepting the Most Valuable Player award at the 96th annual New York Baseball Writers’ Association of America dinner, Boston Red Sox center fielder Mookie Betts said he would not join other More...
Trump caves and ends government shutdown for 3 weeks to ‘negotiate’ with Pelosi, Democrats
“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States,” tweeted Ann Coulter in the wake of the news that the government More...
Senate passes massive spending bill to avoid government shutdown
Senate leaders rolled out a massive two-year budget deal Wednesday, pleasing both parties and preventing a government shutdown, but increases the federal government’s spending. The plan heads to the House. Majority More...
Susan Collins recounts the use of the African Talking Stick in the Senate, Lamar Alexander ‘tossed it’
Sen. Susan Collins used her Tuesday morning appearance on CNN to show off her “talking stick” which ignited conversation and some debate across the Internet. screenshot/ CNN “I can show it to you,” More...
Democrats ‘lost the shutdown’ but attack the GOP with requests for more spending
While the polling on the government shutdown suggested that Democrats were poised to benefit politically from the latest battle in Washington, it was the American people who spoke and sent a different tune to More...
‘Schumer Shutdown’ ends: ‘Democrats put illegal aliens before’ our military, says Liberty Counsel
The Democratic-led shutdown of the government ended. Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reversed his blockade of the Continuing Resolution that would continue to allow the federal government to operate. The More...
Bernie Sanders faced with 2013 shutdown remarks: throw ‘Americans out on the street, and we are going to get our way no matter what’
On Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on MSNBC. During his segment, host Ali Velshi played a clip of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney reciting a direct quote from Sanders regarding the 2013 government shutdown: photo/ More...
CNN warns that government shutdown could result in NASA not warning of destructive asteroids hitting the earth
While the debate over the government shutdown continues to be misguided, fueling more immigration talks and none on spending, CNN offered up their own concern: NASA’s asteroid monitoring service. Yes, the More...
House passed another short-term funding plan, Justin Amash asks ‘When will Republicans start limiting government’
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term funding bill Thursday night to fund the government through February 16, sending the measure to the Senate as lawmakers continue to battle to avoid a government More...
Trump angers GOP over CHIP tweet, David Drucker explains the stakes involved
President Trump blew up Republican strategies to keep the government open past Friday when on Thursday morning he said a long-term extension of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program should not be part More...
Pro-lifers rally, call on President Trump ‘finish the job’
Saturday, April 29, 2017, was President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and while the mainstream press bemoaned the president and his short tenure thus far, pro-life citizens gathered to urge President Trump More...
GOP rejects Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget, secret ‘Black Budget’ requests as debt rises
As the New Hampshire primaries steal the headlines, President Obama submitted his final budget Tuesday, a $4.1 trillion annual budget plan — deemed “dead on arrival” to the Republican-controlled More...
Franklin Graham bashes GOP on spending bill, funding Planned Parenthood
Evangelist Franklin Graham announced Tuesday he is leaving the Republican Party over the GOP-led spending bill passed last week, calling it “wasteful” and likening funding of Planned Parenthood to Nazi concentration More...
Marco Rubio skips Senate vote on $1.8 trillion spending bill
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio missed Friday’s Senate vote approving a $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package after telling supporters on the presidential campaign that he may try to slow the legislation More...
Ted Cruz targets Mitch McConnell ‘lies’ and acting like Harry Reid
Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor Friday and charged that Mitch McConnell told a “lie,” escalating his disagreements with GOP leadership as he reviewed issue after issue where Republicans have betrayed their constituents More...
Transcript: Rand Paul announces 2016 Presidential run speech
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul launched his presidential campaign in Louisville Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Here is a transcript of his speech (via Time) “I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not More...
Will California’s Long-Term Rehab Facilities Lose their Funding–Again?
MediCal was developed in 1965 as a California state companion to the federal Medicaid program created that same year. Such programs were intended to provide medical access to the disabled, the elderly, and to children More...
