The Obama administration has started to take the initial public steps to implement the President’s controversial executive actions on immigration, setting the date for the first applications from those brought to the U.S. illegally …

The Obama Administration announced on Thursday that the President will propose a budget next week which increases discretionary spending by $74 billion, busting through spending caps put in place by Congress and the President back in 2011.

The White House defended the move to raise discretionary spending by 7 percent, arguing that with falling deficits, it was time to increase investments in plans to help the middle class; President Obama briefed …

Two days after a recreational drone crash landed on the grounds of the White House, officials at the Federal Aviation Administration very publicly told Americans not to even think about taking out their own drones …

It’s not often you see a proposal talked about in the State of the Union Address abandoned a week later, but that’s what has happened in the case of one plan from President Obama, which …

A day after Republicans took a border security bill off of the House schedule this week because of internal opposition, Speaker John Boehner acknowledged to reporters that it has not been smooth sailing so far in 2015 for House GOP leaders.

“Yeah, there have been a couple of stumbles,” Boehner told reporters at a U.S. Capitol news conference, though he argued it’s part of “the effort to show the American people …

In their first successful filibuster of 2015, Democrats in the Senate on Monday evening delayed the march to final action on a bipartisan plan to force the start of construction of the Keystone XL oil …

With looming questions about internal support for a limited border security bill amongst House Republicans, GOP leaders bumped the measure from this week’s legislative schedule in the U.S. House, and did not immediately give lawmakers an idea as to when it might be revived.

The move came as House leaders delayed votes set for Monday becuase of a large winter storm going up the East Coast, which also bumped the border …

After an internal party squabble last week derailed an abortion bill backed by pro-life groups, U.S. House GOP leaders hope to avoid the same fate in coming days on a border security bill that’s already drawn the ire of the Obama Administration.

“This is a national security issue of the highest order,” said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, as he argued for quick action on …

Stepping up the rhetoric over immigration, the head of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday night denounced a new bill on border security from Congressional Republicans, charging it was “not a serious effort” to …

Working on the Keystone XL oil pipeline bill, Democrats on Wednesday thought they had Republicans right where they wanted them, ready to force votes on a pair of amendments that required GOP Senators to publicly …