Asian Americans courted by both sides in upcoming elections Asians are the new minority whose hearts politicians are trying to win over for the upcoming elections.
Senate Republicans successfully blocked a constitutional amendment backed by Democrats that would have allowed Congress to place limits on campaign spending.
President Barack Obama has delayed announcing any potential executive action on immigration until after November's midterm elections. According to Obama, the reason for the delay was not to benefit Senate Democrats hoping to hold onto their narrow majority in the chamber.
President Obama said Wednesday that he is considering taking unilateral action to handle the immigration crisis at the border, as well as to ensure corporate fiscal responsibility.
The bill will not go further than the House but shows the Republicans' willingness to sacrifice one group of people in exchange for support from its base.
Democrats' immigration reform bill thats aims to curb the high number of unaccompanied child migrants from crossing into the U.S. is unlikely to pass before summer recess, while Republicans are seeking to pass their own immigration bill.
The New York Senate adjourned its 2014 legislative session, and one bill on the docket failed to pass in time: the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM Act.
Jody Hice, the Republican candidate running for a U.S. House seat in Georgia's 10th district, stated Islam is not really a religion and that it doesn't deserve the First Amendment protection of religious liberty.
House Republicans will elect a new majority House leader on Thursday in wake of Eric Cantor's stunning loss in the Virginia Republican primary to little known Tea Party challenger Dave Brat
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed a bill into that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state college tuition. Scott signed the bill in private but will hold a public signing at a campaign event in Fort Myers later in the afternoon, Fox News Latino reported.
Senate Republicans who oppose President Barack Obama's newly imposed power plant regulations, which were announced earlier this week, have signed a letter to the White House urging the president to repeal the rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Monday its proposed regulations to reduce carbon emissions at power plants, which the president insisted during his weekly radio address Saturday would improve public health.
GOP Tea Party voters and conservative Republicans have verbalized the need to press forward with immigration reform. In spite of this, President Barack Obama has delayed a review of deportation policies, which won’t be addressed until the end of the summer, in hopes that Congress will approve a complete overhaul of immigration laws.
Overcrowded city and county jails have lead the President Barack Obama and his administration to make changes to the Secure Communities program, which ranks repeat immigration violators as high as violent offenders on the priority list for deportations.
Earlier this week almost 50 Democratic U.S. senators signed and sent a letter to the NFL urging it to replace the name of the Washington Redskins because of its derogatory implication.
