The House Republican Caucus led by Speaker Mike Hubbard conducted a press conference today in the State House briefing room to announce their 2013 legislative agenda. Below is a tweet stream from folks who were there live followed by the text of the House agenda. Waiting on House Republicans, @speakerhubbard to begin pressed twitter.com/SouthUnionSt/s… — […]

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. All sources remain confidential. 1.House Republicans To Release Agenda State House insiders say the House Republican caucus will release their 2013 legislative agenda on […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) today introduced an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that, if passed and ratified, would require Congress to annually pass a balanced budget and finally force the federal government to live within its means. Rep. Roby’s proposed amendment would also require the President to submit a balanced budget to […]

According to Barton campaign insiders, the below TV ad goes up today with about 1,000GRPs/week. The campaign has also begun dropping mail pieces. Here’s where the three campaigns stand financially as of January 4: Barton: $264,050 raised, $217,497.53 cash on hand Hightower: Loaned his campaign $20,000 and raised $2,400, roughly $12,000 cash on hand. Matranga: […]

A behind-the-scenes battle for the future of energy production in Alabama finally came to a head last week at the Alabama Public Service Commission. As we mentioned in mid-December, radical environmentalists — being aided by an inside man at the PSC — have been plotting to overtake the state’s utility review process. Republican Public Service […]

Although it has not yet been announced to the public at large, Yellowhammer can confirm that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will be the headline speaker at the ALGOP Winter Dinner February 1 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. Yellowhammer first heard earlier this week from sources close to the Armistead campaign that Priebus would possibly be […]

Read more about United States Economy. See more from the 2013 Index. The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal have teamed up once again to publish a fascinating look at economic freedom across the globe. Each year, these two groups release what they call their “Index of Economic Freedom.” They measure data in four […]

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. All sources remain confidential. 1.AEA vs. RSA The hottest buzz among Montgomery insiders right now is the covert war between AEA (Alabama Education Association) […]

With the 2012 election cycle behind us, we took our first look yesterday at the trend of Governor Bentley’s approval numbers over the first two years of his term. There are less than five months before the 2014 election cycle begins with the opening of the fundraising window in June. But with the Governor’s sky-high […]

Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard today announced a slate of new committee chairman and vice chairman appointments that will begin during the 2013 Regular Legislative Session, which is scheduled to convene on February 5. Most notable about the assignments is that several freshmen House members have been named to important leadership positions on […]

This week Yellowhammer will be doing a three part series on polling numbers for Alabama Governor Robert Bentley that outline how his popularity has grown since taking office. Today we will start by taking a look at the Governor’s overall favorability rating among all voters from his inauguration up until today. Later this week we […]

As we mentioned in mid-December, three Republicans qualified for the Senate District 35 special election set to take place Jan. 29: 1. Rep. Jim Barton: Owner of Bay Area Resources and Old South Construction and Chairman of the House General Fund Budget Committee. 2. Bill Hightower: President of Tower Strategies, Inc. with a business background […]

Teachers unions, trial lawyers associations, and radical environmental groups are examples of organizations that are operating across the country in an effort to undermine conservative policy makers. Alabama may be a solid red state, but don’t think for a second these groups have stopped working hard to influence our state government any way they can. […]

For the first time in a couple of decades Congress will give the American people a significant tax hike. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal cliff deal passed by the Senate in the wee hours of Jan. 1 includes $41 in tax hikes for every $1 in spending cuts. These tax hikes, for […]

Alabama politics had very few clear winners and losers in 2012. With few exceptions, most of the key players and organizations ended the year with mixed results. Republicans continued to dominate the political landscape in the lingering wake of their 2010 electoral tidal wave. However, they also experienced some of the growing pains that come […]

“ Hate Mail of the Week” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which some of the hate mail submitted through our contact page or in response to our email blasts is published exactly as it was received. The only edits made are to remove expletives — this is a family show, after all. […]

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. All sources remain confidential. 1. State House insiders are rumbling that a House freshman will likely be landing a committee chairmanship ahead of the […]

The Alabama Policy Institute (API) has released a new infographic in its By the Numbers series that outlines the significant impacts to the federal budget and the budgets of families across the nation should Congress not act to avoid the fiscal cliff. The one-page Fiscal Cliff By the Numbers infographic below details figures that show […]

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley today announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate. Scott will replace conservative stalwart Senator Jim DeMint who announced a couple of weeks ago that he was resigning to head D.C.-based think tank The Heritage Foundation. As I wrote on Yellowhammer and The Daily Caller last […]

According to AL.com and multiple Yellowhammer sources, the Alabama Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed the Alabama Republican Party’s financial records. Members of the Party’s steering committee told Yellowhammer last week that the subpoena appears to be part of a grand jury investigation into the ALGOP’s campaign finance activities during the 2010 election cycle when now […]

The Alabama Public Service Commission staff convened on Tuesday with one of our state’s utilities for their annual meeting to review the regulatory climate and the state’s plan to comply with President Obama’s ever-expanding environmental regulations. The PSC is not usually a hotbed for political activity, but any time energy policy is being discussed there’s […]

The Daily Caller posted a phenomenal video this morning from inside a Chicago classroom. In the video, an unidentified student from Chicago’s South Shore High School goes absolutely ballistic on her music teacher for not teaching the class in spite of going on strike demanding higher wages. “The unnamed student is loud. She’s viscerally strident. […]

(Washington, DC) The Chairman of the Congressional panel that has jurisdiction over the Department of Defense today named Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers the next Chairman of the panel’s Strategic Forces subcommittee. As Chairman, Rogers will oversee our nation’s strategic weapons, ballistic missile defense, space programs, and most of the Department of Energy national security programs. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02) has been appointed to serve on the conference committee tasked with negotiating a final agreement between the House and Senate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House and Senate passed different versions of the NDAA, which Congress must pass every year to authorize military programs and […]