When I was elected to Congress last December, I vowed to hit the ground running from day one to make Southwest Alabama a better place to live, work and raise a family. In honor of the New Year, I wanted to take this opportunity to look back at some of the highlights from my first […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A statewide survey recently released publicly by the Alabama Federation for Children, in conjunction with the Black Alliance for Educational Options, indicates widespread support in Alabama for school choice, which promises to be one of the top issues in the 2015 legislative session. The survey of likely Alabama general election voters, which […]

Political leaders in Alabama and other Southern states have grown frustrated with their states’ lack of influence in the presidential primaries and have hatched a plan that could have profound implications for the 2016 elections — especially for Republicans. POLITICO explains: Officials in five Southern states — Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas — are […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — “We’re going to be raising revenue,” Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said late last week. “Our goal is to raise revenue. We have to raise some revenue.” The governor and legislative leaders have in recent weeks been laboring over what to do about an estimated $260 million hole in the state’s General Fund […]

A new report released by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) places Alabama about middle of the pack among states when it comes to preventing, detecting, diagnosing and responding to outbreaks, like Ebola, Enterovirus and antibiotic-resistant Superbugs. The report, “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases,” finds that the recent […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted November unemployment rate is 6.0%, down from October’s rate of 6.3%. “Seasonal adjustment” refers to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ practice of anticipating certain trends in the labor force, such as hiring during the holidays or the surge in the labor […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Two dozen grassroots conservative leaders from across Alabama came together on Thursday to write a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley urging him not to expand the state’s Medicaid program. In the letter, the group says they feel “obligated to hold (Gov. Bentley) accountable to the campaign promises (he) ran on to be […]

Conservatives around the country were justifiably disappointed on Wednesday when Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) announced that he was stepping aside and allowing Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) to take over as Budget Committee Chairman when Republicans assume control of the Senate in January. Everyone, including Sessions, was surprised last month when Enzi signaled that he wanted […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Katherine Robertson, vice president of the staunchly conservative Alabama Policy Institute, warned Alabamians on Wednesday that they should not be “fooled” by a potential “backdoor approach to Medicaid expansion as introduced in” ObamaCare. In several states around the country, Republican governors have recently proposed plans that eerily resembled Medicaid expansion under ObamaCare, […]

Washington – U.S. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo) have come to an agreement regarding the Budget Committee in the 114th Congress. Pending a committee vote and GOP Caucus approval, Enzi will chair the committee and Sessions will take on a significant role in reforming welfare spending and identifying and eliminating wasteful federal […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — During an appearance on the Matt Murphy Show on Monday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley conceded that his recently proposed idea to eliminate certain state income tax deductions would constitute a tax hike on the people of Alabama. As part of his efforts to patch a $260 million hole in the state’s General […]

Remember the “Defund ObamaCare” strategy of Fall 2013? There were two basic reasons it didn’t work: 1. Democrats held the Majority in the Senate; 2. The threat of shutting down the entire government allowed the other side to distract attention away from the failures of ObamaCare. This year, with a funding battle over immigration before […]

AUBURN, Ala. — The police officer who arrested Sen. Tom Whatley (R-Auburn) for domestic violence last week says he saw the senator shove his fiancé to the ground, prompting him to make the arrest, according to a police report first reported by the Associated Press. Whatley was charged with third degree domestic violence, which is […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL2) on Monday said that the so-called “CRomnibus,” the $1.1 trillion government funding bill passed by the House and Senate last week, does not fund the President’s executive actions on immigration, in spite of what others have said. The bill funds the government through next September, but only funds […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) announced on Monday that during the next session of Congress he will once again Chair the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces subcommittee. In the 114th Congress, which will be seated in January, Rogers says he plans to use his key subcommittee role to “keep pressure” on Russian […]

For the second time in as many weeks, the country’s most well known anti-tax crusader is urging Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley to stick to his signed oath to Alabama voters not to raise their taxes. Grover Norquist, the head of the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), has perhaps been the country’s most […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snviTYMXn7I (Video above: Chicago police play “Sweet Home Alabama” while escorting a “Black Lives Matter” protest) CHICAGO, Ill. — The Chicago police officer who was captured on camera blaring “Sweet Home Alabama” while escorting a “Black Lives Matter” protest to a “die in” has now been suspended by the Chicago Police Department for being “disrespectful” […]

Sen. Jeff Sessions originally delivered these remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. The U.S. Department of Commerce informs us that ‘today’s typical 18- to 34-year-old earns about $2,000 less per year (adjusted for inflation) than their counterpart in 1980.’  That is a sharp and painful wage decline for young […]

ENTERPRISE, Ala. — Alabama State Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) on Sunday added his opinions to the growing debate over what the state should do to address the shortfall in its General Fund Budget, which Senate General Fund Budget Chairman Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) predicts could be in the neighborhood of $260 million. But unlike Gov. Bentley, […]

RELATED: Everything you need to know about the Alabama House delegation’s ‘cromnibus’ votes WASHINGTON — The $1.1 trillion “CRomnibus” passed the U.S. Senate Saturday night, concluding an usually active day of of political maneuvering by dissenting senators on both ends of the political spectrum. The bill, which got its name because it combined an omnibus […]

Gov. Robert Bentley issued a bold challenge to Alabama legislators on Thursday: “Don’t cower away from the difficult things we’ve got to face.” Bentley, discussing the state’s undeniably dire General Fund Budget crisis, said lawmakers could either continue kicking the can down the road by patching the deficits with one-time fixes, or they could take […]

WASHINGTON — House Republican leadership, with the help of a chunk of Democrats, pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Thursday that will fund the government through next September. The final vote was 219 – 206, as 57 Democrats joined with 162 Republicans to push the bill over the finish line. According to The […]

http://youtu.be/BQCdjdhAt-M (Video Above: Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014) WASHINGTON — Flanked by leaders from the U.S. law enforcement community, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday held a press conference on Capitol Hill to send a message to the President and members of Congress — including […]

Here are two statements, both made on the floor of the United States Senate. One of them was delivered by the U.S. Senate’s most liberal Democrat, the other by one of the body’s most conservative members. See if you can tell the difference. Statement A: I come to the floor today to ask a fundamental […]