The editors of the influential conservative publication National Review are urging Senate Republicans to keep Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as the chairman of the Budget Committee when they take control of the Senate in January. Until last week, it was widely assumed that Sessions would chair the powerful committee. After all, Sessions has been the […]

Gov. Robert Bentley says Alabama’s state government needs more revenue to sustain its current operations and to deal with increasing costs. “It’s going to require more revenue,” Bentley told the Associated Press. “Is everyone going to be happy? No, they’re not.” That may be an understatement. Alabama has a well-earned reputation for being of the […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Western Carolina head football coach Mark Speir had something he needed to get off his chest during the post game press conference after his Catamounts fell 48-14 to top-ranked Alabama on Saturday. Earlier in the day during ESPN’S College GameDay, analyst Kirk Herbstreit, a former college quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, […]

President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order to create and implement laws Congress has refused to pass. The President is providing an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans during a time of record […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejt939QXko (Video above: President Obama lays out his planned executive actions on immigration during a speech at the White House Nov. 20, 2014.) WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday evening delivered a speech describing the executive actions he plans to take on immigration, and it didn’t take long for Alabama’s Republican lawmakers to pounce. Here […]

According to the White House, President Obama on Thursday plans to announce that he will go around Congress and act unilaterally to grant legal status and work permits to up to five million immigrants in the United States illegally. Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL02) responded preemptively to the President’s announcement, saying that such an “ill-advised” action […]

It has been a whirlwind few weeks for Republicans in the United States Senate. After a fierce battle for control of the “The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body,” Republicans’ newly-claimed majority could balloon to 54 votes if Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) finishes off Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in their runoff Dec. 6, which it looks like […]

WASHINGTON — After the White House announced that President Obama will lay out his unilateral immigration actions on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared that the President might as well change his title to Emperor. “President Obama previously said he could not issue an executive amnesty because ‘I’m the President of the United States, I’m […]

With spiraling mandatory spending and reduced tax revenues threatening to send one or both of the state’s budgets into proration, the options of raising additional income by establishing a compact with the Poarch Creek Indians or legalizing a state-sponsored lottery are on the minds of Alabama’s legislators. Using the refrain of “let the people decide”–the […]

WASHINGTON — Late last week, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted against a proposal by Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL03) that would have partially lifted the ban on earmarks that Republicans put in place when they took the majority in 2011. During a closed-door meeting of House Republicans, the group voted 145-67 against […]

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday evening blocked the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project supported by conservatives and business groups but staunchly opposed by environmental activists. Fourteen Democrats crossed party lines to join all 45 Republicans in voting in favor of the bill, leaving it just one vote shy of the 60-vote […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Monday announced that in a second round of grants from the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has earmarked $9.6 million for four conservation and restoration projects along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, which was negatively impacted by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. […]

Five years after its passage, the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, is as unpopular as ever – only 37 percent of Americans view it favorably. Throughout Alabama and around the country, this ill-conceived mandate has led to cancelled insurance policies, dramatic spikes in premiums and copays, reduced work hours for wage earners and […]

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline with bi-partisan support that included every member of Alabama’s congressional delegation, including Democrat Terri Sewell, who was one of 31 Democrats who broke ranks to vote in favor of the bill. If approved, the pipeline would transport oil from Canada […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nationally syndicated radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, a Connecticut native who is perhaps the country’s most unlikely Alabama football fan, is in the state this weekend for the Bama-Miss. State game. But before heading to Tuscaloosa, Ingraham stopped in Birmingham to speak at a luncheon organized by the Alabama […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Thursday said he fears the Obama administration’s decision to cut a climate change deal with China will have a profoundly negative impact on his home state. Earlier this week, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to new restraints on carbon emissions, immediately adding more stringent […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama Administration for cutting a climate change deal with China, which the Alabama senator says gives the United States’ biggest economic rival a significant advantage over the next 15 years, while saddling American businesses with more burdensome regulations. Earlier this week, President Obama and Chinese […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Coal Jobs Count, a grassroots advocacy organization whose stated goal is to “fight the overreach of EPA regulations,” is traversing the state this week on a bus tour warning Alabamians that the Obama Administration’s climate policies pose an existential threat to thousands of jobs and affordable power rates for all Alabama citizens. […]

On Election Day, Americans roared in protest against the President’s open-borders extremism. They rallied behind candidates who will defend the rule of law and put the needs of American workers and families first. Exit polls were unequivocal. More than 3 in 4 voters cited immigration as an important factor in their vote, believed that U.S. […]

Voters swept Republicans into the majority in the U.S. Senate last week, but it will still be a couple of months before the transition of power actually takes place. The 114th Congress will be seated January 3, 2015. Until then, Democrats remain in the majority during what is commonly referred to as a “lame duck” […]

WASHINGTON — The newly elected Republican U.S. Senate majority does not take office until January of next year, but Republicans are expressing concerns that President Obama may attempt to take advantage of the upcoming lame duck session of Congress to push through his Attorney General nominee while Democrats are still in control. Obama recently nominated […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Should Alabama lawmakers be able to collect multiple taxpayer-funded state paychecks? That is the question that will soon be answered by a Montgomery County Circuit judge. When Republicans took the majority in the Alabama House and Senate in 2010, one of the first laws they passed prohibited legislators from holding two state […]

Last Wednesday morning, I made my way through a packed auditorium at Perdido School in north Baldwin County to shake the hands of veterans who had admirably served our nation. The veterans were present for a ceremony in their honor organized by the teachers and students at the school. The students waved flags and held […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — During an interview with the Birmingham News over the weekend, Joe Reed, longtime vice chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party and no. 2 man at the Alabama Education Association (AEA), blamed the Democrats’ election day losses on whites voting Republican against their own self interest simply because President Obama is black. “Too […]