Paris, France – Governor Robert Bentley addressed a crowd of nearly 100 economic development officials and local elected leaders from across Alabama at a breakfast Sunday morning at the Marriott Paris – Rive Gauche Hotel. The group has gathered overseas for the 50th Paris Air Show, a biannual aerospace and defense trade show where companies and countries, suppliers […]

Conservative grassroots advocacy organization Heritage Action for America has released their latest Congressional “scorecard” that ranks the conservative voting records of members of Congress. According to the Heritage Action website, “The Heritage Action Scorecard measures votes, co-sponsorships, and other legislative activity to show how conservative Members of Congress are.” Overall, 26 members of the House […]

Above: Rep. Mike Rogers calls on the Obama Administration to “come clean.” WASHINGTON – Earlier this week Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers used his time in a one-minute speech on the House floor to call for more accountability from the White House in the wake of the rash of controversies that has hit the Obama administration […]

Several highly placed sources in north Alabama have recently been teasing the possibility of a well-funded Republican primary challenger to Governor Robert Bentley in 2014. While I considered the sources extremely reliable, their unwillingness to get into details made me question whether they had hard information, or were just speculating. This morning I received a […]

WASHINGTON — During a much-publicized Senate hearing on Wednesday involving cyber security and government surveillance, Sen. Richard Shelby took a lead role in questioning witnesses, including Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command. Alexander’s testimony was particularly noteworthy coming on the heels of revelations that the NSA […]

Above: Highlights of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ immigration remarks on the Senate floor In a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions gave an impassioned plea to his colleagues supporting the “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill to tell him how it would help Americans who are struggling in this economy. Here are […]

Republican businessman Danny Garrett announced yesterday that he is running for the Alabama House of Representatives in District 44. The current District 44 representative, Arthur Payne, has been in the legislature for 35 years and is planning to retire in 2014. “Now, more than ever, it is important to have principled, conservative leadership here in […]

Above: Congressman Mo Brooks speaks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives WASHINGTON — On Wednesday morning, Congressman Mo Brooks took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to attack the Obama administrations for abusing the trust of the American people, which he said makes the country more vulnerable to terrorism. […]

Businessman and anti-tax advocate Dean Young has garnered the support of Chief Justice Roy Moore in his campaign to succeed Rep. Jo Bonner as the representative of Alabama’s First Congressional District. “While I cannot endorse candidates for public office because of my position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court,” Moore wrote in a […]

The group conducting research using blood & saliva samples taken at Alabama roadblocks is a well-known advocate for leftwing causes and is financed in part by the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation. The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) is in charge of the study being conducted using the saliva and blood samples. PIRE’s stated […]

Maverick PAC (MavPAC) today announced Martha Roby as a 40 under 40 award recipient, an honor given to professionals deemed by their peers as up-and-coming leaders for the next-generation of Republicans. MavPAC is headed by George P. Bush, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. According to Red Alert Politics, MavPAC “was organized to get […]

Above: Senator Shelby questions Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey WASHINGTON – On Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, Sen. Richard Shelby quizzed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey over President Obama’s 2014 defense budget proposal. […]

The Quin Hillyer campaign announced today that Hillyer is the first Republican candidate in the Congressional District 1 Special Election to sign the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge. “I understand how Washington works, the problem is the people we send up there do not,” Hillyer said in a statement. “There is a spending […]

Above: Attorney General Luther Strange discusses the ‘volunteer’ saliva and blood traffic stops on the Matt Murphy Show On Matt Murphy’s radio show on Tuesday on FM 100 WAPI in Birmingham, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange reiterated what he had told Yellowhammer on Monday night, which was he had no prior knowledge of a federal […]

This week, President Obama nominated three judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, often viewed as the second highest court in America. Confirmation of these nominees would mark a substantial shift in the ideology of this powerful court that would likely last for decades. Currently, there are 14 sitting […]

Off-duty police officers in two Alabama counties set up roadblocks this past weekend to collect saliva and blood samples from drivers as they came through. Birmingham radio personality Matt Murphy broke the story on his show this morning. St. Clair and Bibb County participated in the program, which the St. Clair Sheriff’s office says was […]

Above: WHNT report on NSA surveillance revelations, including comments from Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks In an interview that aired Sunday evening with Huntsville CBS affiliate WHNT’s Daniela Perallon, Rep. Mo Brooks spoke on recent revelations reported by the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald last week that the federal government was engaged in surveillance of the so-called metadata […]

Eutaw farmer Chris “Chip” Beeker officially announced this morning that he will challenge Terry Dunn in the upcoming Republican primary for Public Service Commissioner and cited keeping utility rates low, protecting and growing energy sector jobs, and combating Barack Obama’s excessive environmental mandates among his top priorities. “Obama’s radical Environmental Protection Agency and its increased […]

Above: Highlights from Sen. Jeff Sessions speaking on the floor of the Senate during debate on “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill. WASHINGTON – On Friday morning, Sen. Jeff Sessions took the immigration debate to floor of the U.S. Senate to explain all the flaws with the recent immigration bill proposal that made its way […]

The environmentalists want us to believe that the more energy we produce from fossil fuels, the shorter our lives will be. But in reality, the present energy production methods drastically increase our quality and length of life. Modern energy production has nearly doubled our life expectancy and has allowed for technological advances, freedom of mobility, […]

While Americans’ trust in government is near a historic low, Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature is more popular than ever, according to a polling memo that numerous legislators shared with Yellowhammer Thursday. The Real Clear Politics average of national polls shows Congress’s approval rating hovering around 15%. According to the McLaughlin & Associates poll, which was commissioned […]

According to sources familiar with his thinking, State Representative Chad Fincher (R – Semmes) is running for Congress in Alabama’s First Congressional District, and may make his announcement as soon as early next week. Fincher made a name for himself in Republican circles during the 2013 legislative session by sponsoring the Alabama Accountability Act, the […]

In the first ad of the AL-01 special election, journalist Quin Hillyer lays out why he feels it’s important the people of the First Congressional District send him to Congress — values. The 30-second spot highlights many of the recent scandals that have engulfed Washington, including the IRS targeting conservatives, the DOJ spying on reporters, […]

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama’s second congressional district took to the House floor to urge her colleagues to vote for an amendment to an appropriations bill that would forbid bonuses for Department of Veterans Affairs executives while more than 800,000 veterans await the bureaucracy to resolve disability claims. Roby sponsored the […]