Steve King News

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has a challenger vying to lead the House - and he's coming from the opposite side of the Capitol Building.

President Obama could just as easily have ignored the House Republican plan to authorize a lawsuit against him Wednesday over accusations that he had abused his executive power.

Ted Cruz is rallying Republican House members to oppose John Boehner's pseudo-border security bill.

State Sen. Steve King was charged Wednesday with three felonies and two misdemeanors for financial irregularities related to two jobs he held while serving in the Colorado Senate.

An Iowa Republican in Congress argues the only place more dangerous than the Motor City is Honduras - drawing the ire of a Michigan member of Congress.

An immigration hawk who has voiced concern over the current House proposal to cope with the ongoing crisis at the border says he and other conservatives they will be able to vote "yes" for the measure if it includes two legislative fixes.

From the man who brought you " calves the size of cantaloupes " now comes "give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path."

Since Sarah Palin called for impeaching President Obama earlier this month , most Republican lawmakers have distanced themselves from her comments and blamed Democrats for seizing on the issue to grow their campaign coffers.

President Obama is looking for additional ways to relax U.S. immigration law on his own, but "no decisions have been made" on what his next move might be, Congress was told on Tuesday.

Meet Democrat Jim Mowrer, easily one of the hero candidates of the 2014 cycle. Why? Well, first he's a Fighting Dem, one of the many candidates Daily Kos has endorsed who served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his plan to add the 'Gang of Eight' comprehensive immigration legislation to any border crisis package that House Republicans might pass, a revelation so likely to diminish conservative support for the bill that it suggests he's trying to spike the House package.

While some of the House's more conservative members might consider impeaching President Barack Obama for an as-yet-unknown executive order on immigration policy, they seem to be wrestling with the idea that such aggressive action against the executive branch could result in a boon for the Democrats.

Rep. Michele Bachmann , recently returned from a trip to the Southwest border, says no one is being turned away: "We saw border processing, not border security," Bachmann said in a news release describing her trip to Brownsville, McAllen and Laredo.

The White House shot back at House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday for calling talk of impeaching President Barack Obama a White House press secretary Josh Earnest named several House Republicans who have made statements about impeaching the president.

House Republicans will unveil a significantly pared-back emergency funding package of $659 million for the border crisis and are angling for a Thursday vote before Congress flees Washington for the August recess.

Monday's Journal article " Border Surge Complicates GOP Pitch to Hispanics " highlighted a serious point: Republicans are having a hard time wooing Hispanic voters, which is likely to have serious repercussions in November.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has said: "The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored.

After passing out soccer balls and teddy bears to illegal immigrant juveniles at the border, Glenn Beck declared on Monday that he did not think conservatives will win the fight against illegal immigration and open borders.

In February, following a bitter fight that lasted four years, Congress passed a nearly $1 trillion farm bill that was designed to eliminate more than $8.6 billion from the federal food stamp program over the next decade.

In a campaign swing resembling that of a presidential candidate, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul plans to make a three-day trip across Iowa next week, another indication that the libertarian-leaning Republican is gearing up for a 2016 presidential run.