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Iowa Congressman Steve King says he'll travel to Texas this weekend to learn more about a surge in unaccompanied children from other countries who are entering the U.S. King announced he'll accompany Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann on Friday on a trip to Texas.

House Republicans are modifying their plan to address the record number of migrants the U.S.-Mexico border, with a framework to spend less than $1 billion gaining traction Friday.

STATES REBEL AGAINST SMART SNACK STANDARDS: School lunch advocates are buzzing over Georgia's recent announcement that it will allow 30 food-related fundraisers that don't meet new nutritional standards per school year.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio called Thursday for an end to President Barack Obama's deferred action program granting legal status to immigrant youth brought to the United States by their parents.

Rep. Kerry Bentivolio said Thursday that he refused to accept an award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of that group's position on immigration, and called the Chamber the 'biggest pro-amnesty group' in the country.

With some Democrats and Republicans alike viewing the border crisis bills as a possible vehicle to pass comprehensive immigration legislation, the Republican members of the Gang of Eight announced their opposition to such a maneuver.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants Democrats to "use this crisis" on the border to pass comprehensive immigration legislation - just as immigration hawks fear they'll do.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul 's resistance to military intervention abroad is likely to be viewed as his biggest break from Republican tradition if he seeks his party's nomination in 2016.

Bob Shultis of Cedar Rapids lost his job at Clipper Windpower in June 2011. His unemployment benefits - along with those of millions of other Americans - ran out in December last year.

Jim Gilchrist - one of the founders of the Minutemen Project - said he's reaching out across America to recruit at least 3,500 volunteers who will go to the border to patrol and cover the "porous areas" between San Diego and Brownsville, Texas.

That counterintuitive position stems from a fear that Senate majority leader Harry Reid will use a conference committee - the panel of lawmakers who work to resolve differences between House-passed and Senate-passed bills - to force the House to vote on the comprehensive immigration bill written by the Senate "Gang of Eight."

Sen. Ted Cruz , a favorite of tea party activists, met with more than a dozen House Republicans for breakfast Wednesday morning and urged them to ratchet up their pressure on Democrats on measures to stem the current influx of migrant children at the southern border.

Capitol Hill is fiercely divided over how to handle the surge of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border, but at least everyone can agree on one thing: It's a crisis.

Mesa County Republicans chose a Mesa County Sheriff's Office sergeant to fill the ballot slot left vacant when Sen. Steve King dropped out of the race last week as he faces an investigation into his multiple jobs while serving in the legislature.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio donated nearly a quarter of a million dollars to U.S. Senate hopeful Joni Ernst during the final stretch of her contested Iowa primary.

Yesterday I brought the story of John Napier Tye to Dailykos but it scrolled off rather quickly so I thought I would have another go, adding this bonus article from the Atlantic on the story.

Fifteen minutes after the rally's scheduled start and here's what we have outside the Russell Senate building: one pink fedora, one pink sunhat and a half dozen pink T-shirts.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, seeking political redemption in Iowa, spent his weekend waiting almost two hours in a school cafeteria to speak to Republican activists, attending local church services and eating barbecue with fellow veterans.

Rep. Steve King has introduced a bill which calls on governors of the border states to deploy the National Guard in order to stop the influx of illegal immigrants.