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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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown he is "incapable of functioning in the civilized world" as evidence comes forward that accuses Russia of supplying militants with the weaponry to attack Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, New York Republican Rep. Peter King said Sunday.

ALGONA, Iowa-Texas Governor Rick Perry may have found a way back into the presidential conversation: immigration.

Rep. Steve King has introduced a resolution calling on border state governors to deploy the National Guard to stop the influx of illegal immigrants, since Pres.

Hundreds of protests over the U.S. government's handling of a staggering number of unaccompanied minors from Central America who have crossed the border illegally are taking place around the country Friday and Saturday.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will join Congressman Steve King for a fundraiser at 6:30 Monday, August 4th at the Barefoot Bar in Okoboji.

Republicans in the House and Senate introduced several new legislative proposals aimed at fixing the humanitarian crisis at the southern U.S. border - including plans to enforce the border, speed up the process of deporting illegal immigrant children, and remove the incentives that the GOP believes are enticing Central American children to cross ... (more)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blamed the Obama administration for the influx of immigrant children at the southern border, but didn't rule out the prospect of accepting children in New Jersey on a case-by-case basis.