Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reportedly tapped Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to serve as a counselor to the Senate Republican leadership team. “North Carolina and the whole country benefit from his service and I’m glad he’s taking on this new leadership role,” McConnell said in a statement to Fox News Digital. The counsel […]
Welcome back to Hill Happenings, your source for the most and least talked about stories on and around Capitol Hill. In a nutshell – these are the stories we won’t miss – even if others have. Congress is currently in its first recess period of the first session of the 118th Congress. This is notable […]
The Ohio Senate race is already seeing challengers enter the race. On Tuesday, Republican Ohio state sen. Matt Dolan announced his campaign to unseat liberal Senator Sherrod Brown (D). “I am unapologetically committed to putting the needs of Ohio first and delivering results as our next U.S. Senator,” Dolan said in a statement. “With the […]
A failed Republican candidate for the New Mexico Legislature finds himself behind bars this morning. According to authorities, Solomon Peña, 39, conspired with four other men to shoot up the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators — all Democrats. Speaking to NBC News, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said investigators believe Peña […]
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great man, no doubt about that. Also on the right side of history. However, those two points also mean that everyone with an axe to grind these days tries to co-opt his memory and assert that his ideas were the same as theirs today. This is not necessarily […]
Conservative Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is running for the U.S. Senate, to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Mike Braun. Sen. Braun declared his candidacy for governor of Indiana last month. Banks revealed his campaign news in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News this morning. The Hoosier State politician told the outlet America needs […]
Honestly, it was only a matter of time before someone tried something on New Year’s Eve at Times Square. You can’t put that many people in that tight of a space with that many cameras present and expect that no one was ever going to plan some kind of attack. And, unfortunately, this time someone […]
ANALYSIS – The separate disclosures of highly classified materials found in three different locations tied to Joe Biden and his delay in making public the first discovery in November seem to be souring even the most ardent Bidenistas. Per the New York Post, Biden’s loyal lap dog, Attorney General Garland, “solidifying his reputation as a bitter partisan […]
German authorities reportedly detained climate change activist Greta Thunberg over the weekend at the site of a coal mine expansion project that will raze the village of Lützerath. Footage from the weekend showed police forcibly removing Thunberg and other activists from the site. ALN-affiliate America News Nation reported on the controversy involving Lützerath: For more […]
Congress Moves to Stop Biden From Giving America’s Oil Reserves to Communist China
In one of its first orders of business, the new Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation blocking President Joe Biden’s plans to give Communist China oil that is supposed to be reserved for national emergencies. The Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act (H.R. 22) passed by a vote of 331-97. The bill […]