Byron York

Posted May 20, 2013

There will be an event on Capitol Hill this week that will tell us a lot about the future of comprehensive immigration reform.

Posted May 14, 2013

Are snowboard instructors key to American immigration policy? Well, they're important enough to be specifically included in the Senate bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill.

Posted May 06, 2013

After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters.

Posted April 29, 2013

Members of the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight stress that under their new immigration plan, currently illegal immigrants will have to wait more than a decade before achieving citizenship.

Posted April 16, 2013

There's a confrontation coming between the Obama administration and Republicans in Congress over the most basic question of immigration reform: How secure is the U.S. border with Mexico?

Posted April 09, 2013

Passing major legislation is not a path to the presidency. So why is Sen. Marco Rubio, who is almost surely running for the 2016 Republican nomination, working so hard on comprehensive immigration reform?

Posted April 08, 2013

Passing major legislation is not a path to the presidency. So why is Sen. Marco Rubio, who is almost surely running for the 2016 Republican nomination, working so hard on comprehensive immigration reform?

Posted April 01, 2013

Did you know that U.S. law forbids the admission of any immigrant who is likely to depend on public assistance?

Posted March 25, 2013

If Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform, it will depend on the Obama administration to enforce the law. How might that work?

Posted March 18, 2013

If there was any villain at the just-completed Conservative Political Action Conference, it was the generic figure of the Republican political consultant. Overpaid, unprincipled, always on the lookout for the next client -- or easy mark -- the consultants, to listen to a number of CPAC speakers, have helped bring the Republican Party to its current low state.

Posted March 11, 2013

The little secret of sequestration is that the Obama administration could fix much of the problem pretty quickly. But it doesn't want to.

Posted March 04, 2013

Nine months ago, Barack Obama likened his Republican opposition to an illness. If he could just defeat Mitt Romney, Obama said, then the illness might subside.

Posted February 25, 2013

There's no doubt President Obama is using the so-called Washington Monument maneuver in the fight with Republicans over sequestration budget cuts.

Posted February 19, 2013

A brief moment on February 13 showed why President Obama can't win when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. In front of the White House, protesters led by actress Daryl Hannah and the head of the Sierra Club demanded that Obama kill the project. Just a few blocks away, the head of the AFL-CIO's powerful Building and Construction Trades Department joined with the American Petroleum Institute to demand that Obama approve it.

Posted February 11, 2013

Immigration reform as envisioned by the so-called Gang of Eight is actually a three-step process. Democrats like to leave out the first step: immediate legalization of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.

Posted February 05, 2013

"While we were playing footsie debating each other 22 times, they were spending $100 million on technology," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said last week, referring to his party's rigorous debate schedule in the 2012 GOP presidential primary season.

Posted January 28, 2013

In coming months, Republicans will talk a lot about how to appeal to a wider range of voters. They could learn from someone who's actually doing the job.

Posted January 21, 2013

"You don't have to be a deficit hawk to be disturbed by the growing gap between revenues and expenses," said Sen. Barack Obama during a Nov. 3, 2005, debate on the Senate floor.

Posted January 14, 2013

Just because the sequestration cuts are bad doesn't mean the defense budget should be sacrosanct.

Posted January 07, 2013

During the "fiscal cliff" battle, I asked several Republican lawmakers why they didn't push harder for spending cuts in exchange for their historic concession to vote for higher taxes.