Key Democrat cites new urgency to get Trump's tax returns
A key Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee said Monday that the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's 2016 election meddling lends a new significance to the...
View ArticleScalise moves forward with plan to force vote on 'Abortion...
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) plans to move forward with introducing a discharge petition next week that would force a vote on a bill that would require medical practitioners to provide the...
View ArticleRaskin embraces role as constitutional scholar
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the often-disheveled former constitutional law professor, has carved out one of the most important roles in the House as Democrats contemplate their investigations of President Trump...
View ArticleDemocrats face dilemma after Mueller probe ends
House Democrats are scrambling to determine their next steps after Attorney General William Barr effectively cleared President Trump and his campaign of allegations of conspiracy with the Russian...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez downplays possibility of impeaching Trump
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) downplayed the possibility that Democrats will impeach President Trump on Tuesday, telling reporters that her party has to consider the reality that Republicans...
View ArticleHouse Dems support GOP push for details on Rosenstein in fight for Mueller...
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are pouncing on a GOP-led resolution calling for the release of sensitive information related to alleged events that unfolded at the start of the Russia...
View ArticleOmar hits back at Pelosi over BDS remarks
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday pushed back against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for denouncing the global boycott and sanctions movement against Israel during an appearance before the annual...
View ArticleObama tells freshman Dems to consider how to pay for progressive policies
Former President Obama reportedly had words of advice for a group of freshman Democrats late Monday at a private event in Washington where he warned about pursuing bold ideas without plans for...
View ArticleHouse Dems, GOP slam Trump's proposed NSF cuts
House Democrats and Republicans found common ground Tuesday in denunciating President Trump’s proposed 12 percent cut to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the country’s leading backer of...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker quotes Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' on House floor while...
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks (Ala.) on Monday quoted Adolf Hitler's writing while excoriating “socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies” for propagating a "big lie" about alleged collusion between...
View ArticlePelosi presses Dems to focus on agenda post-Mueller
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other House Democratic leaders on Tuesday pressed their caucus to focus on its legislative agenda days after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his...
View ArticleHouse fails to override Trump veto on border wall
The House failed Tuesday to override the first veto of President Trump's tenure, a vote led by Democrats seeking to uphold a measure unwinding the president's national emergency declaration at the...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez to followers: If Mike Lee can be a senator, you can do anything
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocked Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on Tuesday after the lawmaker criticized her Green New Deal proposal.In a tweet, the New York Democrat quipped that Lee's...
View ArticlePelosi vows to go after Trump's wall via appropriations process
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed Tuesday to use the appropriations process to fight against President Trump’s national emergency declaration to obtain funds for a border wall.Her announcement...
View ArticleHouse leaders pay homage to C-SPAN on 40th anniversary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) paid homage to C-SPAN on the House floor Tuesday in celebration of the network’s 40th year on air.Pelosi, who turned...
View ArticleTrump calls Dems 'party of open borders, drugs and crime' after...
President Trump on Tuesday praised House Republicans who voted to sustain his veto of a measure seeking to block his emergency declaration at the southern border."Thank you to the House Republicans for...
View ArticleOmar requests 'accountability' for GOP lawmaker who quoted Hitler...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who became the center of controversy over her rhetoric earlier this year, on Tuesday called for accountability for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) after he quoted Adolf Hitler on the...
View ArticleTlaib shares 'hateful,' 'bullying' note left on office door
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), one of a group of outspoken progressives among the Democratic freshman class, shared a post-it note place outside her office addressed to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),...
View ArticleDem lawmaker calls out 'archaic' sexism in Congress
Freshman Democratic Rep. Katie Hill (Calif.) is calling out what she calls “archaic” sexism still present in the halls of Congress.In an interview with Washington Post publication The Lily, Hill...
View ArticlePelosi, Dems look for upside to Mueller report
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday delivered a clear message to her troops: Don’t let the report from special counsel Robert Mueller get you down.She urged Democrats to instead focus on...
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