Ocasio-Cortez deletes tweet after incorrectly identifying Dem lawmaker as a...
Firebrand freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) deleted a tweet on Thursday after incorrectly identifying a Democratic lawmaker as a Republican in a post blasting Republicans.The New York...
View ArticleCollege Democrats at over 40 schools boycott DCCC over pro-incumbent policy
Young Democrats at more than 30 colleges nationwide plan to boycott the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in protest of a new policy critics say is intended to freeze out challengers...
View ArticleDOJ official ignores House subpoena to testify on census citizenship question
A Department of Justice (DOJ) official on Thursday made good on the agency's promise that he would not comply with a congressional subpoena to testify about the addition of a citizenship question to...
View ArticleBarr to testify before House panel next week on Mueller report
Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, the panel announced Thursday.Barr’s...
View ArticleJack Dorsey called Ilhan Omar after Trump tweet that prompted death threats:...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to defend the platform's decision to keep up a tweet from President Trump that the congresswoman said resulted in a surge in death...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez backs giving prisoners voting rights
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday voiced her support for giving incarcerated felons voting rights, while warning opponents they risked “looking completely + utterly out of touch w/ the...
View ArticleSome Dem chairmen have changed tune on Trump impeachment
House Democratic chairmen who cast votes in favor of impeaching President Trump while Republicans controlled the chamber now say it’s too soon to hit the gas on starting impeachment proceedings. The...
View ArticleHouse Oversight Dem threatens jail for Trump officials who don't comply...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Thursday warned that the investigative body “will use any and all power in our command” — including incarceration —...
View ArticlePelosi blasts McConnell for not taking up House bills
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday for ignoring a series of bills passed by the Democratic House. “The Republican Senate needs to wake...
View ArticleMajority of Americans don't support impeachment: poll
A majority of Americans say they don’t support impeaching President Trump in light of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible Russian collusion and whether the White House obstructed...
View ArticleMaxine Waters blasts judge's decision to release Coast Guard officer...
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Friday blasted a federal judge's decision to release a Coast Guard officer accused of plotting domestic terrorism with a hit list that included her and other prominent...
View ArticleHouse Dem chairman announces hearing after Trump rejects UN arms treaty
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that the panel will hold a hearing to examine President Trump's decision to pull the U.S. from an international treaty designed to...
View ArticleWhite House says former official can speak to Oversight panel next week
The White House has agreed to allow former personnel security director Carl Kline speak to the House Oversight and Reform Committee next week, the White House counsel said in a letter Friday obtained...
View ArticleSchiff: Only way to deal with Trump is to 'vote his ass out of office'
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday hedged on the prospect of beginning impeachment proceedings against President Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, saying the...
View ArticleBarr warns House Dems he might not appear at hearing
Attorney General William Barr has warned House Democrats that he might not appear as scheduled this week in front of the Judiciary Committee, The Hill has confirmed.Barr has told Democrats they need to...
View ArticleTop House Dem on Trump's defense of Charlottesville comments:...
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Sunday offered his take on President Trump’s defense of his 2017 comments following the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.“I think he's...
View ArticleJudiciary Committee Dem: Impeachment should be considered
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that Democrats should consider bringing impeachment proceedings against President Trump.Richmond, appearing on CBS's...
View ArticleNadler hits back at Barr: 'The witness is not going to tell the...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) fired back Sunday at Attorney General William Barr after the attorney general warned he may not appear at a scheduled committee hearing this...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez challenges Conway on Sri Lanka comments: 'Are you trying...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday accused White House counselor Kellyanne Conway of using the church bombings in Sri Lanka as a way to "stoke suspicion" of the first-term lawmaker's...
View ArticleDems want climate change, tax hikes in infrastructure deal
The top two Democratic leaders on Monday told President Trump that any bipartisan infrastructure package needs to take into consideration climate change and include “substantial, new and real revenue”...
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