Omar fires back at Pence for saying she 'doesn't know what...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) fired back on Friday after Vice President Pence said she "doesn’t know what she’s talking about" regarding the ongoing conflict in Venezuela.Omar took to Twitter to say that...
View ArticleDem lawmaker shares video of herself dancing to Beyonce for Dance Week
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Saturday shared a video of herself dancing with her staff to a Beyoncé Knowles song for Bay Area Dance Week.The 72-year-old lawmaker tweeted that she was loving the...
View ArticleHouse ethics panel renews probes into three GOP lawmakers
The House Ethics Committee voted to reopen investigations into three Republican congressmen. The committee said in statements Friday that voted to reauthorize investigative subcommittees to look into...
View ArticleRep. John Lewis on MLK birthday: 'We still have a great distance to...
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said that the U.S. still has a "great distance" to go before racism no longer exists in the country.Lewis told Rolling Stone for what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King...
View ArticleAnticipation builds for Mueller testimony
Democrats’ anticipation for public testimony by special counsel Robert Mueller is building by the minute.The demands for Mueller to testify before Congress reached a new level of urgency this week,...
View ArticlePelosi says she worried Trump would have contested elections if House margin...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a new interview that she worried in 2018 whether President Trump would contest the election of some House Democrats if her party had taken control of the chamber...
View ArticleDems see GOP effort to drive them to impeach Trump
House Democratic leaders facing liberal calls for impeaching President Trump are confronting increasing pressure from an unlikely faction: Republicans who appear eager to goad them into it. Speaker...
View ArticleHouse Judiciary Dem warns of contempt citation if Barr does not turn over...
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) on Sunday warned William Barr that he faces a contempt citation if the attorney general does not comply with requests for documents relating to special counsel Robert...
View ArticleSwalwell: Impeachment 'maybe the only road to save the country'
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential candidate, stopped short of calling for the impeachment of President Trump on Sunday, but did say that impeachment might be the only way to "save the...
View ArticleTlaib criticizes New York Times for framing of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday criticized The New York Times for its framing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling the paper's headline about the recent violence in the region...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez says she's not ready to endorse 2020 candidate, will focus...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she's not ready to endorse a 2020 candidate but offered praise for several members of the crowded field this weekend, according to the Boston Herald.“I’m...
View ArticleDemocrats losing independents on Trump impeachment: poll
A plurality of independent voters don't think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump even though most don't approve of the commander in chief, according to a new poll....
View ArticleConservatives slam Omar over tweet on Gaza violence
Conservative and members of House GOP leadership criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over a tweet in which she lamented the violence in Gaza over the weekend."How many more protesters must be shot,...
View ArticleHouse Democrats reopen investigation into Trump handling of hurricanes
Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Monday relaunched an investigation into the Trump administration's response to hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez to headline Green New Deal rally in Washington, DC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will headline a rally later this month in Washington, D.C., promoting the Green New Deal, a progressive proposal that calls for sweeping reforms to combat climate...
View ArticleRick Scott says Ocasio-Cortez has embarrassed Congress 'to the point of...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) got into a heated online exchange on Monday after Scott took a jab at the Green New Deal and Ocasio-Cortez shot back that it was...
View Article25 Dems ask federal appeals court to invalidate Trump pardon of Arpaio
A group of 25 Democratic lawmakers are calling on a federal appeals court in California to invalidate President Trump's pardon of Arizona's controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The...
View ArticleHarvard's Laurence Tribe: 'We might lose our souls and our...
Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe warned Monday that Americans could lose their "souls and our constitutional democracy" if Democratic lawmakers do not begin impeachment proceedings against...
View ArticleLiz Cheney faces a big decision on her future
Liz Cheney is at a crossroads: Does she run for an open Senate seat in Wyoming that she’d be favored to win, or continue to climb the House leadership ladder with hopes of making history as the first...
View ArticleRepublicans troll Democrats with proposals to rename upcoming health care bill
Republicans on a key House committee are trolling Democrats with amendments to rename legislation aimed at blocking some of the Trump administration's moves on the Affordable Care Act.The Protecting...
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