Majority in Michigan is against impeaching Trump: poll
Michigan is home to a bipartisan pair of House lawmakers in favor of impeaching President Trump, but voters in the Great Lakes State do not appear to feel as strongly, according to a statewide poll. A...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez says Manafort, others should be released from solitary confinement
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday called for President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort to be released from solitary confinement. The freshman congresswoman has...
View ArticleCongresswoman opens up about anti-LGBT bias on the campaign trail
Freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) said in a new interview that she faced anti-LGBT discrimination while campaigning for her House seat. Hill, who is openly bisexual, told Refinery29 that other...
View ArticleMcCarthy: Republicans need to back Trump on Mexico tariffs
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called on Senate Republicans to support President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Mexican exports unless that country does more to try to force action...
View ArticlePelosi: Trump's Mexico tariff threat is a 'distraction' from...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico is just a "distraction" from the Mueller report.“I don’t even think it rises to...
View ArticlePelosi: Trump treating Mexico 'like an enemy'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday charged President Trump with treating Mexico "like an enemy" for his decision to slap escalating tariffs on the United States's largest trading...
View ArticleCommerce officials to answer on census citizenship question amid contempt threat
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said Wednesday that three Commerce Department officials have agreed to sit for voluntary interviews as committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) threatens a...
View ArticlePelosi on impeachment crowd: 'I respect their impatience'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has fought for months to tamp down talk of impeaching President Trump. But on Wednesday she hailed the liberal impeachment supporters for bringing vital energy to the...
View ArticleDemocrats push Boy Scouts for more info on lobbying against stricter sexual...
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is pressing the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for more information about the organization's lobbying efforts against legislation to extend statutes of limitations for...
View ArticleHouse Homeland Security chairman introduces bill calling for annual domestic...
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would require federal agencies to annually produce an unclassified report on incidents of...
View ArticleBlue Dogs call on Democratic leaders to abide by pay-go rule
Members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate House Democrats, are cautioning the party's leadership against disregarding the caucus’ pay-as-you-go rule.In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy...
View ArticleNadler: 'It may very well come to' opening a formal impeachment...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that “it may very well come to” launching an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, depending on the findings of the House’s...
View ArticlePelosi privately told Democrats she wants Trump 'in prison': report
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) privately told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Trump "in prison," Politico reported Wednesday.Her remarks came during a meeting Tuesday night...
View ArticleDemocrats hit gas on Mueller probe — without Mueller testimony
Democrats are vowing to press forward with public hearings on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, calling a Watergate star as their first big witness as they dig into probes of President...
View ArticleSwing-state Democrats see trouble in proposed pay hike
House Democrats hailing from swing districts are split over leadership’s decision to move forward with a spending package that would allow members of Congress to get a pay bump for the first time in a...
View ArticleLiberals rip Democratic leaders for writing drug pricing bill in secret
Progressive House Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with their party’s leadership, accusing them of writing Democrats’ signature bill to lower prescription drug prices in secret and without...
View ArticleHouse Dems call on Trump to cancel plans to speak at July Fourth celebration
A trio of top House Democrats called on President Trump to cancel a planned speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the national Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall, saying it would inject...
View ArticleNeal vows to block Trump emergency declaration for tariffs on Mexico
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) vowed to take action to block President Trump if he declares a state of emergency to impose tariffs on Mexico.“The President’s proposed...
View ArticlePelosi sidesteps impeachment question in Normandy, focuses on veterans
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sidestepped a question about impeachment in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell in Normandy, France, saying she preferred to focus on veterans during the event...
View ArticleHouse Democrats officially introduce contempt resolution for Barr, McGahn
House Democrats have officially introduced a resolution to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional...
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