White House calls on House to pass Senate's border funding bill
The White House on Thursday called on House Democrats to pass the bipartisan Senate version of a bill providing billions of dollars in border funding and humanitarian aid.Press secretary Sarah Huckabee...
View ArticleHouse Democrats plan showdown with Senate over border aid
The partisan showdown over a $4.5 billion border aid package rumbled on Thursday morning, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats planned a vote on an amended proposal providing explicit...
View ArticlePelosi becomes visibly emotional over photo of dead migrant father and daughter
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) became visibly emotional while discussing the widely seen photo of a father and young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.At her weekly press...
View ArticleHouse Republicans line up on floor to call for unanimous consent on Senate...
More than two dozen GOP lawmakers on Thursday lined up on the House floor to call for a unanimous consent vote on the bipartisan Senate-passed bill to provide emergency humanitarian border aid.The move...
View ArticlePelosi says it's up to GOP to address sexual assault allegation against...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday she doesn't see a role for Congress to respond to the latest sexual assault allegation against President Trump, saying the president's own party should...
View ArticleModerate Democrats threaten to block liberal-backed border bill
Centrist Democrats said Thursday they have the votes to block an emergency border funding bill favored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and liberals in the caucus.The moderate Democrats are wary that...
View ArticleStudy: Only 9 percent of House offices advertise paid internships
Just 9 percent of House offices advertise paid internships, according to an outside group, despite Congress approving a fund for paying interns last year.The 2019 legislative branch appropriations bill...
View ArticleHouse Democrats cave, will take up Senate border bill
House Democrats will vote Thursday on a clean Senate-passed bill to address the border crisis, marking a blow to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and liberal lawmakers who had demanded additional...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat after border defeat: Since when did Problem Solvers...
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, blasted a revolt by centrist House Democrats on Thursday that blocked the emergency border funding measure championed by...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez: 'Hell no' should House Democrats approve...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said House Democrats' response to voting for a border bill approved by the Senate without amendments should be "hell no.""Under no circumstances should the House...
View ArticleHouse holds moment of silence for drowned migrant father and daughter
The House on Thursday held a moment of silence on the floor for the two Salvadoran migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. and whose bodies were widely seen in a...
View ArticleHouse passes sweeping Democrat-backed election security bill
The House passed a Democrat-backed bill that would require election systems to use voter-verified paper ballots as an attempt to avoid election interference by a party-line vote of 225-184 on Tuesday,...
View ArticleHouse sends Trump border aid bill after Pelosi caves to pressure from moderates
The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan Senate bill that would address the crisis at the southern border, dealing a major blow to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and progressives who had pushed for...
View ArticleBipartisan bill would improve reporting of hate crimes
Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Pete Olson (R-Texas) introduced legislation Thursday to improve reporting of hate crimes and expand resources for victims.Beyer and Olson unveiled the National Opposition to...
View ArticleCongressional Hispanic Caucus condemns migrants' suffering at the...
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) slammed an immigration bill passed by both chambers of Congress on Thursday, saying the $4.6 billion package intended to address humanitarian concerns at the...
View ArticleMan charged with criminal contempt, stalking after visiting...
A New York man has been arrested and charged with criminal contempt after violating an order of protection by visiting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) district office after being warned...
View ArticleProgressives, centrists in open warfare after House caves on Trump border bill
Tensions between progressive and centrist lawmakers spilled into open view Thursday after House Democratic leaders caved on legislation to provide resources for agencies handling migrants at the...
View ArticleCalifornia Democrats unveil redistricting reform bill after Supreme Court...
A group of California Democrats unveiled legislation Friday to place new requirements on how congressional districts are redrawn a day after the Supreme Court ruled that courts can’t resolve partisan...
View ArticleHouse Ethics Committee investigating Gaetz over Cohen threats
The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is formally investigating whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attempted to intimidate President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of his...
View ArticleMaryland lawmakers slam 'despicable' Trump remark about journalists...
Maryland lawmakers on Friday sharply criticized President Trump for talking about getting rid of journalists on the anniversary of a shooting at the Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis that killed...
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