Democrats celebrate announcement on citizenship census question
Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are celebrating the Trump administration's announcement on Tuesday that it will forgo adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.Critics have pushed back on the...
View ArticleHouse Democrats call for Facebook to halt cryptocurrency project
A group of Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee is calling on Facebook to halt its plan to develop a cryptocurrency-based payments platform.The lawmakers, whose panel will hold a hearing...
View ArticleDemocratic lawmaker says officials tried to keep her from migrant girls...
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) on Wednesday said she was not allowed to see all of the girls being held at a facility for migrant children that she visited in Homestead, Fla. "I was truly concerned...
View ArticleDemocratic lawmaker slams Trump's Fourth of July event: 'This must...
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) criticized President Trump's "Salute to America" Fourth of July plans, accusing the president of overspending and turning the celebration into a partisan event. "I grew up here...
View ArticleCensus Bureau director to testify before Congress on 2020 census
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said Wednesday that the director of the Census Bureau will testify at a hearing later this month on the 2020 census, amid conflicting statements on whether the...
View ArticleTop Democrat warns Trump against using Park Service fees for July 4 event
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees Interior Department spending, threatened on Wednesday to investigate the reported use of National Park Service...
View ArticleLA Times editorial board calls on Duncan Hunter to resign immediately
The LA Times editorial board is calling on Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) to resign immediately, amid a lawsuit alleging the congressman misused $250,000 in campaign cash over six years including on...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez says U.S. is headed to 'fascism' under Trump
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a new interview that she believes the United States is heading in a fascist direction under President Trump.“Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think...
View ArticleLaura Ingraham, Joaquin Castro feud on Twitter over migrant detainment...
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Fox News host Laura Ingraham feuded Wednesday over the pictures and videos he released showing conditions at migrant detention facilities near the southern border.In a...
View ArticleTop Democrats call for administration to rescind child migrant information...
A group of Democratic House committee and subcommittee chairs are calling on the Trump administration to revoke a policy that requires information on sponsors of undocumented immigrant children to be...
View ArticleAmash: GOP moving 'toward a sense of victimization'
Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), the lone congressional Republican who has called for an impeachment inquiry against President Trump, on Wednesday accused members of his party of moving "toward a sense of...
View ArticleReparations bill gains traction in the House
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-Texas) bill that would form a commission to study whether black Americans should receive reparations for slavery is gaining traction among top Democrats, with the...
View ArticleGOP senator knocks Ocasio-Cortez for comparing Trump admin detention centers...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) took aim at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday over her remarks comparing the Trump administration's migrant detention centers to concentration camps.In an...
View ArticleAmash quits Republican Party
Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) on Thursday announced he's leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent, months after igniting a political firestorm when he became the first sitting GOP...
View ArticleCalifornia Democrat accused of sexual abuse says lawsuit has been dropped
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) says a woman who accused him of sexual assault has dropped the charges. The California Democrat had denied the allegations that he assaulted the woman in 2007, when she...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker calls for Amash to leave Republican Conference
Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) called on Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) to leave the House Republican Conference after he announced Thursday he is leaving the GOP. “Amash left the @freedomcaucus now he’s leaving...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez: Amash is 'right' to warn of 'partisan death...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday tweeted that Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) is "right" in criticizing Congress for becoming increasingly partisan, retweeting an op-ed penned by Amash in...
View ArticleDC delegate uses Fourth of July to press call for statehood
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), Washington, D.C.'s representative in the House, turned to Twitter on July 4 to trumpet her push for D.C. statehood. “D.C. residents should march on July 4th to remind...
View ArticleAnti-ICE protesters demonstrate near Pelosi's office
Protesters calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) demonstrated Friday near House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.)...
View ArticleHopes dim for passage of Trump trade deal
House Democrats say there's little to no chance that Congress will take up President Trump's replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) before the end of summer. With only three...
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