Pressley to Kellyanne Conway: 'Keep my name out of your lying mouth'
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) lit into White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday after Conway took aim at the freshman Democrat for voting against a President Trump-backed border aid...
View ArticleActing DHS chief to testify on separation of migrant children later this month
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan will testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on the separation of immigrant families later this month.The committee announced on...
View ArticleDem leaders optimistic on defense bill despite progressive concerns
Democratic leadership is exuding confidence that a sweeping defense policy bill will pass despite progressive grumbling.Members of the Progressive Caucus said Wednesday they remain undecided on how to...
View ArticlePelosi scolds Democrats for public barbs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic leaders on Wednesday scolded Democrats for publicly taking shots at each other and pleaded for unity as they head into key debates in the coming...
View Article'Distraction Becky' trends online after Pressley tears into Conway...
The "DistractionBecky" hashtag has been trending on Twitter since Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) used it to slam White House counselor Kellyanne Conway online Tuesday evening.The progressive...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez: Democrats have become 'party of hemming and hawing'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) expressed some concern with the direction of the Democratic Party in an interview with the New Yorker published Wednesday."I think we became the party of hemming...
View ArticleOversight chair calls on Acosta to testify amid Epstein scrutiny
The head of the House Oversight and Reform Committee is asking Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to testify amid scrutiny over his role overseeing a non-prosecution agreement for Jeffrey Epstein, who...
View ArticleWhite House, congressional leaders revive budget talks
Administration officials and congressional leaders are trying to revive long-stalled talks aimed at striking a budget deal and avoiding a government shutdown in the fall. Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
View ArticleLawmakers, experts see combating Russian disinformation as a 'battle'
House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) is describing the fight against Russian efforts to spread disinformation on social media as a conflict that the U.S. has “got to win."At a...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez suggests she's open to dissolving Homeland Security
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested that she is open to dissolving the Department of Homeland Security in an interview The New Yorker published Wednesday.The New York freshman said...
View ArticleTlaib blasts Foreign Affairs Committee's anti-BDS bill as...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) took aim at a bill in the House Foreign Affairs Committee condemning the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it "unconstitutional."The...
View ArticleCummings: Treatment of young migrants is 'government-sponsored child...
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) called the treatment of migrant children at facilities on the U.S. border with Mexico “government-sponsored child abuse” in a news...
View ArticleGOP blasts Democrats for using 2014 'kids in cages' photo to...
The Democratic-led House Oversight Committee on Tuesday promoted a hearing on migrant detention facilities by tweeting a photo taken during the Obama administration, prompting Republicans to accuse...
View ArticleConservatives ask Barr to lay out Trump's rationale for census question
A group of House conservatives is calling on Attorney General William Barr to lay out President Trump’s rationale for adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, as lawmakers brace for Trump...
View ArticleHeavy loss by female candidate in Republican NC runoff sparks shock
Republican lawmakers expressed shock and disappointment at the heavy defeat suffered by a female candidate in a North Carolina primary runoff despite earning prominent endorsements and being backed by...
View ArticleDemocrats struggle to quell infighting
House Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces following one of their biggest ruptures since seizing the House majority in the historic elections of last fall.Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), at...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez accuses Pelosi of 'persistent singling out' of women...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of repeatedly singling out newly elected women of color in the House, saying that the veteran congresswoman's criticism...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez explains criticism of Pelosi, says she's 'absolutely...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is “absolutely not” racist after accusing her the day before of targeting four women of color in the House for...
View ArticlePelosi says she's done talking about fight with 'Squad'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she was done talking in public about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the tensions roiling her caucus after the New York lawmaker criticized her in an...
View ArticleArizona Democrat joins call for Trump impeachment
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Thursday morning joined a growing list of House Democrats calling to open an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. "No president in the history of our country has...
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