House approves bill raising minimum wage to $15 per hour
The House on Thursday approved legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 in a 231-199 vote that cut largely along party lines. The legislation represented a long-evolving compromise between...
View ArticleHouse chaplain prays to 'cast out all spirits of darkness from this...
The Rev. Patrick Conroy, the chaplain for the House of Representatives, offered a prayer Thursday to cast out “spirits of darkness” after the chamber was engulfed in controversy with the White...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Pressley's story 'more American than any mantle this...
Former Secretary of State John Kerry is defending Rep. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), one of four Democratic congresswomen attacked by President Trump in recent days.Kerry wrote in a letter to the Boston...
View ArticleOmar stops traffic with impromptu news conference blasting Trump
In a chaotic moment outside the Capitol, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters — stopped in the middle of Independence Avenue, shut down two lanes of traffic and gave...
View ArticlePentagon contractor charged with threatening to kill Rep. Frederica Wilson:...
A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor has reportedly been charged with threatening to kill Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) after she introduced a vaccine bill in the House, the Daily Beast reports.A...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers speak out against 'send her back' chants
House Republicans are speaking out against the “send her back” chant that erupted at President Trump's rally Wednesday night against progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).A number of GOP lawmakers said...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez: Trump has 'put millions of Americans in danger' with...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said that President Trump put "millions of Americans in danger" after a "send her back" chant targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) broke out at his...
View ArticleDemocratic staffer says Wendy Davis will run for Congress
Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) will run for Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) seat in 2020, a staffer for Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) told the Austin American-Statesman.“Wendy spoke to the congressman...
View ArticleCummings tears into DHS chief for conditions at migrant border facilities
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) went off on acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan for more than 10 minutes Thursday over the conditions of...
View ArticleHouse Democrats delete tweets attacking each other, pledge to unify
Leaders of House Democratic factions riven by weeks of infighting pledged to unify on Thursday, with each side deleting recent social media posts attacking each other.In a joint statement issued...
View ArticleHistory in the House: Congress weathers unprecedented week
Even in the volatile Trump era, this was an extraordinary and historic week in Washington. The House voted to condemn a sitting president for “racist” tweets. The Speaker’s words were stricken from the...
View ArticleJudiciary chair demands Hope Hicks clarify closed-door testimony
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is demanding that former White House communications director Hope Hicks clarify her testimony before the committee after he said new court...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez hits DHS chief for 'images of my violent rape' in...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday confronted acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan about a secret Facebook group in which Border Patrol agents shared racist and sexist...
View ArticleIsrael won't deny entry to Omar, Tlaib
Israel will not deny entry to Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the country's ambassador to the U.S. said Friday."Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance...
View ArticleCummings asks prosecutors about decision not to charge Trump in hush money probe
Democrats are pressing federal investigators on whether an internal Department of Justice policy played any role in their decision not to indict President Trump following a probe into payments made to...
View ArticleComey pens blog revealing what he would ask Mueller in upcoming testimony
As Washington, D.C., anticipates former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before lawmakers next week, former FBI Director James Comey has revealed in a new Lawfare Institute blog post what...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz ahead of Mueller hearing: 'We are going to reelect the...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a staunch White House ally and member of the House Judiciary Committee, predicted former special counsel Robert Mueller’s House testimony next week could be a political boon...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez tears into Trump's immigration agenda: 'It's...
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) tore into President Trump at an immigration town hall Saturday, saying the president’s immigration policies are “about ethnicity and racism.”"All you need to...
View Article10 questions for Robert Mueller
Lawmakers from both parties on Wednesday will finally have the opportunity to question Robert Mueller about his Russia investigation. The former special counsel is slated to testify consecutively...
View ArticleGiuliani: Mueller should not testify before Congress
Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for President Trump, said former special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress ahead of speaking to two House committees Wednesday.“He shouldn’t...
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