Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Central America, Mexico border
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading a congressional delegation on a trip to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that will ultimately end at McAllen, Texas, as she seeks to highlight President...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez on her pushback against Pelosi: I 'stand up for myself and...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in a new interview defended her criticism of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for "singling out" minority members of the House Democratic Caucus, vowing to...
View ArticleBanks give Congress, New York AG documents related to Russians who may have...
Several Wall Street banks complied with congressional requests for documents relating to Russians who may have dealt with President Trump, his businesses or family, according to The Wall Street...
View ArticleMeet the House lawyer helping Democrats fight Trump
The top attorney for House Democrats is poised to play a key role in determining whether Democrats begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump.Even though some of House counsel Douglas...
View ArticleDemocrats voice doubts Congress will take serious action on guns
Key Democrats in Congress are already voicing serious doubts that Congress will take meaningful action on gun control in response to the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.While lawmakers in...
View ArticleIllinois House Republicans call on Trump to not commute Blagojevich's...
House Republicans in the Illinois delegation are calling for President Trump to not commute the prison sentence of former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is serving 14 years on federal...
View ArticleSchumer, Pelosi urge Trump to support universal background check bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that they had spoken with President Trump and urged him to support a universal background...
View ArticleNadler: 'This is formal impeachment proceedings'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that his House panel is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.Nadler added that the committee will decide by...
View ArticleHouse Oversight Committee to examine role of licensed gun dealers
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said Friday that it will examine the role of licensed gun dealers as it looks into gun violence in the wake of two mass shootings that left 31 people dead....
View ArticleHouse Homeland Security chair blasts ICE raid's 'blatant lack of...
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Friday wrote a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) condemning a Wednesday raid in his home state that resulted in...
View ArticleHouse conservatives call for ethics probe into Joaquin Castro tweet
House conservatives on Friday called on the chamber's Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) for tweeting the names of Trump campaign donors.“Posting a target list of private...
View ArticleOhio man charged after saying Ocasio-Cortez 'should be shot,'...
An Ohio man on Friday was reportedly charged in federal court with threatening to shoot Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and illegally stockpiling ammunition in his home.Timothy J. Ireland, 41,...
View ArticleNadler hits gas on impeachment
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is hitting the rhetorical gas on Democratic efforts to impeach President Trump. The Judiciary Committee chairman this week boosted his case that the panel has already...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez demands 'answers' after Epstein found dead in jail cell
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) led public calls Saturday demanding answers after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell due to an apparent suicide.“We...
View ArticleDemocrat calls for congressional investigation after Epstein death
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) on Saturday called for a congressional investigation into a former plea deal for disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein after he reportedly died of an apparent...
View ArticleThe 9 House Republicans who support background checks
Two mass shootings last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed a combined 31 people have reinvigorated the debate in Washington over gun control.While Democrats have pushed for a...
View ArticleThe 11 House Dems from Trump districts who support assault weapons ban
Two mass shootings last weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that left 31 people dead have revamped debate about gun control measures in Congress.While Democrats widely agree on several reforms,...
View ArticleTrump tells advisers Omar and Tlaib shouldn't be allowed to enter...
President Trump has told advisers that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should prevent Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering Israel, Axios reported Saturday,...
View ArticleDemocratic veteran lawmakers call for return of assault weapons ban
Two Democrats familiar with assault weapons from their time in the military say that “mass shootings are occurring at an alarming rate” and are calling for lawmakers to reinstate a ban to keep the...
View ArticleCongressional Hispanic Caucus calls for answers on Mississippi ICE raids
Top members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) are demanding answers about the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids of seven Mississippi food-processing plants that led to 680...
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