Ocasio-Cortez mourns Cummings: 'A devastating loss for our country'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday issued a statement on Twitter mourning the death of longtime Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), calling his passing a “devastating loss for our...
View ArticlePelosi calls Cummings 'our North Star' as Democratic leaders mourn...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lauded the life and work of the late House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Thursday, calling him "our North Star."Pelosi added in a...
View ArticleMaloney to serve as acting Oversight chairwoman after Cummings's death
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) will fill in as acting chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee following the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).Cummings served as the committee’s top...
View ArticlePelosi explains what she was saying to Trump in viral photo: 'All roads...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday she was delivering a simple message to President Trump as she stood and departed a contentious White House meeting the previous day: "At that moment,...
View ArticlePelosi sounds hopeful on new NAFTA deal despite tensions with White House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats are hopeful of sealing a deal with the Trump administration to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) despite tensions...
View ArticleSchiff: Mulvaney comments on Ukraine aid have made things 'much, much...
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Thursday that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s comments linked the withholding of aid to Ukraine to investigations...
View ArticleDem committee chairs blast Trump G-7 announcement
Democratic heads of House committees took aim at the president on Thursday after it was announced that the upcoming meeting of leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) nations would be hosted at President...
View ArticleBaltimore remembers Cummings with billboards, music
Baltimore residents are paying tribute to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) following news of the longtime Maryland congressman's death Thursday at the age of 68.Cummings, who served in Congress for 23 years,...
View ArticleHouse leaders offer tributes from floor to Elijah Cummings
Top lawmakers from both parties paid tribute on the House floor Thursday to House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), a longtime lawmaker respected by members of both parties whose death was...
View ArticleRepublicans seek to delay effort to censure Schiff after Cummings' death
Republicans are seeking to put off for a few days their effort to censure House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) following the death of longtime Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the head of...
View ArticleDemocrats want Mulvaney to testify in Trump impeachment probe
House Democrats want to hear testimony from acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in their impeachment inquiry after he acknowledged Thursday that the administration held up military aid to...
View ArticleTestimony from GOP diplomat complicates Trump defense
House Democrats seized on Thursday’s testimony from a top U.S. diplomat as evidence that President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani acted inappropriately in their contacts with Ukraine.But...
View ArticleOmar calls Trump hosting G-7 at Doral 'disturbing'
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is sharply criticizing the announcement that next year's Group of Seven (G-7) summit will be held at Doral, President Trump's Miami golf resort, calling it another example of...
View ArticleSchiff says Mulvaney walk-back not 'the least bit credible'
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's walk-back of comments indicating the Trump administration held up aid to Ukraine to ensure it investigated issues related to the 2016 election was not "the...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker responds to Mulvaney: 'Are we trying to exculpate...
Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) on Friday knocked unproven election interference allegations against Ukraine that have been floated by President Trump and his personal lawyer recently.During an appearance...
View ArticleGOP leader defends Mulvaney amid backlash over quid pro quo comments
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday defended acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney amid backlash over his remarks suggesting that Ukraine aid was connected to the...
View ArticleGowdy remembers political opponent, good friend Elijah Cummings
Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) paid tribute to his good friend former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who died Thursday at the age of 68.In an op-ed that was published in The Washington Post on Friday,...
View ArticleKasich says he'd back impeachment
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said Friday he would back President Trump's impeachment if he were in the House. “Look, I fought with people on air over, ‘Is there a quid pro quo’ and ‘Does this rise...
View ArticleScalise, Cole introduce resolution to change rules on impeachment
Friday, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) introduced a resolution that would that would require the committees overseeing the impeachment inquiry to allow outside...
View ArticleHouse Republicans 'demand the release of the rules' on impeachment
House Republicans are calling for the committee leaders overseeing the impeachment inquiry to release the guidelines and regulations under which depositions and transcriptions of testimony are being...
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