Rep. Elijah Cummings to lie in state in Capitol
The late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Thursday.The longtime Maryland lawmaker and chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee,...
View ArticleGaetz calls Democrats 'angry pack of rabid hyenas' after storming...
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), a vocal supporter of President Trump, lambasted Democratic members of Congress as an "angry pack of rabid hyenas" just hours after a group of Republican lawmakers stormed a...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez on public life: 'Sometimes I just want to be a human...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) expressed the difficulty of constantly being in the spotlight in a recent interview. “Sometimes I just want to be a human being. And you don’t get to be a human...
View ArticleGaetz defends Democratic colleague Katie Hill over leaked photo
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) defended his Democratic college Rep. Katie Hill (Calif.) Thursday following the announcement that the House will investigate allegations of an extramarital affair with an...
View ArticleLong-delayed resolution condemning Armenian genocide may finally reach House...
The House is likely to take up a long-unsuccessful resolution to condemn the 1915-1917 Armenian genocide after House Democrats set it up to clear a key committee hurdle next week, according to Yahoo...
View ArticleGOP's Meadows offers tribute to Elijah Cummings
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) offered a tribute Thursday to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), saying those who thought the friendship between the two political rivals was surprising simply didn't know...
View ArticleLawmakers come together to honor Cummings: 'One of the greats in our...
Hundreds of lawmakers from both parties came together Thursday in the Capitol to honor the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, the son of sharecroppers who rose to become a giant of the Democratic Party and a...
View ArticleHouse Homeland Security Committee subpoenas security officials for testimony...
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Thursday issued subpoenas for the public testimony of two senior Trump administration officials on terror threats facing the...
View ArticlePence huddles with GOP allies on Syria
Vice President Pence on Thursday huddled in the Capitol with President Trump’s top allies in the House to discuss “progress” in Syria and other national security issues, meeting participants told The...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez, Mooney spar on Twitter over closed-door impeachment hearings
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back Thursday after Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) accused her of supporting “Soviet style secret hearings in the Capitol basement.”Mooney accused Ocasio-Cortez...
View ArticleEthics to investigate Guam delegate over alleged sexual relationship with...
The House Ethics Committee announced on Thursday that it has launched an investigation into whether Guam's delegate in Congress, Michael San Nicolas, broke the chamber's rules by having a sexual...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez calls out GOP lawmakers asking to be arrested, citing privilege
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called out the GOP lawmakers who asked to be arrested for storming the closed-door impeachment hearing Wednesday for relying on “mountains of entitlement and...
View ArticleKatie Hill attorneys send cease and desist to Daily Mail over nude photos
Attorneys representing freshman Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (Calif.) are demanding the DailyMail remove nude photos purportedly of Hill that her lawyers say were published without Hill’s consent....
View ArticleDemocrats say whistleblower deposition no longer central to impeachment...
House Democrats say there is ample evidence to move forward in the impeachment inquiry without asking for testimony from the whistleblower, The Washington Post reported.Several House Democrats said...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers express concerns about Giuliani's work in Ukraine
Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee are expressing concerns about shadow diplomacy work by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine.Even as conservative...
View ArticleGabbard won't seek reelection to Congress, focuses on presidential bid
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) announced early Friday morning that she would not seek reelection to Congress as she continues her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.The move is likely...
View ArticleThousands line up to attend Cummings funeral in Baltimore
Thousands of people have lined up to attend the funeral of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), a son of sharecroppers who rose to become the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee....
View ArticleClinton memorializes Cummings for standing 'against corrupt leadership...
Hillary Clinton praised Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) as someone who lived up to his Old Testament name by standing up against the "corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel," a line that drew...
View ArticleTrump steps up attacks on key diplomat in impeachment inquiry
President Trump on Friday called William Taylor, the top diplomat who recently testified in the House impeachment inquiry, a “Never Trumper” and said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a mistake...
View ArticleDemocrats subpoena White House, State Dept. officials for depositions in...
House Democrats have subpoenaed three Trump administration officials for depositions as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, lawmakers announced Friday.House...
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