Dole salute embodies emotion of Bush farewell
Bob Dole rose out of his wheelchair, with some assistance, to stand and salute his old World War II veteran friend and 1988 presidential rival, the late President George H.W. Bush.The former GOP Kansas...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez confirms she will pay interns 'at least' $15 an hour
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday night confirmed she will pay her interns at least $15 an hour.“Time to walk the walk,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Very few members of Congress...
View ArticleHouse Dems to introduce bill for background checks on all gun purchases or...
House Democrats plan to push a bill to require a background check for every gun sale in America, according to a report from Mother Jones. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a bill that...
View ArticleDem rep on Oversight Committee calls for emergency hearing on NC election...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Wednesday called for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to hold an emergency hearing on allegations of election fraud in North Carolina's 9th...
View ArticleDems cry foul in undecided N.C. race
House Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republicans to investigate allegations of voter fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, one of the last midterm races that’s still...
View ArticleOver a thousand absentee ballots possibly destroyed in controversial North...
Over a thousand absentee ballots from likely Democratic voters may have been destroyed in the race for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District last month as allegations of fraud on behalf of the...
View ArticleReport: Pelosi weighing placing term limits on committee chairs
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is reportedly weighing placing term limits on Democratic chairmen in an effort to lock down the votes needed to secure the Speaker's gavel.Pelosi discussed...
View Article‘Wake up, dudes’ — gender gap confounds GOP women
Republican men and women are deeply divided over how to confront the results of a brutal midterm election that decimated the ranks of female GOP lawmakers in the House.Most House Republicans have so...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez on why young people need to run for Congress
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling for more young people to run for Congress, saying it’s key for the body to “represent the American people."“Congress is supposed to represent the...
View ArticleHouse Dems seek to delay wall fight until September
House Democrats' preferred plan in their border wall dispute with President Trump would push a showdown over funding until the end of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30. In that scenario,...
View ArticleHouse approves two-week spending measure to avert shutdown
The House passed a two-week measure to keep the government funded and stave off a partial shutdown by unanimous consent on Thursday.The vote essentially punts a divisive debate on funding for President...
View ArticlePelosi says she's open to term limits on committee chairs
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) on Thursday said she’s open to term-limiting committee chairmanships, but punted the question to the broader caucus, saying it’s their decision to...
View ArticlePelosi: Dems will call for new election only if North Carolina race deadlocks
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats are closely monitoring fraud allegations in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, but would call for a new election...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez criticizes congressional orientation program for featuring CEOs...
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called out a new members of Congress orientation event for not featuring labor leaders on a panel.“Right now Freshman members of Congress are at a...
View ArticleIncoming Dem lawmaker fires back at Trump's former economic adviser: ‘No...
Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Thursday shot back at former Goldman Sachs CEO Gary Cohn for comments he made while addressing new members of Congress at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of...
View ArticleWhite House requests additional $190M for housing detained migrant children,...
The Trump administration has asked for an additional $190 million to operate immigrant detention facilities, according to a top House Democratic appropriator.“The White House has had the audacity to...
View ArticleGOP struggles to find right Republican for Rules
Incoming House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) is struggling with one of his first jobs: picking someone to serve as the top Republican on the influential Rules Committee that dictates how every...
View ArticleBlack Caucus chairman pushes back against committee term limits
The head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Thursday threw cold water on a Democratic proposal to limit the tenure of committee chairmanships, just hours after House Majority Leader Nancy...
View ArticlePush to pay congressional interns $15 an hour gains traction with progressives
The push to pay congressional interns $15 an hour is catching on with House progressives, with proponents arguing the move is necessary to ensure opportunities for people regardless of their...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at helping border counties...
Texas Reps. Will Hurd (R) and Vicente Gonzalez (D) have teamed with Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to introduce legislation in their respective chambers Thursday aimed at helping localities record and...
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