Congress allows Violence Against Women Act to lapse
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which provides funding and grants for a variety of programs that tackle domestic abuse, lapsed at the end of Friday after Congress failed to pass an extension...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez in Bronx speech: New Yorkers deserve ‘dignified jobs’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a progressive firebrand and vocal supporter of labor, said New Yorkers deserve “dignified jobs” in the aftermath of a scrapped deal to build a second Amazon...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker: Amazon would be moving into NY if Ocasio-Cortez wasn't...
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) blasted progressive Democrats who opposed Amazon opening part of its second headquarters in New York, calling the company's decision to leave a "disaster.""It’s like putting a...
View ArticleGOP rep: Trump emergency declaration puts US in 'uncharted territory'
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Sunday that the U.S. has entered “uncharted territory” with President Trump’s use of national emergency powers to secure funding for a wall along the southern border.Hurd,...
View ArticleSchiff: Evidence of collusion between Trump campaign, Russia 'pretty...
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is pushing back against Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr's (R-N.C.) assertion that the Senate panel has not found...
View ArticleWhite House, GOP defend Trump emergency declaration
President Trump’s allies in the GOP and one of his top advisers defended on Sunday his decision to declare a national emergency to secure funding for his long-desired border wall, a move that triggered...
View ArticleDem lawmakers to open probe into ‘complex web of relationships’ between NRA,...
A pair of Democratic lawmakers are reportedly opening an investigation into what they call the "complex web of relationships" between certain individuals from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and...
View ArticleHouse Dems release 2020 GOP 'retirements to watch' for
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Tuesday released its “retirements to watch list” of potential GOP targets ahead of the 2020 election cycle.The House Democrats’ campaign arm is...
View ArticleSteve King urges supporters to pray for his committee assignments to be...
Rep. Steve King on Monday reportedly asked his supporters to pray for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to restore the Iowa Republican's committee assignments.King made the comments at a...
View ArticleCohen attorney says client will detail working for Trump: He uses...
An attorney for Michael Cohen says the former longtime personal lawyer to President Trump will detail "bigoted" language and other features of working for Trump when he speaks to House and Senate...
View ArticleMcCabe: No one in 'Gang of Eight' objected to FBI probe into Trump
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday that none of the top eight congressional leaders objected when he briefed them in 2017 on the bureau's decision to open a counterintelligence...
View ArticleCongressional aide arrested on pandering charges tied to prostitution raid
Jerod Prunty, an aide to Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), was arrested Saturday and faces two charges of pandering in connection with a recent prostitution bust, the Acadiana Advocate first reported.His...
View ArticleSteve King asks for Congressional Record correction over white supremacist quote
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is asking for a correction to the Congressional Record's transcript of remarks he gave on the House floor last month in support of a resolution rebuking white nationalism,...
View ArticleDems think they're beating Trump in emergency declaration battle
Democrats are up in arms over President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, but they also see political gold in his highly controversial power play.Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
View ArticleDems open new front against Trump
House Democrats are digging into the Trump administration’s dealings with Saudi Arabia, making its plan to sell nuclear technology to the kingdom the subject of the first major investigation by the...
View ArticleTlaib condemns bar crawl event in Detroit as 'racist bulls---'
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) took to Twitter on Wednesday to call out a bar crawl event in Detroit with a theme some have condemned for embracing “racist imagery."“This is some racist bullshit (yep...
View ArticleConservative group blasts Ocasio-Cortez over Amazon with Times Square billboard
A conservative advocacy group put up a billboard in Times Square on Wednesday calling out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over Amazon’s recently announced decision to scrap plans for building a...
View ArticleTrump trade chief to face lawmakers ahead of crucial China deadline
The Trump administration's top trade negotiator is set to face questions from House lawmakers two days before a crucial deadline to strike a deal with China.U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers urge State Dept. to label cartels as terrorist organizations
A pair of House Republicans wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday asking for the U.S. to label violent drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Reps. Mark Green (Tenn.) and Chip...
View ArticleDem lawmaker: 'The president has it in for California'
A Democratic California congressman says that President Trump has an ax to grind against his state after the Trump administration announced that the Department of Transportation would seek the return...
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