Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Monday called on President Biden to use executive action to unilaterally enact pieces of Democrats’ Build Back Better agenda, just one day after Sen. Joe Man…
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Cawthorn ‘likely’ violated rules by bringing candidate on House floor
First-year Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) brought a GOP congressional candidate onto the House floor Tuesday night, likely in violation of House rules, Republican and Democratic sources said.Cawthorn was able to do…
Trump war with GOP seeps into midterms
Former President Trump’s war with his staunch GOP critics on Capitol Hill is seeping into every corner of the 2022 campaign trail.Texas GOP congressional candidate Morgan Luttrell recently called Trump foe Rep. Ada…
Nunes to resign from Congress, become CEO of Trump media firm
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a key Donald Trump ally who was poised to be the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee if Republicans win back the House in 2022, said Monday he will resign at the end of…
McCarthy laments distractions from far-right members
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that recent political distractions caused by a trio of conservative rabble-rousers – Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Pau…
Jarring GOP divisions come back into spotlight
House Republicans are pushing to retaliate against 13 of their GOP colleagues who voted for a bill to fix roads and bridges. At the same time, they’re defending Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), a loyalist for former…
Trump allies target Katko over infrastructure vote
Trump loyalists furious with the 13 House Republicans who joined Democrats to hand President Biden a victory on infrastructure took direct aim Tuesday at New York Rep. John Katko, a leader of a moderate band of Republican…
Pelosi presses ahead on vote without Manchin buy-in
House Democrats said Wednesday they were switching tactics and plowing ahead with a vote on President Biden’s sweeping…
GOP leader says Republicans could flip 60 seats next year
Republicans took a victory lap Wednesday following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s stunning win in the Virginia governor’s race, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) predicting his party could flip m…
Pelosi: Bill issues could be resolved by ‘end of the day’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday after huddling with Democrats that the handful of outstanding issues holdin…