House Republicans’ attempt to impeach President Joe Biden has fizzled out. But the two members tasked with the job, Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and Oversight Chair James Comer, needing to atone for their failure, have picked another fight: threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over the Department of Justice’s refusal to provide the audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents probe. Garland is refusing to play...
Democrats had set their sights on impeaching Donald Trump long before he assumed the presidency. The media was openly speculating how Democrats might impeach him if he won months before the election. Once they had control of the House in 2019, it was only a matter of time before they ginned up a pretext for impeaching him. Bizarrely, they launched an impeachment inquiry over a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN. “Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out. He is fed up,” another GOP lawmaker said. There’s just so much humiliation one man can take, I guess. The effort by Comer and co-zealot...
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has promised his Democratic colleague to deliver a list of "high crimes" he says President Joe Biden committed that qualify him for impeachment. Recent comments from fellow lawmakers confirm the opposite. "Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out. He is fed up,” a GOP lawmaker told CNN Wednesday. Now, his colleagues are mocking Comer's failure. "I was hoping our breakup would never become public," Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) posted on X. "We had such a great thing...
Democrats won a special election for a House seat in western New York on Tuesday, The Associated Press projected, further shrinking the GOP's narrow majority in the House. Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy defeated Republican town supervisor Gary Dickson in the 26th District, a reliably blue area that includes Buffalo and some of its surrounding suburbs. Democrats will now control 213 seats in the House, compared with 217 for the Republicans. Five seats remain vacant. Kennedy will serve the rest...
Two of Senate Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents this fall were among those who voted Thursday to roll back the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate for passenger cars and trucks.
Based upon the fact that the Fox News daily drumbeat about President Joe Biden's impeachment being right around the corner has gone noticeably silent, House Republicans have seemingly admitted defeat.That is the opinion of political columnist Paul Waldman who wrote for MSNBC that the search party for Biden's criminal acts came up empty-handed and the GOP leaders of the House committees are privately telling their colleagues they are giving up.Reacting to report that House Oversight Committee...
(The Center Square) – Senate Republicans blasted their Democratic colleagues Wednesday for blocking the U.S. Senate from holding an impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing their actions were unconstitutional. The Senate twice voted along party lines Wednesday to dismiss two articles of impeachment after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, filed a motion arguing the articles themselves were unconstitutional. ...
Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won the New York special election in the state’s 26th Congressional District to replace former Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins, narrowing the House Republican majority even further ahead of the 2024 election. Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson, a West Seneca supervisor who is an Army and FBI veteran, on Tuesday night. Kennedy has been […]
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that, once signed into law by President Biden, will give TikTok's parent company ByteDance nine months to divest the app or face a national ban, reflecting significant bipartisan concern over the app's Chinese ownership and potential data security risks. read more
House Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations Subcommittee chair Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, accused the Biden administration of using taxpayer funds for "campaign activities" in support of President Biden's re-election campaign on "Fox News Live." The accusations stem from an announcement in March of a memorandum of understanding between the Small Business Administration and the Michigan Department of State to "promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan" through 2036. The...
By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy will win the special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District, CNN projects, further narrowing – at least in the short term – Republicans’ paper-thin majority in the US House. Kennedy will succeed fellow Democrat Brian Higgins in the Buffalo-based district after his victory