Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) has dropped his bid for Senate, according to a statement posted to the social platform X Friday. “After prayerful consideration, today I withdrew my name from the primary ballot,” Meiijer said in the statement. “Without a strong pathway to victory, continuing this campaign only increases the likelihood of a divisive
Rep. Tony Gonzales celebrated that Speaker Mike Johnson ignored the 'fringe' in the Republican party by pushing forward aid to Ukraine. He accused Rep. Matt Gaetz of paying minors to have sex with him. Gonzales also accused the Republican fringe of wearing 'white hoods'
Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley says he did not vote for the new national security supplemental funding bill. This bill has many elements, including supplying aid to Ukraine and helping fight the influx of fentanyl into the states. It was signed into law by President Biden Wednesday. Another section of the bill gave funding for […]
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he would vote to table any motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) because he advanced a foreign aid package with separate bills to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. | Clips
Rep. Chip Roy speaks with CNN’s Jake Tapper
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Can a State Representative wanted by police in Philadelphia continue to vote on the House floor in Harrisburg? The answer might seem obvious but, again, there are different rules under the Capitol dome. Democrat State Rep. Kevin Boyle is wanted by Philadelphia Police for allegedly violating a protection from abuse order. []
State Rep. Lauren McNally (D-Youngstown) announced that the Ohio Controlling Board has approved $3,012,048.70 to renovate buildings on Youngstown State University’s campus, a press release states.
(Inside California Politics) — Northern California Congressman Tom McClintock (R-El Dorado Hills) joined Inside California Politics co-host Frank Buckley to discuss his opposition to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Rep. McClintock says this effort should not have moved forward based on policy disagreements. "This was an unfortunate dumbing-down of the standards for []
Rep. Tokuda acknowledges the necessity of the package, but she voted against aid to Israel due to the conflict in Gaza with Hamas. "I actually did vote against it, it was a very difficult one given that it included humanitarian aid. But given for some of us it was also about making a strong statement that unconditional aid given the impact of loss of life that we are seeing in Gaza,"
Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana is pushing a measure that would prohibit federal funds from flowing to NPR."After the date of the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used to support" National Public Radio, "including through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from such organization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by such station," the proposal, dubbed the "Defund NPR Act," states. The same...
While criminal trials often have dramatic moments, the process of selecting a jury isn’t exactly riveting. An NBC News report on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial noted, “The quest to find a jury of 12 people and six alternates got off to a slow start Monday, as more than half of the 96 potential jurors summoned to the Manhattan courtroom said they couldn’t be ‘fair and impartial’" when it comes to the former president. But as the day got underway in New York, one of the presumptive...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County Commissioners voted to approve funding to complete a popular biking trail in northwest Albuquerque. The Alameda Drain Trail was first approved in 2016 and the latest phase will connect the trail from Alameda to Paseo Del Norte. Tuesday night, county commissions approved the $3 million to fund the next portion []