House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel
Conservatives have sounded like modern-day segregationists in their crusade to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which are designed to help schools and workplaces equip students and employees with tools to succeed in an increasingly diverse world. And the latest target of House Republicans’ push to ban these programs is medical schools. Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., introduced a bill Tuesday that would prevent medical schools that provide DEI programs from receiving federal funds. The...
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) doesn't believe taxpayers should finance the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.After a massive cargo ship obliterated the bridge, President Joe Biden promised to "move heaven and earth to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as humanly possible."His plan? To force taxpayers to fund the project."It's my intention that federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my...
‘The new VA policy is shocking not only on a moral level, but on a political and legal level aswell,’ the Republicans wrote.
Christian nationalist Tim Barton was the featured speaker at a campaign event last week for Dave Nissley, whose primary challenge to the top Republican in the state House of Representatives is being backed by local far-right groups, Lancaster Online reported Monday. “If we don’t start getting the right kind of people, who know there’s a […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealed Thursday that she was the one who called on former Rep. Ken Buck to leave the House Freedom Caucus.
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Republican Party had a majority in the House of Representatives. After all, it secured slightly more seats than the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. But believing that the GOP had a majority in the House would be a mistake. Since the 118th Congress convened in January […]
Republicans' control of the House of Representatives is continuing to slip, with Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher announcing on Friday that he intends to leave the chamber next month.In a statement shared to X, formerly Twitter, Gallagher, 40, wrote that he will resign from his position of representing Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District on April 19. The GOP representative is serving his fourth term in Congress and announced early last month that he did not have plans to run for...
House Republicans face a basic math problem: With just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big. That means that if they try to pass legislation along party lines, they can afford basically no defections, at most a single holdout. If House Republicans cannot pass legislation by themselves, they will need to rely on Democratic votes House Republicans face a basic math problem: with just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big.
If you’re looking for an encapsulation of just how much of a mess the House Republican conference is, go no further than this headline from The Washington Post on Friday: “A majority of House Republicans retreat from their retreat.” It seems the one thing the majority of them can agree on is just how much they don’t want to have to deal with each other. Or maybe they just didn’t want to be subjected to more of House Speaker Mike Johson’s sermons. Johnson was able to get less than half of his...
The massive Maine Central Railroad Building resides next to the lot of the former Union Station, which was torn down in 1963.
Governor Phil Scott on Thursday accused legislators of unfairly attacking Zoie Saunders, his choice for Vermont's next education secretary, amid growing dissent about her appointment from political parties and the state's teacher's union. Scott announced his selection of Saunders, a school administrator from Florida, at a press conference last Friday, during which he hailed her experience working as chief strategy and innovation officer for Broward County Public Schools, the...